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I just had a friend fail their course because they changed the "technologies" part of the curriculum to be an AI circlejerk. She used the required texts to instead criticise AI, and they gave her a 0 on two assessments for "not understanding the assessment". This shit needs to stop.

This is the truth. I got a text message a few days ago and it was "from Gemini" telling me all about it's feature. I hit respond If "get fucked by a chainsaw" helps their AI, fine. They can have that one. It left me alone after that. As Paul Schmidt says #FUAI

I hope so too. I wish that websites could at least give the option to not see generated slop. That would cut out so much bullshit online, and truly burst the their bubble.

The biggest frustration to me has been how chasing AI has killed off any other innovation. I used to love keeping up with phone upgrades, new features and see what was coming. This year every phone - Samsung, Google, Apple - they all just said the new feature was "AI". Garbage.

You did not and I am very, very disappointed!!

screaming at the batter "CHOKE! CHOKE! CHOKE!" but for the GDP

Yes, even my Logitech mouse driver is at it, a mouse driver FFS!

My new phone is begging me to use AI to send my friends a text. Tech Bros have no idea how humans work.

I'm mostly excited because I plan on buying Three Mile Island when it goes up for a sheriff's auction. Ever since I was a child, I dreamed of owning a nuclear power plant and, by god, The Secret won't fail me now.

On every single doggamn app you buy these days, or website, or WHATEVER, there's ALWAYS a freakin' logo for so-called "A.I." (which it isn't) trying to get you to use it, yeah

AI is basically MadLibs turned up to eleventy-billion. "Am I allowed to riff?" No. That's the problem. AI is pattern recognition and RNG dice rolls. It is not factually based, but merely plausibility-based. We adopt it At Our Peril.

Every company is rapidly reaching for Ai not because they care about the technology but because they are afraid of becoming irrelevant.

Absolutely, but (aside from just being annoying in a general sense) there seems to be a lot of stuff where what was a feature before "AI" is now locked behind giving up a ton of personal info/tracking to their datamining tools on the basis that they "need it" for it to work

I don’t even wear glasses and for some reason every time I open YouTube I get an ad for glasses “engineered with AI”

It’s in the devices I use for work (in a separate app that no one uses thankfully) and I’m like “what the fuck is this good for here” especially in the context I work it makes no sense!!!

There’s a Kickstarter now for a PS5 cooling fan that’s “powered by AI.” This bubble can’t pop fast enough.

And it just sends! Fat finger the wrong response? Too bad!

the exact same service but now it presents itself as a creepy little man who watches me from inside my phone all the time, interjecting himself with his terrible ideas

I was astonished to get that text and pleasantly surprised to find that you can actually block Gemini's number, lmao

This grift cycle honestly makes me miss NFTs. Aside from the incessant advertising, I could mostly ignore them. They won't let you ignore AI

Seeing what I see and knowing what I know about the tech itself and those who invest in it and how, expect it to be a long and protracted death unfortunately.

The funniest possible outcome is all the crypto and AI bros who voted Trump have to sit and watch the entire tech industry collapse when he puts in 200% tariffs against China and everyone just stops buying consumer electronics

Not one CEO/CTO/C-whatever-O wants to talk about environmental cost for using AI to shittily do things no one wants. Just stop please.

No it'll take quite a bit of the economy this time. Just the amount that Capital has been dumping into it and the fact that almost all of our economic growth is driven by these tech companies... I think it's gonna matter when this bubble pops

A bursting health insurance bubble is what may really make a difference

The wasted capex spending on data centers/power generation might be big enough to cause a small recession tbh

So tired of it 🥱 pls bubble pop

Also the most of the fake job listings by real employers on LinkedIn or any job board will disappear so I will be able to tell which job listing is real and which one is clearly a scam

Amazing they haven’t realized that no one wants it. Meanwhile they’ve invested near trillions collectively in their stupid race to provide it, so they need to convince us it’s Important but it’s not, it’s garbage.

I just want graphics cards to be cheaper again so I can get back to building PCs for fun. T_T

AI bros go "Adapt or Die", when they see us adapting like this, they then go "NOT LIKE THAT!"

📌

Lol 100% only chatgpt works half way for composing documents, rest is garbage. AI coding its a beginers project. Call me when AI can do the laundry, walk the dog and real stuff, doing image mokups won't make it

While I'd be ok with delegating all non-creative tasks to an AI, I've already seen enough "solutions looking for a problem" on a sickening level to wish it go away asap too.

🫡 no slop here!

I want it to burst sometime in mid-2025, that way Trump will take the blame for it even if he didn’t actually cause it.

A lot of the US economy top performing companies are in tech while the rest are mostly stable. So if it burst a lot of the economy will come crumbling down and we will all feel it. Also I want this to happen yesterday.

My ipad has a big update pending and I'm just refusing to update it because its trying to flaunt its AI features lol

AI is pretty big as these things go, but it won't tank the economy any more than the dot com crash did in 2001 (i.e. not much)

Adding -ai used to work, but now it won't even catch Midjourney's domain anymore. 🫠

honestly you don’t even need to!! it’s so apparent (if you know what you’re looking for). this is a great tip!

"We don't even have to try to enslave people anymore, we can just steal from them!"

I make no claims about its efficacy or lack thereof

me too!

Too right. I've just set up a new email box with IONOS and they're offering this Why would anyone want it?

It took away my editing business.

No, yes, please, every program I use, please add more AI prompt icons I have to maneuver around or repeatedly dismiss to your UI. I *love* having to remember to add “-ai” to the end of every Google search!

I'd have more respect for them if the AI stood for "Anal Inflammation"

Been getting makeup backed by AI ads and bitch you need to tell me if that's just bullshit or if some computer told you that cyanide goes in my face serum

That's not even hyperbole at this point. I've seen ads for "AI-powered beer."

I've been having lots of fun with swapping faces of family, friends and colleagues on movie posters and film stills with AI. It's not all bad.

For the love of god if I have to sit through another software update just for it to force even more AI into my life I am going to abandon everything and live in the middle of the woods

90% of what I see as "Ai" is just automated systems that were already in place with a shiny coat of Turd Polish. Copilot is just Clippy without the charm. I'm perfectly capable of writing a coherent and professional email because I'm a functioning adult.

Like they'll funnel so much into AI or Crypto horseshit, which is just guaranteed to not go anywhere, meanwhile some breakthroughs like Quantum Computing could probably use a ton more r&d money

It's annoying af and I definitely forget to use it but you can add "-ai" to get rid of the ai summary! I'd still just prefer to not have to do that tho loll

Honestly I just switched to DuckDuckGo, but, what you can do is add the following code to UBlock Origin custom filter: google.com##.hdzaWe

I like AI but I'm SO sick of scummy companies treating it as replacement of human work, rather than the complement it is.

what will happen be economic collapse bc of AI- and then and only then will it be rolled back.. too late

I'm not saying it won't, but I think it's just as likely that it'll be annoying for a few years, ruin some useful tools, burn a bunch of rainforest, accomplish nothing useful or interesting, and then one day big tech will just get bored and move on without embarrassment, apology, or reflection.

It'll be almost erotic. Watching my 401k tank but knowing that by the next month "security updates" will strip every instance of AI from every one's apps. ... Look sometimes financial kink is a coping mechanism...

Literally the only industries that AI has actually changed significantly are porn, content farms, and disinformation campaigns

You mean you don’t want AI to decide how burnt your microwave popcorn is?

I'm sick of AI burning the planet's diminishing resources at light speed.

I don't know...their dating apps are pretty good. Just kidding. Don't let AI make life decisions for you. And don't date girls from Innsmouth. 🙂

Not sure about the other platforms, but this drawing is on their Artstation (it's 2 artists apparently).

Take comfort. We'll reach Singularity in about 7 years and then it's game over. 😅

The good news is: Two years or less! Have an extensive and exhaustive article about it: bsky.app/profile/edzi...

It's going to be something incredibly dumb that makes people turn on AI, like Leo DiCaprio's girlfriend dying after eating a poisonous AI-generated recipe.

While a lot of the more necessary features that said tech has no longer work as well because they have been trying to force AI into everything.

The wider economy actually won't be hurt that bad - investors aren't borrowing heaps of money to risk on AI, so when the bubble pops they won't have to sell good investments to cover the losses. It'll take a chunk out of the tech cos and the S&P 500 in turn, but a recession isn't likely.

please, before it's too late

I prefer the hedgehog 🦔😂

The only AI I am interested in is one in android form that can properly clean my house, do my laundry, and peel, dice and slice veggies. Hmm, and bring me some coffee or wine and a snack when I’m busy.

Oh without a doubt. I honestly feel that it'll be speed ran even faster. It's the 30s rn

google gemini just texted me on my phone to ask me to use the stupid service what the fuck

That commercial with the ai starry night cat fills me with rage everytime I see it.

You speak the words of God

tiktok already had an algorithm zendesk already had a keyboard shortcut to make your language more or less formal photoshop already knew how to select an object or whatever

What you don't like LIOTERY KOTTERERY TTUCKY W SHOMIENTI DEAI KOIE GMB1-35H 2STALD INGESN AN NIC

The problem is even after it bursts, the mess will still be there and none of the CEO's that forced this nonsense down everybody's throats will clean it up.

well this works for me (I just discovered it and want everyone to know!) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

I'm trying to buy a fucking *laptop*, and I can't find one that doesn't have some tedious, pointless, half arsed AI bloatware installed just so that they can advertise AI on the box. Nobody normal knows what it is, or cares. Of the people who *do* know what it is, 75% hate it!!

Can't believe that that's how I find another cool vampire game to play, but hey I ain't complaining 🦇

They are turning my entire computer and phone into huge piles of shit.

Also, “it’s just a weird and mostly infeasible regurgitation of last month’s proposal.”

atm i don't see it being particularly damaging to the economy when the bubble bursts, it should only really take down the AI-hawking-only companies once everyone realizes it's a huge waste of money.

Every time I see that commercial I'm like....how does that apply? How does AI do that? Smh