Step 1: AI is not your friend
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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Step 2: Do not use.
Step 3: Throw your electronics away, join Canada in negative per capita productivity growth.
I can’t tell if this based or sarcastic
How about we tackle the environmental issues that Ai is causing before talking about using Ai “responsibly”
Any use of Ai in its current form is not responsible or ethical. It’s an environmental disaster and threatens to harm the collective intelligence of every citizen.
Ai is another way to lower the intelligence of the general population and keep them under corporate control.
There could be a component of the training. E.g. use a calculator to compute math instead of AI.
What intelligence is there, we can't even build homes for people given the overbearing regulation by mouth breathers. AI has the potential to eradicate all this bureaucracy.
Ai has the potential to eradicate all this bureaucracy
Fuck that is the most ridiculous take.
Ai is only going to dumb down the general public while obfuscating data harvesting and manipulating opinions to the will of the owning class.
You have an optimistic opinion on aggregate intelligence as is then.
They literally make people dumber:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/
They are a massive privacy risk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg&t=3015s
And they are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
They are a massive environmental disaster:
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
So no. I’m not optimistic.
Calculators also made people dumber, but the world goes on with technology elevating peoples ability to be productive despite being dumber. Trying to stop technological progress is never going to be a good thing, you can scare monger all you want that it will turn us all fascist but youre no different than those complaining about cars or the internet.
If calculators routinely gave the wrong answer this would be more compelling.
We better do something like China does with the great firewall, before the sky falls.
That's such a non sequitur I don't even know what you're trying to communicate
The technological progress LLMs represent has come to completion. They're a technological dead end. They have no practical application because of hallucinations, and hallucinations are baked into the very core of how they work. Any further progress will come from experts learning from the successes and failures of LLMs, abandoning them, and building entirely new AI systems.
AI as a general field is not a dread end, and it will continue to improve. But we're nowhere near the AGI that tech CEOs are promising LLMs are so close to.
How long have you been under the influence of Ai? Cause I think you are starting to show symptoms.
You see, a calculator actually functions and doesn’t make shit up. Pretty simple concept.
People who are pro-AI seem so weird and dystopian, people who are anti-AI seem logical and reasonable, but my employer requires us to use AI, and I've even been forced to work on multiple AI projects recently. It does seem it's unavoidable unfortunately, but honestly Copilot has given me some of the most useful autocompletions I've ever had, especially for tedious things like logging, and I've had good luck with ChatGPT assisting with tedious things as well like writing both scaffolding and queries. Considering all of that, I'm torn on AI. I am afraid of the consequences of AI, the fallout of all of it, but I also do find AI/LLMs useful in my day-to-day job and I'm required to use them for my day-to-day job as well.
For a moment there I thought this was an onion article; Ai propagandists never cease to amaze me!
Learning about how AI works and what it is/isn't good at, is a good thing? It will most likely make kids use generative AI less, and be careful about what they use it for
If AI literacy requires an individual to be able to clearly explain how AI technologies work… then even data scientists are AI illiterate.
AI is American hoax to win over China.
Too bad Canadians fell for it.
AI is American hoax to win over China.
What do you mean?
AI race with China is artificially created to justify private and public money funding the AI and making it an industry.