Th4tGuyII

Honestly. It feels like some people have become so dependent on LLMs that they’ll ask them to solve the even most basic of questions.

Our bodies evolved on a “use it or lose it” basis, and like every other muscle in our bodies, the brain is not immune to this…

If you let your brain sit idle while passing on such simple tasks to AI, the neuronal pathways for these tasks will weaken to the point you’ll have to relearn them from scratch.

These AI companies want this to happen. They want more and more people to become dependent, so that once they decide to rug pull you with the true cost, you’ll have no choice but to pay up because you can’t cope without it. This is true not just for humans but even entire industries as a whole, who have very keenly taken to replacing humans with it.

Was about to say, pot calling the kettle black much?

Trump’s administration doing something blatantly corrupt in the open and getting away with it completely… colour me shocked.

Understand there will be no justice. Even if Trump is kicked out, those with the power to go after him and his cronies simply won’t at this point.

On the off chance this isn’t just a joke and never happened, in theory they had to have eaten the exact same dish each time, but requested removal of a single ingredient, and are now down to the last two eliminations?

The only problem with this method being they’re going in with the assumption that a single ingredient is causing the issue, when it could be multiple or all of the ingredients - or even a result of poor hygiene from the person preparing these pokes.

X argued that if content creators are permitted to sue AI platforms when people use their technology to violate copyright law, the tech companies would “have no choice but to constrain their actions” to avoid the potential liability.

Would’ve been nice to have a win for the average person that didn’t also vicariously benefit AI companies, but that won’t be today.

The problem with pointing out contradictory points of view to the right wing is that they largely don’t care. These arguments are ultimately just dog whistles and plausible deniability towards their real ends.

They’ll argue parent’s right when the parents agree with them, then trample those same rights when they don’t - and won’t even blink because parent’s rights wasn’t the goal, it was the elimination of Trans kids, which both points are consistent with.

If you love AI you probably hate art and expression…

If OOP actually loved art and expression, they’d be supporting actual artists making actual art, rather than putting their weight behind the no-effort jungle juice of art AI produces.

I’d love if we as a society could just stop using the word “woke” for a while.

Cause at this point its basically just a nebulous buzzword that means anything dependent on where you sit on the political spectrum.

How did we manage to move almost completely away from Pseudo-random password generation, only to come straight back to it via LLMs again.

People will really just shove these things into anything like they’re a bloody panacea, when really they’re just extremely well-trained parrots.

I hate to tell you, but there are plenty of brain-rotted kids out there too. It’ll get anyone that spends long enough online.

Social media addiction is plenty real, pretty sure I’ve got at least a mild case of it - which is why I try to limit how long I spend here and other sites.

Isn’t this just called having a lazy morning?

Like you wake up but don’t feel like getting up yet, so you play about with your phone for a bit?

As long as you’re not doing that for ages every single day, I’d say it’s fairly normal behaviour. Sometimes you just need a bit to slouch you know.

Honestly, seeing a stock photo guy or woman in a thumbnail nowadays screams AI-generated content. I stay away from those at all costs to prevent YouTube deciding to recommend me more

Exactly. At that point the only leverage he had over anyone was the secrets he held on his elite “friends”. There’s no reason to think he wouldn’t have spilled to save his own skin, so all the more motivation for his elite “friends” to prevent that by force

Do we need to remind people that LLMs don’t actually have a brain, and really, really shouldn’t be in charge of anything with real life implications?

They aren’t actually doing a cost-benefit analysis on the use of Nuclear weapons. They’re not weighing up the cost of winning vs. the casualties. They’re literally not made for that.

They are trained to know words, and how those words link in with other words. They’re essentially like kids doing escalation of imaginary weapons, and to them nuclear bombs are just a weapon particularly associated with being strong and deadly.

You mean to tell me that all these years of the UK Gov refusing to increasing the NHS’s budget to match inflation - in effect cutting their budget - has resulted in worse care outcomes, as it incentivises shorting on staff and cutting corners to meet targets?

Writing rules and procedures can’t get you out of a problem caused by said rules and procedures not being followed due to external pressures.

The UK Gov loves to fixate on dealing with symptoms rather than the actual problems behind them, then goes all Surprised Pikachu when their “fixes” don’t work. It’s been the same routine for decades now.

Well if anyone here had any doubts about Patel being a slimey cunt, this ought to put a nail through them

What a terribly bad faith argument. Not a single bit of that actually matters to the substance of this discussion.

My direct input on this keyboard is what ends up on the screen. My interpretation, my words, my creative decisions (or lack thereof), and my mistakes.

You AI is instructed by you. It takes your words and interprets them according to its own training data. It uses its own words, its creative decisions, and makes its own mistakes.

If you can’t see the difference between those two things, and why someone might think a person having done the latter but claiming the former might be seen as insulting, then there’s no point in having this discussion.

As I said in my reply directly to you, I don’t have an issue with vibe-coding itself.

And I do understand that our interactions of the world are mediated by tools, but those tools are things we use to assist in our direct input.

… And even independent tools like autocompletion requires me to actually type the words I intend to use. I have a direct input on what the autocompletion does, because its completing my words, not typing them for me.

Prompting an AI to do something isn’t actually doing the thing, it’s managing another entity that does the thing for you. It’s a tool, but it’s a tool that thinks entirely for itself.

So when vibe-coders say the “coded” something the AI produced, or vibe-artists say they “drew” something an AI generated, it grinds my gears - because its not the same, and will never be.

If you code enough, if you draw enough, you get better at it. If you prompt an AI enough, you don’t get better at either of those things - you just get better at prompting the AI.

Yes, because I directly typed on that keyboard. My fingers pressed each and every key to make each and every letter of this text you’re reading.

The keyboard is a tool to interface with a computer, in the same way you need a hammer to push a nail, a screwdriver to drive a screw, or a knife cuts through things.

I didn’t ask somebody else to go hammer the nail, screw the screw, or cut the thing then take credit for doing the thing I didn’t do.

Managing a process isn’t the same as doing the process, and in the same way, prompting an AI to make code for you isn’t the same as actually making that code, and never will be.

Edit:

I should say I don’t actually have anything against Vibe-coding itself, apart from the environmental implications of AI, and for personal projects I imagine it’s probably quite useful.

What grinds my gears is when people say “they” coded something, knowing full well they didn’t write a single line of code. It’s like Vibe-artists saying they “drew” something DALI made.

Its fine to do it, but just admit that’s what you did, rather than trying to take credit for a thing you didn’t do.

In the nicest way possible, it’s extremely naive to expect that the law makers currently benefitting from this wave of facism are going to make laws that actively hinder them from doing so.

You need a much more honest and socialist government before you get anything close to this ideal.