Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained
Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com 15 hours agoYes, 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.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 14 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
Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com 5 hours ago
Did you read what I wrote, only to rephrase and repost? Good work gustwind
myserverisdown@lemmy.world 14 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.
krashmo@lemmy.world 13 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.
howrar@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Willingness to look is a pretty important factor. LLMs reduce the personal cost incurred to look up information, similar to how search engines saved us from having to go to the library for every question we had.
Nikelui@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They presented to you a reasonable use case (assisted learning) and your response was “lol, you’re just lazy. Do it on your own”.
I am in a similar position, networking is Martian to me and if I search guides on how to do stuff, it’s full of people that go “just use X to do a reverse proxy”, as if I have 200h of experience under my belt. I’d rather have a chatbot explain to me like I am 5 in some cases.
Mondez@lemdro.id 6 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?
myserverisdown@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
No and no. The barrier to entry would have been too high. I don’t have hundreds of hours to track down the answers I was looking for. It’s not that I’m incapable of finding the information I was looking for in forums. It’s that its such basic knowledge to most tech forum users that I probably would have been seen as a leech. Have you been to tech forums lately? Its a bunch up people telling you to be a better programmer and calling you a fucking idiot. That’s why stack exchange is failing.
Access to information should be free. That’s partially why we’re all here. Everything that we post could be scraped by an LLM and used for free. When it becomes an issue is when AI crawlers quadruple server load.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 13 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