i was under the impression that were explicitly against genAI but i found that some people are actually VERY pro genai and quite dismissive of its risks. this happened on lemmy but i saw people getting downvoted for saying that genAI in its current state is harmful to the environment. i saw the old bullshit of how ”i use AI for art because i cant draw”, it was crazy. i called someone a Promptitute and someone unironically told me not to say that, just so much. so can everybody pls affirm you dont support that crap.

another user straight up admitted that they use AI as a friend and to gn to… i dont care how much we have in common ideologically, i cant support you gning to chatgpt and thinking its your friend…

  • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    15 days ago

    Fair enough, if it works for you and you’re aware of the downsides (which you seem to be, contrary to most users); two things I haven’t even mentioned though are the power/environmental costs (obviously) but also the potential cognitive impact.

    You say it doesn’t change much compared to when you were parsing the reddit comments yourself; doesn’t it ? how sure are you “wasting” time parsing these comments wasn’t exercising an important muscle mentally for you (getting the jist of a text rapidly - excluding braindead content quickly, etc.) ?

    Here the example is pretty ridiculous - I doubt your mental faculties depend much on parsing reddit comments - but you get the idea. It’s very early to tell but several papers now suggest the negative cognitive impact is very real and potentially very fast.

    • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      how sure are you “wasting” time parsing these comments wasn’t exercising an important muscle mentally for you (getting the jist of a text rapidly - excluding braindead content quickly, etc.) ?

      Idk, pretty sure, since i feel the “is the lying machine lying to me or is it accurate” appraisal is about the same exercise and there’s also the fact that an absolutely disgustingly large portion of reddit comments are themselves being made by llms now (as every single anti bot measure reddit ever uses only impacts real people, apparently)

      Edit: Thank you for the concern though btw but if you ever do notice me exhibiting cognitive decline it is almost definitely gonna be a combination of the alcoholism, drug use, contraindicated drug use, and general medical decline