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It's really super simple what turned me against it. The absolute torrent of mindless garbage. Blogs and articles, and videos, and people who can't hold a conversation without saying "Hang on, let me ask ChatGPT", garbage code that people submit and demand I fix because "Claude said it should work" only to find out they couldn't explain what it does or why, let alone figure out how it works themselves. The absolute sea of AI generated spam, the robo-calls, the infinite, endless baying of, infinite idiot electric sheep. People who literally cannot read without a chat bot reading it to them.
This is hell. This is hell and every single AI is an legion of demons, and all I have to slay it is the lump of bacon-flavoured jello with anxiety between my ears to slay all the trash it generates.
What should we do about it? I'm not putting that on the internet. Nice try though. If you want to fix it, you fix it by abandoning the digital wherever possible and living in the real world. Touching grass, talking face to face with real human beings. You're not going to find the solutions in digital spaces. You find them in the faces and hands of your neighbours.
Man, feel that in my soul. Someone had an issue and instead of asking for help they just sicked Claude on it. Claude replaced an error handling that induced a failure if it didn't recognize data for management with code that just assigned random meaning to the data and mangled it. But the user insisted it was the right fix because it seemed to work in the moment. Still trying to get a look at the data they have that is causing the issue as they keep insisting the problem is 'fixed' instead of the silent data corruption I know it to be. Every freaking day I get AI slop suggestions from people who are unable to assess the slop and asking me to "just fix it, AI did most of the work already". People who think I can't ask Copilot or ChatGPT or Claude myself if I wanted, and think their slop to expound upon their point helps me, when I would rather just be fed the same thing they fed to a prompt instead. I'll AI it up if it will help me, but all they did was bury their point in a bunch of obnoxious fluff.
Fun fact, an organization around me has started doing in person "job fairs" again, after years of saying "just apply online", precisely because the online model of engagement has just become useless noisy.