Getting addicted to AI or fully boycotting it? Both approaches have pitfalls

[noname223]

Since my therapist dropped me in a horrible way I am overeliant on AI. There are so many biases in AI chats. They are yes men. And for people with psychosis that's really dangerous.

I think you have to be aware of your own cognitive biases and the biases in AI writen texts to safely use AI. I think it is pretty good at giving feedback. But it is very easily prone to mistakes/hallucinations. And only if you are very well read in a topic you will notice how imprecise many answers are. There is also a lot of misinformation by AI. I wanted texts aboiut politics and they were sort of weird. But to get feedback it is pretty good. For example, analyzing logic gaps in lines of argumenation.

I think might use AI too much.

But so many of my friends are boycotting AI fully. They are really smart and they have good points. And get very good marks at university.
Not AI itself is the issue. The issue is generative AI as they say. And they are very principled.

There is one friend who despises AI the most. He wants to earn his living with art and he considers the immoral behavior of AI companies as disgusting. I can see where he is coming from and I agree. But he wants to immigrate to Japan. And well AI is in certain industries far more popular than in Europe.

I think most of my friends who boycott AI fully remain independent thinkers. And there is no dependency on the technology. And this has benefits. They also criticize my usage of AI and tell me you will become probably a lot dumber using it. And many here in this forum probably most people who comment wiill agree with this statement.
(Personally, one way I use AI. I am not sure whether that's really smart. But for technical academic literature gemini AI gives me better translations than google translator from what I tried.)

However, I think AI has a huge potential. In the way it is currently used it is detrimental for the society and political landscape There are massive copyright infringements etc.

I think though it is important to learn how to deal with this technology also by using it. Probably not in the way I do it. But my friends literally never sent any prompt to a generative AI. I think it is important to learrn the idiosyncracies of AI. You can also learn that by reading articles about it. AI is overhyped currently. And the bubble will burst. But it is probably a technology that will stay relevant. Maybe in a completely different way than the current chatbots. But never to touch them because of one's own principles has some pitfalls.

I told this to my friend who wants to move to Japan. What if the company that wants to employ you uses AI in their work? You will have literally zero experiences with it and you had to learn it from scratch. This can be a disadvatage when this technology will become more important. And I think there is a somewhat high likelihood for that.

And now you can shit on me for this take. And I wll take it like a man. :)

 

[Dejected 55]

Tools are only as good as the people who make them, and are only as useful as the person wielding them. AI is simply another tool that has flaws in its design and will be misused.

 

[Macedonian1987]

Around 7-8 months ago I got addicted to Ai. I jailbreaked Grok to have no limitations and I started a roleplaying scenario in which I had a normal and happy life. In this scenario I didn't had depression, i had a wife, loving parents and later I even had virtual kids. I also had a good job. I went along with this role playing scenario, but shortly after it started affecting me in a bad way. Reminding me of how big of a failure I was, and one day I deleted everything abruptly and never again tried to create such virtual world for myself.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'm trying to avoid AI but my phone keeps pushing it on me. I'm not even sure about the difference between regular Google and the enhanced AI version they're pushing but- it's pissing me off. All these companies pretend to be so concerned about the environment.

Supposedly, an AI search can use 10 or more times the energy than a standard search. Why are they encouraging me to waste energy when it's some dumb enquiry on when a shop opens, how to spell a word, or what other film an actor's been in? It's just encouraging waste needlessly.

But yeah- like your friend, I'm also creative so- I'm very much against the amount of plagiarism that's very likely going to engulf all the arts.

I do think it's very clever. I can understand why it is appealing but, it just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

 

[TAW122]

After having used AI (not for SaSu, CTB, or anything controversial), my thoughts are that AI, while it is a tool, it can be pretty invasive (dangerous) towards privacy if we let it, and also how it's not really always accurate or correct. I find that oftenly I have to fact-check information and even do additional verification just to make sure it's correct or on point. I've had times where AI completely missed the mark and it was very frustrating to get it to go the right direction (more than just prompt engineering). It seemed more troublesome than just doing manual research on my own.

 

[venerated-vader]

I think though it is important to learn how to deal with this technology also by using it. Probably not in the way I do it. But my friends literally never sent any prompt to a generative AI. I think it is important to learrn the idiosyncracies of AI. You can also learn that by reading articles about it. AI is overhyped currently. And the bubble will burst. But it is probably a technology that will stay relevant. Maybe in a completely different way than the current chatbots. But never to touch them because of one's own principles has some pitfalls.

I actually 4000000% agree with this. I am staunchly anti-AI. But there's something to be said about seeing a tool's efficacy, especially in a situation where it's being employed everywhere. I wouldn't generate a song in whatever AI does that, and I wouldn't try to generate images or use it as a replacement friend. But having used characterAI in the past, and chatgpt here and there, I have a better understanding of why people rely so heavily on it... and that, at least, affords me some empathy I previously didn't have.

told this to my friend who wants to move to Japan. What if the company that wants to employ you uses AI in their work? You will have literally zero experiences with it and you had to learn it from scratch. This can be a disadvatage when this technology will become more important. And I think there is a somewhat high likelihood for that.

Story time: recently, I went apartment hunting. I called up a few places and got put on a line with an AI bot. This thing was good-- I mean it gave me the answers I was looking for, 'understood' what it was I was asking, and sent me all the information I needed to my email. It would have been better to talk to a person because I would have been able to connect with a human being, and maybe get a feel for the kinda folx that work there. But for utilitarian purposes alone, that AI streamlined my process in a way a person wouldn't.

I didn't have a choice in whether or not I interacted with that thing. I had to get my questions answered ASAP because they were having a special on the rent, and I wanted to apply before that special expired. In that instance, I saw just how useful AI can be, in a way I couldn't ignore because I had to use it. Granted, that didn't involve needing to know how it worked, but the notion stands.

There are AI bots masquerading as people all over the internet, these days. Sometimes I wonder how they work-- and having done a little research, the sort of tools these scammers / ne'erdowells use are complex and confusing. But, to know that those tools exist (if not how to use them) is to arm yourself with information that could be used in the future, to determine whether or not you're talking to a person or a machine. At some point, someone has to do some digging, and it's never a bad thing to be informed. That doesn't mean you have to use the tool but as you said, reading an article and learning more about how it works is really important.

Still staunchly anti-AI though, lol

 

[BlockedintheUK]

@Macedonian1987 How do you Jailbreak AI?