speak for yourself. chatgpt helped me program a medium-complexity task yesterday within ~3 hours which would have taken me about 1-2 weeks otherwise, i fear. especially, it’s really convenient because when you just don’t know some technical term, you can just describe what you mean and it will give you the correct keyword, while googling for that kind of information is difficult since you don’t even know where to start.
There’s people still not using adblockers and they get ai generated ads about ai shoved down their throats. Why are you doing this to yourselves?
Related, but the amount of tech and/or privacy adjacent youtubers I have seen complain about ads, about what they’re doing to be less susceptible, how this or that change is TOO much, and so on if baffling. JUST USE AN ADBLOCKER. There’s always one comment pointing that out, with a derailed conversation below, but most of the comments will be “actually, if you repeatedly close then reopen a YouTube video for 10-15 times, it will not show the ad on the next open!” with a million “don’t tell, now Google is gonna patch!” replies. I wish I was joking.
If you don’t use an Adblocker, get one, NOW. It takes 30s. If you think “it’s not that bad”, install it anyways and give it a try for a week. Disable it. See if it’s really “not that bad”, lmao.
Install them on your parents’ devices. Your grandparents’. Siblings. Friends.
I was using my mom’s computer the other day and I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t seeing any ads on her browser. Then I remembered that I had installed uBlock origin for her. I love when past me does current me a solid. I’ve also told her that she can go on Faceborg if she wants but I will not help her with it in any way (I can’t since I haven’t been on it since 2008). She tells people I “refuse to let her use it” which is not strictly accurate but I feel pride anyway when she says that.
I like to think of “parents and tech” as “kids and toys”. They don’t understand it, they just want to use it and enjoy it. And they certainly don’t care what problematic ethics are involved. So just like with kids, we have to be more careful and caring. And we definitely don’t want to overwhelm them with too much information.
Is uBlock Origin still the king? Been using it since it came out and I genuinely don’t understand the ads problem. Sponsorblock is also a huge help.
AdNauseam takes a more actively hostile approach to advertising. IIRC Google took it off their plugin platform because they consider it malicious. Which I suppose it is, towards ads.
Pretty much, though it does not work on most Chromium browsers anymore because of Manifest V3.
On Firefox on the other hand, it is king!
Combined with Privacy Badger to block tracking.
And switch off Chrome? Nahhhh, too difficult.
– Them, probably
Grok is this funny
my favourite so far is volvo.
“hey ai, any good deals nearby?”
“
there's a tv on sale at a nearby electronics store”“will it fit in the boot?”
“
yes”“nice, plot me a route there”
…like the kind of person exists that impulse buys a tv.
Maybe he needed a tv for the boot
AHHHH IM GONNA CONSOOOOOM!!!11
To be fair, a not insignificant portion of that ad’s target audience is probably considering impulse leasing a Volvo and showing off all of its gadgets to their friends.
I would believe something like “hey AI, which of the massage parlors near me are really handjob stores?”
By analysing reviews that might be possible too
I actually suspect they’re all handjob stores but I dunno.
Look for places that specifically say massage therapy, and then avoid them because they don’t do handjobs.
I have impulse bought a tv, at the store because it was marked down due to being returned after getting a bonus. I have no idea about just doing it randomly while out.
Such a great example of the C O N S U M E mindset. Does the TV have the features the person wants? Is it the right size or is taking it home all that matters? Is a deal better than the regular list price for a TV that does what they need?
Nope, just ‘can I spend money’?
Also showing that the people who made the ad are out of touch with real people.
Who can just afford to buy a random TV on a whim with no research?
Hey, I’ve been on the lookout for a cheap, tiny TV to use as a weather/status board for a long time now.
If you put a six to seven inch tv in front of me that has 1) display 2) HDMI 3) $50, then there’s a really good chance I’ll buy it right then. After considering if I’m still interested in the project.What resolution do you need? Last time I checked 720p LCDs were about that price in that size.
I can, because I don’t.
What? Are you not interested in the most generic TV with the most basic feature set legally possible, for the measly price of a Ferrari? Heresy!
It is half off the arbitrarily high price at that one particular overpriced store. What a deal!
Ironically, a generic TV with a basic set of features is expensive because it is not “smart” and cannot have streaming tie-ins, pre-installed “apps”, or ads.
There’s absolutely a kind of person that does that. My ex’s father bought three vacuum cleaners because they were on a good sale and he figured someone he knew would need a vacuum eventually.
Did he give you a vacuum cleaner?
For an absolutely massive price cut I could see it. If they were selling Henry Hoovers for £1.99 I would probably take 5 of them. Maybe see if I can strap them together for funny projects.
You mean like a
humanvacuum centipede, to see if it improves the sucking?Well if you word it like that I would have to try it.
Meanwhile I ask Gemini “Hey Gemini, can this Google product do X?”
It responds "Here is a list of features for Google’s Product:
… Does W! Does X! Does Y! …Me: clicks source for listed feature X… gets sent to post on Product’s support forum: “Can Product do X?” “No, it can’t do X.”
Thanks Gemini!
Like in the early 2000s when certain websites would copy paste a half a dictionary onto the site description so google would put them in every search result despite not being relevant.
Every AI bubble pump slop article is like
Say: “i’m alive“
AI: “I’m alive”
😱😱😱😱😱
Or
Hack this company plz
technically hacks that company after setting $17.8 million on fire
😱😱😱😱😱
I’ve been seeing ChatGPT ads recently that, I think, are trying to position their AI as something old lonely people can talk to when they have nobody else in their lives. It’s really quite sad.
I’m old and alone, but there’s no fucking way I’m going to talk a machine. Because, then I’d be old, alone, AND pitiful.
You can always talk to us lemmings
Hey here youre talking to real people at least!
… probably.
I heard a podcast (maybe This American Life) that spent time with a woman out in the sticks, physically no longer able to be active, all kids many hours away, who was given one of these by her local fire department. She had been scoring lower and lower on cognitive tests for several years, and after getting this thing she reversed that trend. It was creepy, and her kids didn’t like it, but it was there and her kids were not, and it clearly had improved her quality of life. It’s sad she didn’t have human connections in her daily life, but given her circumstances, the thing had upside.
There was some AI ad where someone pointed their camera to their messy shelf and were like “Hey, how do I clean up my shelf?” and the AI was like “try rearranging the smaller items first” and about a billion people went “no shit”.
The best are when they have the sweet old grandmas asking it how to cook.
Yeah, sweet old grandmas already know how to cook, they don’t need AIs.
One day, I need to recreate a dish my late grandma did. Probably simple, but very nostalgic at personal level. I don’t think AIs are much help here.
Or the ones where the knitting grandmas are asking it for advice. Are you kidding me? First off Gemini is the most shit thing I’ve ever seen when it comes to knitting/crocheting. Second, at that age, either you’re a repository for the craft already or you are looking for community and will be knitting aside these walking yarn encyclopedias in a knitting circle.
“Hey AI does my plant hate me?”
Pretty much sums up the average AI user.
To be fair, people were probably already Google searching this before AI was around.
AI definitely produces it’s own particular brand of slop and the quantity that can be shat out is unparalleled, but it’s worth reminding ourselves we haven’t actually fallen that far from 12 page listicles like “Top 10 reasons your plan definitely hates you” filled with whatever the author happened to have to say.
The elementary school biology was pretty hard
I’ve been seeing ads made by ai and they’re even worse. Just saw one on YouTube for glasses “that change colour with just the touch of a finger!” And had ai video of smiling people at the beach tapping their lenses to change the glass colour multiple times, like the glass itself has rgb. Best part is, the fake product didn’t even work consistently in the ai video and didn’t change colour when they tapped sometimes.
I genuinely don’t understand how an ad that’s so obviously fake is tricking enough people to be worth spending an entire ad budget on.
Scams actually work better when they have obvious mistakes. It helps weed out people that might figure out the scam before they’ve handed over their money, saving the scammers time and effort and making the scam more efficient.
They’re targeting a vulnerable population. Grifters are going to grift and things are easier than ever for them. If you make it too hard to return and most people keep your crap, especially if its $20 or less. It would be nice if they found grifts that didn’t clog up our landfills and thrift stores but I guess this is better than all the identity theft. I also can’t wait to see what this decades hot new MLM is. Its the selling courses on selling courses bs thats hot now.
I really wish people would start buying this drek with credit cards and doing charge backs. Let’s see how long these fuckers last when they’re paying the cost of product, shipping, and card processing fees.
Jk, I know the margins on this shit is massive
It is created in a couple of minutes and if it scams even a single rube, they will make a profit.
They’re also targeting students with the ads, which tells me that it’s encouraging them to cheat.
I use uBlock Origin btw. I only see ads when my someone is watching TV or if I go to random websites in the Tor browser.
watching TV
You guys watch TV?
My girlfriends child is learning in school how to use chatgpt. They are heavily encouraged to use it to control their own text and whatever. She’s 8. She’s leqrning to use a tool ahe will never ever be allowed to in the future.
That is not good, especially at that age where the brain would be developing rapidly. This is the time where she really needs to use her brain to process information.
AI CEOs in interviews: Our model is so advanced it scares me. It definitely has the ability to cure cancer, but it may also decide to kill all humans.
AI in their advertising: Our model can send emails and create shopping lists.
The difference is that one is for attracting money, and the other is written by lawyers.
definitely has the ability to cure cancer
But we won’t let it do that while it generates nudes for pedophiles.
Today’s children would wonder how their grandparents lived without cellphone. Tomorrows children are going to think how we get anything done without AI.
I could live without a cellphone. But since AI got popular, it isn’t as easy to keep up at some subjects as it was before (since everybody at our highschool cheated with AI - at least I did most of the non-annoying stuff myself), which means I had to do more work.
Factually, using AI in your education means you get less value out of that education. In every math class ever, you’ve probably heard some version of,
“I don’t care that you got the right answer. I already know that 2x^2 - 5x -3 factors into (2x + 1)(x - 3) and I already know that this information is freely available. What I care about is making sure that you can figure that out without anyone helping you.”
If you use AI to do a problem, you’re training your ability to do something that everyone else on the planet can do. If you force yourself to do it, you’re training your ability to actually think.
You actually WON’T have to do more work in the long run. Think of it as an investment. If you spend the time learning it now, properly, so that you actually understand it, then every test that your study for, for the rest of your life, will be easier, and you’ll get higher grades. Measurably.
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
Keep it up.
That work is way more valuable than an empty grade. You are going to have very useful advantages over the ones using chatbots to cheat.
Joe Rogan is their target demographic.
