I have no need to use LLMs or other generative AI, and I have no desire to use them just because.

For creative outlets, it isn’t satisfying to me to use a tool that will instantly complete the task. If I’m prepping for a TTRPG session I would rather come up with the content myself, or use a random generator to give several ideas to build off of. I don’t have artistic skills, but I have more fulfilment from the basic drawings I can do, and for anything more complex I’ll just find something that comes closest to what I imagined as a visual aid.

For non-creative work, I can’t trust the results of an LLM to be factual. If I need to check the sources and confirm the output anyway, I might as well skip that step and just read the original sources myself. Or, use Wikipedia and other wiki sites as a quick reference for basic information and links to more detailed sources.

If I was working in a field that had to sit through large data sets or complex equations, I probably would look at machine learning models. But I don’t, so I have no need for it.

Genuine question, for people that regularly use AI (LLMs), why? What do you get out of it that makes you return to it again? Is it just convenience?

I think they are saying lemmings because they are addressing users of Lemmy, but still ironic

Could push it out of the way?

At this point they aren’t assholes, they are idiots. They genuinely think they are wearing it the right way, it isn’t from disdain for wearing the mask.

Really Dereked up this meme

Ex prince

And that is the (broken) promise of AI, to bridge that gap. It won’t, not for a long time, and not without great costs. And only if profit is not the motivation, so never.

I agree, and those “problems” will never be fixed by AI. Not everyone who laments that AI should make life easier is a supporter of AI, though. Sometimes it’s a general “[technological] advancement should be for the good of the people, not the good of the select shareholders”.

I am fully against the current application of AI and think it is a horrible waste in so many ways. Yes, the dream of a Star Trek like utopia with “good” AI applications is what my ideal is, but I know in the real world it just generated suffering. What it should do, and what it ever will do are two separate circles that don’t touch in the ven diagram.

That still requires gathering the dirty items together, loading/unloading, keeping track of when it is full/time to run. People saying this mean they want a robot like Rosie from the Jetsons to take care of that sort of housekeeping, not for a machine that makes the task easier to do themself.

Edit: to be clear, I don’t think a washer machine or dishwasher is a hassle and problem that needs solving, but that doesn’t take away from the message of “AI should help make life easier, not replace the creative outlets additional free time should allow”

Grew up in Northern PA and Jersey here, and same, all 3 are pronounced differently.

1970, Jan 1st is better for this situation

I disagree that it would be as clear that people would become less isolated. I do agree that people would adapt to life without Internet; we were there once before, we can be there again. However, this dismisses the good the internet has done and neglects to account for the reasons it has turned out the way it has.

I think people would fall into tribalism offline as much as they do online. Maybe it would be regional and physical community based, and they would have more social interaction -in person-, but they would still fall into little insular pockets of one form or another. The cure is a variety of interactions with people of different mindsets, whether that is online or offline. But we, as people, don’t like that. We like the comfy communities where we can form an echochamber together.

And this wouldn’t?

Man Shellfish has lived rent free in my mind for over a decade

Underrated joke

Nah, they slap it in like this while living in an apartment so all the other tenents can hear them play the same song on repeat for 5 hours!

Retail. It’s 100% on the companies for doing this, but cashiers, for example, usually have bare minimum staffing. If one cashier is late coming in, that probably delays someone’s lunch or someone getting to go home on time.

It’s not right, it’s not everywhere, and in a lot of places when you show up doesn’t/shouldn’t matter. But people should be mindful of the other people they impact. Slack off all you want at work, I don’t care unless it starts making more problems for me and the rest of the team.

I agree, because I’ve learned that is the best way to handle these situations, but it goes both ways. It also only takes a half a second for them to say “I’m just venting”, or “I don’t need a solution, I just need someone to listen”.

Works 100% of the time with a monthly nag screen doesn’t sound like it works 100% of the time.

I became a proponent for Linux not because “OMG Linux is so awesome and perfect!”, but because I was experiencing tons of issues on Windows (10) with driver and registry issues. I figured if I had to do the troubleshooting and fix a broken system anyway, I might as well do it on a system I actually had control over.

I started with dual-booting. I had a new storage drive I bought for the extra space, but said screw it and tried with installing Mint. I ended up only going to my Windows boot for adjusting RGB on a new mouse (it was too bright and I was too lazy to install openrgb for just that), and for a couple of larger games (I didn’t want to reinstall them because I had slow Internet at the time).

The only thing I still miss from Windows that I haven’t found on Linux is VoiceMeeter Banana. I had just started getting into refining my audio setup before I switched over for good, and I haven’t found a good audio mixer on Linux that works as well. Though, the main reason I was using VoiceMeeter was to more easily switch output devices inside games (sometimes the audio wouldn’t switch if the game was already launched), but that has never been an issue on Linux using the default audio mixer.

I didn’t think of my OS much before my switch, either. I agree that it is something most people just overlook because it “works well enough”. But I had gotten tired of complaining about how Windows is broken and difficult to work with under the surface, and at a certain point I decided to go for an alternative instead. It was one of the best choices I’ve made.

If Windows is working for you and you don’t have issues with it, then that is great for you and you are welcome to stay! However, if you have complaints about Windows and the direction Microsoft is taking it, you have a choice. Put up with it, or try something new. Both will take learning and getting used to, but one of them puts the control in your hands.