idk if this is a left wing progressive trend or if you genuinely called ai clippy, but if you call modern ai clippy you clearly never used clippy
Comment on AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sounds like standard genAI to me. Train on shit; output shit. It’s not thinking, it’s just loading in the next likely words on a topic.
Common AI in its current state is just 2025 Clippy and finally most people are starting to realise. There’s been no major leaps and bounds in technology, just how that tech was applied to stuff and made more available to the masses.
AI is excellent for many things. GenAI is not for most things. There is no magic, just easier access.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 week ago
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Clippy and I are old fr-… acquaintances.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Then you’d remember clippy was shit, he’d interject with useless assistance and was universally hated and eventually they stopped including it in Word. Today he’s just nostalgia bait for people to cash in on
AI on the other hand is everywhere now and not going anywhere
There’s been no major leaps and bounds in technology
This is absolutely absurd thing to say, hence why I figured you’re in a echo chamber
It’s making videos:
Starship Troopers - 1950s Super Panavision 70 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbZprU6wDpQ
It’s making music:
AI Took My Job - 徐铭轩MaoMao suno.com/…/14572e0f-a446-4625-90ff-3676a790a886
It’s making memes:
Image www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-11/…/105166500
I’m using it right now in LM Studio to translate text
10’s of millions of people are using at this exact moment to generate images, videos, text, audio translation, text translation, it goes on and on
It’s the exact opposite of clippy, it’s useful
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Your exposure to AI is maybe new?
If you could understand what’s behind the curtain, you’d realise not much magic is going on back there. What you’re instead noticing is hardware improving, allowing for more aggressive training and processing. The recipe is otherwise pretty much the same as it was five or even eight years ago. This is why we still have the same old issues and they don’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon because the tech is still the same old shit.
And, no, these things you have raised are not new. Perhaps new to some as AI has recently been put on the radar thanks to large-scale training. I can’t explain how someone could draw a conclusion like yours unless the current state of AI seems new to them.
“Echo chamber” is a coincidental selection of words in this context.
goodthanks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The major leap is the devaluing of human work, but instead of coming after material craftsmanship, like shoe making and cabinet making etc., it’s coming after abstract thinking. Copy writers are fucked for example. We will accept the inferior product because we have no choice. And yet we have to fight for a job to exist as those jobs becomes scarcer. I think if David Graeber was still around he would have a bullshit jobs 2.0 book out expanding on this.
Salvo@aussie.zone 6 days ago
I think CopyWriting is an under appreciated art form.
I had an apprentice that was moonlighting doing contract CopyWriting for a large advertising conglomerate.
First he tried writing himself, then he outsourced to India, then he used ChatGTP, finally, he just submitted nonsensical Lorem Ipsum text. He still got paid and still kept getting contracts.
I think this is more critical about the Advertising industry than CopyWriters.