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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 unethical_ban »

Cider9986 wrote: post #47
unethical_ban wrote: post #22

I took compliance training today and the "actors" and voices were AI. After watching the GPT images release video, it reenforced my skepticism that society will adapt. Then I thought about AI analysis of people's movements in public and realized that governments already capture everything, and now will be able to use infinite AI surveillance agents to watch all things all the time. Any disobedience or crime (but real…

This has been happening in China since 2018[1]. North Korea is able to oppress its citizens just fine without AI. I don't think recent advances are going to revolutionize government oppression. [1] https://inv.thepixora.com/watch?v=CLo3e1Pak-Y youtube version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CLo3e1Pak-Y

People got to Oregon in the 1800s on wagons, I don't think cars will revolutionize personal travel.

Having infinite, instantaneous, amoral agents of the state analyzing video for patterns - some of which humans can't immediately notice - will revolutionize government oppression.

And just because NK can already do oppression with a heavy hand doesn't mean western countries won't up their game with more subtlety.

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

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Post by butz »

Whole this "GenAI" nonsense just made me appreciate handrafted code more. I really like diving deep into documentation to figure out how things work and actually understand why something does not. YMMW.

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

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Post by nunez »

whattheheckheck wrote: post #127
ofjcihen wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know that washing machines have replaced understanding things on a deep level but if they have for you I’m very curious to hear how.

The zen of doing your chores by hand

fwiw i still wash my clothes by hand when I travel! it's a very useful skill!

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

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Post by cortesoft »

fatbird wrote: post #139
cortesoft wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious where you draw your line. We have all sorts of “machines that do the hard things for you”, do you shun them all? Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, etc… I know that AI has some different characteristics than those technologies, but my point is that I don’t think your issue is that does the hard things for you… there has to be something else going on.

Are you this patronizing and condescending in the rest of your life?

I am sorry if I came off that way, that was not my intent.

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

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Post by pojzon »

corvus-cornix wrote: post #39

I'm looking at engineering job specs at the moment and it's very wearisome that every company seems to have pivoted from highlighting the unique value they provide to customers to putting AI front and centre in their employer branding. My eyes immediately glaze over at what may have been the result of "Claude, take this HR/marketing/whatever copy and inject some AI". I've adopted the tools because they're useful, but…

Fixing organisational issues is hard and expensive.

Slapping AI on everything is easy in comparison. And mentioning AI to investors makes them drop pants.

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

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Post by tim333 »

basch wrote: post #126
paul7986 wrote: post #106

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"But just need to know how to prompt AI properly to..," - Write a new top 40 song no talent required - Write a business email, a school paper, etc & no talent required - Design a logo, a website, an app, a billboard, etc and no talent required. AI is the best thing to happen to humanity as it mimics & steals humanity for a few pie holes and us the majority does nothing to stop it!

The Top 40 songs were already soulless. Now that anyone can generate a halfway decent pop song at the snap of the finger leads to one of three outcomes. We all just listen to our own interactive stations and have no shared culture, pressure is put on industry to differentiate with a higher quality product, the technology is democratizing and unlocks a new generation of creatives who are able to work with it creating…

Not all of them. It's hard to get chart hits with AI. I've got a friend who tries but the AI songs are all kind of mediocre.

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Post by IndySun »

CSSer wrote: post #140
mech422 wrote: post #112

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The sad part wasn't the bubble bursting... It was watching all the potential being squandered and the internet basically being relegated to click farming and selling people crap they don't need. All the really cool stuff seems to have died with the bubble...

You're still around :)

>You're still around :)

You sound like my doctor! : )

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

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Post by dbgrman »

dilDDoS wrote: post #87
dbgrman wrote: post #78

Why though? It is the technology of today's times. 70s had microprocessors, 80s had languages and tools, 90s was about the internet, 00s was about e-commerce and then web2.0 and later iPhone, mobile/local/social, 15s-20s was gig and creator economy, blockchain, metaverse... and now its AI. If you are sick of reading about AI, what would you rather read/talk about?

Maybe I’m naive since most of that was before I was born, but a lot of the past topics you mentioned seem more interesting because the people talking about them (I assume) had interesting knowledge and opinions to share about them. AI is an extremely boring topic because the people most excited about it are “idea people” rather than people with interesting knowledge and expertise. And idea people are pretty draining…

I agree with that sentiment. Most discourse around AI is shallow. There are people who do have a rather profound world view on this and sometimes it surfaces on hackernews. Karpathy for instance is very pragmatic but also philosophical at times.

What we see today is stuff of sci-fi. The amazing and deep stuff Asimov and many others wrote about.

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

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Post by bigwheels »

spzb wrote: post #170
sph wrote: post #134

Tangential: I’m sick of being addicted to this site. The lowering of the signal-to-noise ratio has made the addiction worse, as I still hope to find a nugget of quality posts among a sea of AI discussion, which is not even technical, just comparing what LLM 1 vs 2 said. Any post by Anthropic & co. (twice a week) gets hundreds of points, goes to the top of the frontpage, and the rest of the week are articles testing/b…

You forget the "Show HN: Here's some crap I cobbled together with an LLM" x a million a day

Yeah, Show HN is kinda wrekt.
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