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[–] 28 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

I agree with you completely, but,

I wouldn't say "no one wants this" though. The oligarchs have poured in billions and bought off every media company to constantly spout off about ai companies so your general normie thinks its "the future". Almost every single (normie) person I know (except 1 who is anti AI, and he's a geek) is using some form of slopbot for tons of things. Easy excel formulas (that anyone can do), turning pictures black and white (that literally any photo program has been able to do for 30+ years) , to summarize documents (because people are idiots now and have no reading comprehension) etc. The normies LOVE it and eat up the slop. Especially if they were stupid at computers before, now they think they're on the level of woz because they told a chatbot to make slop code.

The company I'm in can't go 3 seconds without bringing up "ai innovation" and "being future ready".

Its only here on Lemmy that people dislike it. The rest of the world is already addicted, and we are screwed.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I've seen quite a few people who make casual use of it. The key point is that it is currently free to them. As soon as it starts costing money, a lot will bail on it.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Several people I know have decided to already start paying for it.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Nowhere near the actual cost, however. Estimates range from $5 to $10 compute cost for every $1 compute revenue for LLMbecile subscriptions.

    Will the people using a $20 subscription now be copacetic with a $200 one (needed for the slopmongers to just break even)? Somehow ... I don't think so. $20 is still in the realm of 'mad money' spending for the middle class. $200 is not.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The only people who are excited for AI are twitter users and rich people. It's not just in Lemmy.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm it is different in my bubble. Most of the people I know use AI sparingly and generally do not trust the results without checking.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    i used it for the first time a month ago, it does not give even correct info, it just Assume what it sees from other sites, it doesnt have "checks" to see which ones are comments, post or blogs over official info.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    thinks its “the future”

    Sort of, yeah. The thing is... it IS the future, whether we like it or not... it's just not the PRESENT.

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