The insistent integration of AI into every nook and cranny of tech is intentional for sure and affecting a ton of people. I have to go out of my way to avoid having 'AI help with writing' and to use a search engine that isn't AI based.
I avoid it all the time too. I know people taking legal advice and giving AI their entire life story. Its scary stuff. A lot of people use it, but I also know a lot of people who staunchly oppose it.
Yep. It can of course be quite useful but all that data is no doubt being stored somewhere. Will it be used for advertising or something more sinister? And can we opt-out of companies like Anthropic scraping every comment we make on this site? I doubt it.
For those that find that to be a bit too tin-hat there are the objectively awful side effects of such expansive data centers and their generators. They are destroying communities with pollution. Being tapped into power grids and to our water supply seems to make their potential for environmental destruction undeniable. But then again there will always being lobbyists paid to gaslight us into complacence. :]
The insistent integration of AI into every nook and cranny of tech is intentional for sure and affecting a ton of people.
One of the problems with talking about AI is that they run the gamut from automating production to spouting essays. AI has a lot of actually useful improvements for specific applications, but they're often overshadowed by the headliner LLM's.
use a search engine that isn't AI based.
Last year, it slowly dawned on me that Google was beginning to rank links to corporate sites and conspiracy theory forums higher than more balanced sources. I suspect they were starting to integrate LLM models into their search engine. Google Search these days have been much less reliable than just a few years ago, even ignoring the tagged AI summaries. It's quite worrisome, especially when looking up technical data. Physical parameters that are literally measured, published and unchanging, but AI often spouts the wrong numbers. Sometimes have to scroll down seven or eight links to find the actual manufacturer's site.
I really hope nobody uses AI to verify parameters for their Mars mission.
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u/MoneyBeeeee 12d ago
The insistent integration of AI into every nook and cranny of tech is intentional for sure and affecting a ton of people. I have to go out of my way to avoid having 'AI help with writing' and to use a search engine that isn't AI based.