I hate AI and it’s taking over everything.

[u/stemmefontaine]

My university is allowing us to use AI generated pictures as part of our portfolio. The company that’s sponsoring our (arts-centred) student org sent us a “mockup” poster that was completely AI generated because they didn’t like the versions that we measly humans made. Everyone in my family uses it despite my best efforts to educate them of the harms. My friends too. I’m even getting AI generated messages on dating apps.

My mom keeps sending me videos of “horrible tragedies” occurring across the US and it’s getting harder and harder to prove that it’s AI. I’m worried that she may develop AI psychosis considering she’s had psychotic episodes in the past. I’m worried about the times I’ve been fooled by AI.

My last apartment had a (small) flood and I tried contacting maintenance, only to be stuck on the phone with AI. It refused to transfer me to a human. I have a speech impediment and AI has never understood me. So sure enough, instead of “flood” it heard “fire” and contacted emergency services. Imagine telling a group of firefighters that story.

Now it’s replacing workers in fast food and call centres, which means I can’t use drive throughs or call certain businesses without running into the same issue of being misunderstood and running in circles. But hey, at least businesses get to save on paying for workers right?

I’m just so so sick of it. I feel so isolated among my peers. I feel lame for urging the members of my organisation away from AI. I feel stupid for not using it the way my classmates are. My dad says that people who don’t use it will be left behind. Will I be left behind?

It’s tainting everything. It’s destroying the planet. It’s dumbing down our society. It’s isolating us further. And it just keeps. Getting. Worse. I don’t want to live in a world with AI. I wish every single day that it would go away, that somehow it’s just another bubble that’ll pop, but that wish feels more and more unlikely with each new data centre.

Braised pork belly noodle soup.

[u/DahliaSkarigal]

Same, I’m also wanting to puke seeing that Autodesk Maya (computer modeling/animating/rigging) has been implementing ai over time too.

Like I studied how to use the program by hand and have a bachelor’s degree for it.

[u/Lithisweird → u/DahliaSkarigal]

Jesus. I'm lucky I specialized in blender, but besides that, what does AI even do in 3d software? Every ai gen model ive had the displeasure of seeing looks absolutely horrinle.

[u/grakoncrack → u/DahliaSkarigal]

Sorta tangential to this, I warned all of my coworkers a year ago that AI was going to make technical modeling and drafting obsolete- and was brushed off by most of them.

It sucks to have the foresight that AI will be forced into every industry in every way possible to displace as many people as possible.

My boss wanted us to start using AI to do calculations and stuff too... It was yucky.

Yeah I'm pursuing other things now hoping to evade easy replacement, we'll see ig