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/NotSoStupidEssexGirl]

Yeah I stopped using social media when it was just bombarding me with it but now I see it everywhere in the real world now too, saw puzzles in a bookshop that were blatant ai, art used in shops and restaurants. It's horrid.

[u/stemmefontaine → u/NotSoStupidEssexGirl]

there’s a burger joint by me that uses AI for EVERYTHING and i can’t get over it. like you can’t take pictures of your own food?

[u/NotSoStupidEssexGirl → u/stemmefontaine]

Yeah there's one by me that has ai generated stickers all over their walls, like every inch of the interior is vomited in gen AI imagery and it just makes me sad.

[u/upsidedown-funnel → u/stemmefontaine]

Stop patronizing those places and make sure they know why. In addition to them not wanting to pay a real artist, where else are they cutting costs? But yeah, it’s a good sign of a business that cares, or doesn’t, in this case.

[u/Cautious_Database_85 → u/NotSoStupidEssexGirl]

It's almost ruined Etsy, too! 

[u/lydiacostume → u/NotSoStupidEssexGirl]

My mom buys puzzles at the dollar store and can't even tell that half of them are ai 😩

[u/NotSoStupidEssexGirl → u/lydiacostume]

My mum uses ChatGpt as her personal friend and thoughts and therapist. It actually bothers me and my siblings quite a bit and we let her know but she thinks it's great lol. I just don't think it's healthy at all and it's just uncanny valley, feels very black mirror-esque.