Random Thought Thread

By a funny coincidence, I have access to a really smart AI, like a commercial-type one.
And I can, in a single message, feed it all the posts of a particular user and make the AI chat, answer questions, and respond on their behalf.

Usually, there are more useful and interesting applications, but for fun, this is one of them.
 
It's only a matter of time before the dead internet theory is real

The snake is already eating its tail

You can often tell AI by the obnoxious tone that it uses. It's kind of melodramatic stupid. Not like William Shatner but, you get the idea.

About half the content on places like Reddit strike me as AI dreck

Instagram

It's all AI content and it's not very good

Real content from real human beings is going to become scarce and rare.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
About half the content on places like Reddit strike me as AI dreck
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Things are even worse.
YouTube, Instagram, and X (Twitter) — the percentage of AI-generated content has exceeded 50%.
And the thing is: AI creates the content, and an AI audience reacts to it, interacts with it. Real people are extremely rare.
As a result, you get a person with a million or more followers, but there aren’t even a thousand real humans among them.
 
To be honest, even the best AI still can’t replicate most of you—your style, your delivery, your jokes, all of that.
But a huge number of people on social media or video platforms often follow such standard patterns that, in general, whether it’s a real person or AI, it all looks the same.
So just be yourselves, guys—AI usually can’t touch that.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Real content from real human beings is going to become scarce and rare.
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I work in software development, the robots are entrenched here and people use them quite a bit. Our rule is that humans are responsible for code, however it came to be. Do what you want, but when your code causes an incident, if you can't take responsibility for it, you're not doing your job.

But that doesn't apply to other things, and people seem to like to send robot vomit around as a way of looking busy.

I am enforcing my own personal rule with this stuff now - if you send me blobs of text that you haven't read, you can't expect me to read it either. So if you send me a pile of irrelevant slop to waste my time on, don't expect me to read whatever you send me next time.
 
snuffle said:
I work in software development, the robots are entrenched here and people use them quite a bit. Our rule is that humans are responsible for code, however it came to be. Do what you want, but when your code causes an incident, if you can't take responsibility for it, you're not doing your job.

But that doesn't apply to other things, and people seem to like to send robot vomit around as a way of looking busy.

I am enforcing my own personal rule with this stuff now - if you send me blobs of text that you haven't read, you can't expect me to read it either. So if you send me a pile of irrelevant slop to waste my time on, don't expect me to read whatever you send me next time.
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By the way, it’s interesting — I’ve been observing AI a lot, and the tech sector in general.
Honestly, I see development in this area in the technological and highly complex sector.
But, to be honest, I can’t really accept the idea of robo-taxis or trucks transporting cargo.


What’s interesting is that many manifestations of all this might be cool technology, but kind of like airships — they were impressive and technologically advanced, but now we fly on airplanes.


Like, there’s something more efficient and simpler for complex tasks, rather than trying to force this tech into doing something extremely simple.
 
All Tech-bros have a problem: they create a ton of technology and various programs.
At the same time, they’re often very, very disconnected from reality, and for the most part, this “progress” exists just for the sake of progress.


Although, again, my first question about any technology or program is usually something like:


Okay, who’s going to use this, and how much recurring revenue will it generate?
(Not just raise a bunch of money from investors, while the actual profits of these “technologies” end up being zero.)


The dot-coms crashed once, and yet there are still successful and useful ones (though not everyone likes what they do now).


The same goes for AI — I’m sure 95% of it should naturally die off.
We don’t need that much of it.
 
My favorite thing is that suddenly there’s a bunch of so-called “vibe coders”—guys who use AI to write code, build programs, or create some products, and even manage to make some money for a while.
But their ego is completely out of proportion to what they’ve actually done.
They’ve convinced themselves that they’re incredibly brilliant programmers.
And in the long run, even just six months to a year out, their products literally have no chance.
Distance here literally kills.


I haven’t seen this much human pride over absolutely nothing in a long time.


They almost act like they’ve passed some kind of singularity, when in reality, for now, they’ve just been allowed to play with AI by some big guys.


Once this suddenly becomes a REAL thing that can do ALL the work, it will be taken from us, believe me.
 
snuffle said:
I work in software development, the robots are entrenched here and people use them quite a bit. Our rule is that humans are responsible for code, however it came to be. Do what you want, but when your code causes an incident, if you can't take responsibility for it, you're not doing your job.

But that doesn't apply to other things, and people seem to like to send robot vomit around as a way of looking busy.

I am enforcing my own personal rule with this stuff now - if you send me blobs of text that you haven't read, you can't expect me to read it either. So if you send me a pile of irrelevant slop to waste my time on, don't expect me to read whatever you send me next time.
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yoko said:
Moorik Moorik is sky net??????????????????

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I'm more of a passionate, slightly crazy guy who writes at length about the things that matter to him.

I'm too emotional to be a robot.

Maybe I need to learn to shorten my messages?

On the other hand, I feel like I don’t need to pay for the extra text I write—and this is free!

I really have a strange trait:

when someone here brings up a question or topic I have something to say about, I start talking a lot.

I’ve never had this before, seriously.
 
I just went in the house to get some bad idea nuclear jerky

And picked up my beer on the way out.

I didn't even remember bringing it in there

Got out to the shop and took a sip and holy shit it's warm

This is the beer I lost yesterday!!!

I'm going to drink it
 
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