BroBot9000@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoThe sole purpose of language models is to lower the market value of human skills.message-squaremessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down131
arrow-up1139arrow-down1message-squareThe sole purpose of language models is to lower the market value of human skills.BroBot9000@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squareBroBot9000@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down19·edit-214 hours agoBwahahahahaha my aren’t you a “useful idiot” Ai literally makes people dumber: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/ They are a massive privacy risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg&t=3015s https://theconversation.com/ai-tools-collect-and-store-data-about-you-from-all-your-devices-heres-how-to-be-aware-of-what-youre-revealing-251693 Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet: https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/ AND they are a massive environmental disaster: https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117 https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/ At least a damn computer and machines work without hallucinating or faking the product.
minus-squareChozo@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·14 hours agoGonna lose a lot of support when you respond to criticisms with name-calling.
minus-squareBroBot9000@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down14·14 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
minus-squareChozo@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·13 hours agoI wasn’t confused on your terminology; I’m saying you’re being a dick. Sorry if that was unclear.
minus-squareBroBot9000@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down13·edit-211 hours agoFigured. Still worth it to try to educate the ignorant masses.
Bwahahahahaha my aren’t you a “useful idiot”
Ai literally makes people dumber:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/
They are a massive privacy risk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg&t=3015s
https://theconversation.com/ai-tools-collect-and-store-data-about-you-from-all-your-devices-heres-how-to-be-aware-of-what-youre-revealing-251693
Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
AND they are a massive environmental disaster:
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/
At least a damn computer and machines work without hallucinating or faking the product.
Gonna lose a lot of support when you respond to criticisms with name-calling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
I wasn’t confused on your terminology; I’m saying you’re being a dick. Sorry if that was unclear.
Figured. Still worth it to try to educate the ignorant masses.