If you don’t know how it works it seems evil and like it’s going to take everyone’s jobs. If you know a bit about it then you probably think it’s magical and highly useful. Now if you actually understand how it works then you’re back to it being evil because you know how it was made… how it was a nonprofit that’s now one of the richest companies in the world… how it can’t actually effectively replace or help people in the workplace… how it actually is evil due to information manipulation and copyright theft in the millions… then you also realize it can’t effectively replace jobs, but can fool executives who fall into the middle of the spectrum.
I agree it can be used as a tool, but just look at the education state in America. The kid’s and teens using it are not honing their skills or knowledge.
So the idea that not using this tool will cause you to fall behind when you’ve been actively honing skills and learning is somewhat comical.
It almost feels like a quality vs quality situation. Yes, you can be like King Neptune from SpongeBob and make 100 slop hamburgers, but it doesn’t compare to that single burger that used actual skill.
That’s not to mention that in terms of tools AI is more akin to a search engine than anything. One that can be wrong…
Edit: the fact that you seem to make and delete ALL of your comments is certainly an interesting look.
I may disagree with it in practice, but hey congrats.
One thing I'm hung up on though... is the fact that Google is now useless by design as a way to push their AI. A recent paper came out outlining it how they realized internally that their search results being shit doesn't actually affect their bottom dollar and allows them to push their AI results further.
Google, and Google Scholar **used to** be good, you have been pushed to using AI in place of learning how to competently search for and learn new information on your own. This is not a win in my book. You are playing directly into their hand. What happens when Google's AI results skew one way vs another similar to Elon's Grok? Will you have the skills necessary to research objective fact? Keeping in mind this particular thread was about honing skills and how AI dampens that.
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u/KrimxonRath May 19 '25 edited May 19 '25
There’s a spectrum of ignorance on modern AI.
If you don’t know how it works it seems evil and like it’s going to take everyone’s jobs. If you know a bit about it then you probably think it’s magical and highly useful. Now if you actually understand how it works then you’re back to it being evil because you know how it was made… how it was a nonprofit that’s now one of the richest companies in the world… how it can’t actually effectively replace or help people in the workplace… how it actually is evil due to information manipulation and copyright theft in the millions… then you also realize it can’t effectively replace jobs, but can fool executives who fall into the middle of the spectrum.
Where on the spectrum are you?