I am currently taking AI training and its making me angry. I am supposed to learn to use AI but the course is just teaching me how to train an LLM to take my job.
knotatumah on
I strongly feel tech bro’s *know* this disconnect exists but they dont care. They’re in a unique position where you almost *cannot* avoid their influence. You’re either using their hardware, apps, websites, or operating systems. Its a chance to force a new reality upon the masses and make it mandatory for existence. And the race is on to become the first to be indispensable: *”too big to fail”* on steroids where its not just a single company but an entire economy from consumer goods & services to every joe blow company that used the services to replace labor.
The disconnect is that we dont want it, we dont need it. But *they* want it and *they* need it and *they* control the means to make it happen whether we like it or not. We can only hope this whole thing topples over soon.
Squibbles01 on
We need a revolution against these evil AI fuckers.
From-UoM on
During the DotCom era there were great ideas like Amazon.com and bad ideas like Pets.com
Like the internet, ai will stay forever. Question is which companies will survive and actually build great and useful things.
He is usually pretty spot on with his predictions each year.
Independence-Rare on
Because Sam wants to create abundance…. His most overused buzzword.
KennyDROmega on
No it won’t.
Their audience is not and never has been the public. It’s strictly VCs.
To them, public backlash is just a sign the technology is getting better as intended, so they’ll continue to open their checkbooks.
Rinse, repeat.
helcat on
This is another in an endless stream of examples of people saying how much AI has helped them without saying how. Meanwhile my minimal encounters with it have been 90% negative. It tells me lies almost every time. When did XYZ die? Wrong. How much did I spend on XYZ website last year? Wrong. Once it helped me solve a difficult word puzzle. Once. I am highly skeptical these people who rave about how it helped them are getting good info.
AChinkInTheArmor on
The bubbles gonna pop any minute now…
Bob-BS on
Their goal is the Yarvin prophesized technofeudalism. They honestly don’t care about any backlash. In their view, they are superior to other people and deserve to have all the weath and means of automation. Look up Mendius Moldbug
TheForkisTrash on
Really it seems like every company collectively decided to ignore their customers since covid. I dont see why AI companies would be any different.
nosayso on
All that matters is money. Money buys politicians and public opinion, the same companies in the AI business have direct and significant control over government, social media, newspapers, and cable news.
People will believe what oligarchs tell them to believe, at least enough to keep the oligarchs chosen politicians in power.
We’re ruled by a geriatric pedophile racist who lies about immigrants eating cats because the oligarchs wanted it. Getting people to support AI is trivial next to that.
JellyDonutIV on
AI as proposed is the ultimate bread and circuses. These tech oligarchs really think “if we let them see their dog doing standup they’ll let us cook”. TBD of that holds but I don’t think it’s a good trade!
DarthJDP on
Why would the little people matter? They will simply get king doland to expand the mandate of ICE to round up anybody with seditious commentary – like criticizing the oligarchs and the AI they are selling and send them to el salvador.
SNTCTN on
I have a customer who in every conversation I have with them tells me they asked ChatGPT a question and wants me to confirm if its true and I tell her “I have no idea, that has nothing to do with my work” and yet she keeps asking me to confirm if the AI is right or wrong.
macgalver on
The first brand to come out swinging that they are anti AI will win the marketplace. Board members and CSuite love AI because they see the stocks that juice their returns. Regular people see AI as the thing that got them fired.
Clean_Brilliant_8586 on
They aren’t tone deaf, they’re just listening to a different song most of us can’t afford to listen to.
Musk et al have shown that the current administration and draft of other government officials are for sale. The public is still buying the idea being peddled that immigrants are the threat and they’re going to take all the jobs and when they aren’t taking the jobs they are taking the pets.
That is a useful smoke screen for them. Meanwhile, the executive is trying to force feed their services to the states.
It’s not tone deafness. The current power structure represents a minority and is actively working to further enrich and protect that group.
hungryaliens on
Pitchforks wen???
Cheeze_It on
Dude, fuck Silicon Valley companies. Almost all of them are a fucking pox on the world.
Unxcused on
I see no upside to AI. If the bubble that is 7 conpanies paying each other back and forth bursts, everyone suffers from the economic collapse for the industry. If AI succeeds, it takes our jobs and leaves many without income. This is also without considering other ethical and environmental concerns, as well as if using it turns our brains to much because must AI models behave like sycophants
not-area51 on
Thank god I don’t have mandatory AI usage in my work. I’d sooner quit, and I own the company.
Altman, Ellison and others aren’t living in reality anymore
Blinded by their own hubris
theytoldmeineedaname on
As more people lose their jobs, some are going to become suicidal. At that point, a question that might start to be asked by certain people is “do I just take myself out now, or should I do something about Sam Altman first?” That’s when things will start to get interesting.
Adlehyde on
They’re just looking for those short term investor gains. They all know there’s no market for actually using AI. There’s no long term plan here. It’s just, “pump up the value of our company *now.”*
LessRespects on
Y’all are mad at the wrong people. If the investors keep giving them money why would they stop?
Livid_Zucchini_1625 on
not using any AI is becoming a marketing tactic for some companies
pvatokahu on
I think the disconnect here is that people outside tech see AI as this monolithic thing that’s either replacing jobs or creating busywork, when the reality is way more nuanced. Like your example about querying meeting notes – that’s not lazy, that’s just good knowledge management. Before AI we’d have some poor PM digging through confluence pages for 30 minutes trying to find that one decision from 3 months ago.
The “lazy” criticism usually comes from people who haven’t actually tried to build anything complex. When you’re moving fast and shipping features, having AI catch edge cases in your code or flag potential security issues isn’t cutting corners – it’s adding an extra safety net. I remember at BlueTalon we had this whole manual review process for data access policies that took days. Now with AI you can get that first pass done in minutes and focus human attention on the tricky parts.
What really gets me is when people act like using AI tools means you don’t understand your own product. It’s the opposite – you need deep domain knowledge to even prompt these things correctly or know when they’re hallucinating. The v0 prototyping thing you mentioned is perfect.. you’re not shipping that code to production, you’re using it to explore ideas faster. That’s just smart resource allocation, especially in a startup where every hour counts. The backlash feels like it’s coming from people who think we should still be writing everything in assembly because higher-level languages are “cheating.”
ActionFigureCollects on
Tech Bros don’t care
Infusion and MarketCap only.
No_Construction2407 on
Chatgpt cant even solve a basic fallout new vegas computer terminal puzzle when its given 4 clues.
McCrank on
What backlash? It’s being adopted by pretty much every company out there and embedded in everything they do…
Narradisall on
So many of them are so deep into AI now and it’s not profitable that they need to push it to survive.
I’m sure some know it’s not going to work out but as long as they can keep that gravy train going they will do.
That said, when Sam Altman said he’d like to build a Dyson sphere to capture the full power of the sun to power a data centre, but we’re a couple of decades away from that I did laugh at how delusional it sounded.
More like a couple of centuries if that, plus you know, absorbing the full power of the sun might make living a bit difficult.
Professional_Many_98 on
never will use it. they steal intell from authors with no reimbursement. it is misleading and misguided. it will create more scams taking money from vulnerable people. bad actors (countries) will exploit it to create harm It is very dangerous in the wrong hands
Designer-Salary-7773 on
AI could replace the entire “C” suite today … but it hasn’t and it wont
magdogg_sweden on
Please, someone punch this smug prick in the face.
edeepee on
If the savings from AI was passed onto consumers, people would have a more open mind to it.
But the savings are being hoarded by the companies and investors. Our prices still go up to pay for the hardware and compute.
CanYouPleaseChill on
AI is definitely not contributing anything meaningful to cutting-edge research. Harvard and MIT recently published a paper called “Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery”. Unsurprisingly, AI is pretty terrible.
Razathorn on
Ugh. As somebody who was in ai before it was (un)cool, LLMs are definitely revolutionary, but right now we’re in the “throw it at the wall and see what sticks” phase because nobody wants to miss the boat. It’s defensive. Slowly things will return to relative normality with quite a few things benefiting from AI and you not even knowing it’s AI. Wanna know why? Well, today’s AI will be tomorrows table stakes much like voice recognition, optical character recognition, and classification/clustering is today. You don’t even know that the entire advertising and analytics industry is driven on what WAS called AI and machine learning. Now that LLMs are out, THEY’re the AI. It’s a flexible term and right now it’s the hot ticket to lust after in tech land. You know how your ring and arlo camears tell you there’s a package or animal or person on your porch? That was yesterday’s ai. You don’t even think about it. The difference is now things are good at reasoning and comprehension where as before it was detecting objects, letters, and speech. Soon there will be another “AI” and today’s Ai will be yesterday’s AI. Remember when phones had a facebook button? Remember when phones had buttons/keys? 20% of what is hot right now will stick around as table stakes because the real valuable stuff will be formalized and the fat from the product will get cut with the reality of the cost to operate and what people are willing to pay.
Thank God I’m on linux for an OS though, jeeeez. Glad I started that journey in ’96 and am not having to suffer through figuring that shit out at 46 years old just to not get hosed by windows 11. PS, windows 12 will be better. Everything goes in cycles. My old ties are back in style. RAD.
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I am currently taking AI training and its making me angry. I am supposed to learn to use AI but the course is just teaching me how to train an LLM to take my job.
I strongly feel tech bro’s *know* this disconnect exists but they dont care. They’re in a unique position where you almost *cannot* avoid their influence. You’re either using their hardware, apps, websites, or operating systems. Its a chance to force a new reality upon the masses and make it mandatory for existence. And the race is on to become the first to be indispensable: *”too big to fail”* on steroids where its not just a single company but an entire economy from consumer goods & services to every joe blow company that used the services to replace labor.
The disconnect is that we dont want it, we dont need it. But *they* want it and *they* need it and *they* control the means to make it happen whether we like it or not. We can only hope this whole thing topples over soon.
We need a revolution against these evil AI fuckers.
During the DotCom era there were great ideas like Amazon.com and bad ideas like Pets.com
Like the internet, ai will stay forever. Question is which companies will survive and actually build great and useful things.
Scott Galloway is predicting [A market correction on AI in 2026](https://www.profgalloway.com/2026-predictions/) that will send us into our next recession.
He is usually pretty spot on with his predictions each year.
Because Sam wants to create abundance…. His most overused buzzword.
No it won’t.
Their audience is not and never has been the public. It’s strictly VCs.
To them, public backlash is just a sign the technology is getting better as intended, so they’ll continue to open their checkbooks.
Rinse, repeat.
This is another in an endless stream of examples of people saying how much AI has helped them without saying how. Meanwhile my minimal encounters with it have been 90% negative. It tells me lies almost every time. When did XYZ die? Wrong. How much did I spend on XYZ website last year? Wrong. Once it helped me solve a difficult word puzzle. Once. I am highly skeptical these people who rave about how it helped them are getting good info.
The bubbles gonna pop any minute now…
Their goal is the Yarvin prophesized technofeudalism. They honestly don’t care about any backlash. In their view, they are superior to other people and deserve to have all the weath and means of automation. Look up Mendius Moldbug
Really it seems like every company collectively decided to ignore their customers since covid. I dont see why AI companies would be any different.
All that matters is money. Money buys politicians and public opinion, the same companies in the AI business have direct and significant control over government, social media, newspapers, and cable news.
People will believe what oligarchs tell them to believe, at least enough to keep the oligarchs chosen politicians in power.
We’re ruled by a geriatric pedophile racist who lies about immigrants eating cats because the oligarchs wanted it. Getting people to support AI is trivial next to that.
AI as proposed is the ultimate bread and circuses. These tech oligarchs really think “if we let them see their dog doing standup they’ll let us cook”. TBD of that holds but I don’t think it’s a good trade!
Why would the little people matter? They will simply get king doland to expand the mandate of ICE to round up anybody with seditious commentary – like criticizing the oligarchs and the AI they are selling and send them to el salvador.
I have a customer who in every conversation I have with them tells me they asked ChatGPT a question and wants me to confirm if its true and I tell her “I have no idea, that has nothing to do with my work” and yet she keeps asking me to confirm if the AI is right or wrong.
The first brand to come out swinging that they are anti AI will win the marketplace. Board members and CSuite love AI because they see the stocks that juice their returns. Regular people see AI as the thing that got them fired.
They aren’t tone deaf, they’re just listening to a different song most of us can’t afford to listen to.
Musk et al have shown that the current administration and draft of other government officials are for sale. The public is still buying the idea being peddled that immigrants are the threat and they’re going to take all the jobs and when they aren’t taking the jobs they are taking the pets.
That is a useful smoke screen for them. Meanwhile, the executive is trying to force feed their services to the states.
It’s not tone deafness. The current power structure represents a minority and is actively working to further enrich and protect that group.
Pitchforks wen???
Dude, fuck Silicon Valley companies. Almost all of them are a fucking pox on the world.
I see no upside to AI. If the bubble that is 7 conpanies paying each other back and forth bursts, everyone suffers from the economic collapse for the industry. If AI succeeds, it takes our jobs and leaves many without income. This is also without considering other ethical and environmental concerns, as well as if using it turns our brains to much because must AI models behave like sycophants
Thank god I don’t have mandatory AI usage in my work. I’d sooner quit, and I own the company.
Altman, Ellison and others aren’t living in reality anymore
Blinded by their own hubris
As more people lose their jobs, some are going to become suicidal. At that point, a question that might start to be asked by certain people is “do I just take myself out now, or should I do something about Sam Altman first?” That’s when things will start to get interesting.
They’re just looking for those short term investor gains. They all know there’s no market for actually using AI. There’s no long term plan here. It’s just, “pump up the value of our company *now.”*
Y’all are mad at the wrong people. If the investors keep giving them money why would they stop?
not using any AI is becoming a marketing tactic for some companies
I think the disconnect here is that people outside tech see AI as this monolithic thing that’s either replacing jobs or creating busywork, when the reality is way more nuanced. Like your example about querying meeting notes – that’s not lazy, that’s just good knowledge management. Before AI we’d have some poor PM digging through confluence pages for 30 minutes trying to find that one decision from 3 months ago.
The “lazy” criticism usually comes from people who haven’t actually tried to build anything complex. When you’re moving fast and shipping features, having AI catch edge cases in your code or flag potential security issues isn’t cutting corners – it’s adding an extra safety net. I remember at BlueTalon we had this whole manual review process for data access policies that took days. Now with AI you can get that first pass done in minutes and focus human attention on the tricky parts.
What really gets me is when people act like using AI tools means you don’t understand your own product. It’s the opposite – you need deep domain knowledge to even prompt these things correctly or know when they’re hallucinating. The v0 prototyping thing you mentioned is perfect.. you’re not shipping that code to production, you’re using it to explore ideas faster. That’s just smart resource allocation, especially in a startup where every hour counts. The backlash feels like it’s coming from people who think we should still be writing everything in assembly because higher-level languages are “cheating.”
Tech Bros don’t care
Infusion and MarketCap only.
Chatgpt cant even solve a basic fallout new vegas computer terminal puzzle when its given 4 clues.
What backlash? It’s being adopted by pretty much every company out there and embedded in everything they do…
So many of them are so deep into AI now and it’s not profitable that they need to push it to survive.
I’m sure some know it’s not going to work out but as long as they can keep that gravy train going they will do.
That said, when Sam Altman said he’d like to build a Dyson sphere to capture the full power of the sun to power a data centre, but we’re a couple of decades away from that I did laugh at how delusional it sounded.
More like a couple of centuries if that, plus you know, absorbing the full power of the sun might make living a bit difficult.
never will use it. they steal intell from authors with no reimbursement. it is misleading and misguided. it will create more scams taking money from vulnerable people. bad actors (countries) will exploit it to create harm It is very dangerous in the wrong hands
AI could replace the entire “C” suite today … but it hasn’t and it wont
Please, someone punch this smug prick in the face.
If the savings from AI was passed onto consumers, people would have a more open mind to it.
But the savings are being hoarded by the companies and investors. Our prices still go up to pay for the hardware and compute.
AI is definitely not contributing anything meaningful to cutting-edge research. Harvard and MIT recently published a paper called “Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery”. Unsurprisingly, AI is pretty terrible.
Ugh. As somebody who was in ai before it was (un)cool, LLMs are definitely revolutionary, but right now we’re in the “throw it at the wall and see what sticks” phase because nobody wants to miss the boat. It’s defensive. Slowly things will return to relative normality with quite a few things benefiting from AI and you not even knowing it’s AI. Wanna know why? Well, today’s AI will be tomorrows table stakes much like voice recognition, optical character recognition, and classification/clustering is today. You don’t even know that the entire advertising and analytics industry is driven on what WAS called AI and machine learning. Now that LLMs are out, THEY’re the AI. It’s a flexible term and right now it’s the hot ticket to lust after in tech land. You know how your ring and arlo camears tell you there’s a package or animal or person on your porch? That was yesterday’s ai. You don’t even think about it. The difference is now things are good at reasoning and comprehension where as before it was detecting objects, letters, and speech. Soon there will be another “AI” and today’s Ai will be yesterday’s AI. Remember when phones had a facebook button? Remember when phones had buttons/keys? 20% of what is hot right now will stick around as table stakes because the real valuable stuff will be formalized and the fat from the product will get cut with the reality of the cost to operate and what people are willing to pay.
Thank God I’m on linux for an OS though, jeeeez. Glad I started that journey in ’96 and am not having to suffer through figuring that shit out at 46 years old just to not get hosed by windows 11. PS, windows 12 will be better. Everything goes in cycles. My old ties are back in style. RAD.