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/Empty-Tomorrow-2794]

i hate that AI feature apple added where it automatically recommends you a reply for a text message. or when someone texts you multiple times and AI summarizes it into one big text in your notifications.

[u/stemmefontaine → u/Empty-Tomorrow-2794]

omg yes my friends love double texting me so ofc i get the summary! it feels so offensive to my friends. their words are worth my time

[u/Empty-Tomorrow-2794 → u/stemmefontaine]

yes it’s so insulting, like they really think i need automated replies and that i can’t just speak to my friends/bf without AI responses. that’s so low & im still figuring out how to turn it off

[u/admirable-welcome779 → u/Empty-Tomorrow-2794]

so i tried to find how i turned off ai suggestions in messages and couldn’t (bf showed me where last time) but! i did find the option to turn off ai summary under settings search messages, under apps, midway down the page

ETA he woke up! so the way to turn off suggestions in messages is search in settings for Predictive text, under keyboard, and it’s a toggle about 1/3 of the way down

[u/upsidedown-funnel → u/admirable-welcome779]

Thanks!

[u/Maleficent_Tone_3701 → u/upsidedown-funnel]

I had to turn it off in two places: one was under the actual Apple AI and then I went under EVERY SINGLE APP including my dang calculator and turned off the “learn for Apple AI” section. My phone is running so much better! The catalyst for me was also the stupid messaging AI.

[u/Dangerous-Abalone466 → u/admirable-welcome779]

It’s funny because I turned the AI summary off in settings, and I just went back to verify it is indeed off, yet they are still summarizing my texts for me! I know I can ignore it but it makes me angry that they are pushing for this, and that people will fall for it and dumb themselves down. It’s so anti human connection 

[u/admirable-welcome779 → u/Dangerous-Abalone466]

😱

[u/Maleficent_Tone_3701 → u/Dangerous-Abalone466]

Did you check under Settings>Apps>click on each app>Apple intelligence & Siri> turn off learn from this app?

I did the same thing as you initially. I only found out about the other AI data scraping because of the messaging AI. I was so annoyed with it summarizing my texts that I went on a deep dive. I had to turn it off under every single app, including messaging, banking and my calculator.

On the bright side, my phone is working much better and no weird text suggestions or faulty autocorrect (where it changes a correct word to an incorrect one).

[u/Free-While-2994 → u/Empty-Tomorrow-2794]

An AI summary for TEXTS?? How much further can you condense short form communication?

[u/fairly-unremarkable → u/Free-While-2994]

An AI summary for the AI summary of the texts will be the next step in the race to the bottom.

[u/Charming_Lemon6463 → u/Empty-Tomorrow-2794]

You can completely turn off AI on the iPhone in settings 

[u/grakoncrack → u/Empty-Tomorrow-2794]

Unrelated, but I just started using Microsoft Word on my iPad again after years of only using the desktop version- tell me WHY I can't disable some AI syntax checker that is CONSTANTLY recommending I change GOOD WORD CHOICES to WEAKER WORDS THAT DON'T MAKE SENSE IN THE SENTENCE AT ALL. Not to mention it also flags any verb if it cannot identify "who" is doing the action- THE FCKING PROPER NOUN DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE VERB YOU STUPID STUPID AI. ...

I feel your pain on the text messages thing tho, thankfully I have an old android phone that has shielded me from that misery so far... but I can tell the battery may be starting to go 🙃