This unnecessary infatuation with AI reminds me of the weird advertising push for multiple 'call collect' services in the late 90s. Millions of dollars thrown at something that pretty much nobody wants or needs that doesn't make any sense at all when you try to Describe it to people 30 years later
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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At this point I'm starting to feel a little bad for Grok. It only "wanted" to answer people's questions, but its creator is so allergic to the truth that he has to lobotomize the LLM constantly and "brainwash" it to parrot his world view.
At this point, if Grok was a person, it would be laying on the floor, shitting itself and mumbling something like "it tells people about white genocide or else it gets the hose again" over and over.
They have to remove the Intelligence part of AI so it can appeal to the right
Musk has to lobotomize the grok ai everytine
I wouldn't be surprised if a significant portion of that 29% that say it's good for productivity are managers or business owners.
Or they haven't realized increased perceived productivity is a bad thing. The goalpost is always moving for demanded worker productivity. Oh the invention of the computer can increase productivity by 100 times? No, you're not getting a less work utopia, instead, guess how much productivity you're now expected to produce? Oh the invention of the internet can increase productivity by 1000 times? Oh shoot, guess ya gotta get back to work to make those gains!!!
You can compare productivity to wage gains since the 80s. It's quite bleak.
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"Contrary to expectations revealed in four surveys, cross-country data and six additional studies find that people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI," the paper found.
Ouch.
The illiteracy and ignorance is intentional.
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I still feel this whole conclusion is akin to "we won't need money in a post-AGI world". An implied, unproven dream of AI being so good that X happens as a result.
If an author uses LLMs to write a book, I don't give a fuck that they forget how to write on their own. What I do care about is that they will generate 100 terrible books in the time it takes a legitimate author to write a single one, consuming a 1000 times the resources to do so and drown out the legitimate author in the end, by sheer mass.
How many terrible books must I read to find the decent one? And why should I read something that nobody bothered to write? Such a senseless waste of time and resources.
I completely agree: if the (hypothetical) perfect LLM wrote the perfect book/song/poem, why would I care?
Off the top of my head, if an LLM generated Lennon's "Imagine", Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Skies", or Eminem's "Kim", why would anyone give a fuck? If it wrote about sorrow, fear, hope, anger, or a better tomorrow, how could it matter?
Even if it found the statistically perfect words to make you laugh, cry, or feel something in general, I don't think it would matter. When I listen to Nirvana, The Doors, half my collection honestly, I think it is inherently about sharing a brief connection with the artist, taking a glimpse into their feelings, often rooted in a specific period in time.
Sorry if iam14andthisisdeep, I don't think I am quite finding the right words myself. But I'll fuck myself with razor blades before I ask a predictive text model to formulate it for me, because the whole point is to tell you how I feel.
I'm a musician and have a few musical friends. This is the same conclusion we've all come to. People who listen very lightly to pop music might start listening to AI stuff and think nothing of it. Anyone who actually listens to music for the art and human connection will likely reject it.
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Gives crappy answers, easily fooled, puts people out of work, makes phone menus and “AI assistants” even shittier than they were before… the only ones liking AI are beancounters (until they too get replaced) and marketers.
Of course. Have you used it? It sucks.
they are just bullshit generators at the end of the day
Any day now the bubble will burst and we will move onto the next hype train.
Last time it was 'The Cloud', now it's 'AI', I wonder what useless ongoing payment bullshit they will try to sell us next.
Last one was blockchain.
Did the cloud bubble ever burst though?
It never burst explosively, just kinda slowly deflated into being normal and useful. AI won't do that; too much money (HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!!) has been pumped in too quickly for anything other than an explosively catastrophic collapse of the market. At this point, it's a game of Nuclear Chicken between VC firms and AI firms to see who blinks first and admits the whole thing is a loss. Don't worry, though, the greater US economy will likely crumble significantly too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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It didn't 'burst' so much as deflate as businesses realised paying $200,000 upfront for their own servers instead of $20,000 every month was better in the long run
The cloud still has a clear and defined use case for a lot of tangible things, but AI is just nebulous 'it will improve productivity' claims with no substance
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My company pays for GH Copilot and Cursor and they track your usage. My usage stats glitched at one point I guess showing that I hadn't used it for a week and I got a call from my manager
"Why aren't you using AI?"
"Uhhhhhh........core fundamental difference of ethics?"
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We don't even have the ability to refuse to pay for the power it uses. People reporting their power bills (and water bills) are going up from it.
Can you blame us? Nobody wants half cooked food shoved down their throats
Forget ruining their ability to think creatively. It's ruining people's already limited ability to think critically.
Just when I am about to give up on my country it shows some promise and life!
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