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gulliver

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16. Not perfect, but a massive improvement over "humans plus Google"

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:52 PM

Mar 10

"Humans plus Google" were already creating vast amounts of misinformation and lunacy prior to AI. People were really under the misimpression that anyone can just google anything and find the answer. Google lets any dummy in a meeting, for example, bring up a link and hijack the meeting from the brainy people.

AI, despite its limitations and flaws, is the real deal. If your doctor or lawyer, for example, isn't using it, you should drop them.

Getting rid of BS is a real threat to the economy. It might be the majority of the world's GDP, between administrative bloat, grifting, and make work. That's why I'm so disappointed in not seeing anyone figuring out how AI gets us off the ever-faster BS hamster wheel we've gotten ourselves on.

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'I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff': professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI [View all] highplainsdem Mar 10 OP

Asymmetric Starbeach Mar 10 #1

It's possible he's done more harm to education than any other person in history. highplainsdem Mar 10 #2

With social media and AI, tech broligarchs misanthrope Mar 10 #3

I agree, and it's a tragic situation. Unfortunately accelerated by people using AI when they aren't highplainsdem Mar 10 #5

Tangential but related misanthrope Mar 10 #9

Very helpful video. Thanks again! highplainsdem Mar 10 #10

+1. Altman wants to be the next Elon Musk dalton99a Mar 10 #4

Thanks! highplainsdem Mar 10 #7

Re what you added there about Sam Altman - yes, he's a lot like Elon Musk. He wants more and more highplainsdem Mar 10 #11

Psychopathy and sociopathy aid success in the corporate and political realms misanthrope Mar 10 #21

Writing a thesis is hard work Mz Pip Mar 10 #6

You'd accomplished a lot, and learned a lot. highplainsdem Mar 10 #8

It is sooooooo awful r�is�n_dubh Mar 10 #12

I'm so sorry. It's understandable that good teachers don't want to deal with what AI has done to highplainsdem Mar 10 #14

AI can help save us from natural intelligences (humans) powered by the Internet. gulliver Mar 10 #13

Generative AI isn't "extremely destructive to BS." It's often called a bullshit machine. It isn't highplainsdem Mar 10 #15

Not perfect, but a massive improvement over "humans plus Google" gulliver Mar 10 #16

Generative AI is NOT the real deal. It will always hallucinate, and it will never get us to true highplainsdem Mar 10 #17

It's useful as a tool, so far gulliver Mar 10 #18

It's an unethical tool, because it was trained illegally on stolen intellectual property. It's a tool that highplainsdem Mar 10 #20

We agree on the negative aspects almost entirely gulliver Mar 10 #22

I wish I could believe that Musk really wants abundance for all, but IIRC there's little or no evidence highplainsdem Mar 10 #28

The same idiots who used google searches to reinforce and promote their idiocies... hunter Mar 10 #19

True gulliver Mar 10 #23

Imagine a golden future where students use AI to write papers... hunter Mar 10 #24

We already have a present, far from golden, where some students and teachers do that. And our highplainsdem Mar 10 #29

When used appropriately and responsibly.... anciano Mar 10 #25

Other people's uncredited information, ideas and creativity. Do you even note the use of genAI in your product ... marble falls Mar 10 #27

I've used genAI enough to know what's created with it is a result of the stolen IP used to train it. highplainsdem Mar 10 #31

And I'll help. May I grease the skids? marble falls Mar 10 #26

Very happy to have your help. A lot of people share our opinion of AI. There was a poll done recently highplainsdem Mar 10 #30

Fuck AI. Fuck it to hell. Initech Mar 10 #32

We have good reason to hate and oppose the tech lords who released generative AI tools and highplainsdem Mar 11 #33