About AI

[Joinfortmill]

I had my TV on while I was making my morning coffee and some dude was talking about the health benefits of exercise and nutrition. When I sat down and began watching, it was clear pretty quickly that this was AI. So, I listened to the AI dude for a while and, because I'm an old gal, I knew at least some of what he said was true.

My thoughts on this are just to label it AI and let watchers make up their own minds.

[highplainsdem]

1. Generative AI is always unethical because of the way the AI tools were trained on stolen intellectual

property. Labeling it AI doesn't changed that.

It allows wannabe creatives and content producers with no real talent or expertise to produce fraudulent and sometimes dangerous content that will fool a lot of people, which is why YouTube is flooded with so much AI crap including medical advice from foreign content farms.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220865373

Generative AI is mostly good for enabling fraud and scams of all types.

[WarGamer]

3. Again...

By YOUR definition... any human being at school is also using stolen IP

AI accesses publicly available data to "learn".

The difference is, AI maintains a database incorporating decades of international medical journals while a human learns from a handful.

As one who was recently in the hospital for a few days... I caught several Doctors being unaware of things I spotted using AI. When I met with the GI Specialist later he acknowledged that most Doctors away from GI field just don't know...

But hey! The Scribes Union Local 444 was mightily upset about the printing press too! And don't forget the Horse Drawn Buggy Mechanics Union...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. man you're adorable

[highplainsdem]

8. They apparently missed all the stories and studies on AI errors, as well as the stories on AI companies

being well aware that their theft of intellectual property was theft. Or maybe they decided to tune them put.

[BannonsLiver]

11. Thats really amazing .

In the future people won’t need doctors because of AI. I’d encourage you to continue to make your medical decisions based entirely on AI in the near and long term future. Listen to AI first, then, if necessary maybe call a doctor. But maybe not? I STRONGLY support that kind of pioneer spirit!

[WarGamer]

12. I'm sure you read where I bounced it off the GI Specialist...

And he confirmed that the ER Docs just don't know those things.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. AI is sophisticated BRAINWASHING

i think it's extremely DANGEROUS. We now have and entire generation who are GLUED to phones. No discernment, no guard rails.

[gulliver]

5. I trust and like AI much more than the old Google

The trouble with the old Google was that people who have only shallow knowledge and are prone to run with their feelings are easily misled into rabbit holes by old-fashioned Google queries. The queries inevitably turn up some cray cray stuff intended to sell ads or recruit and hook the "cult think" prone.

AI tries to keep people from thinking dumb or crazy things. That's a huge benefit. It's just in time.

[GenThePerservering]

6. I work in the field

and I'm seeing some facts to fit the theory thinking here. AI has a high mistake rate. It's also rapidly taking the place of human thinking.

ETA: Fat fingers - (this is human typed).

[highplainsdem]

7. I've seen absolutely no reporting or studies on AI to back up what you said here:

AI tries to keep people from thinking dumb or crazy things.

AI doesn't "try" anything. It has zero real intelligence, awareness or intention.

It's a very wasteful and error-riddled fancy autocomplete, and one that exists only because the AI companies stole the world's intellectual property.

Google's AI search uses 10x the electricity of its old search. It rips off information from websites, deprives them of traffic, and is harming the internet.

And it provides misinformation and dumbs down users, as well as including ads:

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in History
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221159857

Google Search's AI evolution includes more ads (The Verge, 5/20/2026)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221251606

Scientific American on the "broader problem" with AI errors: "Instead of checking AI's work, people keep trusting it."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221254962

From Wired: Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy & Dumb. From Gizmodo: 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221225412

"Mirage effect": Generative AI models will confidently describe/analyze images including X-rays they WEREN'T given
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221194415

"Cognitive debt" happens to developers using AI for coding: Dumbing down via AI use starts within weeks
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221023329

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. (Psychology Today, 3/22)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221115812

[gulliver]

9. It's easy to find out for yourself.

Just ask your AI whether you should remove, say, a wart. Prove to yourself that it gives you a smart answer. Will it be a better one than you would have gotten by searching Google in the old way or searching YouTube? Yeah, obviously. But decide for yourself.

Yes, of course, skills can be lost to AI. It can make big mistakes. It can create horrors sometimes and fantastic improvements usually. Old search engines never combined well with human intelligence after the innocent first few years. The engines became a magnifier of rank stupidity, anger, grifting, and delusion.

The pre-Internet world wasn't exactly paradise. It was probably better than the post-Internet, pre-AI era, though. Pre-Internet, unwise people tended to look to wise people for guidance. Then there were books and file cabinets full of files.

[WarGamer]

13. Use the solipsism argument and the AI isn't "really" intelligent argument evaporates.

[Prairie_Seagull]

10. One of the problems with AI is not that it can be right,

it's the fact that it is so frequently not.

Monstrous gamble.

[WarGamer]

14. Depends on what the task is... I'd argue that for the topic of History, AI is highly accurate.