I've used it to figure out a button on a vintage calculator which had multiple humans give up assuming it's broken. Neither I, nor the AI knew what it was for but I could use it as a very willing conversation partner that didn't grow tired of trying new things.

I've had it help me come up with an effective deep fry batter that fit my exact needs and gave a perfect result.

It's usefulness is limited in many respects but if you have a rough idea of what you're talking about it will (mostly) be helpful. Until it forgets things.

AI is an algorithm, humans are humans.

That's because search engines have reached the stage of enshittification where they no longer need to be good. Instead, they want you to spend as much time there as possible.

LLMs are still being sold as "the better option" - including by the exact same search giants who intentionally ruined their own search results. And many of them are already prioritizing agreeableness over "truthfulness." And we're still in the LLM honeymoon phase, where companies are losing billions of dollars on a yearly basis and undercharging their users.

I would have no problem getting anyone at r/conservative to pull up similar data points and statistics to show immigrants are taking jobs, contributing to crime statistics or any other claim.

You'll find conservatives rarely bother trying to do this because it's simply statistically not true

Exactly. It will be ruined eventually when the shareholders come knocking wanting profitability.

Imperial media has to push some kind of garbage to distract from their ceaseless support for genocide.

No it doesn't. Fuck this fake news from these genocidal scumbags.

I like to use it to convert recipes to grams.

No, it really doesn't. You can't just say "I bet this opinion will be unpopular" and then when it does, in fact, turn out to be unpopular make the leap to say "this just proves how correct my opinion was"

No, it only proves how unpopular it was.

Even if all the same comparisons could be made between why people dislike genAI and why people dislike immigrants (they can't, btw), one of those things involves flesh and blood human beings.

I used it to select flowers to decorate my room with. In this case, it worked out excellent. The selection was done within hours, and I created a map of my room for arranging--all on a day off work.

imperial media

Whut

I believe they meant “imperialist”.

This is something I think the 'you have to use LLMs or you're falling behind' crowd are missing. Of course these companies want you to become dependent on their product, and unable to complete basic tasks without it, because then when they slap you with monthly fees and ads and tokens you won't have a choice but to pay.

Use them if they're useful, but don't out source your brain. You'll need it when the enshittification begins.

Absolutely not true. I find more often they use lots of statistics. That's the whole facts over feelings thing.

Yeah, but internet was for the people for decades.

(And it didn't really cost nature as much. Or stolen from the people so much - even by current laws LLM companies do that illegally.)

"AIs" are getting their enshitification & monopolies pre-baked into their core bossiness models from the start.

Not to mention that AIs will definitely worsen inequalities all over the world (like assembly robots that replaced people but aren't owned by people, and people still need to work 8h/day for decades for some reason).

(This but AI. I'm not saying, there aren't/won't be other jobs, just pointing out how this reshapes & concentrates wealth that on the other hands allows for slave wages with no prospects for full time jobs.)

If AIs will affect the world as much as the internet (and do so with peoples data), then they should be seen as core infrastructure - and government or non-profit owned.

Monetisation of all the things is killing us.

I don't think I've heard anyone say that, and actually mean it, for the past 8 years...

The invention of the Internet didn't come with realistic deepfakes, now we are in a post-truth society.

If UBI isn't implemented, I expect there will be riots all around the world, rightfully so.

this is about utilization so its basically about how much folks are accepting it in usage rather than just words.

Then you're in a bubble. One of the most frustrating things about the right currently is they have a large network that is very good at sharing information. They have a much tighter grip of current events than anyone I've seen on the left. The left are miles behind on any current events. Whenever something is happening, I've been heading over to right wing spaces because as much as I hate it, they tend to know things much faster and in more detail then the left wing spaces.

Just look at Lemmy here. Most information is a post and then 100 comments of talking about how upset we all are and gob smacked. But there is no further insight.

When I go to right wing spaces, it is similar but i do get extra information like background details about who individuals were or what led to an event that isn't in an article. It comes with tons of bullshit but I trust I know ways to verify information enough to spot the bullshit.

Ah yes 1998, the last year before Matrix.