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Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by jjav »

wateralien wrote: post #53

One of the most amazing things happened during the day long power cut in 2025 in Spain and Portugal... eventually the cell towers went down and everyone just went to the parks and socialised. Connected with friends, strangers. Everyone was so in the moment because there was nowhere else to be, nothing else to distract them. People would pick up their phone and realise there was nothing there for them and put it back…

> One of the most amazing things happened during the day long power cut in 2025 in Spain and Portugal

After hurricane Maria in 2017 in Puerto Rico, most people had no electricity or internet for many weeks, some for many months. This kind of human (normal!) connection fluorished for all that time.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by thrweewee »

jackdoe wrote: post #910

Things are so much worse than you think. Many real people talk like AI now. I notice it more and more every day. Sometimes I can notice it in my speech pattern as well. And worse of all, my thinking. It is like I am reading the same book over and over again. Now I actually have old sci-fi (mona lisa) between me and the keyboard, while claude is writing, I am reading. And I avoid reading its output as much as I can.

There's some parallels to how the consumption of non local media and general connectivity is pushing dialects and vernaculars out of use.

I've also noticed the tool used for communication having a big change on speech patterns too. I basically got the same group of people migrating from IRC, to Discord and then to Signal group and the level of discussion hit rock bottom with the last move. Most of the dialogue shifted to phones and it's inconvenient input system and lack of readability. Even if people return to the desktop the space is already polluted with low quality short-form banter making it less attractive for higher level of communication that used to be the default.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by dogwalker5000 »

woah wrote: post #715
jerf wrote: post #250

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If you're in a particularly fiesty mood you can lean into that. "If all you are is a proxy to an AI, exactly what value are you adding to the organization?" While most of us actually commenting are obviously firmly on the "don't do this" side, for any lurkers who may have done this in the recent past or are considering doing it in the future, I would advise you to consider this point for your own actions. If all you…

"If all you are is a proxy to an AI, exactly what value are you adding to the organization?" Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is such a weird thing. Isn’t interacting with AI using natural language one of its main selling point? You don’t have to learn an artificial query / programming language.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by e40 »

not_a_bot_4sho wrote: post #815
DontchaKnowit wrote: post #721

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Sometimes yelling fuck shit piss bitch cunt fuck ass whore etc works. They have them setup to detect swear words to figure out when youre pissed off and need to talk to a human lmao

Xfinity/Comcast automated support has swear word detection. I eventually picked up on this after the 4th or 5th time they sent out a non-technical 'technician' in response to my concerns over SNR causing connection instability. (Me: "here is a comprehensive analysis of modem logs over the past 7 days and clear indication of the cause"; Xfinity: "Let's turn off the wifi router for 30s! It didn't work the last 50 times…

When I had Concast (with Sonic now) I remember hating having to call them. Their CSRs can be really terrible. I once said “are you fucking kidding me?” or similar and that was their legit way out of having to help and they hung up.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by mindfulbun »

xen_relay wrote: post #214
wateralien wrote: post #53

One of the most amazing things happened during the day long power cut in 2025 in Spain and Portugal... eventually the cell towers went down and everyone just went to the parks and socialised. Connected with friends, strangers. Everyone was so in the moment because there was nowhere else to be, nothing else to distract them. People would pick up their phone and realise there was nothing there for them and put it back…

Lovely! I am all for an offline day in the year where everybody does what you described.

Why only day in a year? It can be offline Friday and even offline hours of the day, like 17-20 hours of the day are no screen hours

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by soloto »

No tech demonstrates quite like AI by what staggering amounts of incredibly brain-damaged morons we are surrounded.

I fully expected AI to let human intelligence shine in comparison to the mass-generated artificial stupidity, but instead it just prompted a multiplied outflow of human idiocy.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by [deleted] »

lionkor wrote: post #954
gib444 wrote: post #887

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It was not snark (an uncharitable read I must say). The point was everyone is being forced to use AI. So keeping a shitlist is going to be a very, very short term solution.

> everyone is being forced to use AI Some small subset of companies are doing this, not all companies.

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Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by Moomoomoo309 »

fugalfervor wrote: post #827
sdellis wrote: post #717

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Reminds me of my friends in Gaza, where every day means no shops, no restaurants, no home, no medicine, no food, no water, no hope. The beaches are full of people just trying to exist.

The person you are talking to did not personally commit genocide in Gaza. Just as I, an American citizen, did not declare war on Iran. In fact, I think the war in Iran is a stupid and immoral thing to do. It's possible that the person you are responding to feels the same about the Israeli government's genocidal actions in Gaza. However, you did not bother to find out. When you judge someone before knowing them, it is…

Did the comment you replied to actually accuse them of any of those things? I don't see them doing that. They juxtaposed the two situations, but they made no accusations nor casted any blame. There isn't even any prejudice I can see. Was the comment edited or something? I don't see how your comment makes sense as a reply to its parent.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by cryptonym »

Laurel1234 wrote: post #730
cryptonym wrote: post #167

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I mostly use it because I'm lazy on the presentation, not so much on the content. I provide full knowledge and content plan in my prompt. I do manual review & fix. Someone informed can tell the content is generated. I don't really care, that's still my knowledge and I can discuss content in depth.

If you can't even be fucked to write your great knowledge nobody will be fucked to read it.

It provides far better illustration than I can draw. I can focus on solutions while iterating quicker on presentation.

TBH I don't care much people not reading it "because it's AI". It's just work, if you don't need it then don't use it. That fine for me, no hard feeling.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by Forgeties79 »

hvb2 wrote: post #901
Forgeties79 wrote: post #252

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I highly doubt you never ask questions that you could’ve looked up yourself. “Go Google it” translates to “this isn’t worth my time,” which is a pretty rude way to be.

What I'm trying to say is that the cost of answering the question might look like 30 seconds to the person asking. What really happened is, you context switch, answer a mundane question, and now spend 30 minutes to get back to the mental state that you were in that made you productive

There’s a difference between “people should not ask me questions they can look up” and “people should know when it is an appropriate time to ask questions.”
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