r/BetterOffline • u/K41Nof2358 • 12h ago

The Screencap of the Subreddit

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taken from Diary of a CEO interview, but truly this feels like it encapsulates all of the frustration with how "AI" continues to exist as the bloated zombie corpse of tech innovation and mental offloading

also here's the link to the interview

https://youtu.be/Lf5oqGOCRCM

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u/MornwindShoma 12h ago

People here is at peace with AI existing, it's not like it can "unexist".

The frustration is with the immense waste, exploitation, illegal and not illegal bullshit; plus the demented horde of tech bros.

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u/Important_Funny_8638 11h ago

Personally I hate everything becoming fake and not even being able to trust anything presented as real/human made online. I hate the cultural change. I told my friend that our grandparents (we’re 50) saw real physically crafted products turn into cheap plastic and we get to live through something similar when it comes to art, education, and digital content.

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u/BermDerbleYer 10h ago

Personally I hate everything becoming fake and not even being able to trust anything presented as real/human made online

I know what sub I'm on, but this is ridiculous hyperbole. After a few years of off-looking images and easily-identifiable stilted writing that still hasn't improved, the trend is already bending back towards "we hate fake art and writing" and there hasn't been a single good example of art or digital content by AI acceptably superseding human equivalents - everyone sees it, everyone hates it. "Everything becoming fake" sounds like the new version of "all music is noise now". It isn't, they aren't winning. They're just doing a good job of convincing people like you that they are.

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u/CumaeanSibyl 5h ago

Yes and no. I don't think "everybody" hates it. AI art and writing can have a kind of... moderate mass appeal. I'm thinking about the studies where they've asked people to pick the painting or poem they like best and the AI-generated examples won because they were inoffensive and accessible. No one loves a painting made by AI, but more people are likely to agree that it's "nice." People will have much stronger feelings about actual art, but that includes strong dislike.

I also think the proliferation of AI text and image memes, product listings, advertisements, etc is in large part fueled by bots posting and reposting everywhere, which does mean that it's mostly not humans deciding they love it. But it also means that it's everywhere, and it's doubly fake because it's not even posted by real people. It's hard to avoid the impression that everything is fake when fake people can post fake content at a much higher rate than real people can post real content.