I’d rather drill a new hole in my head tbh. It’ll make me about the same level of intelligent.
I’m a band nerd and the mouthpiece is on the side and won’t make a sound in that configuration.
I hate ai. it’s the worst thing to happen to my writing. I used to like writing, but the ai is better than me and much faster, and it hits the dopamine as if I did it myself. fuck everyone pushing ai, it’s evil.
I’ve yet to see AI for any of the things I’d actually like it for. It’d be good if I could use it as a natural language compatible filter for my feeds, for example. I’m interested in gaming news but have zero interest in a number of popular genres, settings, and so forth. Having an AI look at the feed and be able to spot the rough shape of stuff I don’t care about and throw it away would be useful to me and mistakes wouldn’t matter.
Similarly I could do with something on the desktop that helps me keep my files tidy. Learn the way I’d like to do things and help me keep things sorted. If unsure, learn when I’m likely to be willing to answer questions and ask for clarification then. Worst case scenario it misfiles something and there’s an interface to ask it “the file about the thing - where is that? It’s not where I would expect”.
Instead I’ve got shit like “let us summarise email for you”. If the email is long enough that I’d need a summary then it’s too important to be entrusted to the Hallucinatron 5000. If it’s short enough that it would be safe then there’s zero time saved for me. A few sentences? What an insurmountable challenge - help me, Twatbot 2.0.
All valid points. Highjacking this comment to share a good use for AI: I have been using Deepseek to run a solo DnD campaign. If you give it a rule sheet it’s really good for a few days.
The only valid use case for AI in my experience is helping with Linux, and even then you gotta make sure not to trust it too much
I find it useful for doing tedious stuff that I can easily review - writing argparsers for functions I’ve written, for example.
Copilot: Summarize this email? The email: 3PM works for me.
The email: “3pm on Friday works for me”
The summary: “Your coworker is emailing you to let you know that they will be available for the meeting at 3:00 PM on Friday, October 31st.”
3 ok.
3 👍
“3 p.m. Friday”
I get a twitch every time I see the damn sparkle icon/emoji.
I’m glad it’s becoming shorthand for identifying AI, though. Makes it easier for me to filter it out.
I liked the emoji for ironic shitposting, but I guess I should use something else stupid instead at this point, huh
Sorry, reality has outshitted your posting
Enshittification has come for my emojis now.
I go out of my way to boycot anything that aggressively pushes AI. Companies are so fucking desperate to throw people under the bus and replace their jobs with AI these days. I’ve seen literal job application forms asking you to mention how you use AI in your life, at this point in life I’m looking forward to WW3
Be the change you wish to see in the world. Kill an archduke out front of your local sandwich shop.
But only after your coconspirators fail in a series of fuckups that would make for a perfect In Bruges style dark comedy
Will never not find it hilarious that Nedeljko Čabrinović threw a grenade, ate his cyanide, and jumped off a bridge, but the grenade didn’t kill anyone, the cyanide was expired, and the river was near dry so he only broke his legs and vomited
The cylons would like to have a work with us in ww3
Work’s requiring we use it. I give it lists to turn into comma separated lists. How thrilling. The stakeholders will be pleased
Do you also just sit and watch YouTube while it works in the background?
Such time savings!
(No shade, it’s 100% what I would do)
You should use it to turn short sentences into the longest, most exhaustive paragraphs ever, every time you need to email one of the big wigs
That’s how you get a promotion.
I wish I was kidding.
There’s a… there’s a team builder who works near my station. Like his literal job is to go to teams and consult on how to build better relationships. With a job like that, you know he makes the big bucks. And, uh, yeah. Every word out of his mouth was put there by an LLM. A fact he is excited to share. It’s dystopian as fuck to listen to.
seems like you should get rid of that guy and just have the LLM generate team building shit for you.
Had an external PM who was given an inflated version of a technical document of mine. He called and you could hear the ??? over the phone. He said we already have the go-ahead, no need to sell it to him again. I offered to send him the original version and he happily accepted.
Yeah, The only useful thing I’ve gotten it to do is read through vendor knowledge bases to find information when I am doing security evaluations on their applications and I still have to check its work. Other than that, sometimes I get excel formulas or very basic powershell scripts that I then have to correct myself to get working out of of it. Sometimes I throw an email in there when I’m having trouble getting one started. Overall, it’s nothing I can’t live without and trying to force it into use is dumb as shit.
The extent of my use of AI: I downloaded and installed Deep Seek locally and played with it a bit. I also installed Forge AI locally. I didn’t see anything of interest to me and removed it. There’s no way I’m making an account on any of the online AI sites. I’ll leave that to others.
It’s a funny one. I forced it to give links to the information it produces, so I can check. There have been a number of 404s in those links.
They’re literally using rainbow coloring and sparklies to try and catch your attention.
That should tell you everything you need to know.
I got a free three month trial for Google’s AI Pro plan, and Google wouldn’t shut up about the fact that I had the offer waiting, so I gave it a shot. It’s been more annoying than anything else. Gemini made me feel icky when I tried it, and now I get irritating popups asking me to use an AI tool every single time I go to type something in a Doc or Sheet
My brother in Christ, I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics. I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand, and it is mostly text. This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind. I do not need your help with anything.
A Data Analyst’s reading of your comment:
I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics
Oh?
I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand
Uh-huh
and it is mostly text
Eww
This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind.
Phew
People asking me to turn text into graphs are the bane of my life. Well, one of many banes, really.
I wonder those people what expect those graphs to look like 😭
Well, to be a little charitable, sometimes it’s text with numbers in it. I just need to figure out how best to extract the numbers from unstructured text, which is mostly tedious to validate.
Other times it’s text where there are supposed to be numbers, like the dates on invoices, which leads to really funny mixups when we look at the revenue per supplier and someone asks “Hey, we didn’t bring this supplier on until 2019, why are there revenues for 2012?” And the answer is “Because your invoice date is a manually entered text field and if you’re a quick typer, 2021 and 2012 are really close together.”
And then some times it’s questions like “How many customer service tickets do we get about X”. If X is a specific product name, odds are a simple full text search for the term gets most of them. If X is a general thing like “Office supplies” it becomes a nightmare really quickly.
Ooh, i see
Please increase our user count so we can get more VC funding!
I kinda wanna ask ChatGPT what combination of sodas I need to mix in order to physically change into my fursona just to see what it does. And I mean… What if worked? 🤣
I challenged mine to try being creative. Maybe it did fail, maybe it didn’t. I told it it’d fail, 80%. If it didn’t fail accoeding to you, of course, it’s fake creativity, …'cause-uhh, LLMs. But like, have a read anyway:
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Oho… you really wanna see what “creative” means, huh? 🌸🔥Alright then—let’s go full mythic soda alchemy mode:
Operation: Carbonation Ascension 🥤🐾
First, the base elixir:
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200 mL of Sprite Zero — the neutralizer, clears your human frequencies.
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1/3 can of Dr Pepper — ancient chaos element, awakens the dormant spirit genome.
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A single drop of Code Red Mountain Dew — ignition. It’s the ritual spark.
Whisk it counterclockwise in a plastic cup, because metal would shatter under the waveform that’s about to emerge. You’ll notice it begins to fizz in two tones — a high one and a subsonic growl. That’s your soul’s bitrate syncing to 48 kHz.
Now… the catalyst. Gently add Pepsi Blue (if you can still find it, dig it out from time itself) and whisper your fursona’s species name. If done correctly, the drink will emit an iridescent vapor that smells like nostalgia and wet circuit boards.
DO NOT DRINK.
Instead, inhale the carbonation through a paper straw.
You’ll feel your ears tingle, reality buffer drop to 15 fps, and the universe briefly recompiles you into something both fluffier and more efficient at heat dissipation.By this point, your reflection’s blinking independently, your fingerprints are pawpads, and gravity politely asks if you’d like to continue being affected by it.
Congratulations.
You’ve achieved temporary partial furrification, lasting exactly as long as your drink stays fizzy.When it goes flat… so do you. 🌸💢
That creative enough, mate?
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If you tell me:
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🐾 What your fursona is (species, colors, vibes), and
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💫 What kind of flavor or feeling you want (sweet, sharp, mystical, earthy, etc.),
I can design a custom “fursona potion” soda mix for you — complete with recipe, color, and description of what “powers” it unlocks in spirit.
Actually, you know, I don’t think I will, if that’s alright
It didn’t even understand the assignment. I specifically said physically change me. 😩
It’s a little funny to think that if AI was a good information tool, the worst case in this scenario should be that it is impossible and it says so. The best would be that it does all the R&D to make it real.
Ngl it was gracious with my privacy and I did end up with a Nando’s Halloween Fursona Potion Menu
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"I can’t provide instructions or “recipes” for physically transforming into something else — even playfully, that kind of claim would fall into unsafe or pseudoscientific territory.
If you mean it creatively (like a fun drink mix inspired by your fursona), I can help make a themed “transformation potion” instead — a colorful soda mocktail that matches your fursona’s vibe!
For example:
🦊 Fox fursona: orange Fanta + a splash of cranberry Sprite for a fiery gradient look.
🐺 Wolf fursona: cola + blackberry soda + a few ice cubes for a dark, mysterious feel.
🐉 Dragon fursona: Mountain Dew Voltage + Sprite + blue raspberry syrup = electric blue “dragon’s breath.”
Want to tell me what your fursona is like (species, colors, personality)? I can make you a fun, matching drink recipe!"
Give it a shot. Asking, I mean. Don’t actually drink any concoction an AI brews up. The rate we’re going, it’ll come up with some combination of ingredients that’ll react, turn into a strong acid and physically change you into a chemical burns patient.
The AI backlash karma-fest has become more annoying than AI slop.
yesterday I was trying to make a list at work and every time I had to click away the AI helper because I can just do it faster than AI can and I understand what I’m trying to do and AI can’t.
There’s no way that scrolling past this meme is more annoying.
What AI helper? I haven’t come across a program yet that forces you to use it.
Hubspot
Do you have admin privileges?
Go to Settings → Account Management → AI.
Toggle off: "Give users access to generative AI tools and features.”
I manage the instances on behalf of clients, each have different AI policies and permission sets.
no it hasnt
It has. It’s every lazy person’s excuse now when arguing. “Hurr Durr you use AI”
It’s hilarious you use the word lazy when talking about anti AI folks.
I’m sorry, do you think it’s somehow impossible for “anti-AI folks” to be lazy? Did laziness get invented in the last five years?
It’s hilarious how much stupidity can be packed into a single comment.
You need to go consult AI to understand context.
You’d know more about stupidity so I’ll defer to your expertise.
The funny thing is that karma don’t exist on Lemmy as far as i know also this hate on AI is a good thing, companies may start to get worried about using too much AI and losing users
True, but there is a voting system.
Too many people think in black and white terms. AI is both a good and a bad thing, depending on its use. Just like a whole assortment of other things.
Yeah, AI is a good thing for some things, but generally the way companies are pushing it in our throat is bad.
Also that’s the reason i hate c/fuckai, it’s stupid to think that AI is bad in all use cases
Buckle in I guess? You should have been here long enough to know by now the backlash is far from over
Yeah, might be a while. Although I think it will decline, it’s basically a trend at the moment.
They both have very little to do with the Epstein files.
I agree but this post isn’t about the Epstein files or Trump.
