Everywhere you go it’s all AI I hate it so much.
On Reddit it’s all bots reposting stuff from years ago and its all the same unfunny shit. Also it’s not like it’s a repost once and do it again years later I’ll sometimes see the same posts get reposted weekly.
These reposts are all on the top page page to wanna know why? Because AI is upvoting it and commenting on it. It’s all one massive AI circle jerk.
I’ll check the comments and it’s AI arguing with AI or worse people arguing with AI or it’s people using an AI to check if the post is a reposting fuck offfffffff.
On YouTube it’s either a full AI script with an AI voice or a real people reading off some bullshit script that I’m convinced was written by AI.
“Why [insert topic] was/is so popular” “Why [insert topic] failed/is failing”
You’ll go into the comments of these videos and it’s all fucking AI istg I’m about to crash out writing this rant it pisses me off so much.
Maybe it isn’t AI but it feels like it and I hate it! I’ve been marking these videos as “not interested” but YouTubes dumbass AI algorithm can’t take a hint because 20 more similar videos will start getting recommended it’s like cockroaches.
Even the YouTube ads are just AI gooner bait bullshit my little sister unwillingly sees that shit daily when all she wants to do is watch a drawing tutorial or a cartoon.
I don’t use TikTok or Instagram and the rest of the slop there is like Twitter but I just know those places are the garbage dump of the internet. More than half the accounts are just AI, basically my Reddit rant but amplified 10x I won’t go further into those websites.
If I Google or even DuckDuckGo something the first result is fucking an AI answer and sometimes it’ll link me to an article or video made by a fucking AI usually trying to sell me something instead of giving me what I’m looking for.
I run a website and even there in my fucking comments an AI is advertising.
I’ll open up Apple music and I don’t even know if the music it recommends me is made my an AI.
On amazon there are AI books being sold and they aren’t even trying to hide it and I mean real books not audio book but real you can hold it in your hand books who is the idiot buying that shit because someone obviously is since they keep making them???
Even video games aren’t safe the fucking Playstation store is full of AI slop games. Same question whose buying this shit?
Don’t get me started on students. I’m being hypocritical because if ChatGPT was around when I was in school I would’ve done the same but that doesn’t change the fact AI is making the modern student dumber. Most of them who use AI aren’t learning anything they just have AI spit out inaccurate information. Even if the student isn’t making the AI write there paper for them but actually tries using it as a tool to help them with their education it still spits out inaccurate information and how is the student even suppose to know if it’s accurate or not since they are currently learning about the topic. I feel bad for teachers having to rot their brains away reading AI slop.
It’s literally everywhere you can’t escape it and it’s not even useful, it’s harmful and it’s probably slowing down the internet for all of us.
AI is one of the biggest inefficiencies in human history I’m convinced I have no proof but it doesn’t take a genius to see that. People are in coal mines ruining themselves so some fucking porn bot can comment OF advertisement. AI isn’t only taking needed resources from the poorest people but from all of us. Except the people who can afford it.
I can’t wait for AI to fuck off and die so we can start progressing again. Seriously humans made one of the most impressive pieces of code ever written and it resulted in the pollution of the internet. The biggest source of information polluted with harmful useless garbage. Humans managed to pollute something that doesn’t even exist in the real world.
Do people grasp just how much energy GenAI guzzles?
If it were used for cancer research, maybe I’d be down with it.
But no, it’s used by some kids to make memes, create sloppy TikTok content, rewrite emails in posh English that are harder to read, create stereotypical game and movie scripts, reject perfectly qualified people by HR automated CV sorters, dumbs students, creates more fake news, and slightly helps programmers write code faster.
It’s appalling. If everyone saw it for what it is, a garbage generator, we’d all be in a better place. But that’s not the case, so here we fucking are.
If it were used for cancer research, maybe I’d be down with it.
You’ll be glad to know that it has been used for exactly this - and has been extremely successful!
But I do agree with the rest of your sentiment towards AI
I didn’t watch the whole video, but I’m assuming it’s about the neural network / reinforcement learning / deep learning kind of AI, which is not GenAI. AlphaFold and such. The more recent version incorporates a diffusion model as one of the steps, which is similar to what LLMs use, but it’s not the main driver.
Even if it was using LLM technology, it was trained on a data bank of proteins, not god damn Reddit.
OpenAI, Anthropic and the like have nothing to do with it. They are just wasteful.
I have no problem with AI in general, only with the GenAI parasites.
If you want to disable ai garbage in ddg you can use : https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ with ublacklist and the ai blocklist https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
DDG also has settings to turn off the AI overview everywhere.
Yes but you need to give in and set persistent cookies.
noai.duckduckgo.com is what should be default, not the reverse.
Looks like this one is also available for text SEO content. https://github.com/NotaInutilis/Super-SEO-Spam-Suppressor
Thanks I didn’t know this one
Is the noai domain actually working properly? I absolutely hate the LLM generated “description” that ddg started showing since some time ago, which replaced what the website provides, usually starting with “Learn about …”. Even with that domain I get them and I can’t really tell the difference between that and the normal one…
Thanks for this I didn’t know these existed.
I was so sick of all the ai crap on YouTube that I just turned off YouTube recommended altogether (get the YouTube unhooked extension and you can also hide shorts and comments if you choose). Going down the rabbit hole used to be fun when it was nerds explaining their current hyperfixation and all, but with so much slop it’s just angering
I work at a tiny little “MSP” (computer guys for companies who are too cheap or dumb to hire their own tech people) and I’m down to the only human being who doesn’t use AI. 3 people surrounding me on this boat, all drilling holes in it while I’m trying (and failing) to patch the holes. We’re sinking fast.
They just signed us up for an over $1,000 per month cost for a new EDR system that our clients won’t pay for and we can’t run.
Fuck it. I’m full Carlin. I no longer consider myself a part of the human race. I’m something different, sitting here watching the fall of civilization from the front row.I’m into electronics repair and I’m creating a tips and trick list for most of the electronics that come into repair shops based off real information.
I plan to include everything I can for every scenario because when I need to fix something niche without a lot of information about it I’ll be fucked when I Google the issue and the top results are all AI guides or I’ll ask on Reddit and AI comments how to fix it. (I know the Reddit example isn’t a thing yet I hope but who knows.)
I recommend whenever you fix a niche unique problem just quickly write down how you did it so that information isn’t forgotten it’s really helpful and saves time.
Oh friend I’ve got NOTES
Yeah hang onto that, someday you and I and OP will be contributing to a federated repairWiki of some kind.
If that ever happens I’ll send you money for a beer.
federated repairWiki
Doo eeet
I just might create a forum for general electronic repair ranging from generic OS virus cleaning to hard repairs like micro soldering and everything inbetween.
If you’re going to post it online, you should look into AI poisoning. I haven’t really looked into it too much for text information, but I know some content creators implement it into their videos or images.
Sorry if you already know this, but just posting in case someone doesn’t:
AI poisoning is basically finding a way to embed data into your content so that it fucks up LLMs when they try to ingest your content.
I know I’m swimming upstream by saying this but there’s nothing wrong with using AI at an MSP. It can be pretty helpful with scripting in powershell and bash, and it’s a great aid for documentation and training if you follow the “Camcorder Method”.
As for EDR if they can’t sell that in 2025 then it’s time to look for another employer. It’s nearly a checkbox item just like Managed Anti-Virus was back in the 2010s.
Agree to disagree. I’ve never seen anything of value from AI other than my coworkers being completely dead wrong on a subject because they refuse to scroll past the AI answer or “summary”.
I have friends at Facebook. I keep asking them. Why are they letting their site implode on itself with so many Ai bots making a bulk of the content on the website. None of them have a good response. Good for them for having the super well paying jobs. But for how long will advertisers believe this lie. That people are interacting with their ads.
This post is so long, I had ChatGPT summarize it for me.
I wanted to use my super amazing Samsung AI to summarise the post, but it tells me it can’t because it contains ‘inappropriate content’ :(
(The words ‘fuck’ and ‘shit’ are enough, apparently)
Even more reason to say those words.
Here is what Kagi AI said about your text:
The author expresses strong frustration with the pervasive presence of AI across various online platforms. They criticize Reddit for being dominated by bots that repost unoriginal content, leading to a repetitive and unengaging experience. YouTube is similarly condemned for featuring AI-generated scripts and voices, with comment sections filled with AI interactions rather than genuine discussions. The author feels overwhelmed by AI recommendations on platforms like Google and Apple Music, questioning the authenticity of the content. They lament the impact of AI on students, arguing that it hinders learning by providing inaccurate information. The author also highlights the commercialization of AI, with AI-generated books and games flooding the market. They perceive AI as an inefficiency that detracts from meaningful human progress, equating its influence to pollution in the digital realm. Ultimately, the author longs for a future without AI, believing it stifles creativity and genuine interaction online.
(don’t ban me, I hate AI too)
I had ChatGPT summarize
I hope it changed kid-pidgin like ‘istg’ to English.
We really should address that. I think we need laws and regulation to force AI content to be marked as such. That’d immediately solve 99% of this issue. I believe China already passed some law about AI content labeling very recently. We should take inspiration from that.
AI content doesn’t need to exist at all the few benefits don’t outweigh all the negatives.
I think that’s a good example for “Perfect is the enemy of good.” You want to go 100%. I offered a solution that’d get us at least somewhere. But compromising to stay at 0% would be the worst option. I’d still do it, because it’s so easy to do. And then see if we can do more.
I would take laws and regulation over nothing any day, but marking content as “AI” doesn’t solve the bigger problems.
Well, for a starter you could activate a filter and it’d all vanish from your browser. Pupils couldn’t cheat any more in homework assignments, since the watermarking would immediately flag the homework as generated by AI. And you’d have a clear indication in Apple music or even a button to suppress it. Also some of the fabricated or doctored images would have a label next to them, distinguishing them from real photos, for example in news articles or blog posts that’d be helpful.
Of course with enough time and effort, some people will be able to circumvent it. But it’ll alleviate some of the pain. And make it way harder for them to pull this off. And cover most of it, since most of it is low effort.
Ok let’s say the United States passes a law where AI content needs to be water marked.
That won’t stop an AI company from a different country hosting their servers in a different country.
A water mark might be easily removed for the most part also.
That also means human moderators need to step in and check if let’s say a song is AI.
You can make the audio file of the song state “This is AI music” or something but anyone can edit that out.
In theory in could work but in practice it could make things worse.
AI generates water marked image > Different AI removes it is a basic example.
That’ll use more energy than just having the first AI generate non water marked image.
The US could work with other countries to implement an international standard.
It won’t. But it could!
Not every country will agree and some might be interested in having companies like OpenAI moving to their country and investing in the country.
Yeah, My reasoning is more, like 80% of the AI companies and services are from the USA. If they passed a law, that’d have you covered for the biggest chunk of it. Plus Europe has similar ideas and the Chinese have already done it. Sure, theoretically we could have companies someplace else, but that’s few and far between. You’d catch most of it and that’s a good start.
And my other thought process is: People use AI specifically to do things in a low-effort way. Because they don’t want to put in a lot of work. They’re unlikely to be willing to jump through several hoops. That’s why they used AI in the first place. We can catch the majority of them just by adding a small hurdle. And that’s again a large chunk of the AI use cases we can catch. And it all adds up.
But yes, there are a few people with different motives. They’ll use AI but not because it’s a low effort way to do something, but they have enough energy to buy a graphics card for $1,000, go through the tedious process of removing watermarking (which isn’t easy if done right)… And I don’t have a good solution for those.
There is 2 type of AI content generating users at least from what I understand.
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Normal people who makes stupid memes, emojis and whatever else. They don’t care if their AI generated emoji has a watermark since these pictures are used in 1 on 1 chat or group chats with few people.
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People who profit off this and are the cause of most of the slop seen on front pages. These people use AI to either data harvest for profit or make content for profit and as long as it makes them money they’ll jump though as many hoops as they need to.
The people who create AI generated content for profit are the biggest problem they have AI working 24/7 spitting out crap for their AI generated TikTok page and usually generate more than an average user might over the course of months.
There is of course more than just that example.
Books Music Ads Comments Games Code
These are the examples I can think of the top of my head.
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Yeah, My reasoning is more, like 80% of the AI companies and services are from the USA. If they passed a law, that’d have you covered for the biggest chunk of it.
Guess where they are working on passing a law to ban regulation of AI for a decade? Sure, the current version was just defeated, but the odds of flipping completely and actually regulating AI are absolutely nil.
I’m pretty sure an AI wrote this rant.
I hope you are joking?
You didn’t hate AI. You hate people abusing technology.
Even if people didn’t abuse it and used it for it’s intended purpose AI is stupid.
These companies include “ai isn’t accurate” or something along the lines of that on their website.
But if it isn’t accurate whats the point of anyone using it since after it gives me false information I’ll go Google the answer or ask for an answer on a forum?
If it’s not accurate whats the point of it being at the top of my search result??
AI doesn’t need to be there at all if I have to look for the answer to my question elsewhere.
So people use a bunch of electricity just for a non accurate answer then use more electricity to look up the answer elsewhere.
You ever try to figure out which Pokemon was the first ever designed or which was the first ever in lore?
You can get a complete answer to this with a simple question from AI services. Otherwise you’re the one wading through esoteric nerd posts and ads on five different forums for probably about 5-10 minutes. Most of them now list references along with their answers and if they didn’t, you can request them to check the answers. You can then have a followup question, like who designed the first Pokemon or whether the game objectives ever changed from the original concept.
AI services can easily summarize and synthesize this information for you. The issue is that people abuse this to plagiarize and not use their own brains to review and verify any of this information.
As for genAI, it also has its legitimate uses for generating placeholders, templates, and the scaffolding for your or others’ art. The tools are great ways for people to get started on their creative journeys, but most people just think it’s for generating the finished product, which is not.
You can get a complete answer to this with a simple question from AI services. Otherwise you’re the one wading through esoteric nerd posts and ads on five different forums for probably about 5-10 minutes.
You cannot trust the information AI gives you because the chance of it being inaccurate is high even for basic questions.
Most of them now list references along with their answers and if they didn’t, you can request them to check the answers. You can then have a followup question
If I have to go around the places it linked and check the data myself because I’m so use to the AI lying to me whats the difference from just manually looking up the answer?
As for genAI, it also has its legitimate uses for generating placeholders, templates, and the scaffolding for your or others’ art.
Is that worth all the power usage? Can you not create your own art template like people have been doing for decades?
If it’s not accurate, what’s the point of it being at the top of my search results?
Imagine this scenario. You are like… 6 years old and you decide you want (or your parents send you) to play an instrument, let’s say the guitar.
You just started it, had a few lessons already with your teacher, and soon it’s Christmas, so the music school where you learn to play guitar has a Christmas event where all their students play something for an audience, as a small concert.
So, you have been playing the guitar for half or even one year now. And you know what? Objectively speaking, you are a terrible guitar player. Obviously, since you just started to learn that goddamn thing. But of course, you are just 7 years old now and you are cute with a large 4/4 guitar in your hands, and your mother loves every second of it, and it’s wholesome… but there will be people in that audience who would do just anything to not listen to that, because they don’t care that it’s you, or that you are 7 or just playing guitar for less than one year.
So if you play like shit, what’s the point of playing in a concert or even playing the guitar in the first place?
And it can be worse; let’s say your music school was sponsored by Coca-Cola, and now all their advertisements for the following few years will include you, or guitar players just like you, in their ads. Everyone has to listen to it at least once a day who watches TV, and their favorite channel has those ads. They are here for some Family Guy, but still have to listen to some kids struggling on their guitars for 40 seconds just to be reminded that Coca-Cola is a thing.
But what they don’t know is that since you continued to play the guitar, go to lessons, maybe study some solfege, practice, and play in concerts and competitions, after some time, you could become a decent guitarist. Not necessarily the best, but a decent one. Maybe you could base a career on playing the guitar. Who knows?
(Note: I have absolutely nothing against kids learning to play the guitar. That’s a badass thing.)
In this scenario the child is learning based off real updated information directly from the teacher.
When an AI is training it’ll take any information even inaccurate or outdated information and it doesn’t know that after it’s done training it’ll spit that outdated inaccurate information back at you.
See the differences?
When the child is at his school concert yes he is terrible but the people who went to that concert went there willingly most likely knowing it’s going to suck because it’s a school that teaches kids to play guitar and the kid doesn’t put strain on the power grid when he does it.
When I Google something I unwillingly am shown a stupid AI generated prompt with inaccurate information which does put strain on the power grid.
And it can be worse; let’s say your music school was sponsored by Coca-Cola, and now all their advertisements for the following few years will include you, or guitar players just like you, in their ads. Everyone has to listen to it at least once a day who watches TV, and their favorite channel has those ads. They are here for some Family Guy, but still have to listen to some kids struggling on their guitars for 40 seconds just to be reminded that Coca-Cola is a thing.
But what they don’t know is that since you continued to play the guitar, go to lessons, maybe study some solfege, practice, and play in concerts and competitions, after some time, you could become a decent guitarist. Not necessarily the best, but a decent one. Maybe you could base a career on playing the guitar. Who knows?
When you say this I assume you are talking about AI generated slop?
The kid got better with time and skill and everyone can look at that and be impressed because they can’t easily do it.
When I see AI slop no matter how it looks I don’t care if it’s 1:1 to real life a human didn’t make that.
I don’t want to watch a movie from an AI because it didn’t take skill or time to create it and anyone can make a similar copy.
Whenever I see an animated music video it makes me want to cry because there was real thoughts, emotions, time and skill put into the work and the result is beautiful.
Now lets say an AI generated a song and an animated music video for it would it feel the same? Would you still care since you can make a basically identical result in a few minutes?
This analogy doesn’t really work. The point of going to a child’s concert isn’t to hear good music, it’s to celebrate and encourage the child for attempting to learn something new. Nobody in that audience is relying on the musical accuracy of the children.
A better analogy would be a professional orchestra that fires half its members and replaces them with inexperienced children. The orchestra mentions this change to no one, but continues selling tickets for $200. The audience rightly expects to hear accurate, professional music, because that’s what was advertised. But what they get instead is the quality of an elementary school concert.
That’s right. But the overuse of AI is dangerous.
As long as it hallucinates, I will hate AI.
People make shit up too because they’re lazy, ignorant, stupid, malicious, or misinformed. At least with AI you can tell it to cite its sources and it’ll have them. If you hate AI because it hallucinates, one can easily extend this reasoning to suggest you hate people too.
