The proliferation of genAI has made my life

[amici@fribygda.no]

@cwebber things are more expensive, you can't trust shit anymore, chatbots are popping up everywhere to replace human interaction, search engines don't search

genAI provides convenience without solving any of my problems, and making existing problems worse

[steve@social.coop]

@cwebber AI is hardly the first technology I've avoided, but it's the technology I've had to work the hardest to avoid.

[gregtitus@social.coop]

@cwebber I voted "no difference" because the direct impacts are pretty minimal for me personally thus far.

Largest impact has been negative in that discussion of AI in software tech spaces has driven out every other interesting topic.

[gotofritz@hachyderm.io]

@cwebber

...and they say #mastodon is free of engagement bait!

#engagementBait

[ladytel@masto.hackers.town]

@cwebber I'm not sure if it's genAI or the current environment but a lot of people are not their best selves. Some are choosing to be worse people.

It's disheartening to see people who valued expertise to revile it today. Same with appearing knowledgeable instead of admitting you're not sure.

Last thing is I'm tired of pretending I like genAI because dissent of our current direction is considered a grave sin today.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@drwho @cwebber also got fired due to early criticism of it (found a new job about a year later but…)

[paul@hades.town]

@cwebber I nearly picked no difference, but I see more recaptchas and less relevant search results so in reality marginally worse

[snelldunks@wehavecookies.social]

@gregtitus @cwebber I'm with you on this. Voted no difference as well, but I feel like it could turn negative in the near future.

Depending on the industry we might end up with clients generating genuinely useful tools for themselves. Someone will have to integrate them into toolsets, but the tools will be more or less be delivered as black boxes.

I'm bracing for some weird mentanance work in the future.

[reallylazybear@mastodon.social]

@cwebber Not much difference cos I'm pretty much isolated, doing my stuff alone and live life like it's still 2007 - 2010, and 2020. Nobody really talks to me

To be honest I've felt out of place on the internet and in real life for a long time I kinda gave up trying to make sense of it all and just "go with the flow" with my gut feels.

I know "AI" is everywhere but it's such a controversial topic (for the right reasons of course) but it's just making my head hurt seeing how two sides fight

[locha@fediscience.org]

@gregtitus @cwebber Urgh, not just in tech. Everyone in philosophy has been trying to convince people they are now an expert in AI (largely because it’s also what the US job market wants)

[brunoparga@troet.cafe]

@cwebber better, but I expect that to reverse fairly soon - I don't think humankind will still be around in 10 years, extinguished by AI.

[starsider@valenciapa.ws]

@cwebber Conflicted between "better and worse" or just "worse"... Like the "better" parts are just not big enough to justify its existence.

[targetdrone@mastodon.social]

@cwebber I voted "better" but for a very specific reason: it was part of the inputs as to why I decided to retire early.

And I'm loving not having to deal with genAI at work anymore!!!

[jadedtwin@corteximplant.com]

@cwebber no RAM, no drives, makes emi go something something....

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@cwebber I avoid it at all cost, chose worse because it is extra effort to avoid it and AI used to manipulate images and video means it gets easier to be manipulated.

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@cwebber
I voted for "worse," because 2 suppliers of critical services -- my water company, and my health insurance vendor -- each recently sent me wildly inaccurate erroneous bills.
While I can't prove it, I suspect that they had applied some sort of Ai "solution" to their accounting databases.

[valpackett@social.treehouse.systems]

@gregtitus @cwebber yeaa but RAM and flash crisis tho..

[kincat@eldritch.cafe]

@cwebber it finished killing my motivation to work with computers + job market is atrocious so there was no chance for me to negociate doing my job part time while going back to school. I don't trust the art I see on mainstream platforms anymore.

[gregtitus@social.coop]

@valpackett @cwebber True! I have delayed potential computer and disk purchases.

[rezzabuh@mastodon.social]

@cwebber in some ways better - I can vibecode things I didn't have time, or skills for. Deep Research is amazing and there are many great AI services. In some ways worse as all the support chatbots that use cheap and useless models, all AI slop...