I started using chatbots yesterday and it surprised me how complete and articulate answers are. Main topics would be apparel, sewing, cooking, finance, ETFs, taxes, house maintenance, retirement.
Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction? Because I remember a south park episode where randy marsh ignores his wife to interact exclusively with a bot. A parody of course but we have already plenty of AI porn and AI short stories for gullible people… and it works because they don’t stop watching (and sometimes believe it to be real).
I was always kind of an anti AI guy due to privacy, to avoid LLMs monetizing my questions and because I didn’t want to be a moron who has nothing better to do than to watch AI slop, but this is a tool so pervasive and practical I’m only isolating myself if I opt out of it. Thoughts?
Are there any questions you won’t ask a bot so the company behind it doesn’t monetize your input?
I do not use any AI chatbots. I have ethical, sociological, religious, and environmental reasons for never ever using them.
If I’m isolating myself by opting out, so be it. I do not want to cook the planet for fucking markov chains.
a markov chain is a very specific and different thing
Meanwhile, I am driven first and foremost by my desire for correct information, but have reached the same conclusion.
Same.
Furthermore, I actively look down on anyone who uses them. I regard them with humanity, as I watch their intelligence and independence and capacity for critical thought dwindle until they’re nothing more than a shell who instinctively reaches for some slop machine when presented with anything of any difficulty.
My brother was once a masterful artist. He is now nothing more than a meatbag with ChatGPT access, and he is incapable of creating what he made just five years ago.