It's like people are worshipping AI these days

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One thing I see with AI worship is normie business owners who will excitedly use AI to churn out the latest trend slop to promote their business and have a pathetic "look what I made" post because they uploaded a photo into a meme generator.

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About a month ago I couldn't scroll through social media without seeing this garbage. Every business from plumbers, restaurants, office workers and carpenters were all posting this slop because they thought this le epic meme content was somehow good for promoting their business. But after a day or two is was unoriginal, repetitive and gay. Same with the Miyazaki photo AI generator. There was nothing better than seeing some faggot office team spamming pictures of their employees as Miyazaki caricatures. Now an art style that was know for its unique, artistic style has become so overplayed by lazy, normie faggots that you don't want to see it any more.

There is a weird, irritational disdain that some people have towards anyone who has artistic, design or coding skills. Because some of it is done on a computerz, it has no skill or knowledge required and should be free. Ok then, go and make it then. It be like watching a team pour a concrete slab and thinking "These guys suck because I can just buy concrete at Home Depot and do the same thing."

PS - I'm not defending unskilled troons making furry porn art. I mean creatives with actual skills.
 
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Divine Power said:
A lot of things, literally i can make a very big list, just made it quick, it's just a very good Google who is much faster and more valuable in the long run.
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Saying AI is just a good Google is oversimplifying. LLMs like ChatGPT are just a small subset of AI. I do find them useful at times, even if they're overhyped. They're probably the most benign form of AI and even then I can name many issues with them. They're ruining our education systems (we'll see the effects in 5-10 years), discouraging thinking, (still) giving incorrect information, and providing false companionship that's no substitute for human connection.

You should be really worried about AGI, the end goal of AI research. Almost everyone will be made redundant, and if governments like the US have their way (Big Beautiful Bill), those that control AGI models will have all the power. Humanity as we know it will be over and it's not an exaggeration. You will become useless and powerless.
 
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finallyfalling said:
You should be really worried about AGI, the end goal of AI research. Almost everyone will be made redundant, and if governments like the US have their way (Big Beautiful Bill), those that control AGI models will have all the power. Humanity as we know it will be over and it's not an exaggeration. You will become useless and powerless.
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A.I is fake and gay, It's just like the Blockchain hype back in 2015-2019
 
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Lobster Cult High Priest said:
A.I is fake and gay, It's just like the Blockchain hype back in 2015-2019
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LLMs are overhyped. True AI (AGI) doesn't exist yet, but most researchers say it's possible. It's a matter of if not when. It could be 5 years, it could be 10, it could be 50 we don't really know. But when it comes, it'll eventually take most jobs and make everyone dependent on government handouts, with the power balance shifting completely to corporations.
 
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finallyfalling said:
You should be really worried about AGI, the end goal of AI research.
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finallyfalling said:
LLMs are overhyped. True AI (AGI) doesn't exist yet, but most researchers say it's possible. It's a matter of if not when. It could be 5 years, it could be 10, it could be 50 we don't really know. But when it comes, it'll eventually take most jobs and make everyone dependent on government handouts, with the power balance shifting completely to corporations.
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AGI is just a fantasy scenario that will never occur, like antigravity technology or perpetual motion machines. The entire current approach to "AI" with LLMs is fundamentally incompatible with a rational computer intelligence. LLMs can't think rationally, they don't fundamentally know what truth is, they don't even have real memory. You could put the sum total of all human scientific knowledge on a single IKEA bookshelf, and if given enough time, a single human could learn all of that information. A LLM can't figure out anything without having the entire Internet at it's disposal, and even then, researchers complain that the Internet doesn't contain enough information for them to use.
 
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Rodeo Roadrunner said:
AGI is just a fantasy scenario that will never occur, like antigravity technology or perpetual motion machines. The entire current approach to "AI" with LLMs is fundamentally incompatible with a rational computer intelligence.
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Yes, we won't reach AGI by scaling LLMs. We'll find some other path, maybe using technologies that don't exist yet. It's likely far away, contrary to what publicly-traded tech companies are saying. But basically every leading AI researcher says it's possible and will happen eventually.
 
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Anticipating the top hats, but I don't care anymore; the ai slop is inescapable. That shit is normalized everywhere on the internet, even here on the farms. I can't even really watch any or look at any of it because the uncanny valley sets off alarm bells any time I see slop media, be it text/photo/video/audio. The tells of a generated anything draws my attention to it. The photos almost always have a sheen of anime on them (don't get me started with how almost every grok image has been infected with the Ghibli "style"), the text reads with the same accent and tone, the audio is choppy and often amplifies the issues with textgen, etc.

There's probably some psychological part of the chatGPT addiction where people enjoy the feeling of being able to order someone around, even if it is just a computer that acts human. I can't stand having to wait for it to 'think' longer than it would take me to look something up on a search engine, but to a regular person, they probably enjoy feeling like they are being waited on by a personal assistant. Food for thought.

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have a pathetic "look what I made" post because they uploaded a photo into a meme generator.
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I have a running theory that the people who generate and post these photos are among the percentage of the population who cannot form complex mental images. For example, the people genning images of Nick Rekieta's house from the eyewitness reports of the bodycam. I read the transcripts too. I really don't understand why people do it as it adds absolutely nothing to a conversation besides taking up bandwidth. Wow! Here's an image of what a computer thinks the Balldo Dungeon looks like, that's cool I guess but I want to see what it actually looks like.
The chronic imagegenners probably need this assistance because they don't have the brainpower to visualize it on their own.

Reposting the apple image:
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Vonel said:
I have a running theory that the people who generate and post these photos are among the percentage of the population who cannot form complex mental images.
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The whole thing of people not being able to visualize objects in their head or have no internal monologue scares me. Like I've always thought myself as a pretty simple person in terms of intelligence. But at least I can visualize a circle when I close my eyes.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Woe to the man who surrenders his mind to thinking machines. They will live as a slave to the will of those men who contol the machines. Their learning commanded by the machines, their art commanded by the machines, their speech commanded by the machines.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of a mans mind. This is the first and greatest command.
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This is why I think we should start using the term NPC (Non Player Character) very seriously when talking about these slaves to technology. They aren't people anymore, they have lost their animus. Given it away with a false pride it seems even. All for the illusion of safety. I never thought we'd see the day where people would willingly walk into the fire to become the shadows they see on the wall. Maybe a bit too philosophical but since this is as much a sociological problem I think some philosophy is warranted to try and understand how to deal with these NPC's.

I mean what do you do with them in a game? You know what they'll say most of the time if you've played enough games before hand, their movements and behavior are somewhat predictable and since the game of life is one we all play, maybe the best thing to do is to acknowledge their physical existence in the space but with the cavate that they aren't actually thinking and therefor have nothing of value to add to our discourse. Idk. Food for thought.
 
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May I Please Have a Water said:
This is why I think we should start using the term NPC (Non Player Character) very seriously when talking about these slaves to technology. They aren't people anymore, they have lost their animus. Given it away with a false pride it seems even. All for the illusion of safety. I never thought we'd see the day where people would willingly walk into the fire to become the shadows they see on the wall. Maybe a bit too philosophical but since this is as much a sociological problem I think some philosophy is warranted to try and understand how to deal with these NPC's.
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It’s almost funny how the loudest critics of societal decay the "traditionalists" who romanticize the 1950s, rage against "woke culture," and claim to hate participation trophies and DEI hires are the same people uncritically cheering for AI. They don’t seem to realize that AI isn’t some organic, inevitable force; it’s a tool being aggressively funded and shaped by the exact same profit-obsessed systems they claim to despise. The irony? They’re so busy pretending AI is pure, merit-based progress that they don’t see they’re participating in the ultimate participation trophy: handing unchecked power to corporations while calling it "innovation." Playing into the hands that have made any semblance of a traditional life impossible. That have made an affordable life, at least in the west, impossible. Even further to an extent.

The relentless pursuit of profit often disguised as "efficiency" has eroded countless facets of society. From healthcare and education to food, clothing, entertainment, and even parenting, nearly every aspect of life has been compromised. Social media algorithms, for instance, are explicitly designed to hijack attention, maximizing engagement at any cost to extract every possible cent. While some acknowledge contributing added on factors to societal decay, they often overlook the root cause: the deliberate lowering of standards in service of profit. At its core, the issue is greed prioritizing short-term gains over long-term well-being. We have became way too accepting of the bare minimum in society. They have as well without realizing while larping as if they never have.

Reducing these arguments of the current system down to just schizoid posting and cope is blissfully ignorant. isolating grains of truth to invalidate larger patterns. AI is being shaped by corporate and state interests—this isn’t myth making, but observable fact (e.g., military-funded AI research, gig economy automation, digital ID systems). I admit I'm not the best at formulating these thoughts I'm having into text but I and other people are concerned about is completely valid. They have minority report type "Homicide prediction" systems going on in the UK for fucks sake. That has already made false reports.

But hey, this is just schizophrenic doomposting right? There's no way it could ever happen where any of us live, right? There's no way any of this could impact us in a negative way, right? It could never come to where I live. Stop worrying about things you clearly don't understand. They said they were going to cure cancer and develop new drugs, which is something we clearly need more of in the world.

Forget that these insurance/healthcare companies will probably put you into debt if you really need that kind of thing though. I'm not going to sit here and act like some of this shit won't be helpful for disabled people (AI to help paraplegics talk, or that one robot cafe in japan that helps immune comprised/disabled people work) but can we be realistic about it? A lot of people won't have the money to even access these types of things in a lot of places. It's gonna be very few people who get it, which is really sad. But it's just how things work. I have also seen people pull these examples out of their ass to defend making AI image/video 'art'. 9 times out of ten that shit is moe porn coomsumer bugmen shit.

We’ve lowered our standards to the point where we accept the bare minimum where effort and excellence are treated as nothing. And the most performative of all are these so-called "traditionalists," who love to preach about merit and toughness but wouldn’t last a day in an era that actually demanded them. They romanticize the past, but the truth is, they’re products of the same decay they claim to despise. They want the aesthetics of a harder, better world without any of the actual work, discipline, or accountability that made it function. None of that is ever coming back and if you think it is you're ignorant. I'm not the best at articulating my thoughts but at least I don't believe we're gonna get fucking gay space communism out of this lmao.
 
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