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In reply to the discussion: So what's so bad about using AI any way? [View all]ShepKat
(564 posts)9. never used it, and feel no attraction to do so
I won't even click on those youtube links with the misleading AI graphics to 'entice' viewers.
I'd rather use my brain, critical thinking skills and heart.
Not into relying on something that can be tweaked and manipulated by nefarious others.
I won't own a spy phone either.
Altho, It has promise in some specific 'channels' like detecting disease in medical situations.
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Communities are rising up across the nation in nonpartisan opposition to data centers
Fiendish Thingy
38 min ago
#47
Using AI requires unquestioning trust and a suspension of critical thinking.
Fiendish Thingy
4 hrs ago
#16
the problem with AI is separating fact from fiction and knowing what is real vs fake
msongs
10 hrs ago
#4
It's an AI problem because generative AI hallucinates and is a pretense of intelligence, a fancy autocomplete
highplainsdem
2 hrs ago
#24
"I read about an AI agent which bought itself a robot so it could interact in the physical world"
Polybius
5 hrs ago
#12
You think? How about the experiment they did a couple of months ago where they
Scrivener7
4 hrs ago
#20
I guess you've missed the recent news stories about how much younger people dislike genAI.
highplainsdem
3 hrs ago
#21
From Futurism today: Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers
highplainsdem
1 hr ago
#42
After you work all day talking to an algorithm, will it still remember to pick up milk?
Emile
5 hrs ago
#13
AI destroys critical thinking and makes the whole world dumber and more pliable for the oligarchs. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
4 hrs ago
#14
Re DUers posting and sometimes creating AI images - it makes DU look much less liberal than it should
highplainsdem
3 hrs ago
#22