As someone who has made the occasional funny picture with the bingalator, how do you get to the point that you can not exist a day without some gen ai? Like how?
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2026
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It does feel fixating on this guys stupid comment is typical "find the stupidest person who holds a view you disagree with an pile on them and parade it as supposedly representative". In discourse isn't the strongest move to discredit the best arguments you disagree with rather than the worst?
Though he is a dick so who cares.
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Iβm not really all that anti-AI but that tweet is the stupidest argument ever. And kind of pathetic.
This message doesn't really land well at all in the way this comic is made. Another post does a much better job of undermining the comment by comparing to a meth addict.
The only use for machine learning I have is translation software, which was getting pretty good already before the LLM hype. Assuming I'd get that back at the pre-hype levels I'd have zero impact.
I only use it for checking how it would propose to formulate a sentence in French, but then I write my own anyway. Since it would be weird to pretend that was my level of skill towards the customer. Or sometimes I translate back my wobbly French to see if I went really wrong or ran into some false friends (terms that sound similar among the languages but have different meaning).
It's like consulting the Chess Engine for the engine move to me.
If this software too vanished, then I'd just have to use the online dictionaries even more. And be even slower, but who cares this is only once every few weeks, anyway. Most French speaking Swiss are fine with English in text form too.
As a translator who changed careers because of CAT tools: fuck that shit. Translation agencies have used them to strangle the market. End of my rant.
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I used to use ChatGPT and Copilot, but then I stopped because they sucked too bad to justify the price. I spun up an Ollama instance on my server but I almost never use that either because it sucks really bad. I integrated it into my Home Assistant instance and it sucks so bad that when I ask it to simply turn off a light, it only succeeds about 1 in 5 times.
'You're just prompting it wrong.'
-The people who say LLMs have achieved AGI
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I use (local) AI as a hobby daily to create images of Dragons, Elves and Cyberpunk. If it would go away I would just go back to play videogames. Nothing lost.
"Ai" has mostly wasted my time.
The only productive* use I've actually found had/had figuring out and fixing obscure errors in Linux. Like finding something useful in that mound of sewage.
The only person I know who uses Ai religiously is a schizophrenic with grandiose delusions... so you can just imagine.
- I'm assuming it saved me time. I'm absolutely sure I would have figured it out eventually.
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Ai sucks lol, I rarely use it
Has it's ups and downs honestly, it helps me automate some annoying tasks, but yes it's expendable, people seem to forget that's at the end of the day it's just an another tool.
Ah, yes. Just another tool that is in the hands of people who don't want to pay humans. Who are stealing art and novels from actual people for "training" purposes. A tool that is chewing up natural resources and straining power grids. It is a weapon being used by those in power to destroy human creation. Not a tool.
I honestly somehow forgot America and isnotReal exist.
for context I have always only used Chinese open source models and yes I got your point there, it's a valid point.
Let the bubble burst because of the Us Ai is more harm than good to the world, I'm not even that reliant on it.
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LLMs are explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion spinsters, which is why all the logos for βAIβ companies are variations of arseholes.
But how will I solve crosswords now
I don't even use it that much. Sometimes as a last resort when searching yields no answers, but then usually it just answers something not quite right so... wouldn't miss it.