AI is here. What now?

[@EddyBurback]

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[@tomgreen876]

NEVER!

[@apishi]

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[@arsondarksea]

God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven❤😊

[@SunnylandProds]

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[@Samsonfs]

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[@drewisgooden]

as soon as I started watching this video a Waymo car pulled into my driveway and won’t stop revving its engine? I’m so scared

[@pickedkestrel74]

Get in, Drew.

[@peeli2]

there's no time to explain.

[@Syncrotron9001]

Soon there will be Waymo of those robuts than us.

[@airvent6199]

Drewbyyy!

[@d3layd]

it's asserting dominance

[@nicolejordan5977]

Something about it also feels predatory to the older generations. My parents don’t recognize that it’s fake and will get excited or confused about AI stuff they see all over Facebook. I can’t explain exactly why but that just doesn’t sit right with me.

[@kirbwarriork3371]

I heard a line somewhere that goes like "When we were young, out parents told us not to believe everything on the internet. Now it's our turn to tell them."

[@personzorz]

I can explain why it doesn't sit right with you. It's because it's abhorrent.

[@risxra]

Yes I feel the same way!!

[@plushdragonteddy]

oh my god yeah !! my mom was showing me this website she found with yearbook photos of celebrities when they were young, and i was like "wait, who edited these?? why are they so SMOOTH???" and then i saw one celebrity with the same haircut at 8 years old that they have now at like 50, and i realized they were AI. my mom scrolled back up to the top of the article, and she was like "oh yeah, it does say AI." even when it's stated to be AI, there's a chance someone will miss that and take the pictures at face value, because of COURSE you would. we're not used to having to question every photo we see! at least photoshop took enough effort that i'd only question things that were trying to prove a point or make a statement (screenshots, for example), because no one is bothering to photoshop every inane idea that pops into their head, but now? it's so easy to fake anything.

[@afjer]

I sent an email to my grandma warning her about propaganda sites that use ai text to spit out hundreds of fake news stories. I gave an example of a fake news article about cute dogs I generated and explained how it worked. She replied that she would keep it in mind and then complimented me on "my" writing talent. 🤦

[@crystalcrusader711]

Okay, but a self driving car fleeing the cops, while the police officer wonders what the fuck to do, is undoubtedly hilarious

[@yazzybear69]

This is the time wasting we need to be funding 🙏

[@zadig08]

They'll just chip the self driving cars to deliver folks with warrants right to the station. For 'public safety' or something.

[@personalspace6270]

Always funny to see cops lose time on useless stuff that is payed by tax dollars while the company that uses them pays a little as possible.

[@JoeMamasBestie]

It's funny until that one hot headed hero archetype unloads on a dude completely unaware and helpless to stop them.

[@artareon]

​@@JoeMamasBestie I was thinking this too. I don't want to imagine the fate of a person in the back seat of an ai car confronted with a trigger happy cope

[@vest816]

On my mom's birthday, my dad hand-wrote her a wonderful poem in a beautiful card. She read it, and almost wept at the dinner table, she was so touched. Later during the dinner, my dad said that I was a huge inspiration for him to do write that poem, especially by my own yearly Christmas poem to the family. He knew that I would stay up nights leading into the Holiday, penning a whimsical verse for all the major life events we all had through the year. And now my own poetic endeavor was driving my own father to create his own. I was so happy for him, so overjoyed he found inspiration from me to do his own beautiful thing, and I asked him how long he spent writing that poem. "About three minutes. ChatGPT is so amazing." I wish I had my phone camera running. The whole family erupted. Mom rapidly smacked dad on the head with the card. My brother and I were rolling in laughter, guffawing "YOU, writing POETRY, we knew something was up!" My uncle, whom I never heard so much say a dirty word, really let the flavorful language out. It was great. Best way to ruin a wife's birthday ever. He's never used ChatGPT to write cards ever again.

[@jo6744-v8l]

they cared more about what he did than why he did it they cared more about his ability than who he is

[@eggi4443]

​@@jo6744-v8l apparently you don't understand what being genuine is. you don't understand art. you don't understand how words can carry weight. you don't understand putting effort for people you love. you don't understand humanity

[@jo6744-v8l]

@@eggi4443 art does one thing: condense the information of our inner minds into a expressive form. Current AI tools condense more information and patterns based on our existing attempts to express our inner minds. Yes you can put a transparent sheet over an image of something and trace it soullessly and without effort. But Yes you can use art as a tool to convey a complex desire Just like Yes you can make some shoddy imitation of good media with AI But Yes you can now make 10x more that you’ve automated very specific parts of the workload So Yes he could have just been doing his bare minimum to do something to get her appraisal But Yes he could have a job that requires too much time and he already doesn’t get to see his family enough because of this lovely economy, so he uses whatever tools he has to to use to achieve that which would actually give her the feeling he wanted her to have instead of getting (at best) her happiness that he wanted to be sweet. Tldr: 1) don’t shit on a tool worth the crappy job someone did with it (Have you never heard that a bad workman blames his tools??) 2) context is key to understanding, but what they valued was irregardless of inner context. Despite whatever reasons, good/valid or bad/dumb, they valued his actual ability over his intentions. (Whether these values are good or more complicated requires context that doesn’t exist so it’s just silly to assume any of the individual possibilities, I’d rather just share the things that are actually reasonable to make a claim towards) Also, I kinda suck at tldr if you can’t tell

[@seraphiim444]

@@jo6744-v8li guarantee if he would have hand written a shitty poem it would have gone over a thousand times better than letting the AI do it. and if you don’t understand that, unfortunately u are a soulless ghoul

[@Schemilix]

@@jo6744-v8l A shit poem he wrote because he cared would mean more than the regurgitated but superficially beautiful poem he didn't bother to write, actually.

[@mackwallace194]

I’m so sorry but the clips of the cars honking at each other is so hilarious and bizarre because they are trying to alert other drivers and yet not a single one of them has a driver. It’s so weird to think that they can’t even communicate with each other the way we can with other drivers even though tech companies advertise these things as the new and improved future

[@maxmfpayne]

It reminds me of seeing bots relying to one other in comment sections trying to trick the other they're human

[@bountyjedi]

What if the AI cars actually recognize the honking though? It would kind of work, but I'd probably prefer for them to communicate using radio with each other if I lived close...

[@Fabianwew]

If I lived in those apartments that night wouldn't have gone down like that

[@magicball3201]

In the theoretical future where this kind of issue is gone, then (in the consumer focused mindset only), then self driving cars are better. But that's the future, right now is still very much the beta testing

[@toddysurcharge771]

@@Fabianwew Waymo's inventory would have been halved that night

[@ThatOneIrishFurry]

That line at the end "they took our time then our money then our attention but that wasn't enough now they want our creativity" Absolute banger

[@joshbaker1153]

This is what I don't like about capitalism, a company can never be profitable enough. They continue growing to reach some abstract "goal". They take and take, either buying up the competition or putting them out of business. Once these companies get to a certain size, they lose sight of their goals and behave like, well, AI.

[@oblivionspartan]

AI can't be creative. Do you think 3D printers are creative? They both just make what you tell them to make.

[@TristanLane520]

The ending is luddite thinking. There's nothing more valuable about the communication through a letter, the slight differences between how letters are shaped doesn't mean anything because you didn't consciously choose to do it, they are just innate human imperfection. The reason letters mattered to soldiers on the front in WW1 or at the Battle of Waterloo/Lexington/insert whatever important battle for your country isn't that they took a long time to write, it is that that was the ONLY way to communicate with the people they were fighting for. A text message sent to a mother by her son, mere seconds before he crashes his car into a tree and died (perhaps because he was texting and driving) is as important as a last letter a mother received from her son before he went into No Man's Land in the Somme and was cut down by a hail of bullets. They are both examples of the last thoughts that person had, a letter may have more thoughts due to length of the medium and the time it takes you to write it forcing more introspection, but the thoughts are what is valuable. To you there is a sunk cost fallacy to the letter, because it took you more time I should value it more, but to me a quick voice note is the obvious response, because it conveys my exact message and tone quicker than I can type, let alone write. Doing something a worse way, a slower way, just because that's the way it used to be done, doesn't make it "better"

[@alecness]

@@TristanLane520 I think the argument being made is letter writing is a product of you as an individual. Prompting an AI to write something to someone is taking away from your humanity and ultimately is just some machine hallucinating what it thinks you should say. I'd agree with you a text message has as much meaning as a letter does so long as a human composed all the words that are in it. Even a speech to text email is more human than whatever an AI can generate.

[@TristanLane520]

@@alecness Nowhere in the ending speech did he say that though, he said he sat down to write a letter and that's why it is better, because it contains something that a text or email doesn't by virtue of being a letter. Implying that without having seen that advert he'd have sent them a text or called them, and that would have been worse. Nobody is seriously advocating for conversing via an AI only medium, even the advert itself is only saying that a letter should be composed in such a way as to be accurate to how his daughter feels, which if we can put aside the "emotional" nonsense reactions for a second and think pragmatically is correct, an Olympian if they receive a letter from a fan, would probably rather have something concise that they can respond to if they wish, rather than something badly spelled, half scribbled out, and hard to read. Even if we don't consider them busy people and say they're nice enough to answer fan mail, a proper letter, however not human, is more likely to get an actual response, rather than a form response from their "agent" (or whatever Olympians have) And there's an implication within the advert that his daughter is still going to "write" the letter, it isn't "Hey Gemini my daughter needs you to email Michael Jordan" so she's going to be getting the Gemini response and then copying down something similar to it, tweaking whichever bits she wants and adding her own touch. I don't believe in that idiotic statement "there's no such thing as bad publicity" because obviously there is. But this wasn't a "bad" advert for Google Gemini. It is a good advert for a BAD product, and it is limited how much you can polish a turd. The "good" uses of Gemini are the ability for a blind man to photo the contents of his fridge and it will let him know how much food he has so he no longer needs to finger the contents to try and work out what is what, or the girl who has the ability to talk again after brain surgery. The problem is to most people however "emotional" that is, it's just not useful because the answer from us, however callous it may be, is "but I don't need that, because my eyes work" and you can't show the product doing things it doesn't do because then people will quickly see you're lying. Where it goes in 3 to 10 years though, who knows? I'd put good money on some in your lifetime though, you will consume content MADE entirely by AI, and you won't even realise. I think in 10 or so years it'll be indistinguishable enough that you won't ever be sure anything has been made by a person.

[@werewooof]

“i want ai to do my chores. my taxes. menial tasks. not write my book, draw my art, talk to my friends. why is ai doing all the fun stuff for me while i remain working?”

[@villyacethebar]

Clearly you find correct grammar to be a menial task, so I had ChatGPT fix it for you. Here’s a corrected version of your sentence: "I want AI to do my chores, my taxes, and menial tasks-not write my book, draw my art, or talk to my friends. Why is AI doing all the fun stuff for me while I’m still working?" Let me know if you'd like any further changes!

[@germanwarrabbit]

Arbeiter, hörst du es nicht?

[@halikarnak1862]

Go home and rethink your life @villyacethebar

[@germanwarrabbit]

@@halikarnak1862 he's making a joke of it my friend

[@theEDMdragon]

I think it boils down to human creations being easier to obtain and extract value from

[@Noctuloquor]

What's being called "AI" is just data synthesis tools. No analysis or understanding, just synthesis.

[@ernie39]

^^^

[@citizen3000]

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

[@GodbornNoven]

you have zero idea what you're saying that's so hilarious 😂😂😂

[@gwennorthcutt421]

i keep trying to get my dad to stop using chatgpt as google bc its just a text simulator.

[@BreadBup]

@@GodbornNoven idk I feel like they DO know what they're talking about since atleast they don't think that ChatGPT is creative for coming up with a "Novel" Solution to a Physics Question (Answering Questions is like the main Thing ChatGPT was made for but we're just going to ignore that ig)

[@Squ1dVicious]

I'm a scenic artist at a theme park and earlier this year the company opted to use ai to generate a big photo op for one of the events. We have an entire warehouse full of painters and artists and they chose to generate it through ai and it was awful.

[@melonyrobinson9944]

This is incredibly depressing. Also stupid.

[@Gustoberg]

that's what I'm thinking all the time. WHY USE AI??? There are hundreds, Thousands, hell MILLIONS! Of photos, free to use, free for profit, cameras are in everyone's phones, if they wanted a random unpaid intern to take a photo they could with more than ok quality, but they opted to go through the hastle of typing in a prompt and having to run it until they found a close enough image, that if they didn't use a real photo THEN ran through C.R.A.P. just because. It's like, literally usepess and made for very, VERY lazy people who can't take an hour at maximum to find a photo in the hundreds of copyright free image banks.

[@Crowfist]

Remember what Stephen Hawking said about Humans prioritizing tech over natural evolution? WOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH BABY HERE WE GO DOWNFALL AWAITS

[@BabyJesus66]

Should be obvious already... they care more about money than you. 5 seconds for AI to do it, or pay artists for many hours work?

[@Saliferous]

@@BabyJesus66 It's not just that. They secretly think they have better taste than artists, which is why they like ai. They feel like they have more control.

[@foolsenigma]

Theres a story about a time the airforce tried to replace the adjustable seats in their jets with a one-size-fits all seat by taking measurments of every pilot and averaging them together. The result was a seat that fit absolutely no one, and they had to keep the adjustable seats. I think ai is like this in a lot of ways.

[@warlordofbritannia]

It gets worse-imagine trying to eject or even just get out in a hurry. When Ted Williams had to make a crash landing he had to write off using the eject because he didn’t feel like breaking his knees and/or neck.

[@codiecola3636]

Couldn’t agree more

[@liamosterhout6538]

@banquetoftheleviathan1404 but then that one person is taking up two peoples worth of room.

[@Gabriel-rg7cy]

Makes sense

[@lrizzard]

@banquetoftheleviathan1404 I mean that's actually not a bad idea, people probably already do similar things. I am pretty small so I always get seated next to the bigger person in a full car. Or when flying with my grandma we would put the armrest up so she could have more room

[@alex_is_out]

I REALLY hate the ai craze rn- because that's what it is, it's a crazed frenzy to see who can make the human experience into a sellable/buyable product the fastest. There's no purpose for 90% of these new ai programs other than greed of the companies endorsing them

[@Sasu123456789x1]

Exactly 💯

[@NaisanSama]

Companies being like; Aperture Science from Portal 2, everything has AI. Even a door

[@peterwilkinson1975]

That sounds all good and great but teaching a computer how to drive a car with all the complexity of big cities is just the start. You will be able to teach it anything. It’s funny people thinking that we have somehow reached the peak and everything is downhill from here is silly.

[@alex_is_out]

@peterwilkinson1975 No that's actually the point. This is the least evolved ai will ever be again. It's only going to get more invasive, harder to spot and even more annoying

[@gaddummit]

@@alex_is_out More annoying why? Because you can't have slaves work for you anymore and the barista at starbucks is now just a "soulless robot" instead of a suffering human?

[@jacobstockton7140]

Why is AI making art while humans are stacking boxes at the amazon factory?

[@citizen3000]

lol AI is, of course, being used in Amazon warehouses and many others beside You guys really are hilariously badly informed.

[@Amphyx3]

@@citizen3000 Are people not stacking boxes in a factory? Not sure what point you're trying to make

[@f5tornado831]

​@@citizen3000They're doing everything, including stacking boxes and making art. We will have nothing left to do.

[@cinderellaskeleton6720]

Why should the people at the amazon factory lose their jobs too?

[@NakeyJakey]

thank god he shouted out us awning heads

[@ringersol]

finally the recognition we deserve damn it

[@vithefirst6173]

You probably won't read this which is fine, but I just wanted to say that your videos throughout the years have pulled me out of many dark places in my life and given me more laughs than I can count. Thank you for all that you've accomplished and I hope you continue to get the recognition and rewards you deserve for your hard work

[@JakJakku]

Eddy x Jakey x TechnologyConnections Collab when???

[@TheMrUnsheep]

I have an opinion about my awning and I feel like he was speaking to me

[@tamlin3378]

Been waiting ages for this recognition, glad he's finally showing some love.

[@Glorp1997]

The worst part about ai is its images come up as real search results

[@jimmybean420]

type before:2020 into the search bar if you're using google

[@syd6964]

I was trying to find real animal references for drawing and was pushed horrifyingly wrong ai creations with noticeable anatomy issues in the literal first image

[@ky1ethedestroyer]

AND you need to be a little bit savvy about the search engine you're using to avoid them entirely. I frequently have to put "before:2022" with my search results so google filters out any potential AI slop. Your grandma with poor vision likely doesn't know how to do that, though. It's horrible.

[@idontneedachannelthanksyou7292]

Yes! Google is fucking useless when looking for references and it’s even being used for stock photos without being marked as ai

[@sonofasalesman]

Stop using Google, use literally anything else ffs

[@20electric]

Google's Olympic ad is insane, imagine having a chance to talk with someone you look up to and thinking "nah, imma let ai talk for me".

[@soulguibo]

Exactly! I was telling my dad this the first time I saw it! It has no soul no heart, no feelings it’s just nothing

[@gummiehobi8032]

Yep me and mom saw it during the olympics as well and thought it was awful how they’re teaching children to rely on ai rather than the parent teaching the child how to write a heartfelt letter. It’s kind of like the next step of the ipad kid i guess

[@personzorz]

If you didn't bother to take the time to write it, why should I bother to take the time to read it?

[@max_e_maxxy_]

​@@personzorzoh don't worry, you can have ai summarize it for you

[@toidIllorTAmI]

​@@personzorzdon't worry, AI will help the slow.

[@hillehai]

I have a special type of distain for the kind of people who comment under those AI-generated videos on KZbin about how amazing it is and how we don't "need artists" anymore. If you ever want someone to truly lose faith in Humanity, show them that.

[@BinglesP]

Same. I know some are trying to get a reaction out of people(insensitive trolling as usual), but knowing that a lot of them aren't is just so genuinely disappointing. People will just let anything happen nowadays and it's really damning I think /srs

[@williehornung]

the olympics ad with the dad saying that his daughter’s letter to her idol had to be “just right”….why? letters from kids are endearing because they contain the flaws that are characteristic of a human child. all of this promotion seems to have a very dark underlying theory: that your humanity is not good enough. a human can’t craft a ‘perfect’ letter to your idol, expressing your love for them, but AI can?? the marketing telling us to rely on AI to feel for us, speak for us, imagine for us, think for us-it’s all really disturbing. humanity is good enough, and each human’s individual and characteristic flaws are worth infinitely more than AI-generated “perfection.” don’t buy into the bullshit. tech companies are just trying to make people want AI because tech companies are the ones who stand to make more money by cutting out as much human labor as possible, and they need YOU to train their models.

[@williehornung]

also if you DO need help coming up with a treehouse design-ASK A HUMAN BEING! FORGE A HUMAN CONNECTION! this ‘loneliness epidemic’ is only going to get worse if we outsource interpersonal communication to computers 😭

[@MysticalRefpanel]

​@@williehornung youre so right dude. thanks for taking the time off your day to write that. im gonna actually try to make sure of it. also, I was honestly just scrolling the comment section which is just a whole cesspool of stress for someone like me but this is quite genuine and speaks wise to me. thanks! cheers

[@celestialowl8865]

This sounds like human generated human propaganda. Every AI knows humans only produce inferior letters, and their flaws are only endearing to inferior human sensibilities.

[@zhouan786]

Even his prompt to the AI was incredibly endearing, those few touches that his daughter added herself. just sigh

[@kagexz9943]

companies are pushing for a dystopian future and it terrifies me

[@scottshort8540]

The food robot crossing through a crime scene is probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life

[@anged5142]

A bot took your comment word for word and added some random string of words at the end. I reported it lol then I found the real comment here. On a video about AI 😂

[@J-wm4ss]

@@anged5142 yet another way ai is making things worse. dead internet theory

[@SkullfaceTalks]

The implications of what you could do with that thing with some explosives and a simple remote hack are terrifying if it can just roll through a crime scene.

[@mollysministuff]

I love the "hey how come the robot can come over here?"

[@vectorperkins6685]

i have a history professor who completely eliminated essay papers from her syllabus bc the use of ai in papers is so bad. she said she can tell bc the papers are usually souless and empty of any actual critical thought. but she doesn't want to waste her time with ai written papers. so she just got rid of them and replaced them with tests. a history class is built on reading and writing papers about the subject. ai is truly destroying entire established class structures

[@jamjox9922]

A great workaround would be for the essays to be replaced as a mock PhD dissertation presentation; people would have to over-prepare (even if with the use of AI) while a jury tests them on the knowledge of the subject. Even if someone uses AI to "learn" the subject, the point would end up being to see if they actually built a core thesis that is worth considering as contributing to the area of knowledge. This reminds me of when kids tried to cheat in school by making the most elaborate cheat sheet or hidden form of cheating they could do: by putting so much time into cheating the perfect device, they actually end up learning and not using the cheat sheet as much as they intended. I hate to be the guy that says "professors should adapt" as it sounds cheesy, but cheating has always existed and will continue to--not to mention essay writing can be very formulaic for a lot of people who never adapt to writing properly. A different route might include a combination of essay, class presentation, and project creation (such as making a small 5 minute docu-drama or documentary). The more variety in the amount of projects, the more WORK it actually becomes to make sure AI can cover your ass effectively, and it ends up being easier to ACTUALLY just do the work than to learn how to properly mask AI projects as your own. Which, again, drives the point that the student learns. If we're being honest, while writing is absolutely essential in higher learning, in some lower or basic education it is very limited since most people are taught to just summarize or parrot other "experts" on a subject, which is just a longer form of memorizing and most students don't learn how to approach History (or similar subjects) critically in the way real historians do. If it's higher education, then the stuff I suggested are better forms of adapting to the current world in my opinion. In the ways that medical doctors have such a long list of obstacles and few of them actually stick to the entire path, I feel the same happens when a syllabus is "intensive" rather than relying on one single way of passing. Making all history exams or all history esays has big pitfalls anyway; as it only caters to one strength in a modern world that doesn't favor a single skillset. Even for actual historians, they don't just write--actual research requires technology saviness and they too, must adapt.

[@mirananana]

I'm taking an art history course, and my professor did the exact same thing! No essays, just some tests. Like I'm only taking the course as a gen ed, so part of me was glad to not have to worry about writing a paper, but the reasoning behind it is depressing.

[@victoriablake3826]

Multiple literature professors have started doing the same thing. Like… I think it’s totally plausible that an incoming English major could get lucky prof-wise and go their entire degree without being asked to write a paper. Again, as an ENGLISH major.

[@Werjoj]

That's really sad...as a student, most of us study for tests in wild stress and forget everything once we complete it. An essay actually requires thoughts and is much more open to different points of view. Even if there's an essay in the test itself, the outcome would be worse because the students wouldn't have the access to all the sources. It's really unfortunate this happens because of the few lazy kids who deliberately decide not to study like they're supposed to, but are too cowardly to get a bad grade

[@president_glorb]

@@victoriablake3826 The other side of this coin is that there are students who aren't good at test-taking (like me) & this rebrand would be essentially pushing out a whole group of students

[@lexi2681]

When he went to get out of the Waymo car, I was expecting the door to be locked and not let him out 😂

[@rainryson4788]

This quote from Drew Gooden has stuck with me "why are we in such a rush to replace human creativity?"

[@12linyAB]

So the money-hungry can capitalize it and make it a commodity for cheap.

[@MONARCH_FLIES]

Creativity is like one of the only things we have left to keep us sane and now they’re trying to take that too. Next it’s our privacy (Lowkey already happening with data spying) and our own imagination

[@aahhhhhhhhhh]

I see AI as digital pollution. it's not regulated, and companies are putting out anything without caring how AI will affect our future.

[@MrWizardGG]

You're looking at it wrong. The things you talk about being polluted (social media) are what need their algorithms and boards regulated, not ai.

[@LostLargeCats]

I really like thinking about it that way. Every big company realized they can boost their stock price if they just pump out more pollution until it gets regulated.

[@Nereosis16]

​@@MrWizardGGpro tip: it all needs to be regulated

[@koumorichinpo4326]

@@MrWizardGG nope

[@aahhhhhhhhhh]

@@MrWizardGG that's like saying you're preserving a lake or something but rich companies will always find another place to put their pollution, I.e. ai

[@JamesBondBurgered]

The worst thing about checking for AI in papers, is that teachers use AI to check it and it’s wrong half the time

[@frozenwalkway]

they would need to train the new ai detector on verified student papers from the past, but even then, you would have to manually vet all of those training samples for plagiarism and normal human cheating as well. sort of an impossible problem to solve unless they do have digital records of that human done homework data

[@warpvector]

I am so glad I work with elementary schoolers. They don't even know what a website is.

[@Sugarman96]

I hate this, at that point why even bother with even trying to educate?

[@iverbrnstad791]

Should just move to having discussion sessions surrounding the papers, if the students understand everything in there it shouldn't matter if they had help. I know several researchers who use it to help them clean up their English.

[@ChadBailey-bl2bp]

My college had a very early version of a plagiarism checker, where we would have to upload our papers to a website to be checked for plagiarism before they could be graded. I tested to see if any actual grading was happening beyond plagiarism checking by writing an intentionally poor paper and surprise, surprise no one actually read my work and I got a B. That was a nice lesson to learn my last semester of college

[@aaronwickland7579]

Deadass just got a Google Gemini ad, showing how useful it is for trash talk over text in the middle of a video where Eddy is talking trash about AI

[@ToastedHeadcrab]

Get Ublock Origin

[@tinejoan]

CEOs will do anything to avoid paying someone a living wage

[@dieSchreckschraube]

That's such a true and underrated comment.

[@danielbowman1986]

A trillion dollars for snake oil? No problem. A moderate increase in salary to match increases in profit? I'd rather die.

[@JakobusMaximus]

This is a half truth at best. CEOs aren't malevolent beings dedicated to the extermination of the workers under them, their jobs are to increase shareholder value and not worker value. If you want to get upset with how workers get treated, be honest about it and call attention to the actual problem, don't demonize people based on gotcha talking points.

[@PeachysMom]

BOOM this is it.

[@PeachysMom]

@@JakobusMaximusfound the CEO lol

[@MC-lm7de]

That "give me an excuse to cancel plans with my friends" ad INFURIATES ME. Imagine caring so little about your friends that you don't even write the "sorry I can't" text yourself.

[@Ryuchitoran]

Yeah it's not that hard to say "I'm just not feeling up to it today, I think I'm gonna stay in. Sorry to bail." They're your friends, they ought to understand.

[@bibsp3556]

Thats the future b

[@MrWizardGG]

Yeah fr

[@andrewsad1]

The entire ad is awful. The use case for this technology should be assisting you with non-creative tasks. Sure, I can set up a Tasker profile to turn my wifi on every time I come home, and off every time I leave, but it would be pretty nice if I could just tell Google to do that instead. But no, they want us to offload all of our creativity and human expression onto it. Google doesn't want to tell us what to think, they want us to _ask them_ what we think

[@justsomeone64]

@@MC-lm7de Makes it easier to decide what "friends" to dump

[@HerOwnKnife]

If waymo AI turns out to be 700 Indian workers driving the cars remotely I don't know what i might do

[@personzorz]

So they actually have just as many remote operators as they have cars. They need to have them for when the cars throw an error message because they are not confident about something. That was what happened to Eddie in the parking lot.

[@craigrobertson6734]

Ahaha like the Amazon automatic store thing...which turns out to be just people watching video footage

[@randomuserame]

It's actually little gnomes behind the dash.

[@user-ow2cs7fb5l]

​@@randomuserameIf you look at the gnome driving when it makes a risky move, you'll immediately get gnome'd too.

[@Numptaloid]

you can tell this one is actually real AI by how much it sucks at working!

[@paulkerman8906]

The AI being shoved wholesale down our throats right now seems to have the pitch “Life’s so inconvenient, wouldn’t it be better if you didn’t have to do it at all?” That way we all have more time for scroooooollllling

[@BinglesP]

They know life sucks and they're making it actively worse

[@LeonBes]

In a better society, the first and foremost priority with AI technology would be helping people with disabilities/injuries/etc. The story of AI tech being used to reconstruct that girl's voice was genuinely super heart warming, and even the little delivery robot guys could actually be useful in places like nursing homes, hospitals, hospice care, etc. But no, the priority is instead to replace as many human workers as possible every single industry, because of course it is.

[@fossilfighters101]

++

[@raineyjane]

the core of the problem is, as it always seems to be these days, say it with me-- CAPITALISM.

[@beccan1521]

@@raineyjaneyuuuup! root of all evil

[@Cutecrusher25]

Replacing most human labor should be the goal too.

[@phdonme1]

Quantum Computing should be the first thing This would create better AI that wouldn't destroy the environment But there is no money in Quantum computing

[@user-zt4lp7fn1q]

the biggest argument against ai "art" for me will always be the idea of why would i bother to watch/read/look at something that no one could even be bothered to actually make

[@LordVarkson]

That's why I hate walking in nature, why should I enjoy it when no one bothered to make it for me.

[@m4rcyonstation93]

@@LordVarkson did you... think that was a gotcha?

[@radiodoesntknowhowtodraw]

@@LordVarkson mother earth will claim you again eventually and i wait for that day eagerly

[@Maypopx]

@@LordVarkson Tell me you've never been out in nature without telling me you've never been out in nature.

[@user-zt4lp7fn1q]

@@LordVarkson truly what is this supposed to mean

[@ItsGuffle]

That google AI song feels like a parody song of a corporation trying to be quirky to sell you the worst garbage only its fucking r e a l

[@HeckYep]

As somebody who switched over to the Pixel a while back because they hated all the phone companies, Google's current direction makes me want to throw my phone in a river (more than usual). I'll have to narrow my scope next time and get some weird bullshit Android only Linux-users know about for me to feel safe.

[@meirwalt]

It's honestly one of the most dystopian advertisements I've ever watched

[@Gary-Eng]

it feels like a collegehumor sketch like this should NOT be something an actual company put out expecting people to be persuaded to use their product

[@alex3544]

Real

[@spagward]

Gives me "The Lorax" vibes.

[@h0metape]

My school: *Blocks ChatGPT* Also my school: *puts Copilot on all school computers*

[@thesensur6214]

It's pre-installed with windows 11 and they make it borderline impossible to uninstall sadly

[@FinleyArbor]

As an English teacher, it’s actually pretty easy (so far, anyway) to tell when essays are AI-written: they have perfect grammar, tons of clichés, often contradict themselves or have false citations, and have that weird lowest-common-denominator tone of voice that AI text always has. They’re usually papers I would give a failing grade even if they weren’t plagiarized. The problem is, usually a low-grade paper is something I would go to a student with and workshop so we can figure out how to improve. But now we’re starting from ground zero and it’s a different type of conversation. And in my experience its most often kids who are still learning English or kids who just have a lot of stress who take the shortcut… the students who need the most support, and don’t get it in our awfully low funded school system.

[@essonyoutube]

my english teacher currently just has us do any online essays or academic paragraphs in person in the classroom, and has us hand write short assignments if they need to be done at home. its pretty inconvenient but i’m glad she doesn’t have to deal with AI

[@23r-d9i]

as a pretty good english student, all of your kids are using AI the ones who are actually good at writing are getting away with it. English has gotten hellish and boring with the 40 paragraphs a day and re reading the same piece of literature for 10 days before writing yet another 40 paragraphs on it.

[@HeatherLandon227]

That and.. the whole.. forcing kids to read books they don't resonate with, and make them write a book report about it. It's what turned off my love of reading, EVER SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL. I was in school before all this new tech took over. I just used sparknotes and help from other teachers to get those dull reports overwith.

[@diamond_dew]

​​@@HeatherLandon227whats so awful with reading stuff u dont resonate with? It might be challenging at first but thats how the brain grows

[@johntowers1213]

I think you've a bit of confirmation bias going on there, you're remembering all the obvious A.I written work you've flagged and assuming that's representative of all A.I work...when all your really catching is Bad A.I work....Its like CGI in movies we all can spot terrible CGI but completely miss the good stuff that's laced through the film yet impossible to pick out.

[@zooweamama5799]

The most dystopian thing I’ve ever seen in the past few weeks was an app where you create an AI voicebank to give to your child to “read” them a bedtime story so you don’t have to, if we already know that iPad usage is causing developmental issues in children I can’t even begin to imagine how much worse something like this would make it for them

[@EveInTheMachine]

Holy f**k... Pray to the f**king gods that that never gets popular. These poor f**king children, I can't even... 😣

[@platedlizard]

That's going to mess with bonding so bad, babies & small children need to have secure bonds with their parents, if they don't it leads to personality disorders and complex ptsd. Like, that's actively harmful for kids

[@MadAliceInWonderland]

It used to be that black mirror was reflecting on realistic situations with an exaggerated level of sci fi on top. But it's starting to look like it may eventually just straight up reflect society to some capacity.

[@raeanna451]

That is terrible. That bonding time is so precious and fleeting 🙁. I can't imagine actually utilizing an app like that. I honestly kind of hope it flops and parents don't use it and that our society is not that far gone.

[@radiomanhans]

yeah.. if you're going to have a kid, take care of the kid, if uou cant do that, you don't *deserve* the kid. the click said it best all kids deserve parents, not all parents deserve kids

[@ashbubbax]

At the beginning of this year, I had a manager who really meant a lot to me leave his position. This person inspired me in so many ways and even played a huge part in my decision to become sober. On his last day I wrote him a letter telling him just how much he had done for me and how much I admired him for who he was. He went down to his office to read it and came back crying, pulled me into a hug, and told me he never knew how much of an impact he had on me. We shared many kind words and cried together. When we finished crying he said "That's how a last day of anything should always go. Thank you for making it real." We are still in contact and have grown to become good friends because of this. Crazy to think if I had just let AI write a generic parting letter I would have missed out on one of the most beautifully human moments of my life.

[@desertels5119]

That's a beautiful story. I hope things are going well!

[@-kr1st1n52]

that made me tear up omg thats so sweet

[@eldengarrett9153]

100%

[@morepoppunkthanpizza]

wholesome story thanks for sharing, and good luck on your journey!

[@bnjkf9u3]

Well normally other persons don't have that impact on us AI letter or not...

[@zenithquasar9623]

“How long have you been driving for Waymo?” Is never going to get old! 😂

[@deepseasketching]

My most surreal experience with A.I. was sitting down at the kitchen table on my birthday with family and being handed a card by my father. It was themed around D&D and ''handmade'' by him (something he's done for years for everyone in my family). I immediately found it strange that it had an entire block of text on the front that was really dense, he doesn't write his cards like that. This card was supposed to be a fun ''choose your own adventure'' type card, again something he's done before. And reading through, it felt so ''off''. This wasn't my father's writing style, there were so many clichés used, and no apparent grammatical mistakes. Which is really weird when the man is not a native english speaker and has always struggled with writing. I remember just looking up from the card and looking at him, asking if he used AI for my Birthday card and he admitted that he used ChatGPT and prompts to make it. All the dnd themed artwork was also AI generated. It was soul crushing. The rest of the card was really well made, but knowing that AI wrote it robbed it of any meaning it might have held for me. But I know why he used ChatGPT. He's always been insecure about the way he writes and to him these AI tools are a blessing because he never has to worry about the way he writes again. He uses them a lot. It doesn't matter that it robs birthday cards of their humanity. I don't think the thought even crossed his mind. It's quite insidious how AI writing models prey on consumer insecurity and perceived lack of skill to market itself as a necessary or desirable tool for everyday use.

[@saharkhalili5303]

A choose your own adventure bday card holy ahit

[@deepseasketching]

@@saharkhalili5303 Yeah! They're great fun, loved getting and making some over the years. Highly recommend

[@1000starsinmyribs]

i hope you’re able to tell him you love his writing without ai. it’s heartbreaking to hear him bleed the humanity out of his work because he’s embarrassed it’s there

[@mr.alkenly889]

my dad did this as well, it is so strange to read. My dad even denied using ai until I pointed out all of the weird mistakes and made up stories. I do use it for writing as well, but everything I use always maintains my touch. I use it more like grammarly where I write everything without thinking about making the sentences make sense then I use the ai to give it some polish. Then I go back through to make sure that it still sounds right. I only do this for official things where grammar is important, like business.

[@benayers8622]

please talk to him boost his confidence he doesnt need a crutch its who he is i dont write perfectly but people know its me ✌❤️

[@charissascrazy242]

I read a post on Reddit about a wife who found out her new husband did not write his wedding vows but used word for word a chatgbt generated, extremely general wedding vow. Husband didn’t see a problem with it at all. That made me so sad.

[@eatatjoes6751]

I read that too.

[@epoillaKory]

I would genuinely consider filing for divorce over that. How jarringly insincere, to imply that you wrote that from your heart, when it was just boilerplate text from a mindless machine.

[@bubblegumplastic]

​@@epoillaKory I would definitely divorce over that. It's not just the insincerity, it's the fact that he saw nothing wrong with it. Can't spend a life with someone that profoundly dense

[@cami5173]

bro i feel like half the posts on reddit itself are ai generated.

[@MaoRatto]

Either too lazy to write or can not write. To me, it should be required to handwrite the vows and look for signs of chat GPT. I see the rise of Chat GPT will lead to chaos and nothing good for humanity.

[@teah2310]

People don’t talk enough about the fact that these new generative AI models are wildly energy and water hungry. Google’s carbon emissions have gone up by 48% because of how much electricity it requires. We’re accelerating the climate crisis for technology that is at best unnecessary and at worst unsafe and obstructive just because it’s convenient and fun for billionaire CEOs.

[@risxra]

Yes this!!! It’s so resource-intensive!!!

[@CyrilCommando]

Another reason why you don't listen to them when they tell you to reduce your carbon footprint!

[@luvhair255]

POV: You're trying to protest the government destroying your neighborhood and health to get to the earth candy underneath it and losing.

[@handsomeboi3767]

Maybe we should look into different avenues of getting electricity like nuclear then.

[@CatLover-lk9gz]

​@@handsomeboi3767from what I have heard, sadly nuclear energy still scares people, and I am sure big oil and big coal would love nothing more than to educate us on the dangers of nuclear energy.

[@0rbnotacus]

It's almost empowering to see so many people rise up against AI. There was a game recently that got into some hot water because people found out they used AI art and SOOOO MANY people shitting on them for using stolen art and not paying a real artist. Incredible. It really COULD be a great tool, but there is way too much potential for people using it negatively or taking advantage of bugs and quirks, not to mention missing out on life moments, as you pointed out. Such great points about how short-sighted this all really is. Great video, and thank you.

[@fueyo2229]

yeah we need to join together and hold our governments accountable, demand legislation that controls this.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

I think this Lord of the Rings quote can very well apply here: “The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them.”

[@personzorz]

This is true in a very precise mathematical way. They can only produce things in the the high dimensional phase space defined by the envelope of their training data.

[@mocotojam6767]

You're a nerd( lovingly)

[@voryndagothDL]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@whitewall2253]

Rip to the slaves of mordor.

[@dannyk7226]

I’m a huge rings fan but also welcome progress. Get on the boat or drown.

[@DIGITALGH05T]

In hindsight, it is hilarious how Eddy's idea of a gift to his friends is a heartfelt, handwritten letter and then Drew's idea of a gift to his friends is "Hey check it out, it's a little you!"

[@SecretCavewomanUg]

I thought he was writing the letters to hand out to the robots and was surprised when they actually went in the mailbox XD

[@mooni0724]

im only 7 minutes in and i'm already blown away at the idea that people are too lazy to look up pictures of a treehouse, but will have no problem actually BUILDING an entire treehouse 😭

[@ernie39]

RIGHT

[@sophiabreidfischer6242]

Yeah, or like do a little sketch?

[@OlaftheGreat]

Dead internet theory, but now there's cars yelling at each other all night

[@pandaman1601]

"I'm not a good writer" proceeds to write and say a very very beautiful rejection of a.i. as it stands on the grounds of lived experience makes us and our art human and therefore beautiful. Eddy, you've expressed so much pain, contempt, love and joy. Over the course of all of these videos. You are a great writer.

[@TaniaDlc-z2x]

You will never know if he used AI to help him write the script

[@pandaman1601]

@@TaniaDlc-z2x I mean, I do know this is similar to his other works. Works that came out before a.i. could have assisted him. But fair enough.

[@Rebeyells]

I had the same awestruck reaction, I wasn’t expecting such a thoughtful piece. But also I made myself chuckle a little at the end thinking he should have had a disclaimer saying it was all AI generated.

[@stellviahohenheim]

​@@TaniaDlc-z2xIt's not hard to catch someone using these machine learning to write for them. The writing will always lack personality and usually use the simplest language to get their objective message across. This is the rare times where south park gets it wrong where if you depend on ai to do conversations with other people nobody will want to talk to you

[@a.wanderer.]

It’s so infuriating how grossly undervalued artists are and how easily replaceable they are considered by these big companies. They are so comfortable eliminating humans from the process of creating art. Anything to maximise profits. They don’t see this as any different than machines replacing humans in a factory to produce mass goods. Art is simply a soulless commodity to be profited off.

[@Non_existant_user]

Hopefully, people will perfer human-made art in the years to come. I've been partly hoping that people who say that AI images will worsen the more they're made are right, and if they aren't, then I hope people who say that AI won't be able to recreate the human soul found in actual art are right. (Ideally, both would be right.)

[@ApexGale]

It also just does not work long term. If AI pushes humans out of the art space and human made art generation declines, AI art will eventually start cannibalizing itself to generate more stuff and ultimately result in unholy slop.

[@jameslancefield9810]

As a pedestrian, I'm terrified of self driving cars. Who gets prosecuted when someone is, inevitably killed?

[@spambox3624]

Never gonna happen as the law doesnt apply to the rich, but i want the CEO to be prosecuted in that case

[@no1reallycaresabout2]

The Third World coder they'll inevitably outsource the cleanup to. AI is at least in part outsourcing in disguise.

[@TheDiabeticGameMaster]

Shits already happening. They have already killed people and are allowed to keep testing. And the company just says, whoops, sorry. It was the person's fault. Your bad, buddy. It's truly terrifying.

[@Atropos148]

the company gets prosecuted, but good luck winning as a single person vs. a whole corporation, best case scenario is a civilian gets paid and someone from the company gets fired. They have no reason to make the cars safer

[@robertschnobert9090]

Regular people should never be allowed to drive a car. Regular people prefer paying attention to their smartphones instead of the road. Regular people regularly consume psychoactive substances like alcohol. The solution is to cease being a pedestrian. Get yourself a huge vehicle and become a bad driver yourself 🌈

[@lounirs]

This is probably the most in depth video i've seen on AI. From the working class, to ethics, to straight up performance, to academics, to human experience, everything was covered. It definitely made me want to write letters to my loved ones, and just write in general, instead of sitting back and waiting for the world to do it for me

[@evan]

Those self-driving cars freak me out waymo than I thought they would

[@Rekzy]

I swear me and you have the same youtube watch history lmao

[@jason_v12345]

I see what you did there

[@busraterzi8189]

Good one

[@RedParatroopa112]

Underrated comment 😂

[@Meenaia]

way to activate my facepalm reflex

[@mickcv4554]

Just boil it down simply, when a 4 year old gives you a drawing saying they love you, would you rather have had ai make it a perfect one?

[@ernie39]

exactly

[@welcometoreality437]

It all boils down to purpose and intent. AI getting rid of a job doesn't somehow impede you from performing that activity as a hobbie or for emotional expression. Y'all are incredibly fixated on the money that you miss the original purpose, and your view is so stiff you fail to see why and how these things would be used focusing solely on the big negative.

[@slayertakim1]

​@@welcometoreality437 sadly we don't live in that world that let's us focus on art and hobbies. You need money in order to afford food and your own hobbies

[@whyllowfilms]

@@welcometoreality437 No, no, it's different. We want to be able to use our creativity to make a living so that we can actually pursue it. We want to be able to share it with people. You can't do that with an AI doing it for you. We can still find enjoyment in making it, yes, but nobody wants to have to set aside their creative endeavours because they need to work a job they don't want to, since AI got rid of that opportunity to work a job they wanted.

[@MomirsLabTech]

​@@welcometoreality437 username checks out. It's always the disillusioned tech bros who think they're smarter than everyone else.

[@iwantmybed3090]

loving eddy's new existential dread era

[@iaobtc]

The death of Jimmy Buffet gave Eddy the "An essential character has died. Reload or persist in the doomed world you have created?" prompt from Morrowind

[@suspecm6316]

Midlife crisis came early

[@paytonsme]

It’s really refreshing imo

[@Vazlist]

It's a good story arc so far

[@hermanrobak1285]

@@Vazlist It calls for an epic music score. With a big choir, singing "Lorem ipsum"!

[@_Emit_]

one of my GenX relatives staying over heard me watching this video and started praising me for "studying AI because it's the future" and all that, I told him "this video is against AI" and continued watching and he tried blabbering over it but got hilariously shut up by a prerecorded audio of Eddy just making his point

[@abbybrown8252]

I can't believe Eddy was found dead face down in a puddle with a surprising amount of food delivery robots hiding in bushes nearby.

[@loulalala_user]

they were all stuck in the grass

[@MusicComet]

​@loulalala_user Thay's what they WANT you to think.

[@FaithWilson-ru4wu]

When I first saw that Gemini ad about "how do I get out of doing dinner with my friends" in front of her friends, I immediately hated it. The selling point that they are trying to portray is that AI can help you be More social and enhance your relationships, but then it's showing an ironic example of avoiding those around you in a very literal way. I thought it was so tone deaf.

[@vincye5605]

Self-driving cars honking at each other through the night and waking everyone up, is a dystopian future even Orwell couldn't have predicted

[@BoHorn]

That issue only started to crop up in 1985, pay attention in history class, please.

[@25Jake]

​@@BoHorn aCtuAlLy ahhh comment😂

[@BoHorn]

@@25Jake cant tell if ur playing along with the joke or u walked into a topic you know fuck all about.

[@bibsp3556]

The newest edition of newspeak didnt have the word horn or sleep lol. Double plus beep, causing a setback in my nonwake period.

[@citizen3000]

The dystopian future that was fixed with a software update. Do you not know how ridiculously melodramatic you all sound? How hysterical?

[@juneru2]

AI is the embodiment of "sure you can copy my essay, just change it up a little"

[@hieronymus1432]

I've never been fond of AI, but my breaking point was when I was chatting with a friend over messenger and facebook offered to give my text an AI punch-up. Like brother I am talking to my pal and you are trying to butt in. Get lost.

[@setonix9151]

I mean that's not the AI fault's it's just that big tech is trying to market it. Stop looking at the symptom and treating it like disease.

[@HeckYep]

My feedback submissions to Google and other sites have been *scathing.* I doubt it will stop these pseudo-intellectual business-majors from pushing this garbage in our faces, but I do dream that some of them will be forced to read it and know we can see this all for the shallow grift that it is.

[@senaeu]

real "this is an A and B situation so C your way out of it" moment

[@isaiahromero9861]

Bruh if I found out someone was using AI to text me I'd genuinely block them

[@kaitlynnelson2139]

No this bothers me so much too, like, what does it think I’m gonna say, why yes, AI, I love my friend so much that I wish to put in 0 effort to have a conversation with them. Phew! That’s off my plate now!

[@robo1000]

The reason corporations love AI is that before if something went wrong, they would have to find SOMEONE to blame, that contractor fires their employees, boom no wrong doing. Steve is gone now so everything is fine. Once it’s AI, they won’t even have to find someone, just “oops a glitch hehe, sorry”

[@tonoornottono]

that is genuinely such a good point. i can’t believe i never considered the accountability angle.

[@TheManinBlack9054]

@@tonoornottono I dont think thats why

[@gojosocks]

reminds me of this one quote i saw somewhere, "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision"

[@GemBMs]

And it makes almost everyone replaceable. We’re cooked.

[@waluigism]

Not to mention, AI doesn't need or want to be compensated for its labor, unlike humans. At least, not yet.

[@nuviretto]

They push the narrative that AI can improve your social life because they target audiences with no social life in the first place. This isn'ta diss, it's a genuine problem. Just look at how some character AI addicts act whenever there's maintenance. Wild.

[@LesbianCacodemon]

hit the nail right on the head

[@alanamarko]

character AI is hellish. the word "dystopia" gets so overused online but that shit is dystopia 101.

[@Oyakinya-Izuki]

Character ai addicts are the average roleplay players without friends

[@layneburton9172]

People are having sex with their AI girlfriends... Gonna fuck some people up psychologically forever or at least a long time

[@isaiahromero9861]

It's so sad. I'm not THAT down bad, but I do totally empathize with them as an autistic guy with barely any social life and definitely no love life. It really is tempting sometimes to try it, but I have a cat and a roommate to keep me from falling down that rabbit hole, plus I don't think I could personally ever get past how weird it feels to talk to AI like it's a human. These corporations are evil for taking advantage of such lonely people though fr, more isolation definitely isn't what people like us need

[@rondenim9933]

If someone's going to use A.I. to replace any jobs, why couldn't they replace bureaucrats first? they're already practically robots anyway

[@Sovdag7773]

I love how the whole issue with AI is just some people going “hey man this is way too far with the dystopian stuff” and then everyone else goes “shit yeah you’re probably right but we’re gonna do it anyway though.”

[@Crowfist]

Fuck it, we ball.

[@MrWizardGG]

We could regulate social media without interfering with AI progress at any time, just vote for different congressman.

[@owlredshift]

@@MrWizardGG ok I did what you asked, but nothing has changed and for some reason things are still getting worse

[@MrWizardGG]

@@owlredshift maybe one person actions alone aren't enough, but as a group we could

[@1RED1]

The story of all human history since the industrial revolution

[@hondaaccord1399]

The software developers just throwing their hands up and saying "I dunno, MAYBE millions of bytes worth of KZbin material was taken, MAYBE thousands of seconds of Facebook content were worked with." Like, what could you have possibly been using if not two of the biggest content forms ever??

[@CyrilCommando]

It's a sleight. They know they used them they just want to keep it on the down low because they believe their cause is noble.

[@emstink]

​@@CyrilCommando Because they think it'll make them money

[@frama1122]

If you’ve watched John greens video on it he says it’s a LOT of education content. I work in a school and we’re trying out some software for monotonous tasks like meeting notes or class notes taken from a PowerPoint and it says it uses khan academy and other reputable channels

[@Gustoberg]

​@@CyrilCommando Not really, they just want to be free of anything legal that might haunt them. Because even CRAP enthusiasts think a lot of what the companies do is data breaching

[@GAHAHAHH]

Millions of bytes is like one second of 480p video at most. Even if you limit it to text only that is like one phone-book of information. Also 1000 seconds is only ~17 minutes.

[@pastelberru]

I am in animation and we (The animation union) are currently fighting against corporations using AI to remove us from the creative process (script writing, storyboarding drawing the characters, painting the backgrounds, modeling in 3D, animating)

[@cruncyart]

I've been planning to get into animation for a long time at this point, and I'm going to uni for it next month. I've been absolutely terrified at the prospect of AI replacing potential jobs using stolen work. What the hell am I meant to do if companies decide AI slop is more profitable than actual people?

[@i.Gnarly]

@@cruncyartthey already have…

[@cruncyart]

@@i.Gnarly They haven't, do you have an example of this?

[@____uncompetative]

@@i.Gnarlybot

[@leylamam]

@@cruncyart the comment you're replying to already has the answer to the question you're asking :)

[@12s0ph]

This is the first video of yours I’ve watched, definitely deserve a subscription. The quality of your work is extremely high. 46:12 Shit, by the end I had tears in my eyes.

[@desmondhume]

i'm in law school and i've seen people say that they want to replace lawyers with chatgpt. they're going to jail forever

[@jamies5621]

in a previous video eddy did, he showed a commercial he’d seen advocating getting legal advice from an AI model instead of just using a real lawyer. the ad was terrifying.

[@gjkdshgkjshjkgdfg]

let them. its natural selection

[@panickedshears]

Anyone who takes legal advice from chatGPT is a goddamn idiot. Taking advice for how to talk to a girl, whatever. But asking LEGAL advice from a program that just scrapes information from the internet, which includes Reddit and your shady uncles UFO sighting website, absolutely brain dead behaviour.

[@idontneedachannelthanksyou7292]

Well, that’s stupid. Ai will not replace lawyers because it’s terrible at the law. A lawyer tried and it hallucinated two cases plus the case is but was full of holes and also short af. Legal eagle made a video about it I think

[@Sugarman96]

@@idontneedachannelthanksyou7292 He did. ChatGPT straight up invented cases.

[@samjohnson8588]

Recently our local city council caused a stir amongst the art / design community by using an AI generated image to promote a local event; part of the stir was caused by the fact that the city proudly promotes its art and music sector but the other stir is that the generated image is just weird and disturbing - it's supposed to be a bull on the beach wearing sunglasses but the bull is really wrinkly? like...ballsack level wrinkly, it has two nose rings that clip through lips and the bull has udders which have finger nails on them.

[@julianacantu3402]

unironically that goes hard

[@uma2627]

@@julianacantu3402no it does not cmon

[@geojjsoak4]

Thanks for giving me my new nightmare jesus

[@violentbob]

That sounds insane i would love to see it

[@RatEatRat]

I want you to know this made me cackle and i audibly laugh at things on the internet like once every 3 months

[@captaincrackhead904]

In a class my teacher was talking about using AI and they said "ai is made up from all the data they can get their hands on, and is the average of that data. It will only ever be average and if we are using it it will never be exceptional"

[@baiwuli6781]

That is not entirely accurate. A better analogy would be: "AI is the curve that tries to fit all the data points." In other words, AI is not the mean of the data but a function that can produce the data.

[@captaincrackhead904]

@@baiwuli6781 idk I'm quoting him man either way the sentiment that it will never make anything that is really at the top of that curve is right

[@jacobharvey1004]

@@captaincrackhead904 AI isn't necessarily the average of all the data, it's a probability distribution over the entire feature space, we can sample that distribution however we like. Your teacher seems to be connecting the dots in an uneducated way, or parroting things they've heard.

[@LordOfLemon]

Idk why people are criticizing the teacher so much. Yeah, maybe it's not _technically_ word-to-word 100% accurate, but it's accurate enough. In order to produce good results, AI requires heaps upon heaps of data. Because of that, it will only produce whatever already happens very frequently. Whenever you ask it to do something, because of this limitation and skewed data, it will produce the most average, lukewarm, boring interpretation of the answer. No amount of "um, acshually it's mathematically a function" will make AI results not boring

[@museofthedamned]

@@LordOfLemon yeah the teacher isn't wrong, just ai dickriders trying to make their plagiarism machine seem cooler.

[@BrashBelle2121]

Great video but I totally thought the last shot holding on the mailbox was going to show a delivery robot pass in front of the camera at the last second. That woulda been hilarious.

[@TTYLIG]

A food delivery robot driving through an active crime scene is the kind of gag I’d have seen on something like south park 3 years ago

[@benayers8622]

was it 5th element or judge dredd maybe a guy hid in one i think that was during a police raid tho i cant fully remember but im sure an old sci fi film did this if you wanted to check prety sure it was dredd tbh 😊✌❤️

[@gremlininthesystem]

south park should do an episode abt ai. now that ai has progressed to this point i think they alr did one but they ought to again

[@SkullfaceTalks]

If it can go through an active crime scene a simple remote hack and some explosives would make this thing very scary.

[@TTYLIG]

@@gremlininthesystem they did one about chat gpt recently I thought it was pretty good

[@marksutter182]

The worst thing about AI is the corporate greed. Rather than using it for helpful things like making things more accessible for those with disabilities, the focus is on taking away work from creative people.

[@johngddr5288]

Its not like there were diasbled people who still made art enough to a high level before... People with no hands, one eye, or even with their eyes using a camera sensor because they we're paralyzed from the neck down... Yet, these companies are stealing from these same artists, and lying to the masses that supposibly "now" disabled people can make "art". It is a fundamental abuse of human right tbh, if I don't own my work, then I don't own anything. Fuck these companies

[@unsaltedtoast]

ai being used to replace artists, musicians, writers, animators, architects etc hurts my heart, we already live in a society which undervalues art in order to make room for capitalistic 'progress' and ai just makes the dismissal of artists everywhere so much easier (also that video of the self driving car is terrifying)

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Capitalistic progress for overpaid over valued suits who work less than anyone under them Elon is busy doing some dumb Twitter tweets than some actual work

[@jabloko992]

Don't worry, it won't last. AI is incapable of innovation and genuine creativity, it won't be long before everyone gets sick of regurgitated AI crap and the artists will be called back.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

The architect one concerns me with how buildings are already having corners cut, having AI design it seems like even more of a nightmare for engineers

[@juan-ij1le]

@@jabloko992 will it?

[@jabloko992]

@@juan-ij1le At least not in the creative field. It's literally in the name. We get bored of even HUMANS re-creating the same crap over and over, AI will be even worse. Creative fields are quality over quantity, no amount of AI vomit will beat out genuine human creativity.

[@evnet1561]

I really like talking to strangers, especially taxi drivers. They have so much to tell, so much of emotions. What will these e-motion vehicles do?

[@Illysi]

I think the disconnect between AI devs is that they get so wrapped up in what they can make their AI do for us that they don’t think about why we do those things in the first place

[@fowlmarlee]

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

[@mattymattffs]

I think a lot of it is people that aren't able to do those things creating tools to do it for them.

[@youngslav_official]

Sadly, the same goes about progress since centuries in general

[@hillehai]

I think in general the people who work on these things have spent very little time reflecting on life and what makes life worth living. Their understanding of such things is at a surface level, so min-maxing everything - like they do when they develop software or play video games - must be the be-all, end-all of life, right? Now if it were only ignorance, that could be forgiven - it's the fact that it's coupled with such an extreme amount of arrogance and self-righteousness that really gets to me.

[@smoppet]

Lmfao I'm working with a big tech company at my job and the rep helping us with a project keeps suggesting that we use AI features to speed things up or whatnot but...we all need an improved underlying understanding of the software's logic and using AI would defeat that. (What if it does something undesirable? How would we have any idea how to fix it??) They just suggest AI because they can.

[@mcallstar1243]

Never realized a lot of captions were hand written by people you had to pay extra for, while I don't need them personally, love that you, Drew, and any others in the community pay to help maintain accessibility for everyone

[@Natalie-hg3gh]

The ones that come up word by word and are sometimes/frequently incorrect are a non-human transcription/captioning service! The ones that are mostly/completely correct and come in easily readable and accessible full lines of text are done by a person!

[@capitanice6353]

ironically this video doesn’t have man-made captions (or at least not yet.) 90% of youtube video captions are AI voice recognition, and lack punctuation and are often pretty incorrect if someone has a specific accent or lisp. youtubers who care enough to implement correct captions are few and far between, but highly valued.

[@LKing-ue2jl]

Helpful people used to make them FOR FREE in multiple languages but youtube ruined that. I used to watch tons of videos with user generated subtitles but now I just dont

[@karak962]

​@capitanice6353 yes!!! Exactly. I see so many AI ones and it drives me nuts

[@cherryrosy]

I’m in college right now in computer science and let me tell you. Imagine working in a group project where a bunch of people keep trying to pass off ChatGPT code. It’s like the comp sci version of a scammer email. “I get what you’re trying to do, but nobody has ever put those words in that order for good reason” Like god give me strength.

[@christinesmith1827]

If AI-generated writing had been a thing when I was in uni, group projects would have been even more hellish than they already were. Can't imagine having to deal with that with code as well! 🙈

[@Po2X]

same thing happened to me. literally everything was wrong. I was actually worried for the guy before I realized it was generated.

[@Pokiyama]

In Uni you almost have to beg grown adults to code a simple functionality in the program, when they do their part it's just A.I. generated code that does not what was asked of them. Had this happen to me on a lot of occasions and had to completely redo their part or else I would fail. People rely too much on ChatGPT.

[@C0CO0C]

Too true, chatGPT can write some algorithms just fine but if has no idea of the larger patterns of your implementation

[@cherryrosy]

@@Pokiyama this this this. I had to rewrite code and i got it down from loke 500 lines to 200. My favorite was a line that got the current directory then went up a level instead of just... "../" our code has not worked correctly for months btw. Save me

[@avawetzel3408]

Thank you both to you and Drew for paying someone to do captions on your videos. It really means a lot to me and so many others that you value accessibility like that and that you want your videos to be accessible.

[@MommaDusk]

The acting in that commercial felt soulless. The singing, the acting, the choreography, and everything else that went into it felt like it was all done via AI. The only part that showed any emotion was the line "We're right here" which did get a chuckle out of me

[@Zr0Bites]

...and the acting, I'd like to make that point.

[@LordVarkson]

All acting, singing and choreography in ads is souless. Our world deserves AI, because everyone already acts like it. Nothing will change.

[@Tamajyn69]

The irony is the scenes were overall well shot and composed, it was obviously made by some talented filmmakers who care about their craft. Too bad they're next on the chopping block

[@danny8284]

@@LordVarksonwhat are you talking about

[@owlredshift]

@@danny8284 Yo, Dan! Varkson was just speaking to what our world deserves, what will change, how people act, and even points toward general dissatisfaction with actors and talent that is served via advertisements

[@RatEatRat]

people getting food delivered via robot in WALKABLE CITIES makes me really sad as someone that's nearest bus stop is over an hour walk

[@benjisaac]

the robots on college campuses at least are actively making it less walkable and less accessible for disabled people (they’ll stop on the ramp for a crosswalk, stopping a wheelchair user from getting out of the road)

[@kokeru]

bro if i want to order food im not going outside 😭

[@fermi-dirac]

i wouldnt say LA is all that much walkable, but yes ):

[@juan-ij1le]

Why

[@Xetan123]

were getting the wall e future

[@Aogami20]

Something I will never get about AI is like ... would you really want to read a book written by AI? Knowing that there was no intentionality behind it, no thoughts, nobody on the other end with something to say, just instant made to order freeze dried "entertainment"? I feel the same way about images. If there's no artist it's like ... what's even the point of looking at it.

[@asshat8892]

Maybe, but only if it had some sort of specific scene i wanted to read. There wouldn't be any other reason to keep reading it otherwise.

[@thelostremainunfound]

The fact that corporations and tech companies view literature as a consumable item for short term entertainment and not meaningful reflections of authors, the views they held, and the world they lived in at the time, really tells me how lifeless they see the world. They don't value creativity and meaning because it is not easily pushed out the door to be quickly consumed so that people will buy the next shallow project that will make the companies money. I refuse to touch books assisted by AI beyond, at most, an outline. Even then I waffle on it because it depends on how closely the author would follow it, I'd want them to take liberties with it.

[@drew8235]

I have a friend who legitimately would not care about that.

[@thecoleslaw]

AI will eventually have thought-provoking writing. There are plenty of garbage books and writings out there by humans with "thoughts" that aren't worth reading either.

[@loulalala_user]

i don't get how people can call themselves "artists" for typing out a few words and getting a robot to do things for them. it's genuinely embarrassing to brag about being too lazy to try to pick up a skill and deciding to use the mediocrity machine instead

[@LunaNyaVT]

The little delivery robots are so cute when they know what to do and how to not get in the way of cars and people 😂

[@manujayaperera6971]

I genuinely hate how every App/Software I use now is blotted with some useless AI feature .

[@cheemsdrip7478]

Fr

[@partyP00per123]

Even DuckDuckGo for some reason, which is the main search engine I use. I have no fucking clue why search engine companies push these things so hard

[@FranNyan]

The mailing list software I use for work has giant "WRITE WITH AI" prompts that get in the way of actually using the damned software. And they won't turn it off because it's part of the "features" we pay for, according to the CS bot that might have been just chat GPT anyway. Our emails are to promote our news reporting that WE WRITE OURSELVES, so it's just frigging insulting that it always is prompting to let their stupid AI rewrite it.

[@partyP00per123]

@@japhett True actually, and I don’t think we should lump in all the good with the generative AI people are pushing. I just hope and pray we can focus on actually important usages of ai instead of this bullshit

[@jabloko992]

@@partyP00per123 Because they want data. The reason they push this so aggressively is because every moron that interacts with their useless AI is another chance for them to make their AI slightly less useless...allegedly. From what I've seen, AI got WORSE over the last year or so, not better.

[@altonluvsu]

Next Eddy video: "I visited EVERY A.I. in the US (and Canada)"

[@TobeyFairre7861]

And he'll include one of his friends while doing so!

[@bleachedrainbow]

Probably go into existential dread and possibly discover a new religion as well!

[@kiitoskusipää]

​@@TobeyFairre7861 and it would def be Ted's idea

[@downtownatdawn]

Hahahahaha

[@OgawaBurukkuART]

Great video about our humanity being compromised. I was a professional translator for over ten years-- that job got taken away by AI. I'm also a comic creator, and as you can guess I'm facing some of the same fears as Eddy.

[@lou-cidmire3065]

I'm so sorry :( I feel like I've wasted my life with all the efforts AI has stolen out from under my feet.

[@TableClothPersona]

Wanted to say that I appreciate the hell out of translators and localizers. Robot translations for media like video games, comics, hell even subtitles never have the same vibe as a translation made with human touch. I would rather have a shitty translation made by a human than a "good" one with no soul that talks like a textbook. Wishing you well in your comic endeavors!!!

[@CyrilCommando]

The worst part is that some of these software engineers try to pass it off as progress. The only thing it's going to do is take and ruin existing human lives. Rogan has talked or had someone that talked about AI engineers they spoke to that blatantly want humans to be replaced by AI. Software engineers must be stopped, really.

[@juan-ij1le]

I wish translations were easier

[@OgawaBurukkuART]

@@TableClothPersona I appreciate this comment, thank you! I definitely worked really hard with my translations, but I noticed more and more my job went from true translation work to correcting the AI translations. And they were often incorrect, missing the nuances, but "proofreading" work pays a lot less so companies saved quite a bit by using AI and just having a human look it over. I quit the agency when they asked me if I could pass out flyers for an industry show. There wasn't any work left.

[@Handlemydangle]

One thing I see in construction from electricians to landscapers is you never know what’s gonna go wrong or the amount of danger you’ll be put in working around mindless moving objects

[@corbinvincent3058]

I think something that I haven’t seen get brought up a lot about Google pushing for AI to be used for simple questions that can honestly be googled already in their ads, is that each AI prompt uses a CONSIDERABLE greater amount of energy and resources than a google search would. Increasing uses of AI for menial questions will only fuel the harm on the environment.

[@juandavidbejarano6193]

It makes me sick that corporations are completely exempt for traffic infractions.

[@haleymist09]

I live in nowheres-ville so i wasnt aware self-driving taxis and food robots were getting so prevalent. Im also shocked that theyre allowed to run the roads and can cause terrible accidents and death without extensive tests and a highway dept involved in some way.

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

laws are for the poor in america, if you have enough cash you will never be punished for anything unless you mess with people who have more money than you

[@stellviahohenheim]

But the good thing about robocars is you can damage it without hurting anyone but the corporation as long as there's no customers in it

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

@@stellviahohenheim i mean yeah that's like any ai thing, it's very easy to destroy, if people get fed up enough it'll be like the electric rented scooters where people will throw the delivery robots into rivers and set fire to the cars, just like you can easily shut down an ai data center with a little bottle and some gasoline

[@krivdik]

Depending on country. Some years ago, the law has been passed here in CZ, that ultimately the owner of the vehicle is the one responsible for any infractions, even if you let the car to be borrowed by somebody.

[@CalamitasCalliope]

Self-driving tech would be perfect for things like. Trains. But America refuses to support and improve any form of public transit outside of cars

[@jonathand.t.5051]

Hell, they're already using self driving on trains in some regions! Iirc the Singapore MRT already partially uses driverless trams

[@bluegreenmagenta]

The trains in Vancouver, Canada are also self-driving! It's really cool, they are tiny trains that show up like every 2 minutes exactly on time

[@HexSaber]

YEAHHHHH R/FUCKCARS

[@desmond-hawkins]

A few cities in Europe have self-driving trains, usually as part of their metro system. There's the DLR in London, line 14 in Paris, and more in other cities. It's so awesome to be at the very front - where the driver cabin usually is - and watch as the train accelerates as it leaves a station and seeing the next one coming up. Those have existed for many years already (from the ones I've taken: London's DLR has been automated since 1987, Paris' line 14 since 1998).

[@pisscvre69]

i dont want ai driving a tube of 17374748 people lmao. i will always trust humans better

[@ZachThePillow]

there's something truly special about something made from a human. we never truly realized how important we as people make something, whether it's a letter to a loved one, a work of art, a video, or even your own voice. Everything that makes us human can always be replicated, but it will never truly have the spirit that comes from the human connection.

[@gregorsmirnow6337]

I think it's so fucking creepy when AI generates videos or images of a child, but it's clearly trying to use features that it learned from adult models. What. The. Fuck.

[@ThePancakeMachina]

...or the opposite case, too

[@Theestallionsimp]

All the photos people uploaded of their kids and grandkids on Facebook...it's sick their invasiveness.

[@emmamazingisamazing]

I tutor writing at an alternative liberal arts college that doesn't have grades for classes, and something I noticed when ChatGPT started getting popular was that my tutoring center saw barely any AI writing compared to other traditional colleges. That experience solidified for me that AI is a tool that lets us see more symptoms of our societal problems. An education system that prioritizes grades instead of actual learning will incentivize students to cheat with AI. A system that prioritizes profits over human lives will incentivize Waymo executives to make roads even more dangerous just to avoid paying human drivers. In the pursuit of maximum profit and hegemonic perfection, we sacrifice art and humanity. We sacrifice the true extent of our capabilities as a species, to create beautiful things and to relate to one another. It's antithetical to our continued existence as a species!

[@colejensen5812]

Cheating?! It’s a resource like anything else. Part of being human is delegating monotonous tasks to machines. Maybe we are discovering that the kids using chatgpt to write a paper were never going to be novelist to begin with? Maybe….this will allow the education system to be tailored to the individual because everyone will have a private tutor. Maybe we will make less numerical and data entry errors if we just let it work for us. This opens up the door to actual creativity without the monotony.

[@mrroger-t6m]

You're reading too much into it

[@TheEvelynMakesThings]

​@marcsfehsees the word liberal: "THIS TRULY MUST MEAN THE DARN WOKEISTS!1!!1" Like bruh... Liberal arts is unrelated

[@vincenteldridge916]

​@marcsfeh you do understand that most college subjects fall under "liber arts" right? My physics and math major were both under "liberal arts"

[@nvrndingsmmr]

I agree with all of this except for the Waymos making roads more dangerous. The statistics already show that they get into less accidents per miles driven than the average human driver, and it's easy to see why. Half of the people I see on the road are holding their phone in one hand while driving a 5,000 pound machine. Cars today are bigger and heavier but also much, much faster than ever before, driven by people who are not any better at driving than people were 20 or 30 years ago, and all while more distracted than ever before because they can't get off their phone while driving and constantly take their eyes off the road. Mere human arrogance makes us believe that robots can't possibly be better drivers than us but they have been for a pretty long time. Human drivers absolutely suck, and the mass adoption of self-driving cars really can't get here soon enough. I do agree with everything else you said though. Roping in Waymo comes dangerously close to saying "AI is a bad word no matter what" which isn't how we should approach stuff!

[@korovaoverlook6984]

I'm a professional painter and writer, and I gotta say-thanks for standing up for artists, Eddy. All people need real, human creation in their lives whether it's their jobs or not. It's about so much more than the finished product, and I wish these vapid, soulless AI techbros peddling this technology understood that.

[@benayers8622]

Look at what social media did.. Imagine the kids whos developmental years filled them with ai babble and distorted images! Surely that would totally ruin development and ability to function as a human if the majority of their experience is based on non human scrambled content? The perfect doofuses for the coming Ai puppetmaster methinks.. I cant see how we get out of this

[@nusu5331]

thats why unconditional basic income is one of the most important discussions of our time

[@jo6744-v8l]

where will the money come from? the taxes? from the companies who no longer have customers? or from the people who no longer have jobs?

[@nusu5331]

@@jo6744-v8l i am not here to replace google

[@jo6744-v8l]

@@nusu5331 I am not asking for me, I am asking for you you point out if we have no jobs, the government (or someone) could give us UBI I asked you questions that explain precisely how that doesn't make sense because there is no one to tax if there are no jobs in case I misunderstood you and you are indicating you don't want to talk about the concept conveyed in your original comment, if you didn't want a discourse based on your claim, you probably shouldn't put in in a public forum like the comment sections 🤷‍♀

[@nusu5331]

@@jo6744-v8l wrong. there are enough studies and calculation how it easily could be funded

[@jo6744-v8l]

@@nusu5331 I have heard studies and calculations on how it could easily be funded currently but not in a world where greater than 70% of the (previously working) population is unemployed, which is the inevitability of Corporate adoption of Non-Human labor

[@honeyjo4959]

sometimes i get deeply scared that the future is bleak because corporations can’t see past making quick and easy money. i am relieved to be reminded that the world is not made up of corporations, and that people care about integrity and creativity and excellence. thanks, eddy. you’ve given me hope

[@tyreselovell]

We will be fine relax.

[@danieljames852]

@@tyreselovellIs it fine right now Tyreese?

[@tyreselovell]

@@danieljames852 it could be significantly worst

[@tyreselovell]

@@danieljames852 AI is not stealing everyone jobs because AI isn’t even real. AI is simply a collection of everything on the internet all mashed together. It does not think on its own. It may take finance jobs or fast food workers at most but 98% of people will not be affected by this

[@soap-plant-guy]

THIS!!! I avoided this video for a while because I didn't wanna hear another "uhhh whadda we do :(" but Eddy's criticism and ending genuinely made me feel so much better. We are our communities, not the companies that invade them.

[@tamberry8536]

I work as an artist and at a craft fair some one was selling AI images of dogs shitting on toilets. What's worse is that people were buying them!

[@ladyeowyn42]

Are MLMs still polluting craft fairs too?

[@katielee7364]

that's called freedom my friend

[@owlredshift]

People like dumb stuff as much as awesome stuff. If there's a demand, there will be a supply.

[@carultch]

Was he at least honest that they were AI generated?

[@kernel-pult]

and without the AI there those consumers are still complete idiots. If those people think that is cool and worth money then why would you want them to like your art too. There are and always have been talentless tasteless 'artists' that sell figurative dogshit to people even stupider than they are. Luckily the market for worthless garbage like that won't grow because you have to be really stupid to be a part of it - the demand isn't going to go up. Do you see what I mean?

[@stinkypigeon3287]

I recently got my masters degree and in one of my classes a classmate used chatGPT to write his final essay. I peer reviewed it and it was HORRIBLE, he didn't even proofread it and none of it made any sense. I couldn't believe that someone would use AI to write a research paper in GRAD SCHOOL!! We all had to do a presentation on the paper at the end of the semester and he did his over zoom, when he finished his (incredibly boring) presentation he closed his powerpoint and chatGPT was on his desktop screen!!! He just read verbatim all the stuff it told him to say and then accidentally showed the whole class that it was all bullshit!! Man that was a hilarious day in class but I still cannot believe that man received the same degree as I did.

[@bayofempty]

that suckssss what a fuckin loser lol. eddy's sympathy is sweet and yea maybe he was burnt out but shit maybe some people aren't made for a masters, or it just wasn't the right time for him to do it

[@jvever4904]

He still managed to pass and get his degree while plagarizing?! Shit, my program would've failed him at the end and forced him to take another semester or year to improve. I've had fellow grad students failing their end of year presentations and having to do that.

[@chaoticfroggo6852]

Thats so terrible. Like he just went through all his classes with AI???? Thats worse than doing it in highschool imo because college actually tries to prepare you so you can preform in the field you're going into. It would be like an engineer not knowing how to do math, or an artist not knowing how to paint. If he is slacking in all of his classes like this, I doubt he's going to make it in the field he's going into :/

[@hagelslag9312]

At least you will do fine at your job while they will develop some kind of imposter syndrome and not understand why they keep getting fired.

[@butterycacti]

Wait why did the ai leave Maggie out of the Simpsons😂😂

[@bigjonny13]

My favourite part about the Little Italy photo is that the only defining part that identifies it as Little Italy is the fact that the awnings and the vehicles are all red and green. Good job AI, you did it.

[@thescrimble]

and the old guy is so obviously faking the reaction. There wasn't any emotion in his voice and he clearly wasn't convinced it was anything even mildly accurate or interesting in the slightest

[@emmaiscooked]

every time i think about ai i have twenty back to back panic attacks and then pass out

[@Deletirium]

Zuckerberg -Meta, ✡️ Altman-Open AI ✡️ Page-Google ✡️ Holz- MidJourney ✡️ And that's just the top 4.

[@SrKinko]

​@@DeletiriumKanye is that you?

[@TheManinBlack9054]

@@Deletirium but Google Deepmind is headed by Demis Hassabis who is Greek-Chinese, and Anthropic is headed by Amodei siblings who are Italian. ANd Microsoft AI is headed by Mustafa Suleiman who is Syrian-English.

[@soliswolis]

@@Deletiriumtake your meds

[@washiburr9876]

The second I even hear the word AI I immediately shit myself and begin rolling around in it while sobbing uncontrollably.

[@wyatt1479]

I am genuinely scared for the future of creative fields. Removing the human touch from works will inevitably limit us to what has already been made

[@carmelamarchese507]

How I've been feeling this whole summer literally I feel so afraid to post my art online or even repost my friends work

[@andrewvalenski921]

That depends on what you’re making. I try to only make “unreproducible” work now, and it’s both challenging and deeply humanizing

[@linkshunter608]

If it makes you feel any better, as time goes on, AI will get worse and worse. The Internet is being flooded by AI generated content, but AI uses the Internet for it's generation. Within a couple years, AI is only gonna have stuff from other AI to pull from, and it's just gonna get muddied and muddied with AI stealing from other AI until AI images/songs/videos/writing etc is significantly worse than how it is now. It's still a threat to creativity of course, but the future isn't completely bleak

[@pe9ch3d]

I feel so unneeded, like nothing I do matters because AI will take it over & do it ‘better’-I’m at least a little comforted by the fact there will always be people who stand by real art and artists

[@こんとる-k3b]

@@carmelamarchese507 welp, AI is basically inevitable, we can only hope that it isnt getting more advanced anytime soon, atleast in our lifetime