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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] Carol2852@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Most obviously OpenAI is still burning money like crazy and they also start offering porn AI as everyone else. 🤷‍♂️ Sometimes the current AI is useful, but as long as the hallucinations and plain wrong answers are still a thing I don’t see it eliminating all jobs.

It’s unfortunate that they destroy the text and video part of the internet on the way. Text was mostly broken before, but now images and videos are also untrustworthy and will be used for spam and misinformation.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The "hallucinations" are built in. It simply doesn't work otherwise. Without that, it would eventually always have the same response to every input.

[–] Carol2852@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

That’s why I think it’s a major hype and bubble atm. There is no intelligence there and OpenAI will not come up with AGI in the near (or far) future.