this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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I genuinely don't understand how people end up this way about "AI". Like I just plainly don't get it. People are capable of understanding how these machines work, including what they do with your input and the privacy ramifications of that, and figuring out through reason, research and experimentation what good use cases for the technology are — I have myself experimented with LLMs on several occasions, and have determined that I have basically no use for the technology at all, and only a few very limited use cases for other ML-based technologies.
I do not believe myself to be better than other people, nor uniquely capable of making rational decisions about new technologies, and yet here we are: relatives, employers, coworkers and the likes all treating "AI" as a god rather than as a mechanical Turk... But what on Earth drives these people to believe so firmly? We the actors who populate the present day are certainly Children of Troubled Times, it seems.
Also, I personally think the superchatbot experience is really underwhelming, the novelty wears off after 5 minutes, and you immediately see the repetition and bullshit information, I really don't get why this is supposed to be a "revolutionary technology", I think the biggest impact it will have is companies replacing workers with AI only to crumble under the weight of the most shitty code ever or something. IDK i'm not impressed at all.
People must be very, very lonely if they’re letting them become their entire social life.