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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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All their responses are generated, no conscience there, just AI. "Another brick in the wall" hits stronger than ever now.

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[–] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I see generative AI the same way I see anabolic steroids. If you're already versed enough in whatever field, it might not be that bad a thing, but you're 100% gonna deal with some consequences.

Take me for example, by the time I really got into generative AI in 2023-2024, I already worked IT for like 10-11 years, had several certs, and so I was able to get it to be mostly useful to me because I already knew my job well enough.

Others? I had some coworkers get straight up brainrotted and couldn't configure a damn Cisco Router without asking ChatGPT or Claude or Perplexity or Deepseek or Gemini or whatever.

And shit, even for people who say, "WHY DON'T WE USE AI TO SOLVE CANCER!?" Like doctors who use AI to do that wind up becoming worse at spotting cancer on their own. Even me, guy with over a decade of IT experience? I felt myself becoming dumber when I use AI too much and have to take like tolerence breaks to go back to the old ways of scrolling old tech forums to find the answer.

shoutouts to simpleflips

[–] Darth_Lemmy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

medical doctors wouldnt be "solving" cancer. you make it seem like Dr. Thickfingers is going to use chatgpt to detect cancer in someones anus. no, medical researchers would use an ai assisted tools is what that would mean