I am not an AI doomer, I believe it is a technology of great promise, but also great danger if it’s not regulated properly. And unfortunately for America the AI companies are bribing the government behind the back door and are hostile to regulation.
1 week ago | 107
Would love a way to filter out AI slop on youtube. AI slop devalues the platform.
5 days ago | 31
For those who use it daily… you’ve gotta learn to be more self sufficient
5 days ago (edited) | 2
As basic google searches become useless, copilot searches become more useful.
6 days ago | 3
I think it is one of the biggest threats to the human race we have ever faced. It is being used to destroy our privacy to harvest our personal data and flood the public square with disinformation that is ticking time bomb for our civilization. Also, the amount of energy required to power data centers is damaging our environment and raises the cost of electricity which everyday people are already not able to pay. This is all to benefit the very wealthy once again.
5 days ago | 3
One of the biggest issues with AI is that it gets rewarded for giving an answer even when the information is false. AI is trained to never say it doesn’t know the answer. It’s like giving praise to your child when you ask them what 2+2 equals and they reply “5”. “Good boy/girl, here’s a present”
5 days ago | 1
I use it daily at work to improve my emails. I don’t have very good writing skills, and ai helps me to sound more professional.
5 days ago | 1
I think we're assigning it far more potential than it has. It's little more than a fancy search engine that has a natural language interface. If it weren't for existing search engines including AI results, I would almost never use it.
6 days ago | 1
I specifically really like it as it's own chatbot. It knows a lot of things (although of course always doble check), but it serves as a general compass rather than the be an end all guide. Every single other instance to me is basically another touchbar repeat. Gimmicky stuff that could already be done without AI
6 days ago | 2
If you extrapolate data you will get a completely random result. Thats whats happening with AI all the time and it makes it useless. Google something, and you get the AI Overview. Is it made up and wrong? Quite possibly, how would you know if what you ask was correct and in the training data. So: AI is collosal waste of energy for guesses.
6 days ago | 4
Here's my simple answer. It has tremendous potential, and is extremely useful. It HAS to be regulated It HAS to benefit our society. These companies cannot go unchecked and generate infinite wealth for themselves while everyone suffers.
1 week ago | 46
I love that we’ve entered the luddites vs technocrats era of humanity
6 days ago | 1
It’s quite simple. If it’s gen ai where its sole purpose is to replace creatives or steal their work (ie. using their art for training data without explicitly asking if it’s ok) then it sucks. If it’s for other stuff like healthcare, data analytics, etc then it’s great so long as it’s being used properly.
5 days ago | 1
I see this shit as adam eating the apple. It has caused so much irreparable damage to an insane degree. The only real benefit has been helping to find cancer cells early. everything else has been useless, annoying, or straight up harmful
5 days ago | 2
My issues with AI are a combination of the utter lack of regulation that’s lead to deaths via suicide, the enshitification of products to drive you on to AI, the impact it’s having on people’s ability and interests in thinking for themselves. And then the less talked about damage, tax breaks for data centres with the promise of jobs that will never come, increases in electric bills to pay for infrastructure needed to run data centres. Increase in prices of hardware as a result of data centres hovering up all production of flash components. Companies using AI features as an excuse to increase subscription costs, Loss of lower end jobs to AI tools. It feels like we are being ran towards this thing that no one fully understands all for the gain if the most rich and powerful companies just to make them more rich and powerful.
5 days ago | 1
It’s useless to me and I don’t have a need for it. I have two hands, I have a brain, anything I need to do I can learn myself
5 days ago | 1
Luke Miani
Hey all, I want to try to get an idea of where my audience stands on the matter of AI as 2025 comes to a close. I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments, but let's start with a quick poll to gauge how you all feel about the utility of AI in 2025. Is it worth it? Is it here to stay?
1 week ago | [YT] | 250