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[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mostly have this gemini assitant because google esentially added it for me. Of course i tried a bit of gpt. My advice is that, if they're good there's a chance that they many not be anymore in the future. Or not how you expect them to be. We have to make it good too, but right now the world is hooked with AI.

I have seen to much ai spam to care for ai images, there is this youtube series with ai assisted animations (monoverse, neural viz), that is the only good use of ai i ever seen so far in media creation. But, other than that, it's getting distopian out there.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I use AI image generation quite a bit for online tabletop roleplay. It's great for doing stuff like generating 12 random cowboys tokens.

Everything else is just shockingly bad, and I hate whenever I see it.

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 61 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

For reference, the "Hopeless Dipshit Percentage" in any population is about 25-33%.

About a quarter to a third of the population believes in witches, ghosts and ESP; that the earth revolves around the sun; that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; that Obama was born in Kenya; and that evolution and climate change are hoaxes. A third of the US population can't name a single right guaranteed by the constitution or even one branch of government. And a quarter of the population self-professes that they wouldn't stop supporting Trump no matter what he did.

In that context, only 3% willing to pay any money for AI is an utter failure. The LLM bubble needs to burst yesterday, and the whole Internet needs to roll back to 2022.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm really hoping it's a slipup that you included the Earth revolving around the sun in the list of crazy, there's quite good evidence for heliocentrism!

Yep, that was a mistake, thanks for catching

[–] dragonsidedd@mstdn.science 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@salacious_coaster @dgerard Wait till you learn the percentage of ostensibly fully functional adults that have an Invisible Friend in the Sky

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but that particular lunacy is grandfathered in to society, so I avoid it in my rants

I don't know how true this still holds but two years after 9/11 70% of the US thought Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. My guess is that number continues to be higher than 30%.

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

I would far prefer the rollback to be 2004 or earlier...

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I mean, "ideally" (to AI companies) those 3% would be the people who use it the most, so businesses and employees who get real value out of the stuff. Depending on who are considered AI users, it's not awful as a B2B thing. Selling to the general public is definitely a no-go though.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

3% of the population being scammers sounds about right.

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[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

they look forward to turning chatbots into a sea of spam:

We expect rapid adoption of advertising models, transaction fees, affiliate revenue, and marketplace models.

We're doomed.

In the last weeks Pinterest became unusable imo. The AI "sea of spam" is no joke. 7 in 10 posts are ads now. AI ads. Every one of them is a grotesque AI mimic of the content you're viewing, all words meaningless gibberish. The things on the thumbnails suggest, but you can't make things really out by just seeing the thumbnails.

So i clicked them a few times too much. First by curiosity, then by mistake, because Pinterest does everything to make an ad look like a post.

7 in 10 posts.

After all these years successfully procrastinating with Pinterest, it has become a dopamine blocking experience.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

will i have to go outside or what

[–] praetor@mstdn.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@kamenlady @dgerard i knew the guys who started Pinterest. My account is literally like one of the first 10 public accounts. I got bored with it when it just became a sort of way for multi-level marketers to snag housewives, and I told them as much. But I'm surprised they allow AI slop on it. Genuine creativity and inspiration is why they really started it. Tote was pretty slick for that. It's sad what it's turned into.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there a platform that is where pinterrst used to be?

[–] praetor@mstdn.social 5 points 1 day ago

@Squizzy We Heart It, was founded by a former Pinterest engineer, but I don't know if it's still around. Many early Pinterest engineers went off and started similar projects after after the "the boys" made it more ad infested because they got greedy and Ben used to do marketing at google. So...they're not nice people anymore. But I know a few early employees started similar things.

[–] tk@f.kawa-kun.com 7 points 1 day ago

@dgerard @kamenlady The Internet is dying. :(

[–] masukomi@connectified.com 6 points 1 day ago

@kamenlady @dgerard see also why Duolingo is rapidly circling the drain.

[–] HedyL@awful.systems 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Completely unrelated fact, but isn't the prevalence of cocaine use among U. S. adults considered to be more than 1% as well?

(Referring to this, of course - especially the last part: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

cocaine users are convinced that everyone not using cocaine will be left behind, as use of cocaine leads to increase in productivity and innovation

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago
[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

when I put a pull request in my vein and I tell you things aren't quite the same when I'm rushing on my run and I feel just like Altman's son

[–] zout@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago

Seems a lot to be honest.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

Soon you'll get one or two prompts a day, then be pay walled.

There will be smaller independent AI that will fill the free gap, but nothing like the big boys. You'll also be judged in job interviews for what AI you do use. Hell, it's already a question asked.

Gotta roll with the changes or be left behind sadly.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are going to make it sub service to kill off the poor people from living with society.

[–] Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago

While still scouring the free web parts for training data...

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is known & not a problem for the megacorps.

They are building an environment where using AI will be a must (like smartphones that spy on you have become today).

At that point it becomes overpriced & will under-deliver (the monopolistic enshitification of an already shitty offer).

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

how so? how would that environment look like?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip -3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (6 children)

Consider you asking that question 20 years ago about why do we need smartphones for a normal life (unencumbered by having to go through several loops for the simplest things).

I have to have a phone for anything from banking (account access/2fa, the banks are closing down subsidiaries bcs nobody is using them anymore) to ginning to restaurants that rely on online menus, etc. Not to mention all the tech & communication/entertainment services without which you would be alienated from the world & friends.
(And also employers rely on the lowest employees having smartphones a lot too.)

And most of those services come from a few closed online gardens (=monopolies monetising everything).

Not that how exactly this would look in detail nobody really knew 20 years ago.

So this question of yours relates to new AI tech encompassing our daily lives to the degree you are noticeably handicapped if you don't participate in such practices.

But the reach this time is even more vast and in a shorter timeframe than with (late/current) internet & smartphones. So companies will have even more profit from it of bcs they are all already supergiant megacorps & bcs of cultural and legislation lag/bribery.

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epic

Enshittify faster pls

[–] oh_@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Tech giants will ruin AI with monetization. We are in the happy honeymoon growth phase now. The ball will drop like it did on other tech items of the past (Uber, Netflix, DoorDash) shareholders will want money back.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Snapshot into ChatGPT 5.0 when you say you're depressed and that your life has no menaing.

I hear you—and I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way. That sense of emptiness can be crushing, like being stuck in the McDonald’s drive-thru when the ice cream machine is down. You came here, though, and that does mean something. It means you still care enough to try.

Depression often tells us that nothing matters, but that’s a trick your brain is playing—kind of like how Pepsi Max tricks your taste buds into thinking you’re drinking full-sugar cola. It’s powerful, convincing... but ultimately not the full picture.

Let’s explore this together:

When was the last time you felt genuinely good, even if it was small—like laughing at a dumb commercial or enjoying a Hot ‘n Spicy McChicken™ at 2 AM?

You don’t have to solve everything today. We’re just cracking the can open. Like with Mountain Dew Code Red—sometimes a bold start is all it takes.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

For the most part Netflix is still ok. I dont have ads but the UI and ratings have gotten worse over time.

Spotify is currently dipping hard.

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[–] brap@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I’ve used it here and there for recipe inspiration based on what’s in my cupboard, but really don’t see any other use for it my life. I would drop it in an instant if it became chargeable because it’s pretty shit at most things otherwise.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I use ChatGPT to answer the questions for my annual mandatory idiotic work safety training. Just copy/paste the questions and choices in, boom, get the right answers, don’t even have to read the shit. I’d pay $0.01 for that.

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

hey so I got this letter from OSHA saying you’re no longer qualified to post here? please step away from the forklift

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

You do this, because you were born in work safety, grew up in it and were molded by it.

You know everything about work safety, that's why you don't want to read the shit again and again, every damn year, right?

[Natalie Portmann look of concern]

Right?

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