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highplainsdem

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3. Yes. Using AI encourages you to stop thinking, dumb yourself down and deskill yourself, while handing more

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 12:10 PM

Apr 2025

power to the AI bros and giving an implicit thumbs-up to their nonstop theft of intellectual property to train the AI, and the continuing damage done to the environment - both the natural environment harmed by data centers and the information ecosystem being destroyed by AI slop - and to the economy and education.

But hey, if you might get a correct answer from your friendly hallucinating chatbot with zero real intelligence but all the intellectual property the AI model's creators/owners could steal...maybe you can argue it's worth all the harm done?

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The Cure for AI writer's block... Paste this into your chats before you start... [View all] mikelewis Apr 2025 OP

Or use your own damn brain. Ocelot II Apr 2025 #1

Yes. Using AI encourages you to stop thinking, dumb yourself down and deskill yourself, while handing more highplainsdem Apr 2025 #3

AI is a blight on civilization. It encourages us to be lazy, unimaginative and stupid, Ocelot II Apr 2025 #4

And don't forget - adds to global warming TommyT139 Apr 2025 #5

We're already paying for it, but it's likely to get much worse. And genAI is an ideal tech for authoritarian highplainsdem Apr 2025 #6

This is not correct if you use it as the OP outlined LearnedHand Apr 2025 #7

I've read thousands of articles on AI in the last few years and talked to lots of experts on AI and its highplainsdem Apr 2025 #9

I get what you're saying but i think it's too simplistic a judgment LearnedHand Apr 2025 #11

I don't believe using genAI for coding or brainstorming begins to offset all the harm it does, highplainsdem Apr 2025 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author bucolic_frolic Apr 2025 #2

This is brilliant! Where did you learn to chain your prompts like this? LearnedHand Apr 2025 #8

I have been using AI for a while now... mikelewis Apr 2025 #10

Prompt engineering is THE secret for sure LearnedHand Apr 2025 #12

Put this in your GPT traits.... mikelewis Apr 2025 #13