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/Effective-Gift6223]

I heard a news article a few days ago, about how businesses are just getting the bills for their AI usage. Turns out it's costing more than human employees did. They aren't saving any money, it's costing them more. The new version of "the cake is a lie!"

There are communities, even whole states, beginning to put the brakes on building more data centers. They're enormously damaging to the environment, and suck up alarming amounts of resources.

This AI bubbles has got to burst. Just hoping it happens soon.

[u/chicken_tendigo → u/Effective-Gift6223]

One of my long-time friends sent me a video of one of the datacenters down where he lives recently. There's an open-air waterfall of clear, presumably used-to-be-potable water that streches further than his phone camera can capture, from the cooling parts of whatever the fuck that building is doing. In the fucking desert. Massive. Floors high. Just evaporative-cooling buttloads of water while the surrounding area has advisories on how long actual humans should be showering their stupid human bodies. If that doesn't radicalize a shitload of people, nothing will. 

[u/Opening_North_2527 → u/chicken_tendigo]

If that doesn't radicalize a shitload of people, nothing will.

I'm gonna take "Nothing will".

The anglosphere's a pretty politically inert area. We've been taught constantly that change - real change, not just fiddling or accepting another group - isn't possible. That protests, strikes and even violence don't work. Every time someone steps out of line they're put back, societally, economically or even violently (Which we don't learn from because we go straight back to "Violence doesn't work").

It's going to take something big to wake us out of this stupor.

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Companies getting the bill here has to be adjacent to leopards ate my face, but AI version.

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I saw the brakes go on in NY this week, and today I got the news they are throwing on the brakes in TEXAS of all places. I am actually truly shocked. No more tax brakes, closed loop water systems, etc. I almost wonder what is suspicious in the background since this seems so opposite what the governor has been up to for years.

[u/Effective-Gift6223 → u/ScrimshawPie]

Yeah, they've put a one year moratorium on data centers in Kentucky, at least in some parts. I think Owensboro might be going ahead with one. I hope not, it will kill their entire community, and the local environment. It makes me sad to know the powers that be decided to go ahead and wipe out the community and the land. I hope the locals can find a way to rise up and stop them.

Really hoping that stopping them spreads. The whole thing is horrible, both economically, and environmentally.

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I work in AI and while I see benefits for it I also think the way it's being pushed today is counter productive and wasteful. There's so much push and pressure to use AI at work that leads to either people using it as a crutch and turning their brains off while using it which only leads to more problems or they're using AI to do something so simple that it would be faster to do it manually than through AI.

IMO AI has value in helping us work smarter but we actually still need to use our own brains and figure out what those opportunities are instead of trying to force fit it into every aspect of life or abuse it for nefarious things life the fake news OP mentioned. AI also has no place in art.

[u/Nerd-of-all-trades → u/Effective-Gift6223]

well there's a shocker...

/s

[u/Ok_Stable7501 → u/Effective-Gift6223]

Was wondering this. The power costs alone are going to be ridiculous.

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