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[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

AI is literally just legalized theft of other people's work. It won't credit them to any capacity.

Also, whilst it is adding some productivity, it's also being used by absolute idiots who have no idea what they're doing spreading bad info and causing other people more work.

Every idiot is typing everything into chatgpt, getting a bad answer which is obvious to anyone half trained and then promoting it like it's correct just because AI said it

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

The plague of work chats now:

Here's what ChatGPT/copilot had to say:

People can ask for themselves, you answering that way adds no value. Just say you don't know.

In group chats, keep your mouth shut and let people that actually know answer. Don't drown out the actual expert answers.

And holy hell the ones that will die on the hill that they are right because chatgpt agreed with them even when they are totally wrong...

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 47 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No, AI companies don't "have a PR problem"

They are the problem. It's in their bones. Harm is their business model. It is not fixable. This is not a case of handing out enough pizza and smiling harder.

[–] ID10T@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

If anything, it’s the other way around: we have an AI-company PR problem. Media outlets can’t stop themselves from presenting interviews with CEOs of AI companies as some sort of reliable source for how incredible AI really is if we would only spend more money locking ourselves into AI-driven workflows.

TL;DR the umbrella-selling weatherman keeps predicting that rain is on the way

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 hours ago

Just ask who got the gains in the last industrial revolution and who got to live in the slums, and how they plan to do things differently now.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 14 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Not a fan of the framing of the question, but...

"Some version of AI is inevitable" said the CEO of an AI company

... This insight was very novel, thank you Axios

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Which isn't wrong per se, but maybe they don't realize (or don't want to) that we'd prefer useful AI, not the "burn the world and turn it into money" kind.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 7 hours ago

It's hilarious to me that news companies keep interviewing AI companies to ask them if they think AI is all hype. What kind of answer do they expect?

"Yeah, this is just smoke and mirrors, and I'm just trying to make a ton of money before the bubble pops." Bruh, no CEO is gonna be honest about that.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

We will accept spell checkers.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't archive.is blocked because they injected ddos scripts in their visitors browsers?

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yes and modified articles without letting users know.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I've never heard of either of these things. Do you have sources?

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago
[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 12 hours ago

Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.

[–] soratoyuki@piefed.social 20 points 14 hours ago

Hard disagree. We aren't hating AI and it's users nearly enough.