"If only I'd programmed the robot to be more careful what I wished for. Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!"
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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This is such a weird take.
Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don't mess up the words in your important email?
Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?
Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?
All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don't want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy "good enough" results in one area or another.
This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI's ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn't allow low-effort meme posts because it's such a brain rot circle-jerk.
and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques
No, it doesn't. You just want to be able to pick from your buffet of cake flavors without it being morally complicated. Gen AI is demon technology made by demons, and those demons deserve mockery and ridicule. It should be impolite to be this anti-social.
You said something here that is pertinent, but also revealing. We all use technology everyday to make our lives easier, but does it? The automatic transmission cited above allowed anyone with a pulse the ability to get behind the wheel of a car rather than putting in any effort to acquire the skill to operate a motor vehicle. Great for the people who built our car-ciety, we have all suffered for it, including inaccessible essential services w/o one and getting stuck in traffic caused in the most part by people who should never be behind a wheel of a car. Do you want people writing books and creating art that have no business writing books or creating art? Cause we've got that now. Great...
We all use technology everyday to make our lives easier, but does it?
🙄 Yes. If you disagree with something this obvious, please write me a lengthy letter explaining why and send it by horse & buggy mail carrier. I promise, I'll read and respond just as soon as I'm able.
Do you want people writing books and creating art that have no business writing books or creating art?
🤮🤮🤮 Maybe we should require an intelligence test before allowing people to post their opinions on the internet too? Or have children?
If you actually think that disallowing some people to create art because they aren't "good enough," then you aren't really defending art or artists at all.
bruh, it's literally a mockery. they are mocking the ineptitude of people who use AI.
way to overanalyze a tweet.
"You're using your brain too much, just enjoy the 'hUmOr'" as a defense of this is ironically the funniest thing in this thread.
I didn't say it was humor. I said they are mocking them.
if your AI brainrot hadn't been so severe you might have comprehended that.
Jesus dude, go touch some grass. you're getting bent out of shape over such an insignificant piece of shit like me, it's pathetic.
Pedantry. "Think less, shut up, accept what the algorithm feeds you from this sub without question" was still the basic gist.
🤷♂️ I'm drinking tea and having a nice day. Sorry you think I'm getting bent out of shape just because I'm critiquing your poorly thought-out comments. 🙂
you’re getting bent out of shape over such an insignificant piece of shit like me, it’s pathetic.
My guy it honestly sounds like you're the one who needs to take a screen break more than I do. Be well.
They will monetize those chatbots.
And I want to see how many will pull out their wallet when it happens.
And I worry it will be almost every hardcore user, for the fear of being left out and performing worse than anyone else.
The trap is set, it has sprung, and now we wait will the owner comes for the feast.
They will monetize those chatbots.
They already did? They have premium plans, pro plans, free plans, etc.
I mean they will disable the free version.
Can it maybe just give her an orgasm for me? I'm way to lazy to do it myself.
/it's sarcasm, you dumb fuck
me doublefisting magic wands
…LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use... LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.
Outsourcing thinking from your brain to an AI literally makes you dumber, less confident in the output, and teaches you nothing.
Call me a Luddite or a hater, but if you’re one of the people who uses AI as a shortcut to actual thought or learning, I will judge you and disregard your output and opinions. Form your own basis of understanding and knowledge instead of a teaspoon deep summary that is frequently incorrect.
They say that, when making an Anki deck, using it is only half the battle because a lot of the learning comes from the act of making it yourself. That advice is older than these LLMs and it really showcases a big reason why they suck. Personally, I haven’t even used autocorrect since 2009.
Being a luddite I feel requires having a highly abstinence-only approach. Knowing what is worth off-loading and what is worth doing yourself is just being smart. I’m really glad that I don’t need to know every detail of modern life but I still take a lot of pride in knowing how quite a lot of it works.
I remembered a movie about the future where some guy couldn't figure out how to insert the right shape into a hole and he tried to insert a cube into a round hole, I don't remember exactly, but it's not so funny when it becomes reality... In any case, due to excessive comfort or convenience, the human brain, so to speak, adapts in the bad sense of the word to what is easier.
remembered a movie about the future where some guy couldn’t figure out how to insert the right shape into a hole
Idiocracy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
I already watched it the other day to be honest, but thanks anyway. :3
and that is exactly why rich people are demonstrably dumber and more disconnected than most: their life contains far fewer challenges they actually have to overcome.
Here I probably agree with you... by the way, did you know about secret underground cities for the elite on special nuclear reactors? They hope to avoid problems there if a collapse occurs :333
The goddamn meta commercial where the dad is asking, "meta, how do I get my toddler to eat breakfast" makes me wants to implode every fucking time. Like you can't feed your kid?
I won't pretend I didn't Google things, but it was mainly getting them to sleep. When you aren't sleeping, desperation is a very real thing.
Eating though, I like to use "This is the next thing you eat" on my kids.
where the fuck are meta commercials popping up
Hbo and Netflix, probably during the sports games my husband watches.
I delivered pizza during COVID and most people I worked with couldn't follow simple directions to an address or read a road map. If a destination didn't show up on their cellphone's navigation then they were immediately and hopelessly lost.
If you don't use and exercise your brain then it atrophies and dies. AI is going turn a lot of people into conscious vegetables.
I have this problem with a bunch of new hires. I'll show them another way to do something and they'll ask, oh where was that written down? I said Just think about what I just did and how it makes sense, its not written down this is a neat trick i'm showing you. I swear there is no creativity or critical thinking anymore, just a bunch of automatons that follow protocol to the letter and the second there is a situation outside those very narrow parameters they just implode. Someone had to figure all of this out at one point and make the protocol in the first place, sometimes there is no step by step guide and you need to exercise judgement and make some decisions on your own.
We need to teach people curiosity. I use my GPS all the time because of construction and stuff but I also look at the route before I leave so that I know where I’m headed on my own, too. Meanwhile I know people who’ve lived in a city for decades and still can’t get around it without help.
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I almost spit out my breakfast in laughter. Thanks for this one, OP. 😂
I will honestly not be surprised if in a few years we have young to middle aged people who have become so dependent on "AI" that they'll be forced into assisted living homes because they are unable to function without it.
this is already happening to disabled youth under any administration, no need for a hypothetical AI takeover scenario.
It is?
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