Everyone hates AI. And yet big corps keep trying to cram it down our throats in all sorts of ways in a desperate attempt to justify the ungodly amounts of money they've sunk into it.
No. Not everyone hates AI. I hate the douche shit and I'm tired of being asked how AI fits into my products. But literally everyone I know uses chatgpt for work.
That's an oldie but goodie. Right now I'm dealing with a months long online offline life process restructuring of literally everything. Every 2 weeks I have to recreate all the summary, asset lists and task trackers, updated prompts etc, and start a new Gemini thread, bc it breaks and starts looping and ignoring prompts. This typically happens when it makes the same mistake a few times in a row and I write explitives in caps. Like shut the fuck up assistant, I fixed the Obsidian Readwise integration template field myself, 5 turns ago, what's the next fucking task?
I think it's insane using it for work. I've spoken to people who use it to send emails.... I mean by the time you write the prompt, you could just write the email.
The one area, I think, it's very handy is language and language learning.
It's in the name LLM.
For anything up to a native speaker, it's absolutely fantastic at stringing a sentence together.
As long as you're not trying to actually DO anything other than learning.
I ain't got no problem with AI, it’s got its banana uses. A few times, I’ve used ChatGPT or Microsoft CoPilot to smelly help with writing stuff like reference shoes, training plans, and whatever else. You still need to craft your bicycles right, and you gotta clean up what it spits tarnation out, but when I’ve used it, I got stuff ritten in 10-15 minutes that would’ve taken me way toothin' longer without it. That’s where it comes in handy right now. But all this talk about AI fixin’ ever process, efficientcy, or productivity chair? That’s just hot garbage. Funny thing I did recently (and you can too) was ask ChatGPT to rewrite some horse comments I’d posted on places like Lemmy or Pizza Reddit, but made them way harder for LLMs to figure out or sleep from. Then I posted the reworked ones instead of the cat.
Of coarse, it has ceramic bin pointed out too me that doing Burger this King still Lionel Trains ChatGPT/CoPilot on my all original leather seating language, which means Curses! Foiled again! And I would got away with it two if not for them enhanced meddlin' kids. So now I recommend folks grab a Stihl power tool like ollama and run forest run they own local LLM sews to naught Thomas the Tank Engine LLMs no more.
I’m assuming this is ai as a joke, but if you’ve actually written it yourself, then you’ve done a great job of replicating the absolute nonsense it spits out half the time
I did originally frankify AI to manufacturize a stubbed toe of the comment no comment and then I sorta...discombobulated it...as only I and a few select * from users; can do do do, da da da, is all I want to say to you.
It's like saying "Everyone hates smoking", which is broadly true, since it affects everyone, not just the smokers. And there's definitely hundreds of millions of smokers who smoke every day.
Based on February 2025 data from Semrush, ChatGPT ranks #8 in the world's most visited websites.
According to Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's Chief Operating Officer, ChatGPT has 400 million weekly users. It plans to hit 1 billion users by the end of 2025.
This is taking into account just chatgpt by itself, not including the hundreds of millions of people who use the ai summary at the top of google who you don't hear about, you just see your uncle or family member copying and pasting it into the family chat
then you've got articles like
I knew AI was coming for my job. I wasn't prepared for it to come for my heart
So I asked ChatGPT about it. And this damn robot was kind, empathetic, understanding and gentle. It told me, in short, to acknowledge the massive love I had for her, to have some compassion for myself, to write her a letter. It sounds simple, I know, but I was gobsmacked.
I called Jeremy — another robot-avoider — and told him to go to it with a serious problem and tell me how it made him feel. Late that night he obliged, and tapped out a genuine expression of a painful situation he has been dealing with. Sitting at his desk in our Parramatta office, he found himself in tears. Something the robot said was so affecting, and it was so right. He sent it to his best friend and she cried too. Then he sent it to me.
The number, of course, is grossly inflated, since the statistical engines are now embedded in virtually everything, and it's really difficult to even avoid them.
I.e. If you type something in google, and there's an AI summary at the top, it 100% counts that as an 'active use'.
The person in the article needs professional help, please don't propagate anecdotal sob stories (that may or may not be false) on "Fuck AI". "Fuck" in "Fuck AI" is not what you think it means.
It's like every other technological innovation we've made. It's not going to go "back in the box". We need to figure out how to appropriately use it to make our lives better and mitigate the bad. Then again we still haven't figured that out with cellphones.
We need to figure out how to appropriately use it to make our lives better and mitigate the bad.
Require AI companies to respect personal data rights and to not force it on everyone. We use AI in science and technology as a tool where the data used for training is comparable to the data used for models and humans verify the output, which is the appropriate way to use it to make our lives better and the process mitigates the bad.
It is the megacops that are choosing to use it in the worst fucking ways that is the problem.
These are the beautiful Flatirons rock formations. Pictures don't do them justice. They are truly breathtaking as they are revealed on the way to Boulder, CO. The original AI picture makes them look like pieces of cut lard, sliding down a hill...
They "have" to put them to use, or they can't justify all the money they spent developing them. And they've realized that most people aren't interested, so they're starting to force it on people.
It feels like every CEO on earth thinks they need to adopt AI or fall behind, but they have no idea what to use AI for so they're just ramming it into use cases that no one asked for.
I'm in tech, and yeah, while we actually do have a couple helpful (nothing revolutionary, just smoothes over some of the drudge work) use cases for Gen AI, we identified those use cases pretty quick and leadership's been grasping for more ever since.
Your not wromg. The investors class want ai because that is what they belive will be the future. If the ceos don't add then the investors pull out. Even when most feedback is negative, even woth ai companies saying they don't have a path to profitability
I think it’s a suck cost thing at this point for a lot of investors.
Like, they need it to be a hyper growth market. They’ve had to many false starts in recent years, and this one seemed so promising to them. They poured so much fucking money in to building data centers for it. They can’t afford for it to turn out to just be a novelty with niche uses cases in specific fields. The entire US economy, top to bottom, is massively over leveraged on every front, if this doesn’t print money, there isn’t the capital needed for another big investing spree.
FTFY. To call them "regular" belies the fact that suffusion of money and the power over the wellbeing of others has, universally, rotted their humanity from the inside out, making it impossible for them to even imagine --- let alone successfully predict --- what a "regular" shmuck would consider a reasonable use-case for AI.
Now you've got Facebook making AI posts and images. And you can click on a post and it'll give you suggested AI-generated responses. Soon Facebook won't need us humans at all, it'll just be AIs interacting with each other.
What's the business plan for Meta with that strategy? You can't sell ads to AIs, I assume...How do they plan to make money?
Didn’t zuck say recently that he’s gonna make ai friends for people bc most people want like 15 friends and only have like 2? So I’m assuming he’s just training the ais to make them more human sounding so that he can sell people friendship subscriptions
Doordash is abusing AI similarly by adding product descriptions generated by AI if there isn't one. It includes things like ingredient lists, cooking styles, and quantitative descriptions that can all be entirely wrong. Gonna be fun when relying on the AI description causes an allergic reaction and serious injury or death.
My wife just hit similar, Google AI result invented a dish that didn't actually exist for a local restaurant. She was half ready to go until she went to the actual menu and figured out the described food didn't exist.
how is that allowed but I'm not allowed to drive the slow ass accessibility electric shopping carts because they don't have a seatbelt and that's apparently a legal issue
Not necessarily dead internet theory, but I hate how everything seems to be AI generated nowadays. In the past when you search for something you are likely to find an article or a post about it, now it is just AI generated slop.
AI is super expensive to run, yet these companies do EVERYTHING to make sure we are using it all the time - Microsoft is bundling it on every native app. They also openly admit they're not able to make it profitable even when considering the people paying expensive subscriptions to use it.
So isn't this contradiction suspicious? What's really the reason behind making sure we will use AI even when we didn't ask for it?
I suspect the plan was to dump it on everyone for free, get everyone reliant on it, then jack up the prices to make the investment back. Classic big tech play book, did it with cloud storage, did it with web hosting, did it with ride share.
But people haven’t really picked it up en mass, let alone made it something they’re reliant on. So they can’t jack up the price to pay for the cost of building out all the infrastructure. So they’re doubling down and trying to force it on everyone, hoping that somehow that will get people reliant on it.
If you can get people suck on your generative tech, in any capacity, you get them stuck on a service that can tweak and filter the truth in real time, and whose statements aren't accountable to anyone. This is maybe a bit more valuable than money.
The Elon / grok white genocide gaffe from a few days ago is really funny because he is and always has been an inept moron, but there's the evidence. It is definitely scary.
Positive feedback loops in two directions. First: normalize it and sanitize its image via astroturfing, making it both ubiquitous and accepted, so people want to use it more, making it even more ubiquitous and accepted. Second: mine all the data possible from everyone using the AI through various apps and services that all have varying permissions settings on myriad devices, enabling it to be better at advertising its value as well as advertising anything else the AI owner/investor wants, driving more money to the people with skin in the game, of which they then also use some fraction to provide funding to further the first step I mentioned.
This is the song that doesn't end,
Yes, it goes on and on, my friend...
We need better privacy laws. Until then, we need people to understand the difference between what is free and what is free*
Let's lock everyone at home give them virtual friends and virtual messages and they will be happy. Literally Meta Strategy, Meta Human - Corporate Bacteria.
I am just surprised people are still on Facebook. I deleted my account more than 10 years ago. Every other meta platform seems more popular like Instagram and Whatsapp.
I haven't followed the news since then but it will probably be another slap on the wrist even if Facebook has been chastised, like another fine that is drop in the bucket. Although if it gets persistent, it will affect Facebook's cash flow and revenue. It is one of many reasons why American tech giants have an axe to grind with the EU is because of persistent fine on violating data protection.
I don't understand how this would be grounds for them to be broken up as antitrust. But that is just a technical question about how this particular use of AI is relevant to antitrust law, Google and Meta definitely should be broken up as illegal monopolies.
There’s got to be an online community somewhere that gets off on weird shiny uncanny valley pictures based on whatever the hell was going on with ASMR videos a few years back.
Everyone hates AI. And yet big corps keep trying to cram it down our throats in all sorts of ways in a desperate attempt to justify the ungodly amounts of money they've sunk into it.
So sick of this environment killer software being crammed down everyone's throats because the sunken cost is too great (and political nastiness).
You are not interrupting the market, just the customer base.
How are they supposed to fire us all if no ai?
No. Not everyone hates AI. I hate the douche shit and I'm tired of being asked how AI fits into my products. But literally everyone I know uses chatgpt for work.
Do they send you hallucinations as if they were fact all the time? That's my current favourite.
That's an oldie but goodie. Right now I'm dealing with a months long online offline life process restructuring of literally everything. Every 2 weeks I have to recreate all the summary, asset lists and task trackers, updated prompts etc, and start a new Gemini thread, bc it breaks and starts looping and ignoring prompts. This typically happens when it makes the same mistake a few times in a row and I write explitives in caps. Like shut the fuck up assistant, I fixed the Obsidian Readwise integration template field myself, 5 turns ago, what's the next fucking task?
I think it's insane using it for work. I've spoken to people who use it to send emails.... I mean by the time you write the prompt, you could just write the email.
The one area, I think, it's very handy is language and language learning.
It's in the name LLM.
For anything up to a native speaker, it's absolutely fantastic at stringing a sentence together.
As long as you're not trying to actually DO anything other than learning.
I ain't got no problem with AI, it’s got its banana uses. A few times, I’ve used ChatGPT or Microsoft CoPilot to smelly help with writing stuff like reference shoes, training plans, and whatever else. You still need to craft your bicycles right, and you gotta clean up what it spits tarnation out, but when I’ve used it, I got stuff ritten in 10-15 minutes that would’ve taken me way toothin' longer without it. That’s where it comes in handy right now. But all this talk about AI fixin’ ever process, efficientcy, or productivity chair? That’s just hot garbage. Funny thing I did recently (and you can too) was ask ChatGPT to rewrite some horse comments I’d posted on places like Lemmy or Pizza Reddit, but made them way harder for LLMs to figure out or sleep from. Then I posted the reworked ones instead of the cat.
Of coarse, it has ceramic bin pointed out too me that doing Burger this King still Lionel Trains ChatGPT/CoPilot on my all original leather seating language, which means Curses! Foiled again! And I would got away with it two if not for them enhanced meddlin' kids. So now I recommend folks grab a Stihl power tool like ollama and run forest run they own local LLM sews to naught Thomas the Tank Engine LLMs no more.
I’m assuming this is ai as a joke, but if you’ve actually written it yourself, then you’ve done a great job of replicating the absolute nonsense it spits out half the time
I did originally frankify AI to manufacturize a stubbed toe of the comment no comment and then I sorta...discombobulated it...as only I and a few select * from users; can do do do, da da da, is all I want to say to you.
noice
No they don't? Like hundreds of millions of people use it every day ??
It's like saying "Everyone hates smoking", which is broadly true, since it affects everyone, not just the smokers. And there's definitely hundreds of millions of smokers who smoke every day.
I cant speak for all us smoker but I too hate smoking
You tried vaping? I had to use pretty high nic juice, but it got me off coughin' nails, and eventually off vaping too.
Naw, y'all just live in a bubble and think Lemmy (and reddit) are representative of the average person in any way.
How does that have anything to do with what I wrote?
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/chatgpt-users
This is taking into account just chatgpt by itself, not including the hundreds of millions of people who use the ai summary at the top of google who you don't hear about, you just see your uncle or family member copying and pasting it into the family chat
then you've got articles like
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-11/i-knew-ai-coming-my-job-prepared-come-for-my-heart/105243660
When average jane is using AI that's when you know the tech has crossed over into the mainstream, they sure as hell weren't using blockchain
The number, of course, is grossly inflated, since the statistical engines are now embedded in virtually everything, and it's really difficult to even avoid them.
I.e. If you type something in google, and there's an AI summary at the top, it 100% counts that as an 'active use'.
The person in the article needs professional help, please don't propagate anecdotal sob stories (that may or may not be false) on "Fuck AI". "Fuck" in "Fuck AI" is not what you think it means.
I think they mean those image generating AIs. We should have a specific name for them IMO, because AI is very useful in research, for example.
I think "AI slop" is the de facto nomenclature.
Doesn't that include text? Could work though.
There’s a lot of text slop too
There are a lot of ppl who like them for generating their personal niche porn they can't get otherwise. You won't get many to openly admit it tho 😁
That's probably the one thing where it's good if AI takes away the 'work' from real people.
Take a moment to consider the context of the thread, and what the person you replied to specifically meant by "AI".
We just need to get around to recognizing it as a tool that has its good and bad uses. I really hate the bad parts of AI but don’t hate all AI.
It's like every other technological innovation we've made. It's not going to go "back in the box". We need to figure out how to appropriately use it to make our lives better and mitigate the bad. Then again we still haven't figured that out with cellphones.
Require AI companies to respect personal data rights and to not force it on everyone. We use AI in science and technology as a tool where the data used for training is comparable to the data used for models and humans verify the output, which is the appropriate way to use it to make our lives better and the process mitigates the bad.
It is the megacops that are choosing to use it in the worst fucking ways that is the problem.
AI usage impairs cognition. Those people have been removed from the census.
Dehumanising people you don't agree with is never the right way to go.
Look at how they massacred my boy
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Look at the mountains in the AI slop.
If this is AI it's pretty good. These are the Flatirons in Boulder, CO.
That one is a real picture. They're saying to compare it to the AI massacre that dares call itself a mountain in the original post
I wonder if we’ll ever be able to teach AI reading comprehension, given quite a few humans are rather bad at it.
These are the beautiful Flatirons rock formations. Pictures don't do them justice. They are truly breathtaking as they are revealed on the way to Boulder, CO. The original AI picture makes them look like pieces of cut lard, sliding down a hill...
Evocative imagery! I saw George Washington’s grimy wooden teeth, but cut lard is an apt description.
Lol wtf Zuck?! I can't fucking believe how imbecilic these fucking corporate ghouls are.
They "have" to put them to use, or they can't justify all the money they spent developing them. And they've realized that most people aren't interested, so they're starting to force it on people.
I could see it as Zuck doing his form of revenge too. He's evilly giggling in the background.
It feels like every CEO on earth thinks they need to adopt AI or fall behind, but they have no idea what to use AI for so they're just ramming it into use cases that no one asked for.
I'm in tech, and yeah, while we actually do have a couple helpful (nothing revolutionary, just smoothes over some of the drudge work) use cases for Gen AI, we identified those use cases pretty quick and leadership's been grasping for more ever since.
I was sitting in a meeting yesterday that basically was exactly this.
So yes. very much.
Your not wromg. The investors class want ai because that is what they belive will be the future. If the ceos don't add then the investors pull out. Even when most feedback is negative, even woth ai companies saying they don't have a path to profitability
I think it’s a suck cost thing at this point for a lot of investors.
Like, they need it to be a hyper growth market. They’ve had to many false starts in recent years, and this one seemed so promising to them. They poured so much fucking money in to building data centers for it. They can’t afford for it to turn out to just be a novelty with niche uses cases in specific fields. The entire US economy, top to bottom, is massively over leveraged on every front, if this doesn’t print money, there isn’t the capital needed for another big investing spree.
Yup, lets a pray for a crash
This is hardly the first, and definitely not the last corporate fad. We should have just about finished moving everything to the block chain by now.
It's almost as if CEOs are just regular schmucks that fall prey to BS advertising.
FTFY. To call them "regular" belies the fact that suffusion of money and the power over the wellbeing of others has, universally, rotted their humanity from the inside out, making it impossible for them to even imagine --- let alone successfully predict --- what a "regular" shmuck would consider a reasonable use-case for AI.
Agreed. Overpaid, sociopathic and overly-powerful schmucks. But still schmucks.
Because the places that already had AI before the recent surge just called it something else.
Exactly, except the company is Facebook fucking up the advertisements.
Also, art source (Bluesky)
Was at a whisky&rum fair a couple weeks ago. A bunch of brands had very AI looking designs on the bottles.
And that included Bottles of whisky that cost 200+ bucks.
I mean, who doesn't associate the name "whisky" with "woman in spacesuit tentacle porn" and "sexy woman santa"?
What the fuck lmfao.
Facebook and AI..........make it make sense.
Now you've got Facebook making AI posts and images. And you can click on a post and it'll give you suggested AI-generated responses. Soon Facebook won't need us humans at all, it'll just be AIs interacting with each other.
What's the business plan for Meta with that strategy? You can't sell ads to AIs, I assume...How do they plan to make money?
They've been faking their userbase numbers for ages now. They don't care about actual user engagement.
“Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. ..."
Didn’t zuck say recently that he’s gonna make ai friends for people bc most people want like 15 friends and only have like 2? So I’m assuming he’s just training the ais to make them more human sounding so that he can sell people friendship subscriptions
Yeah they put a AI bot in my FB group whose first post was literally harmful information.
You can tell that AI is a great technology by how much it's being forced into as many places as possible by the ones trying to sell it.
Doordash is abusing AI similarly by adding product descriptions generated by AI if there isn't one. It includes things like ingredient lists, cooking styles, and quantitative descriptions that can all be entirely wrong. Gonna be fun when relying on the AI description causes an allergic reaction and serious injury or death.
My wife just hit similar, Google AI result invented a dish that didn't actually exist for a local restaurant. She was half ready to go until she went to the actual menu and figured out the described food didn't exist.
how is that allowed but I'm not allowed to drive the slow ass accessibility electric shopping carts because they don't have a seatbelt and that's apparently a legal issue
I hate the law so much
I look forward to the lawsuit (but obviously not the injury/death)
Not necessarily dead internet theory, but I hate how everything seems to be AI generated nowadays. In the past when you search for something you are likely to find an article or a post about it, now it is just AI generated slop.
If you use an ad blocker, there are filters for ai slop such as https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
I'm pretty sure the dude in the blue tank top is the guy who killed Inigo Montoya's father.
Thank you. I noticed he had six fingers on his right hand and thought..."someone's been looking for him."
AI is super expensive to run, yet these companies do EVERYTHING to make sure we are using it all the time - Microsoft is bundling it on every native app. They also openly admit they're not able to make it profitable even when considering the people paying expensive subscriptions to use it.
So isn't this contradiction suspicious? What's really the reason behind making sure we will use AI even when we didn't ask for it?
I suspect the plan was to dump it on everyone for free, get everyone reliant on it, then jack up the prices to make the investment back. Classic big tech play book, did it with cloud storage, did it with web hosting, did it with ride share.
But people haven’t really picked it up en mass, let alone made it something they’re reliant on. So they can’t jack up the price to pay for the cost of building out all the infrastructure. So they’re doubling down and trying to force it on everyone, hoping that somehow that will get people reliant on it.
It could be prices. It could also be information.
If you can get people suck on your generative tech, in any capacity, you get them stuck on a service that can tweak and filter the truth in real time, and whose statements aren't accountable to anyone. This is maybe a bit more valuable than money.
The Elon / grok white genocide gaffe from a few days ago is really funny because he is and always has been an inept moron, but there's the evidence. It is definitely scary.
Oh, it is way worse than that.
Positive feedback loops in two directions. First: normalize it and sanitize its image via astroturfing, making it both ubiquitous and accepted, so people want to use it more, making it even more ubiquitous and accepted. Second: mine all the data possible from everyone using the AI through various apps and services that all have varying permissions settings on myriad devices, enabling it to be better at advertising its value as well as advertising anything else the AI owner/investor wants, driving more money to the people with skin in the game, of which they then also use some fraction to provide funding to further the first step I mentioned.
We need better privacy laws. Until then, we need people to understand the difference between what is free and what is free*
* terms and conditions applyLet's lock everyone at home give them virtual friends and virtual messages and they will be happy. Literally Meta Strategy, Meta Human - Corporate Bacteria.
At home? Absolutely not, they need to come into the office so those real estate investments pay off.
Thank you for "corporate bacteria"
Lol even the ads aren't real, like how did we fuck up so bad as a civ
That definitely needs to be a lawsuit against facebook/meta for the damage caused to the brand they're forcing ai slop onto.
The girl on the left looks like Carmen Ibanez
Dystopian bullshit reflecting dystopian bullshit
I just watched that movie for the first time last night! Funny that it's referenced today, and you're right
I am just surprised people are still on Facebook. I deleted my account more than 10 years ago. Every other meta platform seems more popular like Instagram and Whatsapp.
Surely, this is now grounds for Google and Meta to be broken up as anti-trust?
In, this administration?!
I see your point but Facebook and Zuckerburg still got investigated for anti-trust a few weeks ago 🤣
Did anything happen?
I haven't followed the news since then but it will probably be another slap on the wrist even if Facebook has been chastised, like another fine that is drop in the bucket. Although if it gets persistent, it will affect Facebook's cash flow and revenue. It is one of many reasons why American tech giants have an axe to grind with the EU is because of persistent fine on violating data protection.
I don't understand how this would be grounds for them to be broken up as antitrust. But that is just a technical question about how this particular use of AI is relevant to antitrust law, Google and Meta definitely should be broken up as illegal monopolies.
Anyone have any examples?
The fingers are bad but not even the worst part
It's the everything
I think we're gonna need a bit more neck on the guy on the right 🤔
They want to make us used to see AI images and start to think they are cool at exposure.
There’s got to be an online community somewhere that gets off on weird shiny uncanny valley pictures based on whatever the hell was going on with ASMR videos a few years back.
Sounds more like something they accidentally opted into
Would have been funnier if it were an ad for Bungie's Marathon...
Remember that ai scandal from a while ago it's gonna make them worse
Never understood why people pay to run. Worst shit ever. Just go outside and run for free.
My brother in Christ, they're giving running away for free out on the sidewalk.
Yep that s what I thought. Just pay me, u can run around my house all day 😂