AI - A force for Good or Bad?

[sime42]

3 hours ago, Oldfeller said:

Search engines, google,ebay, and others, 

anyone else notice how difficult it has become to search for any given item or information without the results being swamped with a myriad of non related items.

ask for information on any subject and ai will usually come up with something totally unrelated and  inaccurate.

it's as if every piece of online information that ever was is placed in one specific place and whatever the search is for ai just takes anything from it and projects it as the answer.

as an example I asked ebay to save a search for "TWO MAN OPERATED CHAINSAWS" among some of the totally unrelated items the search sent me were, an action man childs toy, ? and a rusty  victorian pram?in addition to anything with SAW in the title.

if this is how ai fails on such a simple request,, how confident can we be it won't feckup something far more serious. 

how reliable will it be using it's own polluted, corrupted view of the world.

 

Yes, I've noticed. We're drowning in AI slop and disinformation. I believe those are far more pressing concerns than mass unemployment, (and that's bad enough). 

 

I don't think we can be at all confident; AI is already fcking up far more serious things than simple eBay searches. Why people think that it should be deployed by already hopelessly incompetent governments or all powerful corporations or individuals is beyond me.

 

I've still not seen any convincing justification for it being pushed on all of us so rapidly. Other than to make a few knobs even more rich and influencial. We're sleeping running into disaster.

 

 

[markieg31]

Duck. You can search with no AI, that should save a portion of my carbon footprint 🥰

[markieg31]

4 hours ago, Gabriel82 said:

@markieg31 What is this carbon anyway...

🙄 I'll burn it all and never give a sheise

Not sure that is going to float long enough for the ducks to eat that, try a loaf of glyphosate riddled bread instead 🍞 

[Mesterh]

[Mesterh]

38 minutes ago, Gabriel82 said:

@Mesterh irelevant. true ,he has a kid that's "unsure" of his sexuality but please...

 

Still can buy us all for peanuts money.

 

Also this guy said we are working for nothing, retirement pension will not matter in 20 years! 

 

I suspected this about 10 years ago because of a pilot program in Finland ,for a fixed income that actually ended well. 

 

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We will see. 

[AHPP]

 

 

This is utterly ****************ing miserable. I thought it might have been staged by some kind of midlands-based anti-AI propaganda unit. Conceivable but it can't be that bad surely. It is. With a couple of mates tonight and asked whether they'd seen it and whether they thought it was real. One mate is a tech bod (and more on him later). He said it was probably real and opened his chatgpt to try it again or see if they'd fixed it. Sure enough, two Rs and on my quizzing revealed that one of the Rs was after the O.

 

My mate leaps to the defence of his AI god. "It's still a good tool. I use it all the time. Summarising things and such."

Now it gets more horrifying. He's not just a tech bod. He's a legal tech bod. He works for a very, very large law firm, designing AI stuff that allows lawyers to shirk while still billing like jews. He had open on his desktop a 312 page Financial Conduct Authority briefing document. Someone had asked him to read it. Outrageous! "That'll take ages. I'll get chatgpt to summarise it for me."

 

We are ****************ed.

 

He sat three feet from me and watched AI fail to spell strawberry and then in the next breath either trusted it or was indifferent to its true ability to digest thousands of words of proper technical stuff and provide counsel to those who need it.

 

We are ****************ed. I should have blinded him and stuck nails in his eardrums to halt the harm he's doing to my planet but he's a mate and I'm sentimental like that.

 

We are ****************ed though.

Edited 1 hour ago by AHPP

[sime42]

Yep, we're ****************ed. 

[sime42]

On 10/01/2026 at 21:58, markieg31 said:

Duck. You can search with no AI, that should save a portion of my carbon footprint 🥰

 

The most valuable thing I learnt last week was how to include "-ai" in any Google search. To avoid having to see that bloody annoying AI Overview garbage that normally crowds out anything useful at the top of the page.

 

 

[sime42]

32 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

 

This is utterly ****************ing miserable. I thought it might have been staged by some kind of midlands-based anti-AI propaganda unit. Conceivable but it can't be that bad surely. It is. With a couple of mates tonight and asked whether they'd seen it and whether they thought it was real. One mate is a tech bod (and more on him later). He said it was probably real and opened his chatgpt to try it again or see if they'd fixed it. Sure enough, two Rs and on my quizzing revealed that one of the Rs was after the O.

 

My mate leaps to the defence of his AI god. "It's still a good tool. I use it all the time. Summarising things and such."

Now it gets more horrifying. He's not just a tech bod. He's a legal tech bod. He works for a very, very large law firm, designing AI stuff that allows lawyers to shirk while still billing like jews. He had open on his desktop a 312 page Financial Conduct Authority briefing document. Someone had asked him to read it. Outrageous! "That'll take ages. I'll get chatgpt to summarise it for me."

 

We are ****************ed.

 

He sat three feet from me and watched AI fail to spell strawberry and then in the next breath either trusted it or was indifferent to its true ability to digest thousands of words of proper technical stuff and provide counsel to those who need it.

 

We are ****************ed. I should have blinded him and stuck nails in his eardrums to halt the harm he's doing to my planet but he's a mate and I'm sentimental like that.

 

We are ****************ed though.

 

If only I were that accomplished at propaganda.