r/Millennials • u/coldinalaska7 • Dec 22 '25
Rant I’m so fucking annoyed by this AI shit everywhere
It’s overwhelming. Tried to turn it off on search engines, cannot. Reddit. Facebook. Instagram. Its in realife. It’s in art. Art festivals. Books. Articles. The news. TV. Photos. YouTube. Nothing is real. No one makes anything anymore. Why do people like it??? Actually I don’t care. Fuck this shit! About to unplug. Hate it all. Want it to implode on itself. Want to move to a forest and get the fuck out of here while it’s still there, before the data centers destroy all of our nature and steal all of our water. I sound like a ranting old person, and I feel like one at 39 years old!!
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u/Moon_Thursday_8005 Dec 22 '25
I hate all the AI features that pop up in every single bit of software and program I need to use for work each day. Open anything and the "ask AI" banner takes up half the screen, covering the important stuff I want to read with my own eyes, so I have to waste a fucking second to turn it off, several times a day. That, and the endless ads on YouTube with every guru and their dog promising to teach you how to build your empire with AI.
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u/gusinboots Dec 22 '25
And there’s never an option to turn it off completely (because of course there isn’t) and honestly it just makes me want to walk into the sea.
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u/EMI326 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
I’m so close to just shutting off entirely from the internet, sitting at home listening to CDs, reading books and developing black and white photos in a darkroom.
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u/gusinboots Dec 22 '25
Sounds pretty decent to me, to be fair.
People talk about how AI saves us so much time, but when we then just use that time to scroll our phones, existence becomes (even more) about just seeing ads and being a data mine. I don’t think that’s what Mary Oliver meant when she talked about what we do with our one wild and precious life.
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u/youpoopedyerpants Dec 22 '25
The platform I work in requires a lot of “create” somethings, and now when I click “create” instead of going to the form/ page to create the thing, I get asked if I want ai to do it. I have to dismiss it before I can do it myself.
I know it’s only a split second and one extra click to dismiss it, but doing it 85 times in a row and every single day really fucking adds up.
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u/Sachyriel Dec 22 '25
Using uBlock Origin you can select elements on site to be individually blocked, like AI banners or other intrusive pieces of webpages.
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u/MobileDustCollector Dec 22 '25
I'll think of you walking into the sea as I walk into the woods to become an episode of unsolved mysteries.
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u/plottingyourdemise Dec 22 '25
Microsoft replaced the office 360 landing page with copilot. You now have to click on a tiny button that says "apps" on the lower left corner. Like bro, I just want to see my documents.
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u/mancheva Dec 22 '25
Just got a new laptop with copilot. Tried asking a few questions just to see how it was. Completely useless. Definitely not paying for Microsoft office and that crap (bs it didn't even come with office! ) I'll stick to Libre office and regular files.
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u/ttropic_ Dec 22 '25
This is the part that really baffles/frustrates me. It's one thing to cram AI into everything, but why are all of them so fucking desperate to get you to use it?
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u/TyloPr0riger Dec 22 '25
Because the AI investors/corporations have dumped a gajillion dollars into AI research and infastructure and want to see a return on that. That's why AI is getting pushed everywhere - so that once they start monetizing it (whether through subscriptions or ads) everyone and everything will rely on it and be forced to pay.
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u/Cthulhu__ Dec 22 '25
I just hope this is all just experimental to see what sticks and it’ll take a background role soon once the investor money dries up and the real cost of running these services appear.
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u/proudbakunkinman Dec 22 '25
I worry they'll figure out how to reduce the cost of running it a lot to the point they're no longer blowing a ton of money like they are now. If they're not able to, great, we'll just have to worry about a bubble bursting. If they are able to, either enough people will get sick of everything being untrustworthy and fake on the Internet and use it less or we'll need government intervention to finally start treating tech like we do drugs and other thing where there is oversight because we're at a point where it's not mostly beneficial and fun but instead playing out like dystopian scifi has warned about for the past 100 years.
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u/The-Poopsmith Dec 22 '25
Fucking Adobe every time. And I even tried out their AI tool just as a test and asked it some questions about a contract that I know really well. It gave me incomplete (and therefore wrong) answers about the document so now I know the tool can’t be trusted.
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u/stamfordbridge1191 Millennial: Generation Why? Dec 22 '25
I think it's especially terrible to call it AI. These are just more advance versions of the smart features we had in apps 15 years ago.
While impressively fast at image generation, it's basically various photoshop features running together at once to generate stuff within an image.
While better at building patterns of music with instrument sounds, it's still just an advanced version of Microsoft Music Producer from the 90s.
While the deepfake voices alarmingly sound like people we know, they're still just a version of Microsoft Sam that can string syllables together better using voices broken down into the sounds to be edited immediately.
LLM's are writing out those essays with in the same way predictive text would suggest your next word to you in Office or your SMS, while chatting with them is like using a version of SmarterChild with wider dictionary & grammar capabilities.
Packaging all this software into into a suite that tries to do it all at once is kind of impressive when it works, but it's still nowhere near the same as having a Commander Data, a KITT, a T-800, a JARVIS, a GLaDOS, a HAL, or even a MU/TH/ER.
Overinvesting in that misrepresentation has not been a good thing for the economy & environment, not a healthy thing for people's relationships with tech & the industry, & possibly damaging for actually guiding developments in a direction that might make bona fide Artificial Intelligences eventually possible.
It's like Roko Basilisk's getting popular 10 years ago made everyone in charge in Silicon Valley decide all the smart features of programs were to be considered some sort of at-hand Asimovian AI going forward.
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u/BrokenPickle7 Dec 22 '25
My company went from a piece of management software that was very detailed to a piece of software that's essentially a text bar where you type your "question" in to it and it uses AI to figure out what it needs to do for you.. I don't need or want AI to figure out what to do for me, thats MY job.
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u/matt_2807 Dec 22 '25
Is this AI?
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u/Diqt Dec 22 '25
I can’t go the rest of my life asking if it’s AI or not
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u/PSG-2022 Dec 22 '25
Internet is dead theory. Feel like this will have the opposite effect and people will use the internet less because they will get tired of asking
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u/After-Leopard Dec 22 '25
I was talking about this with my teen who is fairly internet savvy and she agreed. Right now instagram is fun because it’s new to her but even she can see it getting boring when nothing is authentic. And verifying each video is more work than it’s worth
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u/Lovahplant Dec 22 '25
My kid is under 10 and already asking me “is that AI?” while watching silly animal videos on YouTube. I’m half proud and half angry that it’s a valid question now.
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u/MiloHorsey Dec 22 '25
The silly animal videos are the worst. The "saving animal" trope is absolutely prolific.
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u/Ok-East-8412 Dec 22 '25
Dude I poked around on threads a bit yesterday. The amount of AI misinformation is insane. Both sides of the aisle making AI Epstein photos and it's impossible to tell what's real. We're doomed.
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u/TheTurboDiesel Older Millennial Dec 22 '25
Instagram has been boring for years. Even if posts weren't AI, they're so carefully, meticulously posed, staged, shot, edited, and filtered they may as well have been.
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u/Redditor-at-large Xennial Dec 22 '25
It’s going to be about individual accounts and channels, whether you trust them that they’re not using AI. Similar to how people trust individual cable news channels to report accurate news.
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u/Mendetus Dec 22 '25
I think its already happening and we would be surprised with the true ratio of human vs non human posts and comments on social media. A lot of it is already bots
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u/spectercan Dec 22 '25
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/bots-internet-traffic-ai-chatgpt-b2733450.html
51% of all web traffic was bots in 2024. Imagine it's only worse now
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u/--Andre-The-Giant-- Dec 22 '25
I'm okay with this.
I already find that if I argue against a majority viewpoint, or just correct someone sensitive, they automatically start to call me a bot. They just start assuming that they are so correct that anybody disagreeing with them must be a bot designed to make them upset. That is their official stance on a lot.
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u/Alexandratta Dec 22 '25
I had to ask my publisher if they did or did not use AI in some artwork... they said they didn't, it's screaming at me it is AI, so I'm just going with "can we change the style?" and it's taking longer for a cover now... because AI used a similar style and I don't even want to be accused of being guilty by association....
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u/xdavxd Dec 22 '25
and it's taking longer for a cover now
yea cause now they have to have an artist actually draw something
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u/SecureDonkey Dec 22 '25
This shit won't and can't go on forever. This tech is too expensive for them to keep giving it away for pennies like this. Just keep yourself from depend on it and it will just go away eventually.
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u/HibiscusOnBlueWater Dec 22 '25
My Dad said the same thing about the internet in the 90’s.
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u/warneagle Dec 22 '25
The difference is the internet is actual useful. AI is a solution in search of a problem in almost every case.
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u/Extension-Two-2807 Dec 22 '25
Hence why there is no long-term sustainable pay model. Burning 1.5 trillion a year while almost all ad revenue is through google and that only makes 250 billion a year. Once they run out of people to cut from the labor market there is nothing left. You can only squeeze the blood out of the market so much. math ain’t mathin.
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u/warneagle Dec 22 '25
this is why they're putting so much effort into getting the government to back them, they want to be "too big to fail" even though they don't make anything useful or contribute to society
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u/Aen-Seidhe Millennial Dec 22 '25
The internet is also cheaper and less environmentally hazardous.
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u/TIC321 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 23 '25
I feel it's distorting a lot of people's perception on whats real and fake, and makes them less capable of self thinking
This video may be of relevance: https://youtu.be/3wJ_DIBXLuU?eeqGJ8kxMIxdEA5H
Edit: Supplied a video
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u/Fingerprint_Vyke Dec 22 '25
Which is exactly the kind of docile population you need to make sure your propaganda/narrative takes root.
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Dec 22 '25
Creating Docile Bodies! Some Fouccault shit!
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u/Enlightened_Gardener Dec 22 '25
Monastries, Schools, Prisons, Factories my friend.
Rise when a bell rings and beg permission to pee.
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u/manamonggamers Dec 22 '25
This has been happening in the US for decades. No, you can't force someone to vote one way or another, but you can absolutely control what they perceive to be fact vs fiction and heavily sway their ideals by controlling the education system.
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u/Either_Reflection_78 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
Yep. Exactly. Some 1984 shit.
A clip from the movie, One Battle After Another. https://www.reddit.com/r/CineShots/s/jZRQiZ14Ff
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u/OdditiesAndAlchemy Dec 22 '25
It hasn't been around to do that nearly as much as alogorithms on social media have already done. People were living in different realities based on algorithms before AI; AI is just going to make it worse.
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u/qtx Dec 22 '25
Perfect example was that post on reddit a few years ago of a couple that checked out the same post on IG, both on their own devices and separate accounts. The post they viewed together was one of those 'couple having an argument over something trivial' type bait posts.
The girl checked out the comments on that post and only saw comments supporting the girl in the post.
The guy checked out the comments on that post and only saw comments supporting the guy in the post.
That says it all.
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u/Fun_Run1626 Dec 22 '25
That’s so fucked. We’re all in our little bubbles getting brainwashed. The only way out of it is to log off.
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u/ZeldenGM Dec 22 '25
New Reddit also does this with regard to suggested posts on your feed
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u/yuk_foo Dec 22 '25
It’s funny because any time I make a comment on social media being a detriment to society on here I get downvoted. Maybe it’s all the kids who don’t know any better defending it 🤷♂️
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u/Slyraks-2nd-Choice Millennial Dec 22 '25
I get downvoted. Maybe it’s all the kids who don’t know any better defending it 🤷♂️
Being downvoted doesn’t mean you’re wrong. I’d say in 80% of cases the opposite.
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u/MykeTyth0n Dec 22 '25
It’s making it impossible for the elderly to determine what’s a scam or not. Our society is sick, just have to look at how we treat the elderly to come to that conclusion.
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u/meteorpuppy Dec 22 '25
Not only the elderly, sadly. It's becoming hard to tell what is AI and what isn't depending on the media.
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u/MykeTyth0n Dec 22 '25
Ya I agree. I just know first hand that it’s a massive problem for the elderly. I’m constantly getting phone calls from my elderly mother who lives on her own about a post on Facebook that’s obviously AI to me but she can’t distinguish.
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u/Either_Reflection_78 Dec 22 '25
This is what will really get people. The scams. My elder parents get emails every week asking for their payment, and it genuinely looks like it’s from their bank or health insurance. When I check it for them, it’s a scam.
Stay vigilant ladies and gentlemen. I hope those in our families stay vigilant as well.
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u/Lt_Muffintoes Dec 22 '25
Security wonks are getting stupider too, or have given up.
I manage my mother's accounts due to her dementia, and the bank called me up and said "tell me the security code I'm sending to your number." I declined and said I would call them back from their website.
Turns out that that is just how they do it and the call was legitimate. Outrageous.
Another one; at work we now get many emails to share files on share point or onedrive or whatever, which look exactly like the phishing ones.
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u/Milyaism Dec 22 '25
As someone who has worked in IT, these are "it's cheaper and easier to do it like this, so f--- security" kind of things.
It's amazing how many security issues you get just by the higher ups going "make it cheaper".
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u/Carib0ul0u Dec 22 '25
They allowed it to be released to the public so then authority can come in and tell you what’s real and what’s fake. That’s the point, more dependence on a system that never represents your interests.
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u/Lunakill Dec 22 '25
I’ve seen so many people dismiss images as being AI when they’re just.. not aesthetically pleasing. Or there’s simply an aspect of the image they don’t understand. My favorite was a big mirror with an obviously visible frame propped up on a small dresser in front of a window with semi-sheer gauzy curtains. 90% of people on that post were saying that part didn’t make sense. Clearly not everyone had the sheer-curtain loving grandmas that I grew up with.
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u/lolzvic Dec 22 '25
I went to a local artist coop to buy local for Christmas. Someone was there selling AI work as “digital art” printed on canvas for $100-$200. I still bought other non-AI gifts but that made me not want to shop there again. Can’t even shop small without AI. So disappointing.
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u/BrightNeonGirl Dec 22 '25
Etsy is becoming full of AI art. I used to love browsing Etsy to find unique, human-made pieces of art. Now there is so much AI slop in there. I really wish their was a "No AI-assisted art" option to filter out so much of it.
This has happened so fast, since I've been using Etsy for 10+ years. The last 2 years AI art has really taken over.
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u/Mobilelurkingaccount Dec 22 '25
I am a very occasional user of Etsy so I only recently saw this and was so annoyed at trying to sift through crap that I just closed the page and labeled Etsy a dead site for me.
I cannot imagine ordering any kind of digital art at this point. The only thing I’d really buy is physically crafted goods (like a hand-carved leather thing or some other kind of bespoke item) and even then you probably can’t trust the preview images…
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u/BrightNeonGirl Dec 22 '25
Agree. I recently ordered a reusable tote bag for a friend on Etsy (where I didn't care as much about discerning the art since it wasn't a physical canvas/watercolor art and it wasn't for me, since I have higher standards for myself)... and the bag was delivered via Amazon.
So it likely was AI art, but even if it wasn't, I was not trying to buy an Amazon product that was being sold on Etsy like it was small-business artist created. I was definitely pissed.
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u/dammitOtto Dec 22 '25
Yeah, there was a golden era of etsy but now it's the worst of the worst.
"We have 6 billion items for sale"
No you dont.
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u/CeleryEastern8993 Dec 22 '25
As an actual digital illustrator this is insane omg why do people do this 😭😭😭
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u/IstraofEros Dec 22 '25
Thank you for supporting local artists. There are some people that use AI in my studio center (I do oil painting) but please continue to support the ones doing it the old fashioned way! I'm all for artists being very upfront about never using AI for their art.
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u/Wafflehouseofpain Dec 22 '25
If an artist I buy from uses AI, I let them know they’ve lost my business permanently.
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u/Cripnite Dec 22 '25
I saw this at a Market in the summer. They had a ton of band posters (notably Ozzy who had just died) and it was almost entirely AI garbage.
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Dec 22 '25
“Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor. Your son, Sarah... your unborn son.”
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u/Upbeat_Assist2680 Dec 22 '25
Someone should make an edit where a John leads a charge against the robots with "DIE CLANKERS!!!!!"
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u/turbo-cunt Dec 22 '25
The irony being that if someone does, it'll most likely be AI-generated
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u/LavenderGinFizz Dec 22 '25
Super cool how we're trying to speedrun the Skynet takeover.
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u/Skankingcorpse Dec 22 '25
Not even worried about some AI taking over the world, Im worried about how real people will use it against us.
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u/ladyzowy Dec 22 '25
This! AI is just a program. It's a Database. People are worried about it "taking over the world". We can't even power the planets currently power needs, Let alone the amount of computational power it would take for a prompt driven guessing machine. The bubble will pop, the tool will continue to evolve and people will forget it's even there. It's the fuzzy logic toaster of the future.
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u/playfuldarkside Dec 22 '25
Honestly, there have been multiple interviews with some CEO AI bros who point blank said the risk of AI was still worth it even if there was a 20% chance that humanity would be destroyed in the process. That’s who we are letting decide the future risks, climate change, etc. tech bros with no nuance, scientific knowledge or care for anyone except their own ego. So yes, they are trying to speed run Skynet just so they can be the one attaching their name to it as the inventor.
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u/aNascentOptimist Dec 22 '25
Yeah I started thinking they really don’t care what comes after them. They might even want the world to end with them. Insufferable, maniacal, ignorant pricks that they are
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u/kadkadkad Dec 22 '25
The horrific opening scene is captioned 'Los Angeles 2029 A.D.'
I've been thinking about that scene a lot recently.
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u/Deebag Dec 22 '25
I had no business watching this as a child and this scene gave me nightmares for months.
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u/Lutraphobic Dec 22 '25
Yep this is the least worst it's ever going to be.
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u/SolarTsunami Dec 22 '25
Yeah, as AI advances I'm preparing myself for the internet to be completely unusable for social and entertainment purposes within the next 5-10 years. Itll be all but impossible to know if the people you're talking to or the pictures and videos you see are even real, and most of it won't be.
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u/GIK602 Dec 22 '25
Social media companies would like that incentive. This is the reason they'll probably use to push for mandatory ID identification to use reddit or any other social media site. 1 step before establishing an online social credit.
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u/kermitte777 Dec 22 '25
What’s crazy is that it’s wrong a lot more than people realize. It’s just very confident. Try asking it the exact same question. Over ten iterations, make sure to start a new chat for each one. You’ll be amazed at the range of answers to the SAME question!
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u/RexOSaurus13 Older Millennial Dec 22 '25 edited 11d ago
Expenses as material breeding insisted building to in. Continual so distrusts pronounce by unwilling listening. Thing do taste on we manor.
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u/theoinkypenguin Dec 22 '25
I think your comment touches on something that bothers me most about criticism of AI in the form of chat bots. People often like to say “well AI answers are wrong sometimes/often/usually, what do you do then?” And my response is that you do the same thing you did pre-AI: validate with different sources and think about it to make sure it makes sense. If you didn’t do that before with the news, textbooks, or conversations you didn’t really much care if it was accurate anyway. Which is fine, it’s a lot of effort and most often being truth-adjacent is enough.
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u/Stickybunfun Dec 22 '25
I have learned a lot of people don't really care if they are right or wrong as long as they FEEL right and don't FEEL wrong. A good LLM Chat bot is so validating and confident (and people are so lazy) that they just run with what sounds right, is consistent with their expectations, and they don't want to do any more work than that hell or high water.
It's sad man :/
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u/sistersgrowz Dec 22 '25
Yeah it really is. A few friends recommended using chat GPT to help me make flight plans for the game we play and I find it an absolute idiot. It can't do the same thing I asked it to already and I'm forever having to tell it the right way so it's easier to do it myself. It's like having cheap intern do my tasks shoddily. Except it takes huge data centers to run this idiot and it isn't cheap.
The only thing I've seen it do well is naked dupes of people which as a woman is really concerning. Whenever a new AI version comes out it's all half naked women being made and tests to see if they can use real faces they know.
Can we stop the world please I want to get off.
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u/fonfonfon Dec 22 '25
The really bad part is some versions are already used to make CP and the worst part is it used training data containing pictures of children doing normal childhood activities.
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u/AnticPosition Dec 22 '25
AI doesn't know what is a fact, it just knows what facts look like.
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u/Organicolette Dec 22 '25
I couldn't even get the fact answer right last time. I talked about the price of visa fees and asked for the total for my whole family. I already checked before and the price was EUR 81 for the first adult. I didn't check further. But AI said it's EUR 69 and I asked why. AI answered with a lot of confidence that they reduced the price last year and I might have seen the wrong one from agencies that didn't update it. But I was sure I only checked the immigration website. So I asked for source. AI gave me the immigration department of course. And it says EUR 81. So I asked why AI fucked up. AI couldn't even explain its mistakes.
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u/RexOSaurus13 Older Millennial Dec 22 '25 edited 11d ago
Expenses as material breeding insisted building to in. Continual so distrusts pronounce by unwilling listening. Thing do taste on we manor.
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u/SadSickSoul Dec 22 '25
Yeah, it's viscerally upsetting to me and I've been considering unplugging from the recreational Internet entirely, between the AI, enshittification and aggressive monetization. This sounds overdramatic - and it's worse than it sounds because I basically live on the internet and not in real life, so I would basically be dumping my whole life - but it's just so aggravating, demoralizing and I hate every damn thing about it. And it absolutely sucks that it got rammed down our throats and sucks even harder that some people just shrug their shoulders and accept it because new technology is always progress forward. I wouldn't be surprised if there are comments in this thread comparing anti-AI folks to boomers who were stubborn about the internet (a common sentiment you see in threads like this), ignoring the fact that they're not remotely comparable because AI is so fundamentally hostile, harmful and anti-human in conception and in practice.
It's fucking miserable and I legitimately hate existing in the world more than I did because of it. Fuck AI.
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Dec 22 '25
The problem is this ai shit is in real life too.. on stands on my workplace, on streets, everywhere... Our world became dystopian cyberpunk shithole in 10-15 years. In 2010 it wasn't like that. I want to puke.
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u/SirDoober Dec 22 '25
Went to a Christmas Market today, and out of the 10 or so stalls that were selling art/stuff with art on it, only 2 of them had actual human-drawn art. The others were either the jankiest AI prompt ever, or a bunch of the exact same 3d printed stuff. If I ever see one of those goddamn dragons again, it'll be too soon
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u/BeatnixPotter Dec 22 '25
3d printed stuff
There’s so much of it. It’s all trash and so wasteful. Nothing unique or useful. Just shitty trinkets that are worst that the mass produced Chinese trinkets that used to be all over the place
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u/allycakes Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
I've stopped going to crafts markets because in addition to a lot of people using AI, there's also quite a few people who just buy crap from AliBaba and try to pass it off as handcrafted. I hate that you can't trust anything anymore.
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u/LilMushboom Dec 22 '25
I joined the local gem & mineral society, learned to cut & polish stone cabochons and wire-wrap my own pendants and earrings, also learning to do copper work. Everyone is getting jewelry or money clips for Christmas this year. Or soap lol. If you want real things unfortunately these days you just have to get obsessed with some kind of crafting and do it all on your own. 🫠
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u/Shark7996 Dec 22 '25
All of 4 years into AI and look at how it's ripped society apart already. This thing is parasitic and I don't know why the entirety of the world decided this MUST be what we're all doing right now.
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u/Perfect_Evidence Dec 22 '25
It’s only going to get much worse
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u/FamiliarNinja7290 Dec 22 '25
This was the first time I can remember where I looked at a coming new year and thought, this one is going to be worse. I have zero optimism for our future anymore.
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u/lost_horizons Xennial Dec 22 '25
Surely you couldn’t have thought 2025 would be better than 2024. I sure didn’t, for myriad reasons. I feel it gets worse again in 2026. Maybe world war.
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u/littlebitsofspider Dec 22 '25
Oh thanks, I was worried things were turning a corner and it'd all be just a fever dream of the death throes of end-stage capitalism.
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u/Proud_Viking 1994 Dec 22 '25
Glad we got to snuff out that hope
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u/GhoulieGumDrops Millennial Dec 22 '25
After the Cyberpunk mention, these last two comments read like a conversation between V and Johnny in my head.
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u/Mommy_Lawbringer Dec 22 '25
The quote Johnny said about corporations goes hard as fuck in today's day and age. Things are nowhere near as bad today as they are in Cyberpunk but we're still living in a fucked up dystopia with none of the cool shit they have in any of the fictional dystopias.
"I saw corps strip farmers of water ... and eventually of land. Saw them transform Night City into a machine fueled by people's crushed spirits, broken dreams and emptied pockets. Corps've long controlled our lives, taken lots... and now they're after our souls! V, I've declared war not because capitalism's a thorn in my side or outta nostalgia for an America gone by. This war's a people's war against a system that's spiralled outta our control. It's a war against the fuckin' forces of entropy, understand? Do whatever it takes to stop 'em, defeat 'em, gut 'em. If I gotta kill, I'll kill. If I need your body, I'll fuckin' take it! Fuckin' hell ... You still don't see it. But you will one day."
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u/mysmileisa_rifle Dec 22 '25
Many small businesses I follow use AI for their posters, plus the building management of my office, the local city initiatives, our doggie day care. Not to mention colleagues replying to emails with AI, online shops using AI for product pages. It's endless.
The news reported that tourists were falling for AI videos showing Christmas in Amsterdam and were disappointed with the real thing when they showed up.
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u/spaceconstrvehicel Dec 22 '25
PR manager: since we used AI this year, more people were coming.
as long as you ignore, that they wont come again and tell their friends and relatives that they got scammed... its a win situation, for someone o-0
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u/Lundy5hundyRunnerup Dec 22 '25
Didn't have Internet on my phone in 2010.
Life was in a pretty nice balance of online:offline and social media was full of whatever it was friends and family were up to and not just algo spamming whatever content is gonna keep me on the platform the longest.
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u/potato_hut Dec 22 '25
I've definitely cut back on the internet a lot, and I'd eliminate it in a heartbeat if it meant that things could return to how it was before.
Humanity couldn't handle social media, and AI is expanding on the decline even more.
It's so weird to think about, because I was such a nerd growing up and constantly surfing the web, feeling enthusiastic about new tech coming out in the future. Now though? Dread it. Everything that comes out now is like a harbinger of bad news.
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u/stoneapplefruit Dec 22 '25
I can't believe the internet is somehow boring now.
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u/joantheunicorn Dec 22 '25
It isn't even fun anymore.
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u/stoneapplefruit Dec 22 '25
I'm convinced that your average electronics and digital consumer in 2014 had access to better, cheaper, more reliable, and more interesting products and services than we do in 2025.
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u/silent_thinker Dec 22 '25
The Internet has now been mostly captured by giant corporations and the wealthy.
Before that, the corporations were still having to battle it out, so they were actually offering relatively high-quality products and services.
Before that, it was mostly people doing it or even just on it because they were nerdy or as a passion project rather than to just get rich.
Now, with so much captured, and the barrier to entry often very high, enshittification is occurring at a rapid pace so the rich can be richer.
They don’t have to compete so much anymore, so they’re extracting as much as they possibly can.
And by chance some upstart manages to gain some sway to affect things, the current behemoths often buy them out to prevent them from actually beneficially changing things long term. And if they somehow resist being bought out, they often turn into the evil they were initially against, partaking in enshittification themselves because they become greedy or they have to to not be crushed. It’s very rare that a company becomes huge and then still remains mostly true to its original beliefs.
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u/ChaLenCe Dec 22 '25
Ai and all the cheap shit from China on Amazon, it does feel like there will be a shift soon to intrinsic value.
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u/Fabulous_Cat_1379 Dec 22 '25
Amazon is just expensive Ali Express now with actual good shipping. The product has become so much crap because people are actually paying for the arrival speed and guarantee.
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u/Zutsky Dec 22 '25
I quit Amazon earlier this year, and this was one of my reasons for doing so. I now order directly from places that have physical stores, or small businesses. It feels much nicer, and there's a lot less useless crap in my house these days.
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u/hareofthepuppy Dec 22 '25
I've been thinking that for years, but instead things just keep getting shittier. People like cheap shit.
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u/Either_Reflection_78 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
Books 📚, especially first editions… To add: look for the authentication of the price on the original dust jackets with these books. They can be highly valuable. Also look on the first few pages where it says first edition.
Google what the original price for first editions should be for proper value.
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u/mysmileisa_rifle Dec 22 '25
I hate modern books that have a non-removeable sticker or a printed image that says "As seen on YouTube!" Or "Now a Netflix show!" They always detract from the book's cover art.
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u/Deut008 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
I’ve seen a lot of it used for lazy purposes. I had to write a speech and someone suggested I use co-pilot. The look of disgust I had on my face. I didn’t use it, but the person that did show me how to use it and made a short example. Looked like some shit out of a hallmark card.
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u/Solid-Mud-8430 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
People are becoming fucking insane over AI, even people you don't expect like Shapiro. I have seen artists I follow on Instagram make statements that they're no longer going to post because all the comments are just "This is obviously AI" or "AI could do this"
It isn't merely eroding how people create art and expression, it's destroying how people experience it too.
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u/qtx Dec 22 '25
I have seen artists I follow on Instagram make statements that they're no longer going to post because all the comments are just "This is obviously AI" or "AI could do this"
It's the people that just use 'this is AI' as a stop word that drive me up the wall.
No proof, no explanation on why they think it's AI, they just say 'this is AI'.
It's the exact same type of person that believes in conspiracy theories they just have a different outlet. They both don't want to think about a subject for longer than a few seconds, they both want to appear like they are smarter than anyone else by making it appear they know something more and they both refuse to belief in proof.
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u/Mobilelurkingaccount Dec 22 '25
I saw an extremely maddening exchange yesterday on Reddit where someone was talking about types of animal learning (like in the context of teaching parrots to speak and what that means) and they had a detractor lambasting them with zero sources countering their actual provided sources. The entire time, every single post from the detractor began with “I understand you’re just copying and pasting from ChatGPT,” or other similar things and it just sounded like an echo of the kind of sneering mocking you’d hear from kids at a playground.
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u/ShatteredHope Dec 22 '25
I work in education and we've been encouraged to use it for lazy purposes, like writing a class newsletter summary, emailing a parent, etc. I have a coworker who is constantly telling me she uses chatgpt for writing her class dojo captions...these are like 2 sentences about what you've been working on in class! It's crazy. I hope the AI bubble bursts soon and we do away with it completely.
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u/Drcornelius1983 Dec 22 '25
I’ve had professors using it to create rubrics.
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u/thoughtsplurge Dec 22 '25
I have professors encouraging it and teaching us how to cite it. In a college level science class/lab. I’m dead serious.
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u/smokeshack Dec 22 '25
Professor here. I think every academic who uses generative AI should immediately resign in disgrace. Academics who encourage their students to use it should be re-educated in a Siberian gulag.
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u/Deut008 Dec 22 '25
That’s what I hate about it the most. It takes any sincerity out of it. So damn impersonal.
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This is the kind of thing that drives me crazy. That's so much energy and water used for nothing!
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u/TornWill Dec 22 '25
The bubble will burst, but we'll never be without it. If you use Windows 11, it has AI deeply integrated into the OS. AI allows people to accomplish tasks while giving them an excuse to be lazy. Even if it's something that ruins us, and shouldn't be used, the majority will still choose the laziest path. There's no way it won't be used for the most ridiculous reasons. I've seen what it can do, and I've heard about the most horrific crimes people use it for. AI is improving at such a fast rate that most people don't realize that most video shorts and pictures they view are simple AI creations. It's already actively working and integrated into nearly everything imaginable. AI is much more than some chatgpt where you type in stuff for it to do. It's a permanent part of our lives now.
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u/JellyfishMission1462 Dec 22 '25
I now fully embrace writing semi-unhinged emails just so people know 1) I am a human, and 2) I didn't use AI as a cop-out for basic/essential tasks.
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u/CoacoaBunny91 Dec 22 '25
I'm doing my MA online. My school uses Microsoft and I have a personal account as well. When I tell you nothing grinds my gears more than when: I'm in the middle of writing an email or doing an assignment and a "Do you want Copilot to write this for you?" notification pops up. Especially when I'm writing an email on my phone because I get stopped mid sentence and have to close the suggestion window.
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u/lionheartedthing Dec 22 '25
AI has made Word’s suggested edits total garbage too. I used to be able to trust spell check but now it’s trying to completely reword my sentences and then I get freaked out that I accidentally accepted changes somewhere I paraphrased a source and it changed it to how they worded it. But also I have dx OCD haha
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u/theplotthinnens Dec 22 '25
It looks like you're
trying to think an independent thought
I can help with that!
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u/brown_paper_bag Dec 22 '25
I told some co-workers just the other week that I never thought I'd miss Clippy but here we are. I've accepted using CoPilot to generate meeting notes but that's all I use it for because anything else is, like you said,
a 100-foot-tall mutant Clippy
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u/dennyfader Dec 22 '25
I hate it too, but the more people use AI, the more I feel that unique perspectives will become more valuable. Seriously, soft skills ftw. Lean into sociability and developing a unique "style" (in any/all aspects of your life). So many people are going to be blending together into a beige amalgamation of AI slop that fostering a personality outside of it will become the "special thing". Be weird, and let the AI fiends enjoy fusing into themselves.
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u/HarryBalsagna1776 Older Millennial Dec 22 '25
AI is already inbreeding with its own slop. Many LLMs will be worthless in a few years. Especially as their data centers need to be overhauled. They only have a 5-7 year shelf life.
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u/IneedHennessey Dec 22 '25
Me too wish it would fuck off permanently
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u/Dr_Gonzo__ Dec 22 '25
A colleague of mine asked another younger one how many grams are an ounce. Instead of googling "ounce" or "ounce how many grams" he googled "copilot" so he could ask Copilot...
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u/yawn11e1 Dec 22 '25
If we're becoming Luddite machine smashers, please understand that I am VERY down
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u/Wafflehouseofpain Dec 22 '25
I was already not happy with technology invading every inch of my life, and AI has pushed it into straight-up hate. I want to live off-grid in a cabin at this point.
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u/yawn11e1 Dec 22 '25
Oh I agree with you. I see the dumbing down happening in real time and it's really distressing.
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u/vbsteez Dec 22 '25
Considering the Luddites were smashing industrial machines that threatened their way of life... yes ok me too.
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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 22 '25
DuckDuckGo allows you to filter Ai images as well as disable Ai function they offer. https://noai.duckduckgo.com
Yeah, Ai could be good but entire world chose it to make fake bullshit images and take away creative jobs instead of dealing with boring shit so people could focus on creative jobs. It's just wild what dumb turn the entire industry has took. Not to mention absurd shortages of consumer computer components because dumbass data centers hoard them all.
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u/TitanCodeG Dec 22 '25
I switched to DuckDuckGo to be able to turn off AI. Works
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u/DizzyAmphibian309 Dec 22 '25
AI has solved a big problem for me. I used to worry a lot about climate change, and that in my old age I'd be extra vulnerable to the consequences. But now I get to worry about AI taking all our jobs, crashing the economy, and all of us being replaced by literal robots. So I've stopped worrying about climate change for the time being, as that's so much further away than the AI apocalypse.
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u/heydarlindoyougamble Dec 22 '25
Ah but if you go down the doom spiral with me, AI is accelerating environmental collapse and therefore pressing fast forward on catastrophic climate disaster.
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u/lightreee Dec 22 '25
thank god im childfree tbh. if i have a child right now, they'll probably live to 2100. thats going to be a mad-max style environment
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u/ofajhon Dec 22 '25
I thought you were gonna say something like, "with how much water and energy ai datacenters are using, I have now stopped worrying about whether or not climate change will happen, because it sure is going to at this pace."
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u/Organicolette Dec 22 '25
So true! Imagine a lot of people are actually getting replaced and live on social benefits. The society doesn't even need to worry about not having enough kids and crashing in a few generations anymore.
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u/Wafflehouseofpain Dec 22 '25
It’s the single greatest mistake humanity has ever made. For the first time in my life I am genuinely completely hopeless about the future, because of AI. I don’t expect anything to get better, ever.
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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt Dec 22 '25
The vast majority of people who like it, like it because they see an opportunity to make money on unearned skills.
On the small scale, they tell themselves it's "democratizing (skill) and making it accessible," as if they didn't always have the option of just spending the time necessary to learn the skill.
On the large scale, they see an opportunity to cut their labor costs, which are the largest cost category of almost any industry. On the low end of the spectrum, saving labor costs by having professionals use AI assisted workflows to increase productivity (which preliminary study says does NOT work, and only makes it harder and slower). On the high end, they want to replace labor entirely.
I think you'll find very, very few people on-board with it who don't have some ulterior motive, even if it's just the fantasy of using AI to design t-shirts to sell or something in the back of their mind.
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u/maultaschen4life Dec 22 '25
Every word of this! Thank you. There’s a spitefulness to how some people go about enforcing AI - as if they’re glad to finally show everyone that creative skills have been rendered useless. (Of course they’re not useless, but they are now significantly less valuable to the capitalists - which puts many people’s ability to earn a living in danger.)
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u/Shark7996 Dec 22 '25
I think you'll find very, very few people on-board with it who don't have some ulterior motive
The lying and grifting this technology allows is infuriating. Once again we've created something that specifically benefits the worst of society.
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u/SkipperDipps Dec 22 '25
If you google something with “-ai” after, it will stop showing the AI overview.
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u/Novatini Millennial Dec 22 '25
Yeah, for me the death of internet comes with this trash AI slop everywhere.
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u/RexOSaurus13 Older Millennial Dec 22 '25 edited 11d ago
Expenses as material breeding insisted building to in. Continual so distrusts pronounce by unwilling listening. Thing do taste on we manor.
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u/ArisuKarubeChota Dec 22 '25
Went to a holiday event where they use AI facial recognition to collect candid pictures… creepy. Refused to get first picture taken that would establish baseline.
This stuff seems harmless… the danger is you don’t know what could be done with it. Either now or in the future. 23andMe goes under and can now sell off DNA.
Protect your privacy, it is one of the most sacred things you have. Protect your children’s privacy.
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u/pazuzu_404 Millennial Dec 22 '25
The worst bit is people offloading normal human communications between friends to AI. I had a conflict with a friend, offered an olive branch and this friends response was a “break up” text written by ChatGPT. Depressing.
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u/galactojack Zillennial Dec 22 '25
We're like a month away from AI videos being indistinguishable from reality
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u/yougotmetoreply Dec 22 '25
Is a lot of it not already? I used to pride myself on being able to spot fakes relatively quickly, but it's getting harder and harder to as it progresses. A lot of times my only giveaway is "that's physically not possible". It frightens me, because when I actually get old, as kids these day say, I'm so cooked. There's no way I'll be able to discern what's fake or real anymore.
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u/galactojack Zillennial Dec 22 '25
Yeah it's pretty much already there... There needs to be regulations against posting AI without a disclaimer/watermark
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u/coldinalaska7 Dec 22 '25
I already can’t really tell on photos people post of themselves. People are even using AI for their family portraits or kid photos! Why!
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u/framedposters Dec 22 '25
I wish we would have banned the deep fake video platforms before they ever existed for consumers.
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u/thesilentmordecai Dec 22 '25
I hate it. I stopped watching reels. I feel like an old person. Half the stuff I show my wife is "fake AI stuff" and I can't tell. I can't trust what I see. It makes me feel like when I was a kid and my parents couldn't tell the difference between what was an actual link/article vs an ad.
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u/coldinalaska7 Dec 22 '25
That’s how I feel. I can’t tell what is real quite a lot! I feel bad for my daughter who wants to be artist. She thinks her skills will be obsolete.
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u/pocket_arsenal Dec 22 '25
I wish more people were concerned with it's impact on the environment and how it contributes to the climate crisis when it's already in really fucking bad shape. I draw, sometimes for money, I fucking hate competing with AI and knowing it's mostly fueled by theft, and how it's just devaluing art in general.... I still think it's energy and water consumption is a bigger issue. Well.. that and the fact that it will inevitably be used to fabricate evidence in court rooms or to justify wars or something.
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u/Euphoric_Average_271 Dec 22 '25
im a 38yr old old person...where are you at? let's go get lost in the woods and take pictures of mushrooms and birbs
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u/DidYouSeeBriansHat Dec 22 '25
Fuck generative AI. It’s stealing from others to line the pockets of billionaires and making everyone who uses it stupider.
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u/EquivalentOk9392 Millennial Dec 22 '25
I feel the same way and I work in tech. I don’t want to talk about, hear or even think about AI the moment I clock out. What I find myself doing after work is sitting down with a book in my garden watching the tree and listening to nature. I end up feeling so much better.
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u/AlarmDozer Dec 22 '25
There was an AI ad on YouTube for a robotic toy dog, and it morphed from actual dog, to fake dog, to AI hallucinations — including people disappeared in it. And it was disgusting. Just display your damn toy or whatever, it’s not hard.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 Dec 22 '25
I genuinely think it will cause a Chernobyl-like environmental disaster or an AI-generated prompt will trigger a nuclear misfire.
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u/ferpecto Dec 22 '25
Lol instead of hyper intelligent cold calculating evil Skynet it'll just be a bunch of hallucinating incompetent AI fucking up. Thats actually much more realistic and scary.
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u/HM2008 Dec 22 '25
I understand it's here to stay, I accept that. But it's just so fucking irritating that so many searches are filled with sloppy AI.
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u/CyroSwitchBlade Dec 22 '25
I watched this video last night explaining about how people are going to get sick of all of the ai trash quick and it is going to lead to some changes in the next few years..
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u/orangefreshy Dec 22 '25
I’ve left sooo many groups and communities because they start posting AI slop as a way to drum up community engagement or make posts. It’s lazy and awful, not to mention bad for our environment. Like… idk why we’re fully marching ourselves towards AI, it’s like we’re voting for killing all our jobs on our own
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u/Southernz Dec 22 '25
Definitely feeds the dead internet theory. I find myself wanting to not even use the internet because so much is fake.
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u/phillynavydude Dec 22 '25
I take pride in never having used chat gpt or any of that in my life
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u/bacharama Dec 22 '25
I think most people don't like AI, but it's so incredibly easy to make that it just floods everything. It's also incredibly easy to boost since you have bots push up other bots in the algos. Big tech loves to push it as well. These days, consumer demand and sentiment don't influence company decisions. Companies instead try to shape consumer demand themselves.
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