A pretty daily thought for me now is “there’s no point to this, AI can do it in 1 second, and no one cares” when thinking about doing anything art or programming related. Pretty much anything we do that is on a computer is totally useless now, and companies will probably be firing us all in 10 years or less if you aren’t a manual laborer.

The worst part is, I could be tricked by AI even now. The thought of hearing a song i like, and then finding that it’s AI, makes me physically sick. But 99% of the population wont care one bit.

I pretty much try to ignore it all, and I figure I’ll shut off the internet and enjoy my collection of physical art that I know was made by humans. It just really sucks that we are going down this path and it’s going to utterly destroy us. And no one seems to realize how bad it’s going to get.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I still have this general feeling that all this AI nonsense is going to blow over by 2027/2028 and we’ll all be going “Hey, remember when that was the big tech buzzword?”

    Kind of like how everyone was talking “virtualization” 20 years ago.

    • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Maybe.

      I’m not a big ai believer, and I’m not saying it’s gonna become like a human brain anytime even remotely soon, if ever.

      But the idea behind how it works, the specialized uses of neural networks, have already borne much fruit, and I don’t think we’ve seen the end of it yet. Things like cancer detection, antibiotic creation, or the massive breakthrough in protein folding, and probably more I haven’t heard of yet. Things like these are big money, and actually practical uses for “AI” and I don’t think they’re ever going away.

      Also the AI slop that’s being generated in the art world, for as terrible as it is, is just too easy to make semi convincing, semi pleasant graphics and things. Too much money to be saved for companies to ever let it go completely. Even if it never gets better quality, which it probably will.

      I guess my point is, I don’t think it’s ever going away. A bit pessimistic, but… eh 🤷‍♂️ At least the medical breakthroughs should trickle down to us, eventually, for a price.