How AI is RUINING the Internet (and everything else)

[@FutureProofTV]

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[@mitchib1440]

Future Proof? Pushing a subscription? I have some thoughts about this.

[@Iam_inevitabIe]

Sus activity

[@vijaysrivastava181]

Washing ybu y bvbb

[@Alvert-re4sd]

how ironic

[@DigitalAshes]

me frowning for hours at the price of a one-bed in Vancouver hoping for an Ai to offer me free rent

[@rom.ya.3799]

I think in your case AI will jack up the price instead, because its clear that you need an apartement EXTREMELY bad.

[@AhhhSukeSuke]

😂 yeah. Wtf is this bs. An easy $2300 to not live in a $%##hole For better or worse... I purchased exorbitantly for my lil gap in the sky lol

[@jmap]

@@AhhhSukeSukeexactly the price I was coming to throw out. Our neighbours who moved in during peak COVID are paying $1800 though lol, yay for them

[@EroticInferno]

Lmfao

[@piccalillipit9211]

My rent on a beachfront 68m2 apartment in Burgas, Bulgaria is $228 Canadian a month.

[@ReadyVal]

The year is 2028, I've trained myself to frown when I see bacon, and act thrilled when I see celery. So they give me cheap bacon and I don't even buy celery.

[@giglioflex]

Powered Celery + Powered Mushroom + Chicken Skin = Bacon anyways. Of course without having the bacon downsides of slowly killing your heart.

[@HappyCrackers]

Watch your eyes too

[@MaxxJaEchtMet2X]

1 slight critisim I have is that companies going "carbon neutral" doesn't do a lot for the planet. As you would probably know they purchase carbon credits which are a lot of times fraudulently obtained.

[@BBonsteel]

Yep! If you look at some of the companies they offload their carbon footprint onto, that claim to plant trees in Central/South America, most haven't been updated in years. There's no accountability.

[@amicaaranearum]

Yep. It’s a form of greenwashing.

[@sonoda944]

Carbon credit is literally "we pay you so you won't deck us for not even trying to reduce emissions

[@jpcreativeimagery]

Carbon credits themselves are a total greenwashed scam. There's no such thing as free carbon. You can't buy yourself out of or offset how you polluted. Planting some trees doesn't magically eradicate the pollution released into the atmosphere and colossal amounts of energy you're using.

[@ebx100]

So you are saying if I look depressed at the supermarket checkout, I'll get ads for a Glock?

[@FutureProofTV]

🫢🫢😭😭

[@brandonstewart7796]

No, they wouldn't do that! They want you to be a repeat customer

[@pontram]

No, you get a 30 % interest loan because the AI assumes that depression goes temporarily away with being able to pay the bill. This loan is secured by a life insurance that costs 40% of the loan (automatically subtracted), in case you are suicidal after you come home and realize you cannot pay back the loan and will eventually lose your house (75% scenario probability). Any residual sum from the automatic sale of your other personal belongings is then used to finance your cremation.

[@MrTs90]

Amazon will have already sent you one

[@bonevelous]

@@brandonstewart7796 😭😭💀💀

[@Kaienhere]

AI being "corporate FOMO" makes so much sense and explains all the hype despite people not asking for it

[@matt.stevick]

may you soon enjoy and benefit from ai immensely for years to come

[@mfspectacular]

​@@matt.stevick no

[@matt.stevick]

@@mfspectacular may you become the multiplied productive and intelligent super human with your ai agent assistant

[@KevinGriffin-b2s]

The energy consumption alone is just awful. The marketing manipulation is worse. This & all the drop shipping will ruin us.

[@dy9955]

I don't care how targeted the ads are, I despise ads. I use AD blocker browsers to use You Tube and Twitter and I skip in-video ads.

[@johnpark7972]

And now KZbin is cracking down on ad blockers

[@paolosavino22]

As someone that studied Artificial Intelligence in 2019 and restudied now I can assure you that Generative Ai is just a magic trick, it gives you the illusion that does something. Ai algorythm are really, like REALLY, good at recognize pattern in data. They were created for data analysis. Ai takes a lot of datas and tries to find some pattern in it, STOP. I can't forget my professor's words "Ai is just a fancy way to do average on datas based on different parameters. And is funny that Ai is garbage at doing average between numbers" The generative Ai now is just an extension of what the pattern recognition did, with more layers. With GPT for example OpenAi uses an Ai to recognize your text, converts it into weights (is like a huge array of numbers) and finds the words that on average are more similar to the responses USUALLY the training data contains. For example if I have the text "What's the best food to put on pizza?" the Ai convert your text into weights and finds in its dataset something similar. If, for example, the Ai has 10 answers to that question and 9 said "Pepperoni" and 1 "Glue" (cause someone was joking) the Ai usually gives you the answer "pepperoni" but can also with 10% probability tell you "glue". For this reason Ai is not reliable because of course data could be "poisoned" by sarcasm and jokes that Ai can't IN ANY WAY comprehend. You can have a 80-90% precision Ai at best because of this. Data must be clear and categorized by humans to give a meaningfull result and it takes a lot of time Of course if you add generated data in the model the precision decreases because Ai generated contend is at the start faulted. And this is what happening right now with Chat GPT, Gemini and so on. And don't let me start on the overfitting of the model. Ai is just smoke in the eyes. Companies are already facing trouble of laying of people changing them for Ai and now they don't have the humans to fix Ai errors. And a lot of small Ai companies are closing because costs are huge and the benefit is negligible. The best Ai (the ones we will use in the future) were already here years before ChatGPT: google translate, Nvidia DLSS, After effects rotobrush, all the system of face recognition, taht was all Ai but no one made so much noise telling that. Remember: Ai is really good at recognize and will be used for that, for creating is mathematically imperfect, better pay a human.

[@TheNinToaster]

Your point about the jokes and sarcasm rings so true. For my undergrad machine learning class I tried to train a classifier to see if it was able to tell apart headlines from The Onion articles vs The New York Times. It did pretty well at classifying what looked to be incredibly comical and incredibly factual, but when the onion began to satirize the, at the time current, Trump administration, it quickly became unable to tell apart what was just The Onion joking and the New York Times actually reporting on the presidency. I wrote a report about it for my project and this experience has kind of stuck with me ever since.

[@novantha1]

Humans are a magic trick. They give you the illusion of doing something. Neurons are really, like REALLY, good at recognizing patterns in data. They survived by analyzing patterns in their environment. Neurons take in a lot of data to find a pattern in them, STOP. I think what you're ignoring is the impact of scale on neurons or parameters. If you put a brain with an equal number of neurons and synapses as models have nodes and parameters into a human sized body, you definitely do not get human levels of capability (keep in mind language models are significantly smaller than the human brain), and we've shown that a lot of patterns we see in AI models (ie: convolutional networks) also exist in the human brain in various capacities (though obviously not all of them). What I see in AI is a lot of emergent behaviors that we don't necessarily expect to be in the model as they weren't explicitly trained for certain things, and yet end up doing them anyway. Inductive reasoning (ie: Chain of Thought, etc) wasn't really a trained element in models, especially early ones, and yet it worked surprisingly well because the models built internal representations that happened to lend themselves to that task and style of prompting. Now, I'm not saying that existing models are self-aware on the level of humans (though I certainly propose Claude 3.5 sonnet seems to be aware of its existence as a language model) as is, but I do think that we've shown a lot of capabilities and neural structures in the trained weights of these models which does suggest they are at least capable of certain types of reasoning, and certain types of "thoughts" to at least a limited degree. The reason you're so confident of human capabilities is because you are human, and have wrapped your worldview around it. As someone that regularly trains AI models and keeps on top of all the latest research (keep in mind, in 2019 it was a *very* different landscape), I think there's a lot more going on in these models than this extremely pessimistic and reductive take would suggest. I also think that you're ignoring the impact of a lot of auxiliary systems built around AI models, like advanced prompting, agentic workflows, tool use, scratch pads, tree search, etc. Just examining their output as, say, a chatbot, isn't really indicative of their capabilities any more than directly scanning somebody's brain for their gut reaction to a question would be. In reality, humans are able to model answers to outputs in a latent "scratchpad" (we think in our head before answering) but we expect to essentially see into a model's imagination (by immediately taking the first output they give us), and we hold AI models to a much higher standard than we hold ourselves. You are absolutely correct that there are people overstating the capabilities of the models we have, though, and they almost certainly don't "experience" things in the way we do yet. However, I don't think it's crazy to suggest that they have at least some latent representation of the world, and we've seen research and visualizations to suggest as such.

[@JackpotJoe94]

Yup I’m sure you understand it more than Meta, Amazon and Apple spending billions on training chips to get their LLMs and their associate programs ready but because you studied artificial intelligence in 2019 we got you 😂

[@darksidegryphon5393]

I remember Glorbo. I'm excited for Glorbo.

[@veteransniper6955]

You're so smart, are you chatgpt?

[@Andre-qo5ek]

1) we need consumer protection 2) we need to boycott a ton more 3) we need a paradigm shift regarding consumption 4) we need a paradigm shift regarding work/jobs/labor

[@iansantiago6526]

"I don't know what the solutions are but dangit I want em' NOW"

[@custos3249]

Yep. But when was the last time people had the forethought to make the right choice rather than trip over themselves to act against their own interests because ohcatvideo!

[@josecipriano3048]

Maybe we can try not voting for the parties that these corporations have in pocket. Which means, none of the big two, no matter which country one happens to live in.

[@Andre-qo5ek]

@@josecipriano3048 sure... which party is that and what kind of power do these parties have?

[@iansantiago6526]

@@josecipriano3048 The market is who decides that not government lol, silly goose!

[@Psychx_]

Surveillance pricing should be outlawed before it ever becomes a common practice. Better start lobbying at cunsumer protection agencies now.

[@josecipriano3048]

Good luck with that. Big tech is more powerful than the government itself.

[@MichaelSheaAudio]

I'm already sick of AI. All any company ever talks about these days is AI. It needs to be regulated soooooooo badly, and ASAP.

[@tino768]

I've felt the same way about the internet

[@YukBok]

Especially Samsung with it's AI mop, vacuum, washing machine, fridge whatever... like what even is the difference to a normal smart appliance already.

[@100xasd]

Honestly if this happens with retail stores I think I will stop shopping at them. I will visit only stores without AI face recognition as long as they exist, then switch to ordering everything online using tracking blockers.

[@amicaaranearum]

I look forward to the day when I am forced to choose between dystopian retail experiences in brick-and-mortar stores and garbage results online. (Amazon has become practically useless for many product categories.)

[@stonefox2546]

Imagine thinking your online purchases aren't tracked.

[@paulb2768]

Or that there is not already an AI analyzing ever click you make, ever product you take, it'll be watching you.

[@100xasd]

@@stonefox2546 Of course they are tracked, but they are easier to manipulate and your activity can be blocked with extensions!

[@100xasd]

Of course, but you can use browser extension to block those trackers.

[@falsificationism]

Consumerism was already a bankrupt approach to the marketplace, but now they're designing the marketplace to force consumeristic behaviors onto us whether we like it or not. That's next level dystopia...as a pessimist, even I didn't see this coming.

[@iansantiago6526]

@falsificationism Wait till you realize society is doomed to this always is the real black pill😂. Get your country livin' started before it's too late, I sure plan on doing so in the near future....

[@falsificationism]

@@iansantiago6526 Oh yeah, I've been extricating myself for years. At a minimum, don't buy a new surveillance car, keep mobile devices at a healthy distance (or get a dumb phone), grow as much of your own food as you can (even if it's just herbs in a windowsill), and get the hell off of social media!

[@iansantiago6526]

@falsificationism Preach brotha preach!! Gotta get out of this hellhole and make our own communities. It's the only way we'll possibly maintain our sanity. I don't have a computer ATM, so my phone is my PC. Once I get a desktop, I'll be switching over to Dummy phones and never looking back. Good to know you've done the same. Stay safe out there man, time's are ruthless and soul crushing atm....

[@falsificationism]

@@iansantiago6526 Likewise my friend! And p.s. I like your plan! Take good care

[@iansantiago6526]

@falsificationism Thank you too! I'm also starting to get into baking from scratch. I'm tired of super market bread being overpriced and filled with preservatives. And the "organic" section is even more expensive. Such a ridiculously cheap item being driven up by Industrial society, shame really. We may never meet but it's nice to see others are in the know, we'll be ridiculed by literally everyone but God damn is it worth it!

[@weholdparties]

Speaking as a disabled and chronically ill person, none of the things listed in that article need AI to be made and of the things where AI would be integral (describing facial expressions to blind people) it's so far from what a disabled person would actually find useful that it's borderline offensive. It's like when proponents of generated images were arguing that disabled people could use it to make art, when many artists are disabled and can make art just fine without it. What we want is to be listened to, not be told what our needs are or to imply that what we want is to be like able-bodied people. But no one considers our needs even when we state them expressly. The only time people ever really talk about us is when it's to be used as a scapegoat for some useless garbage no one asked for. We're sick of it, frankly, and a good many of us would rather you not talk about us at all if you're not going to include us in the conversation.

[@EroticInferno]

Agreed, 100000%. I love being used as justification for heinous policies. Ableism is assuming I need you, an able bodied person, to speak for me.

[@felixcosty]

AI is not going to help me walk better or give me better meds, Big Pharma will make sure the new meds will require you to use different meds to off set your new meds and so on.

[@israellai]

Sounds like the quintessential silicon valley worldview. Remember sign language gloves? Wanna guess if Deaf people were involved?

[@cardboard952]

i think you're misunderstanding what he meant by AI helping disabled people. AI is used in prosthetics to make robotic limbs more easily and controllable. Neuralink allowed a paralyzed man to control a computer with his brain.

[@weholdparties]

@@cardboard952 I'm not misunderstanding anything, he showed an article with three specific examples of AI being used to "help" disabled people and I was specifically referencing them.

[@WarneD1]

10:29 the moment that Google removed the “Don’t be Evil,” as an official motto they quickly started to charge down that evil path.

[@thesmirkingwolf]

You know it's terrifying, is they control 80% of advertising online, and thus can control the narrative as well

[@JohnDoeRando]

I like how the facial recognition transactions are being marketed as "convenience". I don't WANT anymore convenience, facial recognition or not.

[@TheMik579]

The love of money is the root of all evil.

[@bluephreakr]

No, the absurd idea that something can be owned by claim alone is. It arguably started when humans began speaking more than one language. _Nothing man conceives of the mind is more real, than the very real stuff we create with it to house very fake things._

[@Mitchellfw]

I'm having flashbacks to the "Dilbert" TV cartoon (yes I'm that old of a Millennial) where he walks into a clothing store, and instantly all the floor mannequins and floor displays change to variations of his white shirt, black pants, red tie outfit. He greets the shop assistant to which the man curtly replies "This is all we have, as for as your concerned."

[@DrawinskyMoon]

Facial recognition ≠ convenience What if you’re disabled and you need someone to buy a thing on your behave. Not so convenient anymore is it.

[@ktktktktktktkt]

They can pay for it on the disabled person's behalf and then be reimbursed later. Also pretty sure you could still use existing payment methods. When tap came out, they didn't get rid of swipe or chip and pin.

[@BartoszRodziewicz]

Passing someone your credit/debit card is illegal (at least in EU) so even now that person has to pay with their own money and then get it back from the person who asked them to buy something. Sure the disabled person can still give them cash, but realistically almost everyone uses cards anyway. So payment via your face is not something that creates any new issues here in that sense. Getting rid of the cash is the issue, but even without the facial payments there are some people that wants to remove cash (for better security/fraud detection and so on). Sure facial payment has a lot of its own issues (I'm more than happy with my actual payment method with Google Pay via NFC in my phone and don't wanna change it), but the argument you provided here is not one of them.

[@amicaaranearum]

Nothing companies push is for your own good.

[@jacksonmcquade7888]

​@@ktktktktktktktno, but it destroyed our ability to pay with cash

[@justmoritz]

No, what's going to happen is if you don't comply with ... whatever, your face will just be declined.

[@mrb152]

AI should know that I am very cheap bastard and won't purchase anything unless it is at or below it's historically low pricing.

[@FeronTheRaccon]

AI has already taken the jobs I was promised when I started college. One of the recruiters told me that the jobs they offered in in my freshman year don’t exist anymore since it was cheaper to hire on IT guy to maintain the AI to do the jobs that you used to get out of college. Hell, I had to convince the bosses at my current job not to continue development on an AI that would have replaced me by showing them the errors the AI makes.

[@iansantiago6526]

If that degree was in the arts, fucking yikes you had no chance to ever compete lmao.

[@anthonymichel5278]

Mind sharing what job is that?

[@sunla]

Thank you for speaking with your higher-ups and educating them on the dangers of implementing AI to cut costs. I didn't get that chance, I was cut loose without warning. If I had the chance to express what would go wrong if they replaced peoples' jobs with AI, I would take it in a heartbeat. I wasn't granted that, but some people are able to push back on executive decisions by presenting the facts, and it takes smart executives with an open mind to reconsider, given those facts.

[@abunk8691]

Your comment made me sad as someone job hunting right now after College. Companies seek experienced individuals while also trying to cut costs by trying to ride the AI train and killing off other job positions. Makes me feel conflicted about the state of things since as you said jobs we were promised are being taken away. I'll have to see maybe there's an opportunity to be one of the IT guys that maintains stuff since the Development side is being encroached by AI tools.

[@katarh]

The cycle repeats. They're going to find the jobs that they replaced people with AI are going to not be done as well, nor are going to be done to the standards expected over the long haul. Every few years the next big thing comes along and companies think they can let go of customer service agents, salespeople, programmers, etc. Documentation? Still has to be written by a human being the first time. I work for a small software company, and if I asked ChatGPT to write my software documentation for me, it'd start hallucinating within three sentences because our software is closed sourced and has a small user footprint.... so the only documentation that already exists is what I wrote!

[@tom4ivo]

Convenience is code for "we can force you to pay more". Like when airlines targeted prices based on zip code. It was a service offered as a convenience. Or banks loaned you money automatically when you used your debit card to overdraw your checking account, then hit you with a fee for the convenience, without asking. Convenience comes at a price, even when you don't want it.

[@Evilnor7]

I already delete 98% of what comes into my mailbox because of marketing. Anything new from AI would probably get ignored even if it was something I actually needed.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

I barely even look at my email anymore its full of shit, and I'm buying more stuff in shops rather then online because the online marketplace has gotten too bloated with drop shippers and scam reviews, and I'm using cash more, I advise everyone else to do the same, use it or lose it.

[@LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits]

AI is just like most other big tech. We get dazzled by goofy pictures and music while big corporate analyzes our every move to pick our pockets.

[@feefawfern8240]

Jobs are lost, in all sorts of sectors, and people are arguing if service workers should be allowed to unionize.

[@xtieburn]

The galling thing is that it doesnt really work, at least not as advertised. They already tried the facial recognition thing for shops and it failed, theyve been trying self driving for years and its still really not that close to ready despite repeated lies about how far its come, go back even further and you have the massively over-hyped dictation software that still doesnt do a good job over 30 years later.* Now we have the LLMs but a large part of why they are as good as they are is because of the absurd amount of information theyve brazenly stolen, and there just plain isnt enough left to greatly improve upon what they have. (On the contrary, model collapse looms.) Its the same pattern over, and over, make a break through, explosive growth with sensational headlines and fear mongering, then slam in to a brick wall as the break through hits its limits. Rinse and repeat; This has been going on since before most of us were born. Turing himself massively overestimated how rapidly AI would develop. Thats not to say AI isnt going to change the world, it already has, and not just because of incompetent managers sacking everyone they can to replace them with wholly insufficient technology... In reality its more behind the scenes and frankly insidious. It runs our searches, our social media, when people refer to 'the algorithm' thats AI, it governs much of what you see and hear online, (and usually does as bad a job of it as every other use of AI.) The likes of Facebook already proved it can even manipulate our emotions, without oversight or consequence for doing so. Should have been regulated decades ago, but nobody in charge understands any of this or they just plain dont care as long as lobbyists are filling their wallets, so we have to put up with corporate giants running societal experiments on us all to increase their profit margins; The dystopian future is already in full swing, its just more tedious and annoying than the movies and books told us it would be. *You can actually draw a direct line from the technologies of dictation software right up to ChatGPT. Its a lot more iterative than people imagine. Humans are quite susceptible to being fooled by systems that are easily anthropomorphised.

[@nikolai4828]

I’d say ai has created a wave of really bad quality KZbin essays. Everyone has the ability to have a half baked idea which they can plug into ChatGPT and then just read off a script. Not really worried about being advertised to tbh

[@JustMigi]

My "Resting Grump Face" will be amazing for shopping, if they decide to change prices after facial expressions.

[@amicaaranearum]

5% discount on box wine!

[@lol32scbw]

We all become top tier actors then :)

[@itsmileyy]

Same haha. I always have angry eyebrows in the grocery store because I hate going.

[@philallen7626]

The AI we are being sold isn't the AI of sci-fi. That has been rebranded as artificial general intelligence, and is still very much sci-fi. The AI we have is predictive, based on statistics. Statistics calculated from the training data it has been fed. It then works by taking the input, turning it into numbers. It then calculates the most, or one of the most, likely outputs, which is a string of numbers. Finally, it converts the numbers into words (or chunks of words), pixels in an image, or whatever. The AI doesn't understand its own output, it's just crunching numbers. Which is why hallucinations are such a hard to resolve problem. It's also why it has no problem-solving ability. It can come up with somewhat novel outputs, but can't validate them as being a potential solution or not. TLDR, AI has been massively oversold, and the robot uprising is still decades away.

[@frankboyer1490]

There will be no robot uprising because humans will destroy themselves in other ways before that was even a possibility.

[@nRuaif]

Nooooo, but I want my AI waifu

[@Iam_inevitabIe]

This is exactly the reason these companies were holding the models back but were forced into releasing them when openai was stirring pot and giving them a run for their money

[@app0the]

The robot uprising is decades away indeeds. The corporate assholery shitshow, multiplied by the en masse stupidity, on the other hand...

[@GrumpDog]

That is a false way to view this. A false distinction. The AI we're seeing today, is one more huge step on the path to creating something even better than what's imagined in fictional AI stories. Most AI in fiction, always has a significant flaw or shortcoming, which we're already seeing won't be the case. There are also papers coming out now, which prove LLMs are Turing complete, and even capable of intelligent reasoning as we scale them up and improve their preprompting logic. How you're describing AI, is little more than an outdated skeptic's talking point, and does not hold up. Self improving AIs are merely a year or two away, once agent systems are configured and deployed properly. That's when things will take off. Even if LLMs didn't improve beyond what we have today, they'd still change everything about our world, over their deployment in the next few years. We are a LOT closer than you seem to think. And yes, one can even use LLMs to build a robot that works similar to how we imagine them in fiction. I've actually designed a framework to achieve that, through nothing but self prompting feedback loops, and secondary scripts to manage environment simulation, and organize context memory.

[@stormrideroftheli]

Good video, however I wanted to chime in by saying that there is another serious problem that you didn't mention here: AI-generated photorealistic images. Lately we have seen how these tools that generate images from text have progressed, allowing us to create images that are already indistinguishable from reality, some even without any filtering or censorship allowing us to create images that have the potential to flood the Internet with misinformation and drive our society into chaos. The latest developments in this area are really worrying and these tools continue to improve every day and so does the misuse of them.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Where AI falls apart with trying to sell stuff is when you're impoverished like me and can't even afford the bare necessities 😂😂😂

[@rosar.4293]

Let’s not forget that the ceo of mid journey openly admitting they are incapable of turning a profit without stealing content when confronted about ever providing royalties for the billions of scrapped art they referenced from artists without their consent …

[@Iam_inevitabIe]

Wum chief

[@SlapstickGenius23]

At least he admits plagiarising content without the owners’ permission.

[@adityabohra1482]

AI should be regulated highly and everywhere....

[@RhythmGamer]

We can’t regulate something we don’t fully understand its impact, doing that is how we wind up with horribly written laws like the DMCA and its misuse

[@frankboyer1490]

@@RhythmGamer You don't fully understand how AI steals content and is destroying the planet?

[@RhythmGamer]

@@frankboyer1490 nor do you

[@shenhue7041]

If we aren´t doing it someone else will do...(China/Russia)

[@frankboyer1490]

@@RhythmGamer Oh, I absolutely do because I personally know artists that have been affected by it. The environmental damage it's doing is clear as day. If you're referring to the black box aspect, that's just more reason to regulate it.

[@quboqut]

I think the biggest issue with ai "art" defenders is, they don't get that creativity unlike tech, does not move in a linear line. AI as a tool that would help art "progress?" sounds very naive since art does not really progress but rather change. If I take all tech from the 60s and compare it to tech today, there would be a clear winner. the same can't be said about art. The only thing ai "art" is achieveing is filling up space with meaningless images adding to overexposure and overstimulation

[@app0the]

I could vouch for my own ai "art" use case in a way. Previously when hiring an artist I would have to communicate with them using words, and I'm really awful at sketching. In the end this resulted in a lot of back and forth and a lot of overhead work on the artist's side of things. Nowadays I just spin up an instance of SD, generate something relatively close to what I like, move things around in Photoshop, and basically go like: "composition this, character that, details and style are all your call". The artist then does their job and it's perfectly how I wanted it from the get-go. Unfortunately, most people are cheap or distasteful enough to just call it a day at the photoshop step of this workflow, or even prior to that.

[@mizzle2]

Stuff like this is the reason I have my front camera taped up. I don't need Apple scanning or using my face any more than I'm sure they still do, and certainly not to give me targeted ads. And, I just feel uneasy using my phone while knowing I can be seen constantly, even if no one specifically is watching. Having to take selfies only in the mirror or by taking off the tape every once in a while is worth it!!

[@skeinofadifferentcolor2090]

I did that with my laptop.

[@theToonLink2]

I’d recommend looking into GrapheneOS. It’s a custom Android ROM that’s easy to install on only Google Pixel phones (you can buy a used one if you don’t want to give big G money). You can actually turn off your mic and cameras, as well as being an overall GREAT privacy centric phone operating system. Been using it myself for about 3-4 months, I’ve been loving it! It also doubles in De-Googling yourself and could get you out of the Apple walled garden, two in one!

[@ktktktktktktkt]

By the way, AI "art" is definitionally not art. There is no creative expression. No creative reason for decisions. Just a computer interpreting words and churning out some combination of all the actual art it has seen before.

[@ceritops]

Wouldn't the "words" you're so briefly mentioning be the creative expression and reasons you're talking about? Are books not considered art?

[@ivantim781]

@@ceritops and so isn't photography - you just point your camera, click button and let computer interpret hue, saturation and brightness information

[@iansantiago6526]

Humans do the exact same thing lmao, get your head out of the clouds and face reality. We are just immensely more complicated than LLM's of our time, but efficient enough to fool many into liking it's art.

[@ktktktktktktkt]

@@ceritops If you copy and pasted the same input terms into the engine multiple times, you would get different outputs so if there is any creativity in the writing process, there is no foreseeable impact on the output. Perhaps there is minimal creativity in writing the inputs but it is minimal. Also, American courts agree with me. AI "art" is not copyrightable.

[@jenv.7995]

Yeh it isn’t art by any means, but that’s more a language problem than anything else, as in English “art” is almost synonymus with “ilustration”

[@NeighborhoodBasketCase]

This just incentivizes me to support mom and pop shops that can’t afford this stuff much less would want to use it

[@kamiladankowska5145]

I wonder who would buy all these things when so many jobs will be replaced by ai as well. I have a vision of the world where AI writes books that are “read” only by bots, and creating art that are scanned only by another AI. It already happens when someone use chat gpt to write a tekst that is optimised for algorythm. Computers creating things to be processed by other computer. Yay, what a wonderful new world we live in.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

You can call it a Brave New World.

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

suggested edit: "boot" = a bot that reads a book?

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

Any of us ten years from now: "Hey BookBot, I've heard this book is a good read. Read it for me and tell me if I liked it." 🤣

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

This has already been thought of and commented on in the career YT channels. The brave new vision is for job hunters using an AI job search to use AI to create resumes and cover letters fine tuned to a job description written by an AI, to apply for the job which will be screened out or reviewed by an AI, with faint hope of landing a job training AIs for some HR department at an AI services company.

[@kamiladankowska5145]

@@DrunkenUFOPilot thx, corrected

[@namless3654]

It makes me sad when I hear KZbinrs do ad reads for AI that will literally take their jobs away by generating AI videos

[@CreatingSelfCarePlans]

The face payment scares me because my 14 yo daughter has been able to use her face to login to my PC laptop for a few months now. lol But seriously, I’m not sure I would trust it to know it’s actually me making the purchase.

[@Cynos_3D]

Facial login tools like what you see on your phone are a bit different, they only run locally and the data is encrypted, this isn't supposed to leave your device and if it does it's exclusively for the purposes of security access on devices you've synced together. Facial payment at checkout is a whole other can of worms that ties into a server.. somewhere.. that's when it gets sketchy.

[@mitchib1440]

The face payment thing scares me. If it's as simple as "I look at this camera and money is taken from my account", that basically means that my face is a bank card, right? I wouldn't show my bank cards to anyone. So if someone can flash a camera in my face and use it to make a payment, what's the difference between showing my face and showing my bank cards?

[@vikiai4241]

@@mitchib1440 And when someone inevitably steals your face (or more accurately, the data associated with it), good luck getting a new one issued!

[@franknord4826]

This doesn't even scratch the surface. First of all, the current AI hype is based on LLMs (Large Language Models) which - by definition - have no reasoning ability whatsoever. The best ELI5 take I've heard is "spicy autocomplete", which is *surprisingly* accurate. Despite this, many (possibly even the majority) of "AI" products are advertised as if they *can* reason. Second of all, the already existing problems around AI technology are way, *WAY* worse than what you describe. AI tech is already involved with insurance companies, having likely already made "decisions" that cost lives. Similarly, I know that at least the German government has been using "AI" to classify dialects in spoken language; a process that like all AI is extremely unreliable, yet it's used to decide whether people are given asylum or deported back to places where straight-up terrorist orgs like Daesh/IS or the Taliban are in control. AI has already been killing people for years.

[@franknord4826]

@@ingulari3977 That's both correct and wrong. On one hand, AI programs are *specifically* developed and trained for these purposes. those are definitely problematic in and of themselves. On the other, the field itself arguably isn't at fault - but given how many bad actors it has, even that isn't really a valid point. It's virtually all grifters, surveillance corps and algorithmic discrimination by now.

[@jameskamotho7513]

Calling it corporate FOMO just about sums it up...

[@scampyruffo]

Thank you!!! Finally someone talks about the environmental damage that AI has on the world, not only do I refuse to use it because it steals from artist and people in general but because the environmental damage that it causes is something i do not want to be a part of.

[@Just_a_commenter]

I'll admit that AI _could_ be useful as a tool in medical research. Improving accessibility using AI for people with disabilities is fine by me, too, as is AI giving me more FPS in games by upscaling from a lower resolution... But, beyond that, I loathe AI. I can't count how many times I've gone online, seeking image references when doing art, only to find AI slop *_everywhere._* I don't want some shoddy approximation of what a species can be drawn like that would only pass for a casual observer, I want to see how *actual artists* render characters and species through their individual creative approach - an approach where every line, colour, lighting source, background choice, pose, and so on, is all *deliberate.* Another creative field AI is also a major threat to would be voice acting. I've seen voice actors justifiably raise issue with cretins running their highly trained voice through an AI to make it spit out rubbish the original actor would never say - or things they would have said had they been *paid for it.* We don't need creative fields being automated so we can toil away in miserable jobs. We don't need to have an AI sold to us to do all the work when a pack of pencils and a sketch book is less than $10. We DO need legislation to protect individuals and industries where the upper management would sell the kidney of their top employee for a chicken sandwich... And that's not even touching on how much energy is dumped into AI and the climate impacts associated with funneling so many resources into AI. In short: fuck AI. :3

[@paolosavino22]

The things AI is useful was already been used before this boom. Nvidia dlss has been around since 2021 at least. Ai in medical field was used since befoce Covid. The Ai you refer is Generative Ai. Artificial intelligence algoryhtm have been around since the 80s. We just lacked the computer power to start using them. For example the video surveilance system in China uses Artificial Intelligence, non generative artificial intelligence, since 2018 at least

[@iansantiago6526]

I agree with the environmental costs of running generative and LLM's. It's quite massive(just like the internet itself btw) and people could theoretically do it cheaper. *Theoretically* Because in truth, the arts don't provide *real* value to society. It may provide soul food or inspire someone to shape reality around them, but on it's own as a product, it does *nothing* except carry a burden to society. Now, of course, as a sacred tradition, it can never be eliminated, but there's no reason as to why an AI can't replace it. It's ultimately doing the same task with a different approach. Does it lack intent and meaning? Maybe. But that's subject to the person consuming it, not the creator themselves. And quick tip, a web forum about art would probably do better than a random Google search, especially now with the "slop" filling the scene.

[@julhizantwo2277]

AI still not profitable and when electricity bill increase so does their bottom line. We human so efficient creating stuff off a thin air even an ipad making art have less watt than chatgpt doing math

[@iansantiago6526]

@julhizantwo2277 True, same was true of the internet. But humans have a tendency to go for the easy route, which is why modernism is inevitable even if the costs are readily apparent to anyone who isn't a bumbling re*#(#. At least we get to enjoy "paradise" before it collapses, and this becomes a hellhole.

[@Just_a_commenter]

@@iansantiago6526 I'm probably going to be avoiding Google searches for the time being when it comes to finding art to garner inspiration or understanding from, since it feels like half the image results is just generated rubbish. That said, I do staunchly disagree with your stance that "the arts don't provide *real* value to society." Part of me does question how to perceive the value of anything, but regardless of how you apply value, I'd still disagree that art doesn't provide value to society. Boiling it down to the most transactional side of things, art can be a means of people making a livelihood - skill and talent that people want to pay for to bring life to concepts. Personally, I hope to supplement my income through art in the future, but I've still been doing it for the last 12 years for free. In any case, I'd say economic activity through art poses a value to society. By putting paint to a canvas to produce visuals, ink to paper to create a story, a voice to a microphone to sing wonderful tunes, and other creative avenues, we can create things that resonate with people in so many ways. Yes, the response to a given piece of art is subjective, and not everyone will ascribe the same value to something... But I'd never go so far as to say art provides no value to society as a whole. A sweet song can soothe heartbreak, a fictional story can inspire "what if" scenarios that lead to innovations and further thought, a hand-crafted image can birth a cultural icon to reflect society, and again, much more. Art is a means of creating a snapshot of society for future generations to view, and our way of looking back in time to learn about past periods of humanity. All that has tremendous value to society, and I wouldn't want to leave creativity to an AI to generate a close approximation of what I'd like to see when I can instead get exactly what I want by making it myself, working with others, or paying others to make it for me.

[@stephencoakley]

11:36 As someone who works in the tech industry, yes, this is a big motivator. If we don't invest in A.I., our products get rated lower by sites like Forrester Wave and G2 resulting in less sales for us. We get lower ratings because corporate customers say that A.I. is important to them, so this does reflect customer demand. And customers demand more A.I. because they themselves are in the same corporate world where *they* are also expected to be investing in A.I. and using tools that have it, and so on. It's kind of an absurd self-fulfilling circus of a prophecy.

[@vikiai4241]

Forget pyramid schemes. Self-referential cyclic scams are clearly where the big money is. Name it an Ouroboros scam?

[@lahuk1194]

Beyond the digital crap, all this AI is using a ton of fresh water. Making chips, cooling datacenters, generating power, etc. Thats the real issue.

[@c97f]

Moore's Law is dead, AI isn't going to get that much better than it currently is. The death of Moore's Law means tech products don't improve like they used to.

[@wanderingfido]

Quantum computing is too prone to errors. They are insisting that Superposition is awesome. They're BSing just to keep the venture capital from winking out.

[@vvitch-mist20]

This sounds like a good PSA to wear a mask tbh. Like another added bonus on top of protecting you and others from disease is you don't get scanned by the store and then targeted ads, or increased prices.

[@rom.ya.3799]

In 2040 stores will ban face masks with the same argumentation that youtube uses to ban adblock.

[@martinfiedler4317]

Hirbawi Kufiya sells more stylish "countermeasures" 😉

[@100xasd]

Honestly if this happens with retail stores I think I will stop shopping at them. I will visit only stores without AI face recognition as long as they exist, then switch to ordering everything online using tracking blockers.

[@Elc22]

I believe that some locations in the US are putting face cover bans in place as a "safety measure"

[@cavwhowhathuh]

@@rom.ya.3799 I think North Carolina already passed a bill to ban face masks in public. It’s already started 😢

[@IBx27]

Surveillance pricing should beget the death penalty

[@kahlibrown4909]

Soooo, how does the whole facial recognition payment thing work for identical twins? You randomly lose money from your bank account because your sibling went out for groceries?

[@ombrablu7155]

there are also people, who aren't twins and live in different places in the world, that look almost exactly identical by pure chance. There are people who change drastically after weight gain or loss, illness or surgery. Even just some very eleborate makeup might be able to trick it, if someone puts in the effort to pass for someone else (something like those people who kinda look like some celebrity and use makeup to enhance the similarities even more). I feel like there are too many variables for this technology to be reliable.

[@Xamry]

I hate location services, too To enable it it only takes one button. To disable it I have to tell it that yes I’m sure I want you to disable it.

[@dupre7416]

Speaking of AI, this comment section is loaded with attractive young women saying how much they love your content. I don’t know what game they’re playing. I assume you aren’t paying for this “service”.

[@amicaaranearum]

If you click their profiles, you’ll see they’re mostly sexbots. But sometimes they are just building a history so that they can later be used to scam.

[@festivalkyrie]

How the hell every CEO decided to watch every dystopian movie and be like " Hmmmm that economy is in a deep crisis, people are suffering, Earth is trashed, we should reproduce that!" " With the cool neon lights, right?" " ESPECIALLY THE COOL NEON LIGHTS MATTHEW!"

[@xg2513]

My main beef is that AI will just be used to eliminate everything creative in society and force workers to only be used for menial labor because tech bros don’t believe that creatives are real jobs and they’d rather auto generate music and art. Ai could be used for so so so much good but instead it’s just being used to delete creativity or get people to spend more money. It makes me mad. We could automate tough labor , or use AI to eliminate human mathematical errors. But instead , we are using it to destroy creativity , sell us garbage , and spy on each other. I had to use AI based tech to check into a walk in clinic and it couldn’t even get my insurance information correctly and I ended up being charged a copay because the ai inputted my insurance wrong. We have a long way to go. And it’s being forced on everyone when nobody likes it besides the randomly generated memes. Beyond memes nobody I know likes it , everyone hates it.

[@kurtramos9190]

The courts in the U.S. just ruled that AI is allowed to practically plagiarize books posted online for free...but us humans aren't allowed to have The Internet Archive in its current state!

[@s.e.n3264]

I know exactly how to deal with it... "Commander! Throw it out the airlock."

[@mcbridehunter162]

We truly are the primitives.

[@EnbyGaemer2005]

I can see it now. Checkout camera sees femme face, in pain, buying tampons and midol. Suggests chocolate, increases price 20% on all three items.

[@xXNekou]

As an artist (full-time tattoo artist) I want AI to do my taxes for me and help me with chores/my health, NOT "draw" for me, because the drawing, creative parts are actually what I LIKE about my job and don't need them to be done by mindless AI. Making art and being creative is such an important human activity, why make it soulless and passionless by giving it away to a robot?

[@frankboyer1490]

Levi, how do you not cover the other huge problem of theft and job loss? Artists have had their content stolen and companies have been laying people off in favor of AI.

[@nukadog1969]

Sufficiently targeted, advertising becomes information. Fortunately, we see places like Amazon recommending an air conditioner to you immediately upon buying one from Amazon, so they've got a long road.

[@skeinofadifferentcolor2090]

As a crocheter I am very aware of how AI is already destroying small designers by promoting products that can't be done. At least not in a way that makes it look exactly like the AI image. Well, there is a new yarn subscription service called Hooks and Needles, and it uses 100% AI generated images and reviews on their website. So many yarn-based KZbinrs are already being sponsored by that company and they will feature that yarn, the projects, and everything else on their channel. I don't think I have ever seen a yarn-based subscription company have that much of an impact on multiple types of yarn related channels. It is completely suspicious to me, especially when you take into consideration how many yarn-based subscription companies have had to shut down their websites recently.

[@squiddyy21]

AI has done so much more harm than good for me as an artist. I would love for you and the Future Proof team to talk more about AI generated images and its harm against real artists. This includes the animation & games industry and how there have been constant layoffs-- possibly due to AI!

[@iansantiago6526]

The market doesn't care about humans. It cares about the work. If you can't adapt sucks to suck!! Unless, of course, you want authoritarian measures to FORCE people into your market....

[@RhythmGamer]

Like most things people are people, not everyone really is hyper focused on what when into the art. They just want the art. If you don’t want to use AI to be more efficient then don’t use it. Simple as that. But it’s a bad look to be fighting the freedom of the average consumer to make there own art regardless of the quality of output, more of fatigue of the cost people charge

[@squiddyy21]

@@RhythmGamerI don’t think people should avoid using AI altogether, but it shouldn’t be stealing real human jobs- especially jobs that are so vulnerable and creative like art! But if you rather mindlessly watch AI generated videos that look like a fever dream, you do you, kid. I’m not stopping you.

[@sunla]

The AI bros really don't know what they're talking about. They think it's liberating for them. They think they're leveling the playing field. The playing field was level -- they just chose not to invest in learning the skill. They think their ideas make them special. They also think that they're entitled to scam people with their glorified grift machines. It's really hard to argue with people who are this disconnected from reality. Stealing data using a non-profit organization, under the guise of "for education", twisting the meaning of "education" to be synonymous with machine learning, then implementing a fun trick in their ML model to employ a mechanism called "overfitting" in order to force the output to be different from a single existing image (to skirt direct plagiarism), then selling models with their datasets (containing copyrighted work) to be used for commercial purposes to REPLACE the people that were stolen from... AI bros... It IS factually harmful, AI companies and its userbase are wrong -- it's not fair use, and no amount of data laundering will be enough to gaslight your victims into believing they were in the wrong.

[@RhythmGamer]

@@squiddyy21 regardless of AI if you get a start a career in art your not promised a job forever. Literally every private sector job has not grantee. When you job is dependent on the consumer market you have to adapt to the consumer. Sucks that some people lose there job but that happens all the time. Everyone continues to move on, you have to keep worrying about your self like everyone else does.

[@darthnick77]

Generative AI is solving NOTHING. PERIOD.

[@Ryanblairfolk]

I'm so stupidly early for this it feels wrong.

[@austingrammon9367]

Same

[@cristianflorinanghel2833]

We in this together bro

[@papciuszkin]

Don't worry. The video is Future Proof so nothing would happen even if you were late

[@giglioflex]

A lot of these issues stem from the fact that we still don't have a regulatory framework for data privacy or many of the problems computers have introduced into our life. Now that AI is rolling around, those issues are even more exaggerated. It should be illegal for any company to gather any data about you without explicit consent unless said data is required to do business (in which case the data should only be stored and used the minimum amount of time required to do said business unless the customer consents otherwise). It should be illegal for them to buy, sell, or store data about you without consent. They should be required to allow anyone to request their data be deleted at any time they wish. There should be strict rules in regards to the security of data that is collected, stored, and especially sold. There needs to be serious consequences for companies that fail to meet data security standards. I could go on but these are things that should have been in place before AI became a thing. Now regulators are going to have to also write up rules regarding AI, in particular how it impacts data security (AI can scrape and compute a massive amount of data), IP (AI models are trained on other people's data), ect.

[@dontgivetwothwips3615]

I needed a reference photo for a lion this morning. Most of the images that came up were AI generated 😡

[@bluephreakr]

When I called AI an information-age nuclear-scale weapon, I believed myself to espouse hyperbole. How right on the mark I was with those words when I first compared AI to nuclear arms. How… _disappointing._ Not only has it removed low-skill labour, it also is sucking every drop of water we've got to keep the AI accelerators we use cool. It's abuse of resources is akin to that of Minecraft, except unlike a video game; throwing every resource into this has real-world consequences.

[@willemvanriet7160]

AI is a gimmick People want more actual reality, not virtual reality

[@seri-ously8591]

Need to make a point that the AI the medical industry use DOES NOT use the same data set nor models that OpenAI and all of the other techbro companies does. The biggest confusion aibros seems to try and justify the exploit from these companies is that medical industry uses it but ignores the big glaring issue that the model these medical companies and studies use aren't even the same as what OpenAI even do. Medical industry uses NLP (Natural Language Processing) and not LLM (Large Language Models), both models differ because NLP is used for specific data hence why it has use in detecting illnesses via xray references. While LLM which is what every AIbro only refer to when AI is mentioned and that is only used for the barebottom tasks because it cannot discern specificity and nuance.

[@prod.mxmo_mk9]

1:35 theres only one beer left

[@JohnDoesSports]

Wouldn't you be able to just print out a picture of someone else's face to drain their bank accounts if face recognition is going to be used as a payment method?

[@vikiai4241]

For best results, scrape your alt-faces from the supermarket's board of directors profile pictures on their web site. 😀

[@Immudzen]

I am so glad I live in Germany right now where this stuff has basically made no inroads and all and I think a lot of it is just straight up illegal.

[@TomGreen99]

Just wait until Bi.

[@FutureProofTV]

the Bi agenda 😔😔

[@Iam_inevitabIe]

What is Bi

[@vikiai4241]

@@Iam_inevitabIe The next stage after AI. Twice as useful (note: usefulness score involves multiplication of a negative number).

[@KateeAngel]

CI DI EI FI GI HI II

[@roysoutdoorlife]

The answer would appear to be along the lines of; be yourself - not who they want you to be and don't worry about what others think of you. If you don't want the latest 'thing', don't buy it just to keep up with your neighbour. Let them waste their money whilst you enjoy your life, your way.

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

Alright, pack it up fellas, time to go live in a small cottage in the remote wilderness. We're taking the 'reject modernity, embrace tradition' phrase to the max.

[@richardlin2359]

Techie here. I think there isn't enough emphasis on the biggest problem with AI, and it's summarized with the Dead internet theory. TL;DR most of the internet is automated bots and computer generated content, and AI will learn from AI generated content and progressively get worse like photocopying a photocopy.

[@veteransniper6955]

Won't work. Ai agents, applied to real tasks generate new data based on real world. Regarding polluting of the internet, it's already happened with far less sophisticated tools or even without any tools.

[@handanyldzhan9232]

​@@veteransniper6955Saw several news articles suggesting that AIs become inbred and generate progressively less coherent content as they train with each other's output.

[@app0the]

@@ingulari3977 that AI probably read a reddit thread where someone was being sarcasting or just playing jokes. The problem is that it was not tuned to understand sarcasm or jokes, so there you go!

[@PXAbstraction]

There is nothing "intelligent" about AI. It doesn't think. It's extremely fancy and advanced auto complete.

[@Verusik97]

As a data analyst student, building a machine learning algorithm for a company right now, i just want to say: AI is not evil, it is a powerful and amazing tool, it is not AI that's hurting us and the environment, it is how humans decide to use it. And that stands for any innovative idea and tool, it is that us, humans decide to exploit it in the most destructive way.

[@desmondandrews8397]

Human nature is on trial.

[@TheYoungSupernova]

lol was the elephant scream kendrick lamar? 1:46

[@chadestioco]

Facial recognition for payment is not only invasive, it is also a terrible idea. Biometrics (facial recognition, fingerprint scanning) is your username, not your password! Think about it: people see your face everywhere, you leave your fingerprints lying all over the place, etc. Just as you are supposed to see usernames BUT NOT passwords. So if you can "pay with your face" you basically gave them more than just your money (also your privacy, getting your face tracked) for less security (you are not supposed to fork over cash with only a username)! Terrible proposition all over.

[@dichotomae]

I'm wondering if I can basically steal people's debit cards just by holding up a photo of them to the scanner lmao

[@ChipJam]

Bluefetch sounds like the name of an embarrassing medical condition.

[@dy9955]

If only we had some kind of sustainable, reliable, environmentally friendly power source. Like Nuclear power. 👍🏻

[@mysterychemical]

Use all the data that developers and creators have done over the years, train AI, and use it against same developers and creators. Who are benefitting? Obviously, tech giants like Ad........

[@SocksAndPuppets]

What's this "one thing nobody's talking about" you promised at the start? Everyone's talking about all of these things...

[@ecoconatus8089]

Don't forget AI used to map out and discover oil and gaz reserves with incredible accuracy. Asked Chat two days ago to guess my OCEAN and MBTI personality based on previous conversations only. Was really good at it. Incredible amount of power if used by a few to control

[@josephdiamzon436]

This is the most informative and useful channel I have ever seen. There is a channel that breaks down police videos and a channel that criticizes chefs, they have millions of followers. I wonder why this channel is not even reaching a million?

[@CedroCron]

It's the Dot Com bubble all over again but way bigger!

[@Swimdeep]

Well done Levi. Your topic timeliness is epic.

[@amanitamuscaria5863]

Imagine getting popup ads on your phone while it's in your pocket. Imagine how quickly phones ownership will drop.

[@edd9581]

you mean xiaomi phones?

[@app0the]

This is literally 90% of PUSH notification traffic these days, and I don't see it making a notch in the phone ownership numbers

[@clray123]

All this AI bubble crap is based on the misguided idea that consumers will accept it. Dumb as they are on average, I do not see most people willing to accept these "solutions" in any way, shape or form.

[@GrubbsandWyrm]

They ruined power director with shoving ai down our throats

[@wintersprite]

I just got the 2024 PD on my new laptop. Had PD 10 on my other laptop. I hate the CoPilot thing even more. I have Win 11 Home but still see it pop up.

[@GrubbsandWyrm]

@@wintersprite I'm doing kdenlive now. Good program

[@evelioguaperas]

Wait, AI doesn't stand for Anonymous Indian?

[@michaelkirouac3680]

We’re just nudging ourselves towards a dystopian future and every step is touted as being ‘more convenient.’

[@niccoatze]

Your work is SUPERB

[@familythomas2828]

Its actually impossible for AI to create art. Art is creative expression. AI is incapable of creative expression

[@why-m3g]

AI will be able to express creativeness. (In 2084)

[@stanleykachuik2589]

That explains how I've noticed the price tags on the shelves have become digital in the last few months. The price now changes as i approach the product. I'ma hire a homless personal shopper 😅

[@amicaaranearum]

Plus it makes them easier to jack up all prices due to “inflation.”

[@spicywater123]

I'm impressed at how you missed every single major threat from this technology and you managed to do it with a smile the whole time.

[@MatthewJBD]

I used it to make a recipe from what was in my fridge and talk me through making it. It was excellent and intuitive.

[@directActionGaming-4u]

Future Proof: "I'll depress the hell out of you every single week." Me: ......... subbed.