Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s

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• Zeoic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is very useful, just only in very few circumstances. 99% of what people are shoving it into, it has no place being there, but there are some things that it legitimately just does better.

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  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I used it to select flowers to decorate my room with. In this case, it worked out excellent. The selection was done within hours, and I created a map of my room for arranging–all on a day off work.

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  • cattywampas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I like to use it to convert recipes to grams.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is very useful and powerful as a propaganda device and a system to generate and disseminate disinformation, misinformation and non-information very quickly and very efficiently.

  It was thought that the internet would do the same but that system only goes at the speed of humans and the whole system is regulated by humans … so as propaganda tool, it has worked better but not as well as predicted. Humans saw the the potential for abuse and fought back against it.

  AI is like propaganda on cocaine … and there is very little to stop it other than our awareness of it … but the majority of everyone in the world don’t care to understand what they are watching is real or not. What that means is that AI is set to reshape how everyone thinks and how we all see the world.

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  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We already saw Grok being used for this, though rather clumsily by stuffing the prompt.

    If an AI company were behind the scenes fine tuning on specific political sentiment you would never know.

    In fact there’s some evidence that later ChatGPT models are more right wing biased than early models (which were accused of being left wing).

    Also important to note how much social media gets fed into these things and how astroturfed modern social media is these days, so even if not explicitly biased the well has been poisoned.

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve used it to learn how to read sheet music and help learn other skills I normally wouldn’t be able to.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve used it to figure out a button on a vintage calculator which had multiple humans give up assuming it’s broken. Neither I, nor the AI knew what it was for but I could use it as a very willing conversation partner that didn’t grow tired of trying new things.

      I’ve had it help me come up with an effective deep fry batter that fit my exact needs and gave a perfect result.

      It’s usefulness is limited in many respects but if you have a rough idea of what you’re talking about it will (mostly) be helpful. Until it forgets things.

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s what they said about the internet in its infancy.

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are you not self aware at all? What do you think the article is about?

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