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Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by ibudiallo »

simonw wrote: post #9

What's "AI"? (I'm going to guess you mean generative AI such as image/video/text generation used to create slop on Facebook, but I really wish posts like this would clarify.)

I think this post is vague enough for each one of us to think about the part we are sick of and relate. I'm sick of generative for sure.. but then again [0]:

> Everyone seems to have their own personal definition of acceptable AI use. If you Vibecode an entire app, it's because you are lazy and unskilled. But use AI for code review and writing tests? You are smart and efficient.

> You could use AI to remove photo backgrounds or clean up artifacts, that's just good editing. But generating an image for your blog post? You are stealing from hardworking artists. You are a fraud! You probably use AI as a writing assistant like a monster. But using it to generate documentation from your code is indispensable.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/ai-is-ok-just-not-yours

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by socketcluster »

marciob wrote: post #5
PaulHoule wrote: post #4

I was sick about this before y'all because I was involved in three efforts to try to commercialize foundation models before the technology was ready. Most of all I am sick of people being sick of it!

if you were already sick, why were you even working with it at all?

Sounds like they got sick of if after working on it so much. It's really frustrating and tiring when you get everything essentially right but it doesn't work out because of slightly off timing or for some absurdly complex set of reasons that you can never pin down. That's the recipe for burnout.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by sumanep »

dartharva wrote: post #6

Unfortunate that it took so long for you to realize social networks are just a river of outrage and slop, because it has literally always been so for a decade before AI even became a thing - it's just that now AI has made the cheapness immediately visible. Enjoy your newfound freedom and live a real life.

There is no real life anymore because even if you realize how fucked up things are, people around you will keep swiming in that river of outrage and slop life became. World is so fucked up

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by bayesnet »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #13

I love AI and LLMs. I love all computer technology except printers. Gimme more - looking forward to further leaps forward in AL and LLMs - the party has just started.

What’s wrong with printers? Imagine designing a laser that bounces off of mirror spinning at 20k+ rpm while coordinating with a paper feeder. Sounds pretty cool to me

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by ofjcihen »

simonw wrote: post #9

What's "AI"? (I'm going to guess you mean generative AI such as image/video/text generation used to create slop on Facebook, but I really wish posts like this would clarify.)

Not trying to be snarky but it’s pretty obviously the one that’s been dominating the news/LinkedIn/This site/meetings in tech jobs yeah?

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by bambax »

One problem is that when people delegate tasks to AI, they don't themselves learn anything from doing the task -- not just in the general sense of personal improvement, but in the very concrete sense of "what is it that was produced".

Before AI, when someone showed you a presentation or an Excel sheet, even if it was complete horseshit that they had made up, they knew what was in it: they knew more about it than you, by definition.

Now, not so much; people output things they know nothing about, and when they show it to you they are discovering it just as you are.

This is novel, and discomforting.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by mey »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #13

I love AI and LLMs. I love all computer technology except printers. Gimme more - looking forward to further leaps forward in AL and LLMs - the party has just started.

I honestly want to follow you around for a day. I am reserved with how I engage with technology. It needs to be making my life better, not extracting value from me. Tech for tech alone is no longer exciting to me as it once was.
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