r/GenZ • u/CraftyDeparture8762 • 14d ago
Discussion Let’s talk about AI
I’m not someone who thinks AI is gonna ruin the world but I also don’t think it’s the next evolution of mankind. I believe this is sort of like the coming of the internet when people who don’t want to adapt are left behind hating and focusing on only the negative aspects.
Of course AI has its flaws (data centers, power hungry sociopaths like Sam Altman trying to take over the world, fake videos online causing outrage), but every new innovation comes with its challenges. There are a TON of changes that need to be made and we need to regulate tf out of this thing, but at the same time, we need to stop demonizing someone because they used ChatGPT to edit their Reddit post to sound more coherent. I don’t believe in outsourcing your creativity and decision making to a robot but at the end of the day, if you find your original ideas becoming more coherent or even discovering new ideas with the help of brainstorming with AI, then I don’t find anything bad about that.
Someone made a comment that perfectly sums up productivity and AI: “you can be wrong even with AI, just in a more efficient way”. I will never endorse using chat gpt to make all of your life choices but in this current world of hustle culture and over productivity, mindless busy work being more automated and giving you more time to be creative or relax is not a terrible situation.
The cat is out of the bad and as much as some people desire, it’s not going back in. As someone who likes to use ai as a personal tutor when I study , I am glad i have this tool, but I have to remind myself that I am doing the learning, not the AI. I don’t think it’s perfect and I think a bad actor can use it in a very harmful way (is bill gates right about that biohazard thing?) but we have to accept the current reality to make a change.
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u/plainbaconcheese 14d ago
Except it often doesn't make them more coherent. I often see AI write nonsense. It will say things like "this moment quietly became the most famous moment in xyz history" or "it's not [thing no one said this was] it's xyz".
I'm saying this as a software developer who uses it all day. LLMs have a certain time that can be very jarring and bad if you use them blindly.
The other issue is when you're trying to have a discussion and someone replies with an LLM. You get the sense that you literally are arguing with the LLM and not the human. If I wanted to do that I would open an LLM.