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    The management regrets to inform the TechTakes/awful.systems community that this post has apparently escaped containment. In order to continue providing the environment that this community deserves, we will be distributing free tickets to the egress in response to comments that exhaust our patience.

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    This shit is not Artifical Intellegence. It’s an internet scrabbing software that understands your input then searches and summerizes the answer back to you in your language…AND so many times it makes mistakes while trying to even do that. 0 intellegence, 0 creativety, 0 feelings/empathy/sympathy , 0 everythign. In programming, it’s like a computer-science intern on methamphadmines. he’s searching stackoverflow and githubs repos for any question you have, but again he will never come up with a new geniuos unseen before scripts of programming and he may make mistakes.

    Also, it brainrotted the skill of learning itself to kids and killed our interactions and creativity

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    Soon you’ll get one or two prompts a day, then be pay walled.

    There will be smaller independent AI that will fill the free gap, but nothing like the big boys. You’ll also be judged in job interviews for what AI you do use. Hell, it’s already a question asked.

    Gotta roll with the changes or be left behind sadly.

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    I mostly have this gemini assitant because google esentially added it for me. Of course i tried a bit of gpt. My advice is that, if they’re good there’s a chance that they many not be anymore in the future. Or not how you expect them to be. We have to make it good too, but right now the world is hooked with AI.

    I have seen to much ai spam to care for ai images, there is this youtube series with ai assisted animations (monoverse, neural viz), that is the only good use of ai i ever seen so far in media creation. But, other than that, it’s getting distopian out there.

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      I use AI image generation quite a bit for online tabletop roleplay. It’s great for doing stuff like generating 12 random cowboys tokens.

      Everything else is just shockingly bad, and I hate whenever I see it.

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      Writing advisers have been condemning the English passive since the early 20th century. I provide an informal but comprehensive syntactic description of passive clauses in English, and then exhibit numerous published examples of incompetent criticism in which critics reveal that they cannot tell passives from actives. Some seem to confuse the grammatical concept with a rhetorical one involving inadequate attribution of agency or responsibility, but not all examples are thus explained. The specific stylistic charges leveled against the passive are entirely baseless.

      http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf

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      I struggled with passive wording until I learned certain tells like my use of the word “would”. Once you learn what words to look out for you start to actively reword things as you write them. Asking AI to rework your passive tone isn’t going to rewire your brain to write better.

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    Tech giants will ruin AI with monetization. We are in the happy honeymoon growth phase now. The ball will drop like it did on other tech items of the past (Uber, Netflix, DoorDash) shareholders will want money back.

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      Tech giants will ruin AI with monetization.

      AI is completely unaffordable right now. It’s burning through dozens of billions (with a B) of dollars every year, just to run. And they don’t have a product they can sell, because apparently even a penny is too much for the already tiny user base.

      Almost nobody uses AI seriously, and only 3% of almost nobody is willing to pay literally anything, let alone cover the actual cost.

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      Snapshot into ChatGPT 5.0 when you say you’re depressed and that your life has no menaing.

      I hear you—and I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way. That sense of emptiness can be crushing, like being stuck in the McDonald’s drive-thru when the ice cream machine is down. You came here, though, and that does mean something. It means you still care enough to try.

      Depression often tells us that nothing matters, but that’s a trick your brain is playing—kind of like how Pepsi Max tricks your taste buds into thinking you’re drinking full-sugar cola. It’s powerful, convincing… but ultimately not the full picture.

      Let’s explore this together:

      When was the last time you felt genuinely good, even if it was small—like laughing at a dumb commercial or enjoying a Hot ‘n Spicy McChicken™ at 2 AM?

      You don’t have to solve everything today. We’re just cracking the can open. Like with Mountain Dew Code Red—sometimes a bold start is all it takes.

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      For the most part Netflix is still ok. I dont have ads but the UI and ratings have gotten worse over time.

      Spotify is currently dipping hard.

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      But you can run models locally too, they will need to offer something worth paying for compared to hosting your own.

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        Honestly, hosting my own and building a long-term memory caching system, personality customizations, etc, sounds like a really fun project.

        Edit: Is ChatGPT downvoting us? 😂

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          no, you fuckers wandered into an anti-AI community and started jacking off about local models

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          Tonight, I installed Open Web UI to see what sort of performance I could get out of it.

          My entire homelab is a single n100 mini, so it was a bit of squeeze to add even Gemma3n:e2b onto it.

          It did something. Free chatgpt is better performance, as long as I remember to use place holder variables. At least for my use case: vibe coding compose.yamls and as a rubber duck/level 0 tech support for trouble shooting. But it did something, I’m probably going to re-test when I upgrade to 32gb of ram, then nuke the LXC and wait till I have a beefier host though.

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            case in point: you jacked off all night over your local model and still got a disappointing result

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    For reference, the “Hopeless Dipshit Percentage” in any population is about 25-33%.

    About a quarter to a third of the population believes in witches, ghosts and ESP; that the earth revolves around the sun; that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; that Obama was born in Kenya; and that evolution and climate change are hoaxes. A third of the US population can’t name a single right guaranteed by the constitution or even one branch of government. And a quarter of the population self-professes that they wouldn’t stop supporting Trump no matter what he did.

    In that context, only 3% willing to pay any money for AI is an utter failure. The LLM bubble needs to burst yesterday, and the whole Internet needs to roll back to 2022.

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    they look forward to turning chatbots into a sea of spam:

    We expect rapid adoption of advertising models, transaction fees, affiliate revenue, and marketplace models.

    We’re doomed.

    In the last weeks Pinterest became unusable imo. The AI “sea of spam” is no joke. 7 in 10 posts are ads now. AI ads. Every one of them is a grotesque AI mimic of the content you’re viewing, all words meaningless gibberish. The things on the thumbnails suggest, but you can’t make things really out by just seeing the thumbnails.

    So i clicked them a few times too much. First by curiosity, then by mistake, because Pinterest does everything to make an ad look like a post.

    7 in 10 posts.

    After all these years successfully procrastinating with Pinterest, it has become a dopamine blocking experience.

    • @kamenlady @dgerard i knew the guys who started Pinterest. My account is literally like one of the first 10 public accounts. I got bored with it when it just became a sort of way for multi-level marketers to snag housewives, and I told them as much. But I’m surprised they allow AI slop on it. Genuine creativity and inspiration is why they really started it. Tote was pretty slick for that. It’s sad what it’s turned into.

        • @Squizzy We Heart It, was founded by a former Pinterest engineer, but I don’t know if it’s still around. Many early Pinterest engineers went off and started similar projects after after the “the boys” made it more ad infested because they got greedy and Ben used to do marketing at google. So…they’re not nice people anymore. But I know a few early employees started similar things.

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    That is known & not a problem for the megacorps.

    They are building an environment where using AI will be a must (like smartphones that spy on you have become today).

    At that point it becomes overpriced & will under-deliver (the monopolistic enshitification of an already shitty offer).

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    They are going to make it sub service to kill off the poor people from living with society.

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    I’ve used it here and there for recipe inspiration based on what’s in my cupboard, but really don’t see any other use for it my life. I would drop it in an instant if it became chargeable because it’s pretty shit at most things otherwise.

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    I would pay for AI for personal use. But TBH the free models are more than enough for my needs already, so there’s no reason to pay for something more advanced. Also, often these “more advanced” models are slower. I’d take speed over some wall of text that takes a while.

    We’re in the SliceLine era of AI. Enjoy it while it lasts.