Anonymous OP 14w

She says she does but I don’t know how much she actually believes it tbh. She says her job has her use it and I’m wondering how much of that is just still a cop out. Idk. I genuinely lose so much respect for people who use it.

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Anonymous #1 14w

(i wanna be clear that i dont mean to minimize how you feel about ai when i said that i personally dont hate it. we all have our own thoughts/feelings about it. however one feels about ai is perfectly valid)

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Anonymous #1 14w

So my issue isn’t terminator stuff lol. It’s a few things 1. Generative AI cannot function without massive theft of content. Theft of people’s writing (both academic and artistic), drawings, art, etc. and that’s because the models just need SO MANY of them that it’d be literally impossible to ask each artist if they can use their art. Like thousands and thousands of people. So that for one and 2. It uses a significant amount of electricity. Like. An obscene amount. And that translates to carbon

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Anonymous OP 14w

Emissions and also just plain waste of resources. 3. It ALSO uses lots of water to cool those computers. I mean it doesn’t just vanish but it’s not being cycled in the environment anymore either. And 4. It is being used by so many students to cheat that we are going to run into a real crisis of people who have degrees but didn’t actually learn anything from them and aren’t actually qualified. When you have people like civil engineers, doctors, paramedics, honestly so so many careers. The conse

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Anonymous OP 14w

The consequences of them being unqualified could be deadly and catastrophic. I mean at the end of the day cheating always exists. But never before could you just ask your computer to write the essay for you. 5. AI images have a real serious concern in terms of blackmail and ownership of your own image. Someone could AI generate deepfake porn with your face and use it to blackmail you. Or create a deepfake of a government official and create mass confusion. 6. It is taking peoples jobs.

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Anonymous OP 14w

How are we supposed to function if people just literally CANT get a job anymore? If people’s entire field is just destroyed cause AI is just so much cheaper than hiring workers. And related to that is 7. The things it creates are literally always dogshit. I’ve never seen anything that an AI made that couldn’t be done better by even an amateur human. So it contributes to enshittification and everything becoming worse quality. The reason people are being replaced by it is just cause of cost.

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Anonymous #2 14w

To be completely honest I don’t think this use really justifies the whole “it is literally built off of tens of thousands of people’s stolen work” thing. There are other less-unethical accommodations. I don’t say this to discount your struggles cause they’re valid struggles and I’m not trying to say “just tough it out” or smth. But honestly I don’t think there’s really ANY ethical use of generative AI.

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Anonymous OP 14w

Genuinely I’ve tried so many types of accommodation and they haven’t worked for me. This way professors/disability services aren’t battling me

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Anonymous #2 14w

This. I used it to help me learn stats, since like no other thing worked. Passed my final with a 90. So.

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Anonymous OP 14w

I write a lot of nothing

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Anonymous OP 14w

The internet is full of public work anyways brother

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Anonymous #1 14w

It is destroying the entire ecosystem its machines are built in. The people living there have no clean water anymore, and water barely comes out yet their bills have skyrocketed. Carbon emissions. It’s destroying the world and I have empathy to realize it’s so much worse than what it does to “help”

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Anonymous #7 14w

how do you use it to leverage?

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I genuinely want to be sympathetic to your financial plight but that statement reads to me as “I don’t have enough money for medicine so I’m injecting black tar heroin mixed with cheetos directly into my veins” considering how provably harmful AI’s language model is when it comes to attempts at therapeutic aid

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Anonymous #8 14w

Mainly work and school. But there’s a big difference between letting AI replace/enhance your thinking

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Anonymous #7 14w

I don’t care if I “fall behind” I’m not using something for my degree that my degrees whole purpose is to stop

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Anonymous #5 14w

Unlike many, I’m not selfish and actually care about the earth and its future

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That isn’t a therapist hon, it might give some benefits but it also has lead some people who’ve used it for that down some dangerous paths How do you use it as a therapist? Maybe people here can help you find healthier alternatives

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Anonymous #5 14w

I’m…. happy for you I guess? Are you trying to insinuate my usage of AI to increase my work productivity/learning means I don’t care about the earth and its future? AI lets me work more efficiently, learn faster, and create more value for a group of people I care deeply about.

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Anonymous #1 14w

My biggest problem with it, personally, is the misinformation. More and more people are getting their info from AI, and it has a big problem with “hallucinations” which is that it totally makes stuff up, and this problem has actually continued getting worse as the technology advances. You get less answers like Google Gemini suggesting putting glue in your pizza, but the wrong information is still there, it just is written in a way that sounds more convincing, which makes it even more dangerous

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Anonymous #2 14w

What is the stuff you struggle with in synthesising the info? Maybe people here can help you find an alternative that’ll work for you

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Anonymous #3 14w

Have you used Wolfram Alpha?

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Anonymous #7 14w

It also gives you misleading and sometimes flat out wrong information when it “hallucinates,” have you found any good strategies for avoiding this? That’s the thing that scares me the most, when when it gives a lot of true information it often has little wrong pieces that can be hard to spot and create poor foundations for our knowledge

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Anonymous #7 14w

Yes. Your AI usage increases your work productivity, allows you to work more efficiently, learn faster, and create more value for the group of people you care about, at the expense of the earth and its future. You value one over the other, which is morally nuetral but inarguable.

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Anonymous #11 14w

It depends a lot on how you use it! It can be good for a quick introduction to a topic, or for rubber-ducking, but with smaller details it's more likely to make a mistake.

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Anonymous #10 14w

So what are you doing to prioritize the earth and its future? Have u ever taken a car when you could have walked or flown anywhere? If so, then you “inarguably” value yourself over the earth.

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Anonymous #11 14w

In general when encountering any piece of information it’s best practice to think critically and not take it at face value, and this applies all the more to AI generated content. I create LLM agents/interfaces in finance so epidemic hygiene is of the utmost importance, you just have to make sure ur prompts are explicit and clear

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Anonymous #7 14w

Explicit and clear prompts don’t stop hallucinations though, and a big part of thinking critically is critical examination of sources and Gen AI still sometimes produces sources that are entirely fictitious sometimes or just don’t back up what it says, and at a certain point if you have to read the sources each time to evaluate the content what’s even the point?

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Anonymous OP 14w

Curious, when you say “ai” are you referring to ai like chatgpt and other generative ones like that? Or do you mean ALL ai? Cause artificial intelligence is a huge umbrella term since it’s in so many different things these days and personally, I think some of those things can be good, especially if we’re talking about accessibility for people with disabilities.

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Anonymous #13 14w

Idk sbout OP but I feel like most people mean genAI, other machine learning models don’t necessarily have the same problems and energy consumption

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Anonymous #6 14w

That is very true🙂‍↕️

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Anonymous #11 14w

It definitely depends on the use case, but I agree with you. The nature of my work is pretty quantitative and we also do due diligence on all materials, especially AI generated, but I am generally happy with its accuracy. AI is not at a place where it can do 80, 90, 100% of the work for you, so don’t use it like that. Break down your problem/task into small manageable steps where it cannot hallucinate, and let it do 5, 10, 15% of the work

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Ppl actually do that tho. Also there is a program that was based on a therapist and is technically AI (it’s called Eliza), because the requirement for AI is basically does it trick a human into thinking it has real intelligence or is a real person.

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Anonymous #7 14w

I wasn’t implying. It’s just a fact. If you use ai you don’t care about the detrimental effect it has on the earth

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Anonymous OP 14w

Why do you lose respect for people who use it? If they’re using it to do work for them I get it but like…I use it purely for entertainment purposes and I’m not hurting anyone.

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Anonymous #13 14w

It’s unavoidable now. I avoid using it for actual tasks as much as I can.

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Anonymous #15 14w

you’re hurting the ENVIRONMENT!

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Anonymous #16 14w

I’ll hate both. AI even if the companies aren’t involved still is destroying the ecosystem. The companies are evil and Ai is destructive both need to be stopped

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Anonymous #17 14w

I really don’t think it’s that hard to use sources such as Web of Science to find articles for a presentation of all things. Id rather find it myself and KNOW it’s correct than save some time to get false information. I hate AI as well and I hate the blatant ways that people are misusing it.

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Anonymous #17 14w

also for any stem majors who are worried about paywalls on scientific articles, try looking on sci-hub! You can paste the DOI number in the search bar on there and they have pdfs for literally almost everything.

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