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I think I see people complaining about ai more than I see ai actually in anything other than promo material.
Complaining over nothing.
I see ai actually in anything other than promo material.
My brother have you been in a deep slumber for the past two years? Windows is filled with AI, so is Microsoft Office, Google search results, Gmail and Docs, the Android assistant was replaced by Gemini, Canva is filled with AI, all Adobe products have AI image generation, Samsung's S24 line is exactly the same as the S23 but with AI slapped in, you go to a subway station and half of the ads are made with AI with atrocious teeth, fast food drive thru machines are now AI, pretty much any online customer support is an embedded version of ChatGPT. Entire news sites and blogs have the posts generated by AI - things got so bad YouTube videos with millions of views in the true crime genre were telling fake stories created by AI, with images and narration generated by AI, and the comments were mostly AI. LinkedIn is also pretty much entirely ran by ChatGPT, even the profile pictures are using these "pay 5 bucks and upload a picture from your webcam and we'll generate a photo of you wearing a suit in a corporate background" services.
And don't get me started on Reddit, if you mention ANY software now you get about 10 immediate replies from bots that say some generic thing like "That's a great question, I like using insert website AI for this as it works really well and is super affordable!".
You're either extremely bad at noticing AI usage - in which case god bless your soul but for the love of all that's holy please start trying to recognize it - or you haven't been online in a long time.
What is making you interact with any of these things enough that it bothers you this much? Do you personally experience this every day or are you just mad about something someone posted online?
Most, if not all, of your examples can be ignored or disabled, already existed but were rebranded as AI©®™, or are seriously so inconsequential that wasting your time caring about it is just silly.
Don't fall for the ragebait and confirmation bias posts.
Yeah, it's a lot like piss in a river. I just drink around the piss.
- It's in DuckDuckGo
- It's in Google search
- It pops up on tons of websites as a chat bot
- It's crowbarred into Windows now
- It's Apple Intelligence which is baked into iOS 18 (disabling it gave me 20-25% of my battery back)
- It's in Arc browser (easily disabled)
If you're able to avoid it altogether and not be forced to constantly disable it everywhere, I commend whatever you're doing. I see it scattered everywhere and I consider myself a niche user that runs their own Lemmy instance and doesn't actively use any of the big social networks.
People are complaining because it's permeating everything while offering little to no value to the end user. The massive divide has arrived where the value to the shareholders is all that matters, and the tech companies doing it aren't even remotely thinking about the user experience or benefit. I've been a dev in tech for 18+ years and I've never seen the field this desperate and stagnant when it comes to good ideas.
There's also the fact that it's being used to replace artists and it's basically a massive plagiarism machine. OpenAI tried to claim that their AI is the equivalent of a learning human, but actual learning humans aren't trying to convert every single thought and interaction into billions of dollars worth of profit for corporations.
Maybe I am just good at ignoring it. I don't use a whole lot of mainstream websites or, like you, big social media. I think people are just disproportionately annoyed by things they don't have to use.
Chatbots aren't anything new, if anything them being slightly better isn't really a bad thing.
I think windows mentioned
cortanacopilot being there but I use openshell and outside of the day I installed windows 11, it hasn't even mentioned it. Am I just not being targeted for ads for it? Literally not once has windows shoved it in my face but people complain about it frequently as if copilot was launching a full size ad window every time they turn on their computer.The thing about it being little value to the end user does seem fair. I actually enjoy amusing myself with image generation but that's about all I use it for. Don't really care about whiny artists, especially since everyone complains that it isn't good enough to be real art but is also somehow good enough to replace good artists (??).
Artists are legitimately upset because their work is being sucked into a vacuum to train AI without them being compensated or credited. If this was to train a tool that would become a publicly-accessible and free utility to anyone that wanted to use it for non-profit purposes, that would be an easier pill to swallow, but that’s not the case. It’s instead being used for profit by companies that didn’t actually create anything. Whether the artist is “good” or not is subjective.
Copilot being forced into Windows is only one side of it. The other issue was their Recall feature that uses AI. These things are optional now and can be disabled through third party tools and settings, but how long until they’re no longer optional, or they make opting out so convoluted that third party tools and instructions have to change constantly?
The other side of it that I haven’t mentioned is the insane power usage. It’s so high that OpenAI can’t even accurately estimate how much capital they need just to run a business that is already not profitable. It’s the largest amount of funding any startup has ever had to ask for. So in the wake of climate change, AI is a blow torch in a bone dry forest.
An example of AI adversely affecting everyone, even non-users: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-power-home-appliances/
For a field that is not profitable, it requires more capital than anything that has come before it: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/openai-needs-more-capital-than-wed-imagined-moves-to-for-profit.html
AI returns are dismal: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/so-far-ai-hasnt-been-profitable-for-big-tech/
It’s a multi-faceted complaint and doesn’t simply end at the user-facing experience. It’s a waste of capital, a huge weight on an already suffering environment, and it’s entirely out of the hands of the working class. It’s far too expensive for anyone outside of billionaires to run. And all of that for what? Summarizing articles? Making silly imagery and making artists and authors even poorer?
It’s the equivalent of sucking up entire lakes that have been around for thousands of years, all to fill some pools people use maybe once a year.
Edit: here is a new fresh level of AI hell for you. Edit 2: better link for the Meta AI story.
Get fukken ratio'd about it lmao