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I don't think I'm exaggerating when I'm saying that me and my wife feel like the last survivors in a zombie apocalypse, seeing all close friends and family use this crap more and more. Even a "I just asked ChatGPT what the best GPU for this game is" feels like that hidden zombie bitemark trope

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It's disheartening to even consider the way people are phrasing its use: "Chat *told* me", "I *asked* Claude". Have people used this sort of anthropomorphizing language for, say, wikipedia? Even the "text chat" format of these things has so many annoying layers to them

My chat tells me loads of things - but they’re a Twitch community of real people. Horrid that I’m gonna have to elaborate to make sure folks don’t think I’m talking about Claude, it’s like the anti-community 😩

I don't think I have vibed with a sentiment around LLMs more than I have with this quote. Even IF (and that huge "if" says a lot about you btw) you can ignore all the sociopolitical, economical, environmental and ethical implications, how can you justify deliberately dulling your mind and skills?

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social

I think, if I’m being honest with myself, this is the main reason I refuse to touch these things. More so than being environmentally dilligent, even more so than wanting to avoid being a thief. I am very good at my job. I enjoy being very good at my job. I do not want to become less good at my job

For me - as someone who is a self-doubt machine - there are certain tasks that I would love to delegate, much like how one might work with a collaborator. I also don’t hate the idea of better autocomplete*. But any thought of ever doing so dies with the "if" - the ethical implications are too big.

(*not whole functions but like single line stuff. Simple boilerplate syntax, not actual logic. It should never make a design or engineering decision, only let me insert the thing I was already going to write)

I think I've heard people say "I asked google" before the ai era. But yeah, it's more annoying now. And I really, really hate when ai people say claude skill. It's a text file with instructions. You think that's what a skill is??

Yup, every fascist regime's wet dream: treating critical thinking, effort and growth as burdens from which one needs to be alleviated. Kill those pesky neurons feeding you with thoughts, creativity and realization, they get in the way of you being exploited and mistreated.

LLM's very much seem like a cognitohazard. One day to be shunned and treated with the same level of disgust as nicotine, asbestos, and lead.

I hate that, and I hate how normalized and "quirky" it is nowadays to not be able to perform basic math. People even brag about it, it's baffling.

UGH I feel you so bad. While my cousin is head over heels with "omg our code can generate so much code now" my sister and I feel like we are going insane. It's depressing.