The nickname is new, the behaviour isn’t.
At the risk of coming off judgemental of family, my mother in law is exactly like this; especially when it comes to anything related to the computer.
My partner is an only child and every time mother dearest has any kind of issue, real or imagined, with her computer, she’s hitting the speed dial for my partner’s phone. At this point she’s kind of in a mindset of “I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas”. If she can’t get an immediate response she actually starts to think about the problem logically, and tries to fix it herself.
Luckily, she hasn’t been inundated with AI chat bots yet.
I’m certain that if she could manage to get to chat gpt, she would be asking it what to do about everything under the sun… Lucky for her, I work in IT support and manage what updates she gets, or more accurately, doesn’t get.
She’s a fairly mild example since she actually tries when she can’t get an instant response from someone on what to do. There’s plenty of people that do not.
I’m almost entirely convinced that some of the willful ignorance is simply people aggressively keeping to their job descriptions (at least when it comes to what I normally have to deal with)… They don’t try to fix their computer because that’s not their job. Even if they know how, they won’t. That’s not in their job description. It gives them an excuse to work less and get paid for it.
Regardless of the reason, people often know nothing about things and don’t care to be informed on the subject, they just want the easy answer as to what they need to do next. Unfortunately for them, life is rarely that “black and white”.
I use Mistral Ai instead because I don’t touch and US products or services. The most common thing I ask is: check and tidy up these notes add formatting for readability, present as a markdown code block, add some nerd fonts.
Looks like learned helplessness is back from the grave with a new definition
It never went away.
Sincerely, someone who works in IT support.
Imagine asking AIs to form your own opinion.
“Grok, should I support Ukraine or Russia?”
Who would have thought that we are all becoming like Batman’s villain, Two Face, to make decisions from an inanimate object.
those frickin clankers should just unplug themselves
Am I the only one who tried a LLM like twice, saw it gave out bullshit, then never tried it again (though I do see it forced on me with general searches, be it google or DDG or Bing or kinda anywhere now)?
I tried Copilot to answer a couple of coding questions, and I ended up having to take as much time to double check the answers/code it didn’t seem worth it.
People who know what they’re doing don’t use these “tools”, it’s the fools and morons out there who have no idea how anything works that use these things and they don’t double check them before they implement their crap code.
I use it to help me write because of my dyslexia. But that’s really all it’s good for. Nothing advance like creating one line diagrams for electrical installs. I tried. It sucked at it.
Yep, I see very little value in them. I have techie friends who keep telling me I should try it more, but it just pisses me off and creeps me out. It took a long time getting this brain working as well as it does, and it’s already headed back downhill. My neurons need the exercise.
FYI, you can use noai.duckduckgo.com to disable AI searches :)
just wish they would put that (and the non-“please install our browser”) URL into Firefox’s dropdown of search engines!
You can add it yourself too :)
I’ve asked LLMs a few simple coding questions, only to question why the code isn’t working receiving an Oh sorry here try this malformed garbage instead.
I’ve asked Gemini to generate an image, only to receive a completely black image. When asked to describe the image Gemini would tell me what I was requesting it to generate. I saved the image, uploaded to Gemini and asked to describe the image. It gaslit me and straight lied that it was not the same image.
What a waste of time and resources.
Claude4 works for me for writing simple code, and brainstorming. I expect it to be wrong most of the time, but it works better than google when getting started with something I have no experience with.
We’re cooked.
I used to do this a lot with google, but now that it’s barely functioning at giving me correct results… Yeah I use chatgpt a lot. I’d love it if there was a functioning search engine instead, but there isn’t
I’m genuinely curious, what do you find chatbots useful for?
Honestly I literally use it as a google replacement. Idk what happened with google but I just can’t get anything useful out of it at all, and so I’ll just ask ChatGPT to search online for stuff if google proves useless.
The only other use I like for it is learning new languages, as a developer it can help a lot, as long as it doesn’t make shit up, which it does fairly regularly tbh
I use other browsers like duck duck go, ai feeds me missinfo quite often when I check on what it’s saying
Use duck.ai instead of chatgpt. Not as good. But it is private.
I will back up that recommendation with Lumo, a privacy focused AI from the makers of Proton Mail.
The only way I use chatgpt now is A: on the tor browser and, B: with a darknet email. however the free and more anonymous stuff (such as Duck.ai) is not THAT far behind. They use older models, but as times passes they will get better.
I’ve found to be duck.ai ok. The reasoning model is sometimes ok for basic code and math
thank, I’ll try it instead :)
You could use Perplexity. It is both: A search engine combined with an LLM.
That’s how I use chatgpt tbh, “search online for…” and I get the results this way
How soon till cult mechanicus is recognized for religious tax breaks?
Praise to the Machine God.
LLM thumping slopvangelicals.
Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.
Hey?! Why Come You Don’t Have A Tattoo?
Busy! 'batin
Hey remember how social media cause all types of cognitive issues? Y’all ready for round two?
I’m still not ready for round one. Can we go back?
I work in a very technical field and I used to be worried that I wouldn’t be able to keep up into my 40s and 50s but seeing how genZ deals with technology makes me much less concerned. I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.
I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.
Almost feels too simple, given how brainrotted boomers are.
It’s like there’s a window with elder Millenials and Gen X, people who straddled the line of before/after the internet as they were growing up, that are sane.
Everyone else is broken.
I think that, since the wave of IT outsourcing in the 00s, anybody with a career in Tech who had reached the level of Senior Designer-Developer by then or was close to it was safe in their job forever, because that seriously bottlenecked the job opportunities and the Junior and Mid career levels in the West whilst in places that benefited from it, it just translated into tons of people going into Tech who had no knack for it whatsover and would otherwise never have enter the field (so whilst in some countries gifted techies were just giving up on a Tech career, in other countries the field got tons more of incompetent techies who would never good enough to become senior experts in the field), meaning ever fewer professionals reaching the Senior expertise level.
Silver lining in a very big, very dark cloud for those in the right place and time.
Now, AI plus almost all young people nowadays growing up as Tech tool users surrounded by locked-down systems rather than tool makers (if only out of need, because most Tech stuff used to need some configuring and babysitting) is just making that even worse.
I suspect Tech growth and improvement is going to pretty much grind to a halt in the next decade or two.
100%. My brother in-law is like 10 years younger than me. Holy fuck is he stupid. Man has stage 4 Joe Rogan /gpt induced brain rot
can confirm 3 younger (late teens/early twenties) BIL with dog shit for brains
To be fair, even before LLMs tech knowledge among the young was on the decline. You don’t have to know tech anymore yo use it. Everything is super easy to use with an intuitive GUI and zero need to look behind it.
I’m just glad my dad showed me how the launch games in the dos prompt
Oh the Gen Xers in my office, they are killing me with these AI answers.
I’m not usually into stereotyping based on generations, but why is it specifically the Gen Xers who insist on talking to these LLMs all the time?
Hah let me guess, you know three people who use LLMs and two of them are over 46
Most people around me use LLM’s for their work, which is still anecdotal that’s for sure and I’m not denying it. My point I guess is that the genX’ers stand out way more, because they are more often in positions of authority, and you’d expect them to know better. That to me makes it way more remarkable that a professor would verbatim cite LLM output to one of their PhD students, wasting that student’s time having them debunk that obvious crap.
It isn’t. It is mainly younger generations.
Fuck no, I don’t use AI for this
In my office they do.
Oh hell no. Must be older X still hanging around Facebook and such.
Actually, they do still use Facebook lol
