The amount of people across all industries and academia that have become entirely dependent on AI answers to all their problems in such a short fucking time frame is alarming in a way that I don't think enough fear is being given.
Like, the absolute meltdown over the ChatGPT5 change and the amount of people openly admitting that it is their entire social life, half their professional one, and more is wild. And sure those are the loser dregs on places like reddit, but its clearly becoming a problem rapidly as shown by things like this.
I think it really just reveals the competency crisis that already existed. It was just easier to ignore when the missteps weren't so flagrant or still had some veneer of plausible deniability. Now it's just full on "everyone is retarded and it shows."
Same deal for the people making it their social life. It reveals just how sick society is. That people are using it as a substitute for meaningful human relationships means that society is no longer facilitating healthy human interaction to a degree that's even worse than we were willing to admit to ourselves.
We're pulling back the curtain and realizing just how bad everything actually has been this whole time.
Agreed on that. Shit Google's AI summary nonsense takes up a giant chunk of the screen on anything you search anyway. And then the first 10 pages are the same generic sites that tell you a cursory summary or "consensus" based information.
That is one of the ways you can smartly use the AI for these purposes. Rough drafts and hopping off points. Like, ask about your case and then look up what it finds to do the real research.
Its what having a calculator with internet on your phone did for math. It negates the need to memorize literally every random equation, and instead lets you focus on applying it. But like so many did with that, they relied on it so heavily they can't even understand what those working parts do and become impotent without their cheatsheets.
I have an ''online friend'' who basically asks Grok and chatGPT everything.
And then argues in favor of the bot's answer when I tell him how the bot is incorrect. Even if I get him to admit the real answer isn't what the ''AI'' says it is, he will default back to it within the same conversation.
The amount of people across all industries and academia that have become entirely dependent on AI answers to all their problems in such a short fucking time frame is alarming in a way that I don't think enough fear is being given.
Like, the absolute meltdown over the ChatGPT5 change and the amount of people openly admitting that it is their entire social life, half their professional one, and more is wild. And sure those are the loser dregs on places like reddit, but its clearly becoming a problem rapidly as shown by things like this.
I think it really just reveals the competency crisis that already existed. It was just easier to ignore when the missteps weren't so flagrant or still had some veneer of plausible deniability. Now it's just full on "everyone is retarded and it shows."
Same deal for the people making it their social life. It reveals just how sick society is. That people are using it as a substitute for meaningful human relationships means that society is no longer facilitating healthy human interaction to a degree that's even worse than we were willing to admit to ourselves.
We're pulling back the curtain and realizing just how bad everything actually has been this whole time.
It is partially that the traditional search engines have gotten progressively worse year over year.
A time machine, even if just limited to being able to query a google server from 17 years ago, would be an extremely useful thing.
Agreed on that. Shit Google's AI summary nonsense takes up a giant chunk of the screen on anything you search anyway. And then the first 10 pages are the same generic sites that tell you a cursory summary or "consensus" based information.
That is one of the ways you can smartly use the AI for these purposes. Rough drafts and hopping off points. Like, ask about your case and then look up what it finds to do the real research.
Its what having a calculator with internet on your phone did for math. It negates the need to memorize literally every random equation, and instead lets you focus on applying it. But like so many did with that, they relied on it so heavily they can't even understand what those working parts do and become impotent without their cheatsheets.
@grok is this true?
I can't believe we have reached the point where
was the preferable alternative.
I have an ''online friend'' who basically asks Grok and chatGPT everything.
And then argues in favor of the bot's answer when I tell him how the bot is incorrect. Even if I get him to admit the real answer isn't what the ''AI'' says it is, he will default back to it within the same conversation.