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Today when I code I open 3 AI code generators and let them do the work. 1st one to make me happy with the result gets the job for the day.

Management wants AI code and I want to get promoted so l’m giving them AI code and posting on Reddit while Claude figures out how to write Scala.

As a therapist, this is the part that worries me. Can you get the validation you’re not getting from humans by talking to an LLM? Yes. _But that’s exactly the problem._ The LLM will humor you indefinitely; a human will not. So yes, it might make you feel better to have a person who will validate you endlessly - but if you come to rely on that, you’ll start to find true human contact too unpredict…

Ai “art” is like going out to a restaurant, telling the waiter what type of burger you want, and then claiming yourself to be a chef.

"Calling someone an A.I. artist is like calling someone a chef for putting a ready-made meal in a microwave." -John Goodman

I will say this a billion times; Talent is a Myth. drawing is skill. and just like any other skill, you can start by sucking and get better with more practice. "I'm not talented" should be replaced with "I'm not skilled yet", you CAN get better, you CAN draw. it taken time patience and effort to get better at it. some people will inevitably learn faster or slower than you, but slow is not nothing…

I work as a developer at an IT company in India, using Co-Pilot with models like GPT and Claude Sonnet. Despite explicitly asking it not to rewrite my commands, the AI keeps doing so. I advise limiting AI adoption before it is too late.

OP, I would highly recommend you apply to any data entry or data analysis or data qc position that company has. Reach out to your former manager and department heads, see if they have any recommendations within that company. Likewise, if those don't work out, keep looking for more data entry jobs... and I'd recommend that even once you get one, automate it like you did this lastone, then keep…

"now give me back the gun" Robot: no I can't, but I can give you back the bullets *Aiming with the gun

I don't understand the end game of full automation. Don't most businesses sell to the very people vulnerable to having their jobs replaced? Who am I making these fully robot made shirts for? What is UBI going to tax if none of these businesses have customers anymore? The ultra wealthy? The very people that need customers to stay wealthy? Those very customers that don't exist anymore? Is automatio…

This is why young people have grown to really dislike Boomers. The former followed the advice of their parents. They went to college because they were told that it would lead to a good-paying job. But now these kids are graduating with a mountain of debt and unable to land entry-level jobs because AI is doing that work instead. Meanwhile, Boomers who got rich off of investments in Big Tech lectur…

I'm a professional artist, even though I don't post much online. This whole AI debacle has made me incredibly depressed, but at the same time I started to feel immense comradery with other artists, even those much, much bigger than me.

It's funny how they use this argument as though using generative AI to create "art" and using digital tools to create art are at all comparable, as though they were using similar processes to achieve similar results. Like sweeties if that's even remotely true then why don't y'all grab a drawing tablet and have a go at creating your masterpiece? Oh what you don't know how? Oh but it's just as sim…

Norwegian here: the earth porn is mainly for people who live in very non central areas, or for vacation trips. The fantastic nature we have is almost as available to you as a tourist as to we who live here. (Most of us live in the flatter city areas.)

This is what we do with everything else. Why would AI be any different? It was never going to be any other way.

Still mindblowing that you can produce a book with this, but honestly, just reading the first chapter I can tell this was written by GPT4. The writing is nothing special, and neither is the plot. I guess this shows GPT4 \*can\* write a book... but it's not a very good book.

This breakthrough is incredible, but watching it made me think about something I read in Selwyn Raithe's book . The book talks about how we celebrate each AI milestone without noticing we're actually witnessing the systematic replacement of human purpose. The scariest part isn't the technology itself, it's how willingly we applaud our own obsolescence.

“Aspiring AI artist” perfectly captures the delusion of these people. They shit on the actual artists that feed the system that allows them to generate art, and then have the audacity to equate entering a text prompt with being an artist. Like so many, I too am starry-eyed at the possibilities of these AI tools, but when we demystify the process and look behind the curtain, it’s sobering, concern…

18:33 "Look up 'NFT' on Google with the date set for the year 2021 ... it's hilarious how similar the NFT stans sound to the AI image stans." They're the same stans. NFTs collapsed, like we all predicted, and the grifters and their suckers moved straight on to "AI" as the next big thing.

Worse yet, AI is *demonstrably* basically alot like the Clever Hans effect but for computers. It is incapabale of actaully understanding concepts like humans, and only gives back a string of letters based on guesses of what the person probably wanted. It’s mostly noteable when giving it mathemathical questions- because the computer program can store information on what the most common answer to …