i was under the impression that were explicitly against genAI but i found that some people are actually VERY pro genai and quite dismissive of its risks. this happened on lemmy but i saw people getting downvoted for saying that genAI in its current state is harmful to the environment. i saw the old bullshit of how ”i use AI for art because i cant draw”, it was crazy. i called someone a Promptitute and someone unironically told me not to say that, just so much. so can everybody pls affirm you dont support that crap.

another user straight up admitted that they use AI as a friend and to gn to… i dont care how much we have in common ideologically, i cant support you gning to chatgpt and thinking its your friend…

  • makotech222 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    322·
    6 days ago

    Way, way, wayyyyy too much “i know genai is bad but i use it in this one case” justifications going on around here.

    Please stop using it entirely. Rely on your own brain and if you are not capable, learn to be capable.

    • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      I’m not going to dedicate months of my life to figure out how to SEO-optimize my resume. I am perfectly capable at realising when something is a waste of time better spent caring for my basil bushes. I am equally capable at accepting my limitations, and I understand I will always be limited in my ability to interact with the massive billion dollar machine the HR-middle-man-industry has become, which seems to stand in the way at the entrance to every job.

      I am not going to spend days carefully crafting each and every job application in order to get a chance at passing through the weird requirements there are around a piece of paper that really should be sufficient with “I am capable of doing the job, here are my credentials. I am pleasant to work with, contact my references. I would like to have the job.” but for some reason needs a bull-load of fluff. I will definitely not do that when I know reading those applications have been outsourced to LLMs neural networks programmes AI for more than a decade.

      Dismissing every usecase with “git gud lol” doesn’t address the actual reasons people use AI

    • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      131·
      6 days ago

      Agreed, didn’t expect so many home users drinking the koolaid. Ulysses would have had a field day.

      And I suspect many of those users are among the tech-savvy, too, sadly.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      This seems like a valid counterargument for people who use local models to generate things for themselves, but it doesn’t seem like it tackles the usecases where people use GenAI to fight capital’s use of GenAI (e.g. using an LLM to modify one’s resume before applying for a job for a company that will, in all likelihood, use an LLM to screen the resume).