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It's kind of sad to watch people volunteer for massive cognitive decline but fuck me I've somehow overtaken some people I used to consider smarter than me and while they shut down sections of their own brain for no reason, I can outwit them all and can nick the funny numbers on their bank cards.

I've been deeply exhausted by typing to younger relatives & being greeted with "yeah I had AI summarize your response" and it's just... Is this how anyone wants to interact with the world? 3 looking glasses deep, unable to sift towards any idea of reality? What are you looking at anymore?

I just blocked a bunch of pro-slop ghouls because they were defending the guy and saying, "Well sure 'AI' hallucinates entire sources but if they find and can read an actual source it's fine" and I'm just...baffled by the "reasoning" here. Maybe they've been outsourcing their critical thinking to AI

you were so close to being BL😭CKED

Can you legitimately find a researcher's phone number and call with questions like that?

I have classes for my degree that keep trying to push AI writing tools on us and it’s driving me insane. I literally don't feel confident going back to finish because of it

I can get why if you're running a big weekly podcast along with other media, because it is time-consuming (I've been late with my own podcast just because the research was more intense than I thought it would be), but even then, you can probably trust it to a human who could use the job!

what sucks is that anymore you sometimes have to very consciously avoid it because every formerly-useful tool has had the slop machine stapled to its forehead no! i do not want what the computer thinks "the answer" is! i want to use my fucking head!

I don’t really understand how we got to the point where it seems that everyone has forgotten Doing Stuff is enjoyable, and decided instead they’d like to have Stuff Done For You in every single aspect of their life.

I tried it out for a single afternoon and was just so unimpressed that I genuinely find it befuddling whenever someone says it's good for something.

I've gone slightly Joker mode over people trying to push me to use AI for work and then giving me use cases that are actively worse than my already existing methods. Like I'm being told that I should replace my jetski with a motorcycle for going over water.

Honestly the only thing that's made it harder is that Google sucks now, but that is a problem that can be skirted by not using Google anymore.