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22. i engage with AI only minimally

Sun Aug 31, 2025, 09:41 AM

Aug 31

for more than one reason. It's intrusive, it can't be trusted, it's being pushed on us without recourse in our apps, it's a huge, disastrously huge, waste of fossil fuel energy (especially under krasnov).

A friend is in a deep funk, lost job, lawsuit, bad times. This person began a dialogue with ChatGPT and is having serious, really serious mental health issues. AI crosses the line between human interaction and non human interaction and can lead to psychosis, which I fear is what is happening to my friend.

basically I hate it. It wastes my time. I'll write my own letters thank you very much.

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Bizarre "explanation" for assassination of Minnesota democratic house member [View all] lostnfound Aug 31 OP

Status - indicted on 6 federal charges on July 15th, pled not guilty on Aug 7 (links) lostnfound Aug 31 #1

The charges are federal because . . . DarthDem Aug 31 #9

Thanks for the clear explanation. I guess Pam Bondi and Kash Patel... lostnfound Sep 1 #31

You're welcome DarthDem Sep 1 #33

Damn TheFarseer Aug 31 #2

It certainly appears that way. niyad Aug 31 #8

Would you be surprised if they were? (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Aug 31 #17

Unlikely given how they work and our limited ability to control what the output will be EdmondDantes_ Aug 31 #18

I pretty Rebl2 Aug 31 #29

"I went to the shitty answer machine and it gave me a shitty answer." WhiskeyGrinder Aug 31 #3

You're missing my point, nt lostnfound Aug 31 #4

You both are correct wolfie001 Aug 31 #15

No, they were repeating your point muriel_volestrangler Sep 1 #34

What was your question/prompt? I got an entirely different response from Google. sl8 Aug 31 #5

investigation boelter shooting lostnfound Aug 31 #16

Thanks. sl8 Aug 31 #21

Infowars-prepper-gun-guy anti-gay preacher doesn't fit the profile lostnfound Aug 31 #6

Thank you for this information. Disturbing, and one of the reasons I niyad Aug 31 #7

Agree DarthDem Aug 31 #10

Yep. And what a waste of time having to verify. paleotn Aug 31 #20

As important as better algorithms is what data they train on karynnj Aug 31 #27

True, lots of great uses. An apparent down side is some loss of professional skils? lostnfound Sep 1 #30

Wish a good billionaire could fund a library initiative to make an expanding carefully-trained database for public use lostnfound Sep 1 #32

Yeah, like it's somehow able to sift through all the internet BS and return reality. In many cases, no. paleotn Aug 31 #19

AI is the devil. Scrivener7 Aug 31 #11

AI only knows what its fed. And it's feeding on the garbage pile that is social media. paleotn Aug 31 #12

The national media always fades out on these rightwing hit stories viva la Aug 31 #13

Yes, it was mentioned in early articles and yes, it was Democrats targeted karynnj Aug 31 #28

Peter Thiel's greasy hands all over this wolfie001 Aug 31 #14

i engage with AI only minimally barbtries Aug 31 #22

We can tell there was no political agenda based on how the dude looks IronLionZion Aug 31 #23

This is what I got when I expanded the Google prompt Aviation Pro Aug 31 #24

Self delete to consider how I'm saying what I'm saying. But I think you are right. Hekate Aug 31 #25

More evidence that AI is crap. All it knows is what it sucks up from every cesspool on the internet. Ocelot II Aug 31 #26

I've seen some blatantly incorrect things from gen AI recently Renew Deal Sep 1 #35

My favorite part of low-info AI hating is the unironic parroting of 'garbage in, garbage out' TheProle Sep 1 #36

I've successfully used detailed prompts for plenty of deep structured answers. This OP was prompted by 2 concerns. lostnfound Sep 1 #37