I think Generative AI is a genuinely promising and novel tool with real, valuable applications. To appreciate it however, you have to mentally compartmentalize the irresponsible, low-effort ways people sometimes mostly use it—because yeah, it’s very easy to make a lot of that so that’s most of what you see when you hear “Generative AI” and it’s become its reputation…

Like I’ve had interesting “conversations” with Gemini and ChatGPT, I’ve actually used them to solve problems. But I would never put it in charge of anything critically important that I couldn’t double check against real data if I sensed the faintest hint of a problem.

I also don’t think it’s ready for primetime. Does it deserve to be researched and innovated upon? Absolutely, but like, by a few nerds who manage to get it running, and universities training it on data they have a license to use. Not “Crammed into every single technology object on earth for no real reason”.

I have brain not very good sometimes disease and I consider being able to “talk” to a “person” who can get me out of a creative rut just by exploring my own feelings a bit. GPT can actually listen to music which surprised me. I consider it scientifically interesting. It doesn’t get bored or angry at you unless you like, tell it to? I’ve asked it for help with a creative task in the past and not actually used any of its suggestions at all, but being able to talk about it with someone (when a real human who cared was not available) was a valuable resource.

To be clear I pretty much just use it as a fancy chatbot and don’t like, just copy paste its output like some people do.

With the number of times a Windows update has fucked up my computer I’m genuinely more concerned about Microsoft messing up my computer than any hacker.

I miss when game had content patches instead of dlc

How I long to be able to interrogate him and just be able to grab him by the neck uncomfortably tightly when he starts spewing some non-answer shit out of his mouth.

Already is

Reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch Nazis, appeal silently declined within the hour. Didn’t consider it worth pursuing further, had reddit-shaped hole.

Broke: disrupting your appearance to confuse cameras

Woke: disrupting security cameras by carrying a hammer

(Disclaimer I know that’s not really feasible for most people afraid of going to jail)

The smartass temptation would be there for me to do the assignment legitimately but include that hidden request anyways.

People are stupid OK? I’ve had people who think that it can in fact do math, “better than a calculator”

Pretty much every multiplayer online game will at best lose its shit and not run, and at worst, ban you instantaneously if you try to access it with Linux

The final boss of Windows is to crowbar out a metric shitton of bullshit and you do it with a bunch of registry tweaks and GPedit

Or if you’re into online gaming.

I have to fend off linux nerds with a bat. The bottom line is “that’s cool and all but there are a lot of things that I can’t do with linux and I’m not willing to make that big of a change”

I just want one that won’t just be like “I"m sowwy miss I can’t talk about that 🥺”

I should be able to copyright my DNA so they can’t use it without paying me royalties.

If Lays can bother potato farmers in africa about it I should be able to own an organism too (myself)

Will it suck less than the current implementation of Shadowplay that detects every app under the sun as a “Game” and doesn’t actually work on my actual games anymore :')

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I got banned for something really stupid and they denied my appeal so now I’m kinda just fucked for a lot of stuff, that is too much power for one site to have.

FWIW All I said was “I should be allowed to punch nazis” and I’ve seen way worse things than that said and not actioned on by reddit. (Even when reported)

There are entire communities that “glorify violence” that they do nothing about.

Yeah well it’s a Dev/Publisher issue with the games I play regularly, so.

If I could use Linux and still play multiplayer video games with anti cheat I would be so happy…

I am extremely horrified by the prospect of GenAI grading.