Love it or hate it (I hate it) … humanity entered a new era with this shit. It’s everywhere and most want it. Like plastic or nuclear radiation or fire or metal work … all the things that mark a point in time in the geological record … AI created content now marks the beginning of this era.
It may well simply mark the beginning of the 3rd Millennium. The 1900s are now dead and we’re on new shores.
I’m still disturbed by how little people think about ethically and structurally. All I’m seeing is consumption and tech hype.
Yes, but the uptake of this feels categorically different, like some new consumerism has been unlocked, and of course Streaming and under are still here aren’t they.
Pushback is futile at this point. My boss uses it in every time in his quest to climb higher up on the career ladder and it’s making me want to quit because what the fuck is the point of all this shit if thinking is moot
Some dude on my team has interrupted engineering decision meetings multiple times when we’re trying to reason through the architecture of something to give his “input”, which is “here’s something I prompted ChatGPT for”.
If you thought software was shitty and getting shittier over the last 15 years, have I got a fun future full of broken and buggy systems for you!
It’s so wild to me that so many people apparently hate the idea of learning something new, to the point that they’ll let an algorithm do their thinking for them. Kids not wanting to do their assignments I understand, but it seems so many adults just flat out hate the meat thing in their skull and wish it would atrophy away into nothing.
As I’m sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotised by the constant monologue inside your own head (may be happening right now). Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.”
This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.
I’m still disturbed by how little people think about it ethically and structurally.
As pessimistic as I am - I would have never thought the public’s reaction to a tech-related Pandora’s box situation is “Ethical and other problems? Blah blah blah. Open it! And there’s gotta be more than one box right? Open them all! Why wait?”
Yep. Just the other day someone dumped an AI response into chat out of nowhere. When I said I didn’t want to call it out as it might have been rude to point out they weren’t capable of knowing that stuff … their reply was that it’s everywhere now, so it couldn’t be rude.
And they’re likely right. But my god it shocked me.
Wait until you see the survey of their teachers.
Love it or hate it (I hate it) … humanity entered a new era with this shit. It’s everywhere and most want it. Like plastic or nuclear radiation or fire or metal work … all the things that mark a point in time in the geological record … AI created content now marks the beginning of this era.
It may well simply mark the beginning of the 3rd Millennium. The 1900s are now dead and we’re on new shores.
I’m still disturbed by how little people think about ethically and structurally. All I’m seeing is consumption and tech hype.
As soon as they start charging for it, folks will stop using it as much.
It’s just the same tech cycle as ever: give it out for free or very cheaply until you think people are dependent on it, then jack up the price.
Think Uber, Instacart, Netflix, things of this nature.
What would be nice is if entire nations weren’t staking their futures on it.
Yes, but the uptake of this feels categorically different, like some new consumerism has been unlocked, and of course Streaming and under are still here aren’t they.
Those examples aren’t great since people just keep using them despite the cost
Much fewer than at their peak and continuing to decline in most cases.
Seems like a natural byproduct of a culture based entirely on treats and instant gratification
Pushback is futile at this point. My boss uses it in every time in his quest to climb higher up on the career ladder and it’s making me want to quit because what the fuck is the point of all this shit if thinking is moot
Some dude on my team has interrupted engineering decision meetings multiple times when we’re trying to reason through the architecture of something to give his “input”, which is “here’s something I prompted ChatGPT for”.
If you thought software was shitty and getting shittier over the last 15 years, have I got a fun future full of broken and buggy systems for you!
It’s so wild to me that so many people apparently hate the idea of learning something new, to the point that they’ll let an algorithm do their thinking for them. Kids not wanting to do their assignments I understand, but it seems so many adults just flat out hate the meat thing in their skull and wish it would atrophy away into nothing.
(cw: suicide)
from https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
Seems like people learnt it were forced to hate the wrong part of the push for “productivity”. And, if true, it’s frightening.
The whole AI taking over email communications thing is a horror movie.
As pessimistic as I am - I would have never thought the public’s reaction to a tech-related Pandora’s box situation is “Ethical and other problems? Blah blah blah. Open it! And there’s gotta be more than one box right? Open them all! Why wait?”
Yep. Just the other day someone dumped an AI response into chat out of nowhere. When I said I didn’t want to call it out as it might have been rude to point out they weren’t capable of knowing that stuff … their reply was that it’s everywhere now, so it couldn’t be rude.
And they’re likely right. But my god it shocked me.
Jesus. I may complain about living in a rural backwater at times but at least people are genuine in their interactions and not using AI for everything
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