AI stopped being a good thing

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At first, AI was a good thing. It made a lot of heavy, repetitive tasks easier. It was used as an aid. But over time that changed and, from my point of view, it has poisoned the internet, for the following reasons:

  1. Fake news: Not everything you see on the internet now is true. You can generate anything you can imagine using AI. How about a video of a famous person doing whatever you want? It’s possible from a simple prompt, and we see this all day long on social media. It’s what generates the most engagement at the moment.
  2. The way we search for things has changed: before, if you were looking for something, you’d go straight to Google. But nowadays, people want convenience and speed and go straight to AI. But not everything there is true. I’ve noticed that when AI doesn’t know something, it won’t be honest and say it doesn’t know. It will simply guess an answer, without worrying about any consequences or harm that this might cause.

On the other hand, some AIs are more careful with the content they generate. Some refuse to modify images to include a logo, a person’s face, among many other unethical things.

I believe that AI in excess often causes backlash. Since we’re in a gaming forum, I’ll give a gamer example. How about NVIDIA’s DLSS 5?

There have also been several other examples of “digital influencers” (who don’t exist as physical people) posting on social networks as if they were real people, with the aim of making money from special, made‑to‑order photos and videos.

And you? What do you use AI for, and why?

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A relevant and necessary topic. I’ve never been a fan of AI. I’ve used it, unfortunately, for academic work, and I feel like crap because of it. If you let it, AI does everything for you, shrinking your whole cognitive capacity. There are colleagues who are losing their ability for logical reasoning and coherence, because AI already puts the argument together, already writes the text (you just have to cut out whatever looks bad).

The future will belong to people who keep the ability to write their own texts. And to think for themselves.