Now a days people refer to AI instantly for an answer. Maybe it’s a problem they could have solved within 10min in their head or a question they could have done an internet search on and read a few forums to figure out. However, now people go straight to AI which is known to give many many wrong answers.
I know a couple people that fit this bill and now I almost completely disregard what they say. We’ll even be talking face to face and they’ll ask AI something from our conversation in real time.
I don’t disregard them, but I do think less of them.
As far as possible, yes.
I disregard all of these people where I can. I can’t disregard my CEO, and he does it more than anyone I have encountered.
Most of the people I know who do that are people who I already don’t respect. It really pisses me off when people who are smart and should know better do it.
I also disregard any screenshots of Google ai overview, it’s been proven to be easily manipulated.
It definitely colors my opinion knowing someone routinely uses GenAI and LLM’s, especially if it’s for little things like writing an email, because I write my own emails and a unique voice is important to me. I feel like writing something in my own voice is a way of showing respect for other people and their time.
Basically it makes me think a person is either lazy or ignorant.
I separate those people.
If they said, "Chatgpt said… " And they are completely confident that it’s correct, I disregard them. This includes the AI cucks who send literal screenshots from AI as some sort of “proof”.
If they said, "The AI slop I got was… " Then they’re more likely to critically think about it. They know this is a third voice, rather than the definite answer.
We call it “Our drunk friend” since its always confident and nice but also spits out bullshit at random.
Im fine with them if they say claude made, or chatgpt made, not “I made”
The potential answer could be vs. the answer is.
Seems reasonable
With search engines propping up AI answers and even newsrooms using AI, its the unfortunate norm now.
Well, I would trust a 9th century BCE doctor from anywhere in the world to diagnose me for internal bleeding before I trust anything someone who relies on genAI says to me. Could literally be just their name and I would immediately presume it’s fake and they asked genAI for a name.
Yes. It’s getting weird. Had a coworker ask me a question if something was possible. I said yes. He said: no, ai said it wasn’t. I didn’t understand why he asked me if he knew the answer already lol. They just accept ai as truth, can’t take those people seriously.
My boss did similar thing to me. Asked me something as a specialist, did not believe my answer until he queried an llm and it spit out answer confirming my position. At this point, why even ask people you pay anything? Just wing it with a chat bot and see how it goes.
delusion
At this point, why even ask people you pay anything?
He asked you for that exact reason… but then you gave him an answer he didn’t want. He may or may not have known what answer he wanted but as soon as you gave it he knew he wanted it to be something else. The quickest way to get a second opinion, was to ask the LLM.
If it had hallucinated the answer he wanted, he would have demanded going that route, because the AI said so, even if it was literally impossible.
And in his mind, this reinforced the AI as being correct, so he’s will be more likely to blindly accept it’s responses in the future.
Confirmation bias is one hell of a drug and AI is our supplier. It’ll be our downfall
Yes. A friend’s brother developed the habit to look up stuff during conversation when something is unclear. He uses voice for that, so you see him whisper to his phone all the time when you or others are speaking. Weirded me out.
my older brother relies on AI, hes in TECH too, well laid off years ago. but almost 100% and he does that to with AI. even a simple search on reddit will give you a proper answer.
Probably how he got laid off
I think those people are in need of a good hard rl slap across the face
I know a guy who does that. He used to be smart, but it feels like those antivax who refer to other people instead of using their brain. When he begins to talk about AI results, I zone out, and I’m starting to disregard everything he says, AI or not.
even worst when a tech guy, i know relies on it all the time.
friend of me also: So i asked the ai and it said… yeah whatever dude i don’t care
Yes i do; My sister and her husband work in tech and they have become that kind of people that ask chat GTP for everything. I think what gets me the most is not that they ask AI but that they do so on the most obvious inconsequential things. I also hate when they use it as a research tool or to get a quick superficial answer. I often tell them I don’t care what AI has to say.
For some reason when people share AI music; it really grinds my gears. I am not a musician but a long time music fan and for some reason any type of AI generated music is an existential insult to me, aside from the fact that it all sucks.
This is terrifying. I would have thought tech professionals would be the most resistant to AI. Job openings in tech are becoming scarce and people seem to have to take a pledge of allegisnce to LLMs to bpget a shoe in.
The most existentially terrifying thing about it is that it’s not about education or overall intelligence, but personality. And even then, there’s an emotional edge to it that may catch people in particularly vulnerable states.
Like a virus is a load of DNA being driven by a questionably alive entity, AI is a load of emotional signal being driven by a questionably conscience one (though I still argue not, I think the analogy stands). Education and intelligence can help ward it some, but people are complex and there’s no telling what subsystems or random strings it manages to hook onto.
I have a background in CS and AI (from the early 00’s, don’t be too impressed) and have friends in linguistics. ML and more specifically LLMs have been on my radar for a long while and I am aware of their possible uses, but I’m tired of having to hedge every conversation around it. What we need to do is cultivate a strong social and cultural boundary for ourselves.
I heard someone say that the only thing AI should be used for is stuff people never should have been doing in the first place, things like catching spam/phishing out of your email. GenAI is just pure abomination.
If I knew anyone IRL, damn straight I would.
I’ve stop reading one source of tech news and at least one fitness youtuber who uses AI. I can do no less for IRL interactions.
Just using slop generators at all makes you a moron in my books. Unfortunately I am something of a moron myself when I use free services in an anonymous browser tab to find out something not clear from documentation.
