Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained

• Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am with gustofwind here. I use AI to help me quickly draft up mindless policies, then read through it and edit it where needed. It is a lot faster than any typing I can do.

  I also use it to help me find configs for stuff I deploy, but I make sure it attaches the source link for me, so I can read the original source docs and keep a sane approach to what I am doing.

  Again, I also think it is way overvalued, but to say it has not helped me build successful stuff over the past 2 years would be a lie. My 2c

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• Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, why do you care about the pointless corporate crap you produce . Ai slop is the desired result you are just letting your pride get in the way.

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  • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Products and services have been dropping in quality well before ai slop

    You overestimate the quality of acceptable work in many industries. AI and a little human editing and oversight is perfectly capable of producing legitimate work product.

    The real problem is capitalism driving everything to shit and that really has nothing to do with ai influenced workflows

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    • myserverisdown@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I went from Windows laptop and Netflix and Hulu to a Linux desktop for a home server running Immich, Mealie, Jellyfin, and the Arr suite in docker containers. All proxied on Cloudflare for remote access. I would never have been able to do that without the use of ChatGPT. I had no knowledge of software development, Linux, networking, etc at all. If you know how to query, AI can be a huge aid in learning. It’s helping me brush up on my Italian right now too since I haven’t spoken it in 5 years.

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      • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s cool. I did all of that without AI coming from a similar place as you. AI didn’t open up a new path for you, it just showed you a path that already existed, which isn’t any different from what a regular search engine can do. There was nothing stopping you from finding that path on your own except your unwillingness to look.

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      • Mondez@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Did you pay for the AI service you used to do that and if it hadn’t been available would you have just started reading the online resources the AI trained on and got to the same place eventually?

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      • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Tbh it’s not much different than search engines. You need to learn how to use them and when it’s appropriate to do so…it’s basically a skill issue 🤷‍♀️

        Reminds me of when search engines first arrived and we were taught very early in school how library research works and then when to use digital academic databases vs regular search engines or just hit the books.

        And yeah tech support is a great use case and you can just use the Gemini links that send you to the Reddit threads where the information came from to verify it.

        I feel like if you’re minimally responsible it’s pretty hard to have AI backfire on you

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    • Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did you read what I wrote, only to rephrase and repost? Good work gustwind

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