BlueMonday1984

Took me a second to realise this was LW.

Ran across a pretty solid sneer: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too.

Found a particularly notable paragraph near the end, focusing on the people focusing on "prompt engineering":

In fear of being replaced by the hypothetical ‘AI-accelerated employee’, people are forgoing acquiring essential skills and deep knowledge, instead choosing to focus on “prompt engineering”. It’s somewhat ironic, because if AGI happens there will be no need for ‘prompt-engineers’. And if it doesn’t, the people with only surface level knowledge who cannot perform tasks without the help of AI will be extremely abundant, and thus extremely replaceable.

You want my take, I'd personally go further and say the people who can't perform tasks without AI will wind up borderline-unemployable once this bubble bursts - they're gonna need a highly expensive chatbot to do anything at all, they're gonna be less productive than AI-abstaining workers whilst falsely believing they're more productive, they're gonna be hated by their coworkers for using AI, and they're gonna flounder if forced to come up with a novel/creative idea.

All in all, any promptfondlers still existing after the bubble will likely be fired swiftly and struggle to find new work, as they end up becoming significant drags to any company's bottom line.

Starting this off with a new Blood in the Machine: The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

Coming back to this, because someone else made a better dunk on Saatchi's Shit Generator than I could:

I urge you to watch the proof of concept video this links to, it's astonishing. finally ai has reached the level of a 12 year old on newgrounds who gets every submission blammed.

Ran across a notable post on Bluesky recently - seems there's some alt-text drama that's managed to slip me by:

On a wider note, I wouldn't be shocked if the AI bubble dealt some setbacks to accessibility in tech - given the post I've mentioned earlier, there's signs its stigmatised alt-text as being an AI Bro Thing™.

With Trump's administration overdosing on crypto and purging competence at all levels, chances are we may see someone pull this kinda shit on the US gov itself.

Okay, complete shot in the dark here - the "humanoid robot" part is an attempt to convince investors they're making AI more humanlike or some shit like that

Saatchi says you can type in a few words and the AI will generate scenes — or even a whole show. There are two test shows. One is Exit Valley, which is a copy of South Park set in Silicon Valley. Here’s an excerpt. [Vimeo]

For anyone who decides not to click, you're not missing out - the "episode" was equivalent to one of those millions of shitty GoAnimate "grounded" animations that you can find on YouTube. (in retrospect, GoAnimate/Vyond was basically AI slop before AI slop was a thing)

The closest that has to a use case is the guys who will do obnoxious parodies because the rights holders won’t like them. Let’s get Mickey Mouse doing something edgy!

Considering Tay AI was deliberately derailed into becoming a Hitler-loving sex robot, and the first wave of AI slop featured deliberately offensive Pixar-styled "posters", I can absolutely see this happening. (At least until The Mouse starts threatening Showrunner with getting sued into the ground.)

i am not surprised that they are all this dumb: it takes an especially stupid person to decide “yes, i am fine allowing this machine to speak for me”. even more so when it’s made clear that the machine is a stochastic parrot trained on the exploitation of the global south via massive amounts of plagiarism and that it also cooks the planet

And is also considered a virtual "KICK ME" sign in all but the most tech-brained parts of the 'Net.

are all promptfondlers this fucking dumb?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Abso-fucking-lutely yes. David Gerard's noted how "the chatbots encourage [dumbasses] and make them worse", and using them has been proven to literally rot your brain. Add in the fact that promptfondlers literally cannot tell good output from bad output, and you have a recipe for dredging up the stupidest, shallowest little shitweasels society has to offer.

New article on AI's effect on education: Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams

(Shocking, the machine made to ruin humanity is ruining humanity)

This reads like something that'd be considered too offensive for South Park (mildly ironic, considering an entire episode infamously milked hard-R's for all they're worth)