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.
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.
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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
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.
friend of me also: So i asked the ai and it said… yeah whatever dude i don’t care
even worst when a tech guy, i know relies on it all the time.
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.
Yeah, I agree.
I’m someone who, when overwhelmed by life (often), opening and reading emails is disproportionately difficult for me. The idea of spending the time and energy to read an email that someone couldn’t even be bothered to write is offensive to me
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.
The potential answer could be vs. the answer is.
I occasionally do the later, I always give a “take this with a pinch of salt” kinda thing because I know from personal experience LLMs love to spew out complete garbage.
I only ever use it for surface level yes/no type questions. The sort of thing that a 5 year old bothers their Dad about, inconsequential trivia.
This is what I think is fine.
Asking AI about the meaning of some TV show finale or if a movie is worth watching. Have it help you research travel ideas. Ask if it’s true pirates had wooden cocks. Dumb shit.
Where it’s really fucky is when people using it to do political arguments, have it find legal loopholes (haha fuck you CEO of Krafton), generate essays and creative work (oh fuck all those ai blogs and ai art)…
It’s lazy as hell and unfortunately, people are lazy and refuse to go beyond the immediate AI answer.
I think it’s really useful for getting my bearings when I’m not even sure where to begin on a question. Like if I have no idea what the right terminology is to find what I’m looking for, I can use an LLM to figure out what I should even be searching in the first place. After that I’m better equipped to start doing my own research.
Seems reasonable
With search engines propping up AI answers and even newsrooms using AI, its the unfortunate norm now.
Im fine with them if they say claude made, or chatgpt made, not “I made”
I don’t know anyone like you describe (at least, not nearly this level of bad).
But I want to offer a more positive contra-example. Since AI has become ubiquitous, I have become a lot more forgiving of mediocrity in human made stuff, whether that’s a piece of art or other media, or simply someone trying to articulate themselves, but poorly. I’m way more likely to work harder to try to understand the point that someone is making, and to see the thing I’m engaging with as an earnest attempt to communicate with another person.
In a weird way, I think that AI has made me a better person because of this. It’s reminded me of what things truly have value
I like that. Thanks for sharing
Lowered expectations
I don’t think it’s a lowering of expectations — it feels like more of a qualitative difference. Like, the thing I’m looking for now is for someone to have given a fuck about what they’re trying to say. “Earnestness” is probably a good word for it.
Another factor in this is probably the fact that I was one of those kids who was at the top of my class for my entire school life, then went away to a prestigious university that just made me ramp up the pressure on myself even more. For a long while, I had built so much of my identity up around being smart, which led to me becoming overly preoccupied with ensuring I appeared smart too.
To give a concrete example, I’m a scientist who isn’t particularly well read, and for a long while, I held myself back from really engaging with the humanities, because I felt like I needed to stay in my lane and not make a fool of myself by having ill-informed or incorrect opinions on things like art or literature. I was too up in my head to be able to read a poem and actually have my own emotional response; internally, I’d be orienting myself around what seemed like the “correct” response. Ironically, being overly preoccupied with appearing smart led me to act quite dumb (though fortunately I met many delightful humanities nerds while I was at university, who were excited to both help me learn bits of the technical theory, whilst also being enthusiastic about my own crude, unrefined opinions).
So yeah, I used to be overly fixated on ideas of correctness and good execution in basically everything, and that made me hold back from engaging with my passion for the world, for fear of being wrong. I guess the point I’m making here is that my recalibration with respect to AI has also come alongside a personal arc in which I am learning to open up and let myself care about things without having to be good at them.
For instance, I am a deeply mediocre musician, but I have a lot of fun jamming with friends. I wouldn’t have been able to do this 10 years ago. So when I see someone being courageous enough to actually try to say or make something meaningful, I respect the guts of it, even if the execution is not great. A human can learn how to communicate better, but an LLM will never be able to actually give a fuck about what it says
You obviously put a lot of thought into this and I appreciate that. When I said lowered expectations I was more commenting on how AI is deskilling people. I don’t think this is a huge problem just yet, but I have a suspicion that it will be in the future.
Hence the lowered expectations. Not as a commentary on your own personal lense but more about AI impacts in general.
Of course this is exactly what was said about the new technology of photography. If you look at what people had to say about it you would be surprised how similar it is to modern day critiques of AI.
Yes. Husbands brother is in education, literal librarian/research background and has a chatgpt subscription and won’t stfu about it. Can’t stand it. Use your brain, fuck AI.
Sounds quite uneducated honestly.
Boss brought in a guy from some neighboring company doing smart screens or something, hyped how innovative they were. So we did an informal chat over lunch where I got to explain our domain and approach. Asked him his thoughts and he said I should ask AI. Like why am I even talking to the guy.
That it has been labeled AI was one of the biggest tricks they ever could pull Off. People literally think there is intelligence.
People like to Take what the First google result jacked Out. With “AI” it got even worse. “Nobody” is questioning shit anymore.
Yes, I disregard idiots but that was true before AI too.
I also disregard any screenshots of Google ai overview, it’s been proven to be easily manipulated.
I know only one person who’s completely fallen under the spell, but yes.
Though to be fair, I already disregarded most of what he said since he’s a reactionary conservative who spends his days pouring right-wing podcasts into his ears at 1.5x. But at least on topics other than politics, he used to be fairly knowledgeable and trustworthy.
But since he’s started telling me how impressed he is by how smart Claude is (since it tells him what he wants to hear), I’ve started disregarding everything he says, regardless of topic.
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.
That’s maybe a weird way to go about it, but I don’t see an issue with fact-checking in real time. I’m aware many other people don’t like it, but I don’t give a shit. If it’s wrong, it’s wrong. However, the source musslt be trustworthy and ChatBOT is not.
Sure, but he’s also talking (to ChatGPT) while others are talking. That weirds me out. Quickly pausing and looking up a fact is fine.
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
this was way before AI became as as aggressive as now, it was the first round of layoffs in '23. he along with many other companies were laying people off in anticipation of AI, this was beofre AI usage was common.
Yes. It’s a clear sign that someone is… well, slow.
The thing is the people I thought about when writing this aren’t slow or dumb. However, for some reason they decided to jump on the bandwagon of new technology and let the convenience win
Yes. It’s getting to be more of a problem where it’s easier not to think. I don’t see this trend ending well.
I know whenever I’m at work and someone uses AI to try to answer a question where they are not qualified to validate an AI response, I don’t trust anything that person says.
