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Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by micik »

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

"i want to talk to reel peeple"

go to a bar

"i work with idiots who can't even write a sentence anymore and so they have AI write an essay for every sentence they wanna say"

and so you blame AI

AI doesn't have a problem with generating a lot of tokens cause you/your company pays by the token

how about asking AI to keep it short and sweet, does that work, yes? yes it does.

this is top of HN? shark, jumped

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by tevli »

millerm wrote: post #439

Yeah, I have dropped out of the tech biz completely. I'm unemployed and kind of screwed now. I couldn't take it anymore. I used to work with intellectuals and thinkers. This is why I was in the industry for 20+ years. I liked the stimulation. Communication with humans is dead in the workplace. Now it's just a bunch of mindless automatons asking AI. No thinking about the problems at hand. No interest in understanding…

For me, It kind of feels like a betrayal. Like I joined this line of work to be around intellectuals all day and work on interesting problems; so it feels weird to discover that most "fellow intellectuals" didn't really care about the work or the process and will just use any tool at all to generate plausible sounding solutions to a problem and wont want to give anything else a second thought.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by sillyfluke »

mittensc wrote: post #475
Tade0 wrote: post #416

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You'd generally find that out by vising another doctor and finding previous diagnostic was bullshit and you lost time. To be fair the human body is immensely complex. Every specialist will look at everything through the lens of their field, as at the very least they can rule out some things this way. I had a doctor judge that my tonsils need to be removed, but for unrelated reasons I went to two other and both of t…

I've seen doctors that: 1. Immediately said 'Cancer' to stomach issues on an old person. They just didn't care, another doctor resolved that. 2. Eye doctors that would not investigate anything and just prescribe eye glasses and would recommend local companies that they owned or had a stake in. 3. Fake gynecologists that did C-Sections brutally without any experience 4. Fake plastic surgeons with no experience just go…

In what context did you witness all these cases?

It's one thing to know these cases exist because they all have been reported in the news or having made a note of it through separate and unrelated word of mouth interactions, but one person having direct experience of all these cases is unusual for a civilian (ie non-medical or healthcare professional).

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by addybojangles »

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

ABSOLUTELY

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by potsandpans »

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

> It's so profoundly saddenning

I understand that behavioral changes from technology can be jarring and folks will process things differently.

But I keep seeing these kinds of melodramatic declarations of sadness. Were you this sad when it became the cultural norm to Google things? There even used to be a url, "let me Google that for you"

Why is this any different?

I think these kinds of things indicate the general age bracket of this forum. So profoundly saddening that it's like watching a child, I see these people as children... Etc.

For the first time we have a bunch of technologically literate people seeing their own norms being disrupted and unwilling to adapt. This is the kind of conservativism with age that happens time and time again.

Me and friends used to laugh at professors that would rant about wikipedia and force people to buy dictionaries in college.

I find it somewhat amusing that on a technology forum that literally has "hacker" in the title is feeling such a loss in response to this technology.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by torben-friis »

edoloughlin wrote: post #454
torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

"This is the killer issue" I have to ask - did you use AI to generate this response?

Nope, I'm not a native speaker and the damn thing has probably already affected my perception of what's idiomatic.

Ugh.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by b0r3dthisD4y »

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

> There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

Not sure if you mean an human or an AI here.

In America anyway, "knowledge workers" blithely punching context-less data in Excel for money to stop at a Target conveniently placed on their drive home, for a couple shirts they never made, as they consider what to order via Grubhub is not what I would call a "self sufficient entity".

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by pixl97 »

k4rnaj1k wrote: post #706
fullstop wrote: post #530

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to start off by saying that I know all of my immediate neighbors. More importantly, I know pretty much all of the neighborhood dogs since I walk a lot, and dogs have to be walked. I don't have a dog, but I sometimes carry dog treats on me for when we cross paths. There are plenty of people who never leave their house, and I have no idea what they do all day. A few years ago a very small, yet very strong, th…

It's kinda crazy how much time people waste on social media without much benefit to them. After an hour doom scroll session I don't really remember most of it.

Dopamine is a helluva drug.

Makes ya blind to things far off on the horizon.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by leptons »

jr3592 wrote: post #860
leptons wrote: post #757

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The word "travel" comes from "travail", or "to toil, work strenuously, or suffer". But I'd still rather be travelling and seeing the world than being nervous about my job being cut due to AI.

"I'd rather be a millionaire and never have to work than be worried about my job being cut due to AI"

You think having a million dollars means you don't have to work? I guess it depends on where you live.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by ChicagoDave »

jr3592 wrote: post #857
ChicagoDave wrote: post #414

I have five Gen-Z kids that are pushing back on GenAI hard and they claim their peers are getting angry about how it’s impacted their lives. As a technologist I tend to lean into new things rapidly because that’s how I’ve survived in IT for so long. Since I’m not ready to retire I still have a vested interest in staying informed. But the OP has definitely identified a psychological issue I think we’re all going throu…

Are you a software developer? I think this issue gets more difficult for software developers. AI is especially good at software development. You have to make a very strong business case to NOT be using AI. I hate it, but its the reality and the world we live in. Adopt, or be left behind.

I do mostly cloud modernization architecture work and use Claude Code daily. But even I’m burning out on it. Not sure if that’s my current job, GenAI, or that I’d rather be playing poker.
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