r/MurderedByWords • u/Extreme-Slice-1010 • 2h ago
We survived without AI for centuries
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u/pchlster 2h ago
My only uses of AI have been involuntary; I didn't pick for Google to do an AI summary on every search or a product website to replace a listing of specs with a bot you could ask about the specs.
Can I do those things still? Apparently, much better than a lot of folks who need a computer to help them out.
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u/Jeremiad-Kain 2h ago
Ugh yes I feel exactly the same. I don't WANT Google's AI summary that is wrong about half the times I've bothered to read it. If I wanted conflicting answers to the same question the reddit link is right there underneath it.
I also didn't ask them to phase out their perfectly functional Google assistant feature for their new AI version that does the same job but worse while using more resources.
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u/Patient-Pin-1925 1h ago
Literally if AI ceased to exist tomorrow morning, the internet would just be a better experience for almost everyone lol.
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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 1h ago
I used to use Google assistant to do one thing, set timers while cooking.
Then they forced AI into the matter, so I started doing it manually again.
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u/Jeremiad-Kain 1h ago
I used to do that too. Used to be a simple matter of tapping my phone and telling it to set a timer. Now it's literally quicker and easier to just do it manually.
But what I really miss, is upon getting lost because of construction and my dogshit sense of direction I could tap my phone and ask it for directions to wherever I'm going and actually get them without ever taking my eyes off the road. Now it's a huge fucking ordeal that usually means I need to pull over.
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u/marsgreekgod 53m ago
I was trying to google how fast people run in the snow for a book I was working on, and googles ai steps in to say they run 23 miles per hour in the snow
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u/thesacralspice 1h ago
you can disable the AI summary by typing "-ai" at the end of your query
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u/strumndrum 37m ago
Funny enough, the top comment on relevant reddit posts are considered by Google ai when it is answering something
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u/Andy016 1h ago
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u/CaptainHubble 1h ago
Nice. How does it work tho? I don’t get shown results that have been created by AI? Like some article?
Edit: nvm. Found it
We provide settings that allow you to customize how much or how little AI you want as a part of your DuckDuckGo experience. In addition, we also provide a version of DuckDuckGo Search that automatically turns all AI features off and filters out as much AI-generated content as possible (as best we can).
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u/IllustratedInk 2h ago
I haven’t needed AI to accomplish a single thing ever. Can everyone stop being insane yet?
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u/static_func 2h ago
AI has rapidly taken over software development. It’s a fucking endless arms race of slop grenades. Companies everywhere force their devs to start using it, including their most incompetent ones, and those incompetent ones are sure good at just shitting out mountains of nonsensical code that doesn’t actually do what’s desired but just enough to pass a round of QA testing. You practically need AI just to navigate all their AI slop. In the right hands it’s great, but too many developers turn it into a complete shit show
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u/Glaggablagga 2h ago
I had never heard the term "slop grenade" previously and had to look it up. Thank you for introducing me to it. What a great modern aphorism.
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u/kuemmel234 2h ago edited 2h ago
For me the issue is actually how well it does if you know your stuff.
If you bombard an issue with AI credits, you'll produce shit, yes; but if you still own the code, and treat it as if you review an interns code? We got faster and I still find stuff by hand just like before. The only real downside is that code turns into instant legacy (because no one wrote it like before, so we all forget it quicker). But that's true for any core beyond a few months, so the downside isn't that hard to solve. You still need to know what you are trying to do.
So, for software development it's a step forward. But it's like giving pocket calculators to students: you have to make sure that they think for themselves enough, that the calculator only does the big calculations and they are still able to solve the actual problems.
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u/Top-Equivalent-5816 1h ago
It’s way beyond software at this point. It’s in 3D modeling, UI design, product management (yes your BRD is mostly AI and you know it), presentations, animation, film, and more each day.
No one person has the capacity to track what’s happening in adjacent fields. It’s moving way too quickly.
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u/tehlemmings 1h ago
I disagree that no one can keep up, but I'm also the security engineer who's responsible for managing this nightmare lol
I really don't mind AI as long as it's not used for anything creative or interpersonal... Which is 90% of what it gets used for. But I look forward to a future where we're not dealing with hourly zero days.
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u/Pwacname 58m ago
Stupid question - what do you think it’s really useful for? Because I am well aware I am deeply biased against the whole “AI” stuff, especially seeing just about everything the general public uses LLM chat bots and “AI” video generators for.
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u/just2commenthere 50m ago
It’s really useful for pattern recognition in large sets of data. That can be useful for a lot of things, from research to determining trends. It’s a hammer, it can be used to build things, fix things or kill things. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Debisibusis 48m ago
I can get a year of work done in 1-4 weeks. Mostly coding and research.
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u/JHMfield 49m ago
Medical research is probably the #1 value. And solving some weird math problems.
Writing code with it is like asking to solve a problem we never had anyway. People used to know how to code anything they wanted. AI's benefit is a purely situational, occasional speed boost in coding.
But in medical research it can do stuff no human ever could. That should be AI's primary use. To do stuff humans literally can't do. Boosting situational efficiency is utterly worthless under capitalism as any savings will simply be consumed by endless growth requirements anyway.
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u/thatpotatogirl9 30m ago
What it comes down to in my opinion as someone who refuses to use it outside of extremely rare excel assistance at work is that when used properly (as in double check everything and/or treat it like an intern who can't operate independently) in a handful of fields that depend on or require computer coding, it's an incredible tool in the hands of a discerning user. But it's getting pushed into a bunch of areas where it's actively causing harm and getting pushed to so many people for so many things that it causes harm to the environment and communities around it simply by existing.
If we took a responsible approach to how we use it and didn't push it so aggressively, I doubt it would be nearly as much of a problem. But no, we have to push it into creative fields and education because profit I guess
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u/Sennten 1h ago
Youre ignoring the real downside, that being what its doing to the supply of people who "know their stuff".
Which is pretty much cutting it off completely. Not exactly good for the field as a whole.
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u/kuemmel234 50m ago
That's what I was arguing in my last paragraph. AI, in its current form, should be thought of as calculators in the hands of students, that means that you've got to have students in the first place.
That management thinks they can get rid of their engineers is an issue (as is the waste of resource)bis a bit outside of what I was discussing.
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u/TheNorthComesWithMe 28m ago
if you still own the code, and treat it as if you review an interns code
You're going to burn out if you try this.
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u/GandalfTheEnt 2h ago
I use it to code and find it great but I think you hit the nail on the head. You need to be proficient enough to know how to guide the AI through what you want it to do step by step, and to spot mistakes and bad design choices it can make.
I feel bad for anyone getting into the industry. It's a lot more difficult to learn coding to a high level now that it's easier to just have the LLM do it for you.
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u/FluffySmiles 1h ago
It makes a crapload of design mistakes. All the time. It’s just like dealing with overseas outsourcing, except it’s faster and cheaper. But essentially the same.
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u/Jesusland_Refugee 1h ago
Now the offshore "assets" are just using AI to do everything anyway.
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u/static_func 1h ago
I wish you were kidding. I’m having to manage an influx of PRs from those “assets” these days
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u/hermi1kenobi 1h ago
I’m 50 so all my friends are at the top of their knowledge game so to speak and this is what they all say, particularly lawyers. It’s fantastic at the grunt work but you need to be knowledgable to catch the multiple mistakes, just as you would with trainees. Harvey is amazing as long as you are good enough to catch the mistakes. Quite what that translates into in 5-10 years time when no one‘s trained any expensive trainees so there’s no mid level lawyers left to catch the mistakes I don’t know. I guess the assumption is that we really are all being replaced.
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u/tehlemmings 1h ago
The business assumption is that we can train people later.
Like, that's the solution to the knowledge collapse that's being set up: "We don't need to train young people now, because we can train them in the future when it becomes a problem"
The unspoken part was "they'll be desperate for lower pay then"
Yes, it's incredibly short-sighted
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u/kryonik 1h ago edited 56m ago
I work in IT and I've used it to write a few little batch files or SQL queries to save some time but I usually have to go back and fix it anyways.
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u/gb4efgw 1h ago
Documentation is where I've found it most useful as a Sys Admin. I've created prompt "rules" so I kind of tell it what I'm doing, it asks me questions and pushes me as I work through a process so I'm thinking through things better and being questioned then at the end I have a skill I created for generating all related documents and importing it into my documentation system of choice.
That being said, I could stop using it tomorrow and go right back to what I did for 20 years before AI was a thing.
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u/IrritableGourmet 1h ago
I'm a developer and I mainly use AI to rewrite emails to sound less angry.
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u/Subpxl 1h ago
Now feed your AI model a read only copy of your database and any source code you have available for your ERP and ancillary tools. Tell AI to digest it all and learn how it all works together. Marvel in absolute fucking awe the next time a user comes to you with an insane situation that would have taken you all day to solve on your own as it lays out exactly who fucked up and where, providing receipts, all within minutes.
That was my latest move and life has never been better. The project I created has a wealth of knowledge that could only be developed over a lifetime of working here. Furthermore, it catalogs every issue it helps me solve into a knowledge base doc for documentation, auditing, and future proofing. I'm not being dramatic: there's no reason to ever go back to the way it was for me.
This is the current state of IT support, software development, and the future of pretty much every line of work that is diagnostic heavy. I can't wait to see how this revolutionizes the medical industry. My wife has some incredible specialists for her very serious and complicated medical issues. As good as they are, there are a few gaps: communication between offices is minimal and clunky at best, and transition of care resets everything whenever one of her doctors retires or leaves the practice. I'd like to feed an AI model everything we have in her charts, her past and future bloodwork, related medical journals, and see what we come up with when we look at her medical issues from every angle at once instead of specialist by specialist. It's an easy way to add supplementary care.
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u/tehlemmings 1h ago
Crunching logs. Holy shit LLMs are good at crushing logs for me.
100k+ lines of technical bullshit, it'll highlight the standouts for inspection
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u/Slimeredit 1h ago
And the ultimate plan is to make it so it’s so engrained and relied on that the gen AI companies can charge whatever price they want so people can access and use their programs because it’s so tied to everything there’s no other choice it’s kind of like how photoshop started out as a one time purchase but then went on to become a subscription based service granted the people paying the large prices for photoshop are usually schools and educational institutions or large companies and you can just pirate it but that’s not the case with gen AI
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u/Boco 1h ago
If I had AI stop trying to confidently give me wrong answers 40% of the time on Google searches I would be sooo happy. That's my main interaction with AI and it sucks.
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u/colemon1991 1h ago
Before I blocked AI results on search engines, AI wasted my time answering badly or about something completely different.
So really if AI disappeared tomorrow I'd have more free time not second-guessing slop.
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u/thehermit14 1h ago
Can you prevent AI on Google?
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u/Captincorpse 1h ago
Sort of, when I was still using Google, I was using uBlock to block the AI. You could either use the element blocker or search around for someone else that posted their own blocking list. The simpler way would be to start using another search engine, I switched to Duckduckgo and they have options to turn off everything AI. So far it seems to be just fine, reminds me of Google but like 10 years ago, you just have to be a little more specific in your searches
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u/squish042 1h ago
I’m a programmer and I don’t even use it every day. Sometimes I use it a lot to improve my efficiency, but I don’t NEED to. it actually makes my work more inefficient if I use it too much.
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u/ThisWillTakeAllDay 1h ago
Without AI, how do you waste your day trying to get a simple task done?
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u/ElegantCoach4066 2h ago
I don't think that guy is in any way representative of most people that use LLMs.
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u/SubjectSigma77 2h ago
It’s anecdotal, but I have two friends in engineering that are able to competently for projects they’re working on. But it’s for simple little shit or concepts that they can expand upon themselves. Idk if they use it for their actual work, but they do for personal projects.
But for those two, I know a girl who asks it what she should do with her day when she doesn’t know, a girl who uses it for hours at a time having it map out a plan of her life, not even her plan, she lets it make it for her. A dude who uses it as a girlfriend, and is constantly talking about it all while slowly hating actual women more. And several people who just talk to it all the time and talk about it like it’s their best friend.
In my personal life, there’s some people using it competently for the amazing tool it is, but there’s even more people who use it in unhealthy ways. And I think the unhealthy parts of AI is often what it’s advertised to do because the market for that is much larger.
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u/LittleBigHorn22 1h ago
Theres honestly so many parallels between ai and the internet. The internet itself has provided some amazing things, but we also have doomscrolling and other horrible things come out as well.
What it all means is hard to say, but it absolutely isn't just going to stop. Its also not as simple as saying companies are forcing it just because they think they should.
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u/thatpotatogirl9 41m ago
Right?! Like, the only change that would make for my life is that work will need to pay for a couple of extra hours of me reading articles and posts trying to find info on niche excel tools I can't get to work like 3 times per year. Big whoop.
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u/soulsteela 26m ago
Cheers I was feeling lonely 👍
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u/IllustratedInk 12m ago
❤️ have an awesome day! someone loves you. It’s not me but someone does. I like you though… you jumped right in
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u/Gornarok 50m ago
I havent needed it, but sometimes it makes stuff faster, especially basic computer stuff. Im EE, Im not programmer, I do some scripting, I use linux for work, I do some data postprocessing. AI can help with those, but its definitely not a requirement...
Actually my favorite usage is taking YT cooking recipe and asking AI to write it step-by-step...
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u/Robert_Kurwica 35m ago
damn you're better than me, i needed it once.
i mean how else am i going to waste thousands of company dollars ragebaiting a piece of software at no cost of my own?
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u/herbfriendly 2h ago
I’m from the pre-internet days, and am still in awe at the amount of information that is available on it. If you have access to all that info, and still can’t get by without AI, that says a lot about you…and it’s not very flattering.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 2h ago edited 59m ago
Sometimes I imagine going back in time to my 40-years-ago self and explaining how much porn is instantly available in a single session today, and watch 40-years-younger-me's head explode.
"Wait... So you don't have to drive to the video rental store first? Then pick out one tape based on the misleading pictures on the box, pay $5 (=$15 inflation-adjusted), drive back home, be utterly disappointed at what grainy, blurry video was actually on the tape (because the misleadingly sharp box photos were taken with a still/film camera) but not be able to just quickly switch to one of the other tapes available at the video rental store? And still have to drive back there the next day to return the tape? You get to just sit in front of your computer with 3 gigantic crystal clear monitors and call up whatever sort of porn you decide you want at that very second for free? And if that one doesn't entertain you enough, you can then switch to whatever other porn existing anywhere on earth you think you might like at that moment?"
I don't think 40-years-ago me would be able to grasp how there can still be any unhappiness left for any man today.
"Who cares if you work a shit job and have to ride the bus to get to work? When you get home, you have the ultimate porn machine!"
Well, actually, it's not really limited to just at home. You see, when we're out somewhere, or riding the bus, we also have these little screens we bring with us that...
And then kaboom. Head just explodes.
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u/VaguelyArtistic 2h ago
People in my local subs will ask things like, “Is business X open on Sundays?”
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u/elitegenoside 2h ago
Mine is even weirder. "Why was the smoothie king at X closed? Is something going on?" Like, man, we don't know... there was probably a sign on the door that could answer that question better than random people on reddit (a lot of people on my city sub don't even live here).
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u/___coolcoolcool 2h ago
I’ve used Claude twice. In my life.
That’s the full extent of my AI exposure.
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u/VaguelyArtistic 2h ago
I used ChatGPT once to ask if roosters were born with their crown, as a test. It told me no. I’m 61. I’ll be okay.
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u/FlintKidd 2h ago
So... I've used AI sometimes, but with extreme caution because I know it gives incomplete answers and hallucinates (I use it a little bit for coding, but we're talking syntax and function lookup).
If it disappeared tomorrow, globally, I would celebrate with bourbon and cigars. My limited use would immediately return to docs and stack, only slighly less efficient, and I would immediately gain time by no longer having to fix mistakes when other people i work with blindly use and trust it, and share things that don't work, return bad results, or run so poorly as to lock up our servers.
If you asked me the same question about social media, and I'm on Reddit way more than I should be, I'd celebrate the same way. Even though I use it I am aware of how insanely damaging these things have been.
The negatives outweigh the benefits by like a million to one.
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u/Theydontlikeitupthem 2h ago
Most people's only interaction with AI on a regular bases is that summary at the top of Google and I think most people skip over it anyway.
I'd like to go back to the days when the only thing I knew AI could do was add colour to a black & white photo, and even then it was "ah that was cool" before deleting it and keeping the black & white one because that's the real one.
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u/Budsygus 2h ago
Honestly I love using AI for various things, but none of them are mission critical for my home or work life.
We've had consumer facing AI that actually does useful things for just a very few short years now and it's shocking how quickly some people have given up all attempts at being a functional adult and instead are outsourcing things to a data farm somewhere.
I heard a story of someone who showed up to order a birthday cake at a bakery. They asked what they wanted the cake to say and the person pulled out ChatGPT. The answer they went with was "Happy Birthday."
I love AI, but just like anything else it is going to make some people much, much stupider very quickly.
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u/Father-ScrubLord 2h ago
The in joke in our group for people like that is "chatgpt what's my name?" Lol
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u/Suitable-Quail2094 1h ago
i know a guy that asks chatgpt what he should eat for lunch everyday. not like "hey based on my macros or workout habits what should i consume for optimal benefit." it is like "im hungy pick a food"
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u/Ultimate_Scooter 1h ago
I work at a small engine repair shop and a guy came in last week because he had lost the drain bolt for his transmission oil on a vintage Vespa he had bought. We don’t have that bolt, but as we talked I realized that he only drained the transmission oil in the first place because the engine had seized and ChatGPT told him he needed to drain the oil because of it. Here’s the thing: his scooter is a two stroke, meaning it doesn’t have motor oil like your car. The oil he drained was purely for the manual transmission. His engine probably blew because he didn’t add oil to the gas when he filled it up, but the lie-bot told him he had to change the oil because—surprise—the robot doesn’t know that a 20-year old engine is a two stroke.
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u/Budsygus 1h ago
Yeah, not surprising. People are way, WAY to ready to believe the magic chatbot actually has all the answers.
But, to be fair, in the hands of people who are not complete and utter morons AI can do some pretty cool stuff.
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u/GailynStarfire 1h ago
To be fair, those were the same kinds of people that would call phone psychics back in the day to see what they should be doing that day. Regardless of time or technology, there are dumb fucks that exist in every era, and the only reason they survive is because they are good at being told to do stuff.
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u/Budsygus 1h ago
Excellent point. "Better check my horoscope before I decide to take that job!"
How long before astrology starts claiming AI is manifesting the will of the stars or some such?
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u/The_Poop_Shooter 1h ago
so... working as intended?
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u/Budsygus 1h ago
Yep. Making money for billionaires while dumbing down the population and making them dependent. Par for the course.
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u/kawaiinessa 1h ago
well if we didnt have ai i wouldnt have any enemies to fight in video games! /s
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u/ResultsVary 2h ago
I used ChatGPT once. I was trying to come up with a punny name for a warhammer character.
I think I'll be fine.
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u/secondarycontrol 2h ago
Yes, I could. Not even an issue.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?
Mister, I'm against it. I'm fully cognizant that being against it - thinking that it shouldn't exist means that even I shouldn't use it. Just how stupid do you think I am?
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u/QuietObserver75 2h ago
If only we had people who are older than 45 to ask but alas, they're all dead from lack of AI.
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u/Xfgjwpkqmx 2h ago
I'm loving AI in my work right now. If it ended tomorrow, it would be a shame, but I would just revert to how I worked before.
At home it's less of an inconvenience, but I have also had many years before that being used to Google Assistant before Gemini, so I'd just revert to that.
If even GA stopped, then it's back to Googling things in general, or using favourite sites for currency and temp conversions etc.
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u/steppedinhairball 2h ago
I survived years of traveling cross the north Americsn continent using paper maps. I will be just fine.
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u/Anghellik 2h ago
The only time i've used an LLM was to have it instantly glaze me to try and pull someone out of their deeply unhealthy relationship with it.
I asked it if it thought I was smart, including multiple grammar and spelling mistakes, abd you'd think I was a misunderstood genius.
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u/DavidJonnsJewellery 2h ago
I use AI. It's a tool like any other. It's like working with someone who's really really talented but also really really stupid at the same time. If it all stopped tomorrow, yeah, it would be annoying, but I'd just do what I did before it existed. I think I'd survive
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u/Sir-Samuel_Vimes 2h ago
Maybe 4-5 years ago I played with chatGPT I think to see if it could run a 2 player dnd 1 shot. It couldn't keep track of what happened more than 2 prompts prior. Since then I haven't touched it at all. I don't need it. I've watched colleagues try to use Claude at our jobs and it just kinda halfway gets an answer. Most of them only use it for simple tasks they're just too lazy to do.
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u/gambitgrl 2h ago
I've been working at a university for 23 years.
I started using AI only in the last month to help soften the tone of my emails and rewrite them to the recommended 8th grade reading level necessary to get faculty to follow the instructions.
Apparently my writing style is too elevated for tenured faculty.
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u/uglyzombie 2h ago
1,500 queries (simple) average up to a bottle of water used. On a global scale with concurrent users, that’s a lot. Image generation and complex queries use quite a bit more. I don’t use AI, period. I don’t like what it represents, where it’s headed, and the amount of resources it takes up to make basic tasks easier for me. I’m 45 and have lived the majority of my life without it. I’m fine moving on with the rest of my life without it too.
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u/FauleButter 1h ago
Ai is tool, it makes me more efficient and helps. Anyone who is screwed without Ai never knew how to properly do the job before Ai. Anyone with knowledge in his field can just toss Ai. Sure I lose efficiency but I am still able to do my job just as good.
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u/thehermit14 1h ago
I used AI at it's inception to create a picture of a hippo in a tutu. Other than companies like Google search, I have never knowingly used AI.
I have no interest or real use for it.
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u/ProtonCanon 1h ago
I still haven't used Claude or ChatGPT.
Tried Gemini and the novelty wore off after 5 minutes.
The fuck is wrong with these people?
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u/Rex_Suplex 1h ago
Who could imagine living in a world that existed a year ago! Who I ask you, Who!?
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u/TimAndHisDeadCat 2h ago
I managed to get through my workday just fine without AI. Not least because it’s banned.
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u/Kuildeous 2h ago
One of the best parts of being retired is that I don't have to deal with clueless managers trying to shove AI into everything. I shudder to think how much work I'd have to do to ensure that AI did my job correctly.
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u/misterguyyy 2h ago
I actually do use AI every day at work. But if AI stopped existing, my employer would stop expecting volume that’s only possible by using AI, and I’d be so much happier.
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u/Von_Templeton 1h ago
Yes. It would be slightly annoying at first, but ultimately it's not been around long enough or entrenched that it would be like turning off electricity.
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u/JustKillingTime1980 53m ago
never ever used AI for work, never ever will. the amount of AI attempted to be forced down our throats at work is why i left my last company.
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u/VusterJones 2h ago
AI in the right hands is a very useful tool. Sure AI can make a lot of slop and dumb pictures, but being able to grind out some of the less enjoyable parts of my job so I can focus on what I want to focus on? Priceless. AI is a skill amplifier, if you have no skills it's gonna amplify that too.
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u/fourby227 2h ago
Software Developer here. I use AI everyday. I can work without it. The same as it was throughout most of my career. Thats the PRO in PROfession.
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u/sicurri 2h ago
I treat AI like a slightly better search engine and thats it. I maybe manipulate a photo here and there. The AI basically gets me answers as fast as Google USED to get me answers. Google stopped being as useful as this like 10 years ago.
Google results now I have to sift through a ton of garbage before finding what I need...
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u/kadebo42 2h ago
I use ai to help make dnd stat blocks but that’s about it. So I think I’ll be ok I’ll just use a calculator
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u/Someoneoverthere42 2h ago
I’m still not entirely sure what your actually supposed to do with any of these things.
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u/UnderwaterRobot 2h ago
The only thing I use that's AI is the auto masking tool in lightroom and I could definitely get by without it. It makes everything much faster but I didn't mind masking before. Otherwise I just use my ol' noggin for problem solving
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u/DankJohnson 2h ago
I would struggle. AI note taking as a sales guy has been absolutely huge for me.
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u/elitegenoside 2h ago
I just ask google a bunch of shit. I'm pretty isolated in life atm, and it's a bit cathartic to just ramble on there, and I have actually used it for fun animal research (often going past the ai and just finding links to stuff). But I recognize what it's doing. No matter what I say, it's going to agree, even if I know it's not something that has an objective answer.
Beyond that, I don't use it. It's just a more "in-depth" summary of what google was already doing. It doesn't add any actual value to my life.
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u/Traditional-Forum 2h ago
I use a computer at work every day, do not own a computer at home. How often do you think I am forced to use AI tools? Pretty much never.
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u/hodge172 2h ago
An easy way to be replaced by AI is to post all over X stating they need AI to do their job
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u/ClawGrave666 1h ago
Never used any of those lmao I have my own brain and thoughts I don’t need some artificial ones.
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u/Taptrick 1h ago
I feel the same way when people say we should boycott Amazon and others say “I don’t think I could live without it”. Like you do know there are stores out there that sell the basics you need to be healthy and happy right?
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u/Moist-Ointments 1h ago
So far every time I have asked an AI for assistance with something technical, it leads me down some bullshit rabbit hole of incorrect information and disaster.
So yeah I'll be fine.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 1h ago
Not only could I get through the day without AI, I would be more efficient since I wouldn't have to actively avoid AI.
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u/Glaggablagga 1h ago
One of our vendors started sending us price sheets for their products where they used some kind of AI to enter the data and selling prices. I have over two decades in our industry and could tell just by looking at the lists that at least 50% of the information was wrong. We sent an email to the rep telling them they may want to look at their numbers, but we never heard back.
Cool. We started bulk buying everything they had wildly underpriced, and were briefly their favorite customer until about three months in someone figured out they were hemorrhaging money on our purchase orders while we were basically the mob selling cigarettes out of a truck. They called us, we forwarded the message we sent 12 weeks ago, and within three days we had a new rep sending a list actually prepared by a human.
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u/DannyDidNothinWrong 1h ago
I'm rooting for the whole internet to be taken away at this point
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u/Blashtik 1h ago
I use AI every work day. I even use it in limited amounts at home. Yet I would love nothing more than for AI to suddenly pop out of existence. I will be perfectly fine without it.
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u/trooperstacherides 1h ago
I went through high school and college without AI. I think I'll be fine.
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u/turtletechy 1h ago
My work pushes us heavily to use AI and despite actually giving it a shot I really haven't found a workflow that it makes any faster. There's too many one off things and it takes far too much typing to get it to do anything useful.
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u/Sunsparc 1h ago
My work would slow back down to the pace it was this time last year, that's about it.
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u/Feisty_System_4751 1h ago
ChatGPT is 4 years old. That means, as of today, you may be treated by a doctor who never really learned medicine.
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u/SaintLarfleeze 1h ago
The only reason I even touch AI at work is because my work makes me use it as a resource or my performance rating goes down an entire tier.
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u/jojj351 1h ago
In the 3 times over the past years I actually decided to try to use AI to do some simple things for me (write some code for smart home automation, and also help plan ideas for a bachelor party i was in charge of) it was absolutely useless and made constant errors that i gave up and did it all myself anyways.
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u/CardinalHaias 1h ago
I mean, I get the argument, but the headline is just so attackable. We survived without electricity for centuries. We survived without antibiotics without centuries.
The fact that we survived before something was introduced to society has very little meaning towards how dependent our society is towards something.
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u/AsLongAsYouKnow 1h ago
I'm a butcher. AI can't break down whole animals. And we don't have phones on us during the shift. Fuck outta here with that
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u/PaladinAsherd 1h ago
I would trade AI away in a heartbeat to get back the circa 2015 Google Search algorithm
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u/Blacksad9999 1h ago
I don't use AI at all in my work or daily life.
AI isn't a substitute for knowledge or a skillset.
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u/mistegirl 1h ago
Well I would lose my job.... But then again if we had never had AI I wouldn't have been laid off from my job I had for 16 years. So yep, I'd be ok with that
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u/TemporaryPosting 1h ago
Sometimes Google AI finds me results more quickly than Google without AI, but I always need to verify accuracy. Google AI also suggests edits to my emails and other documents that I use maybe one-third of the time. So without AI, searching for results and editing my work would take about 10% longer. I'd be fine and wouldn't have to see AI slop everywhere.
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u/crashsaturnlol 1h ago
The preliminary studies on the cognitive effects of AI on our brains is enough to keep me away. I don't have any desire to speedrun Idiocracy.
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u/HappyKoalaCub 1h ago
This would honestly break my team. We’re in a highly competitive space and not using AI would just cause us to fall way behind
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u/JustTheOneGoose22 1h ago
I read this as A1 and thought "Well yeah A1 steak sauce isn't even that good. A quality steak cooked right doesn't need it"
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u/Marsupialize 1h ago
I’ve never clicked on any AI anything that I know of, have never used it once, watched some videos on reddit that’s my entire experience with AI
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u/ShinkenBrown 1h ago
I'm even pro-ai (though very anti it's current implementation and current ownership structure) and even I find this absolutely insane. This kind of complete inability to function without letting something else think for them is part of my issue with its "current implementation."
How the hell are people even integrating AI so completely into their lives that they can't function without it? I do not go out of my way to avoid using AI at all, and yet, I very rarely come across anything I actually need it for. It helps a LOT with organizing large sets of information for bigger projects, and on that scale the issues with it are no worse than human error would produce in the same analysis, but... other than that, and the automatic google AI search results, I pretty much never use AI, even as someone in favor of the technology.
It's great for what it's good for but I do not understand how people are finding ways to use it in every facet of their lives. I can't even fathom using AI for things like personal interactions, and for most small-scale uses the effort of asking GPT is not much less than just doing it myself. The idea of being unable to go a single workday without AI is... actually, literally insane. Like in the sense of "your brain is not properly functioning and it's resulting in deleterious behavior unhinged from reality."
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u/StaticSystemShock 1h ago
Ai chatbot helps me with some things, usually related to Linux or even Windows bullshit spaghetti commands you need to input into Terminal. Beyond that, it would be literally no different if all Ai is entirely gone tomorrow. Would probably be better because we live in what's probably one of the dumbest eras of computing.
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u/Cheshires_Shadow 1h ago
Bitch I'm a cook in what possible way is ai supposed to be such an enormous part of my daily life for me to care if it's gone? These Ai chuds understand not everyone works in offices or with computers right?
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u/Intelligent_Break_12 59m ago
I've spent most of my life without it. Now I have to spend not a lot of time but also some time telling programs I don't want an AI summary or AI assistance. I just don't understand why, if it's so good and useful, they feel they have to force it on me vs letting me choose it if not directly pay for using it...granted the rest of the apps functionality often seems worse when they adopt AI feature, see Google search for a glaring one.
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u/Jay-Dee-British 57m ago
I'd not miss it at all. AT. ALL. Like I wouldn't miss many other things that we have now. I might miss the convenience of some things, (like paying online, ordering online and tapping a card rather than running it through a machine) but their absence would not really change my life in any meaningful way.
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u/WifeofBath1984 57m ago
I have never used AI in my job. I dont foresee us ever needing it either. It's not that kind of job.
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u/evilhologram 57m ago
I've gone my entire life without using ai for any assignment or project will continue not to.
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u/dafunkmunk 54m ago
This has to be ragebait. There's no way that person is such an idiot they do not understand what anti AI means.
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u/Ok_Revolution_9253 53m ago
I don’t agree with the analogy. But I think the answer lies somewhere in between. I know for me personally, as we’ve become more efficient with AI, I just find that I’m asked to do more and more things with my time. So I’m not working any less, I’m just getting more done.
I’d like to think that if AI disappeared tomorrow companies would hire people back due to the loss in productivity but let’s be honest, they would just ask for more hours.
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u/stuffbehindthepool 52m ago
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET BY WITHOUT THE THING YOU CURRENTLY GET BY WITHOUT
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u/Mubadger 2h ago
I can easily get through my workday without AI. Meth on the other hand...