anarchy79

A pretty good one. I mean we're running out of them, google isn't very helpful anymore, and DDG is just a frontend...

100%. And it's dangerous as fuck. I am very aware, I dedicated my whole life to communicating through text, with computers, with humans, with myself, I studied philosophy and cognition and language and semiotics and computing and coding, so I'm at a tremendous advantage, and I have noticed that I have started talking a bit more like AI over the past few years.

Like, lie with dogs, get fleas.

Imagine if they decided that they will adjust the morality of the AI, to, let's say, just be a little bit more favorable towards the concept of "white genocide" in South Africa, and the global effects you could see in sentiment. You think Facebook is bad? In ten years we are going to have a seriously big fucking problem with a handful of people truly controlling what people think. They already do, but this one is a game changer.

Sorry for rambling.

I repeat myself but, and this might even sound elitist, but if you're an academic, you will have exponentially greater use of AI than if you ain't.

You get what you put. So if you put effort and know how to communicate and know coding and know what's going on, you're gonna have a better time than if you don't. But still, that said, you have to be very careful because it is so comforting, humans are very susceptible to praise and flattery, we want to be lured in, we let ourselves be fooled, like a magic trick.

If you know it's happening you have some defense, imagine all the people who don't and get lost. but I suppose that's the danger with anything really. Make sure you don't get screwed over, as best you can. Sorry for rambling, I have a lot of thoughts on many matters, and I think it's important that we talk about these things so we can figure it out together.

That's how I feel right now and that's that!

I get high when I stare at a terminal screen nonplussed for hours and suddenly it clicks and I fix it.

That's a rush for me.

That's what I've been saying too. AI is very much what you put in you get out. If you actually know what you're doing, it's a great little shortcut tool*. Ask stupid questions win stupid prizes, kind of.

* for SOME tasks - terms and conditions apply

I'd miss it a bit. Not a coder by any stretch of the imagination, just scripter, and honestly AI has become a search engine and a quick answer machine and it's ridiculous people pretending that it's useless.

Is it evil? Yes. Does it enrich billionaire oligarchs? Yes. Should we stop using it? Yes.

But you can't pretend it's not useful.

It causes autism.

Memes! We are just joking, guys!

I like how you think and I am here for it.

They own the prison system.

I am with you all the way, buddy.

Ironic!