It took me a few thought cycles to put down that question.

In my understanding, we, as a civilization, are on a high wire number over a pit of knifes. The AI craze is full throtle as we speak, with conflicting indicators that it may/will cause the worst economical crash ever - becoming third in less than twenty years, where each was always reported as an unprecedented and irrepeatable event - while at the same time infiltrating companies in ways we are still to discover how ruinous may prove and spreading over the internet like a grotesque parasite, rendering services unsuable and leaking sensible data.

If the great AI companies tank (I can only hope) and the services they provide - whatever those may be - faill, how much is it going to affect companies? There is really no sense of consensus; some say it was the best thing ever, others are registering neglictable improvements, others failed miserably and had to return to the original state of affairs.

Then there is the constant attack from agents on the net, rendering websites, more or less important, more or less useable or stealing, destroying or corrupting valueable data.

I've reached a point where I am willing to forego internet and even computers. Even technology in a wide sense. At best, I may keep an air gapped machine, to use for writing and printing documents. But will others do it? And if so, will 8t happen in an organic fashion or will things devolve to a point where something cracks and things just get ugly? Because people are tired. Tired of datacenters popping up like poisonous mushrooms everywhere, destroying everything.

People are getting tired. Everywhere.

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[–] 1 point 4 hours ago (3 children)

I've fixed my car by describing the problem to ChatGPT and being given an explanation of what I need to do to resolve it. There's nothing incompatible here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (2 children)

    You got lucky. Chatgpt and other AI chatbots are terrible for working on cars, often just throwing out suggestions until it gets something right.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (1 child)

    The alternative was to not know how to fix it and bring it in to the shop for someone else to do.

    How much do you use ChatGPT? Have you had much experience with its car repair suggestions recently?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Yeah, I've used it and Gemini. Both of them have told me completely wrong things unrelated to the problem while trying to weirdly kiss my ass like AI tends to do. I've gone back to buying Chilton's and Haynes manuals online.

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