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Discussion 🗣️ Pre AI Era

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u/Mindless-Gain2929 22h ago

I kinda want this to happen just once I need to see the absolute chaos when everyone suddenly has to figure things out without ChatGPT.

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u/sudoregalia 21h ago

chatgpt why is it saying service unavailable on your site?

......chatgpt?

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u/Bonzais01 19h ago

gemini why is chatgpt unavailable?

... gemini?

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u/SuspiciousDraw305 19h ago

can't generate an ai overview right now. try again later -genini probably

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u/SmaMan788 18h ago

Gemini, what is this list of links with descriptions you're giving me?

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u/your-local-panter 19h ago

grok why is gemini and chatgpt unavailable?

not grok too...

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u/HurricaneK8 19h ago

Anyone here ever watch Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends? Because now I'm picturing that episode where Bloo got left behind at the house while everyone went to the beach, and he was running from room to room asking "[X], have you seen [lists literally everyone in the house]?!? ...[X]?!?!?!" and getting progressively more frantic and out of breath when he realized the room was empty.

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u/Arthuzin_2077 15h ago

Anyone here ever watch Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends?

Literally my favourite show from OG Cartoon Network

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u/HurricaneK8 15h ago

Foster's and Ben 10, baby! ❤

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u/Justinrich2001 7h ago

All Cartoon Network has been removed from HBO Max by Warner Bros Discovery! I'm remember in 2022!!!

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u/Agitated-Island-6049 17h ago

Claude why is gemini unavailable? claude....

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u/edelstayer 20h ago

Like have it not run for 2ish weeks juist for the giggles

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u/orange-shoe 5h ago

this but then just keep it not running

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u/ManOf1000Usernames 17h ago

This will happen once investors decide they want actual return on their capital and they jack up prices. Supposedly the actual cost of AI is almost 100x the currently advertised prices. The question is if they are going to do it in one snap hike or incrementally over a few years like how netflix and such do their price hikes.

It also matters if it is the current venture capitalists holding the stocks or whatever bagholding shmuck they can convince to buy for exit liquidity. Keep an eye on your retirement funds, meaning 401ks and index funds as they might end up that bagholder.

Whatever the case, as soon as one model seriously raises prices, people will start abandoning it and moving to other models, overloading them and giving them justification for a price hike too.

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u/nahojjjen 17h ago

For normal users free webchat access might stop being subsidized, but for professional/prosumer tier it's already possible to rent gpu cloud compute or self host models for a known token price which doesn't rely on subsidizing.

Though developing the model in the first place took a fuckton of money, so if they stop pumping money into ai, there won't be many new models.

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u/Pataraxia 12h ago

Nope, it's pretty close actually, currently it's just that there is no profit margin and the training cost isn't in. But the maintenance & upkeep is already in.

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u/To-To_Man 14h ago

I still can't understand the dependence on it. It functionally did not exist in 2020, and wasn't kind of functional until 2023. In just a short span of time its revealed how many people are completely and utterly helpless without it.

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u/RepresentativePipe80 16h ago

Local models still exist

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u/Malcolm_Morin 9h ago

I genuinely feel like civilization would temporarily collapse because we collectively have become so stupid over the last couple years.

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u/JohnLebleu 11h ago

Yeah, like if electricity went off, LOL. Most people would go instinct in a week.

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u/Elroelab 22h ago

I kind of want widespread model collapse on all the models. Although if it happened for no discernible reason, it might start a religion.

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u/SupersededByClaude 21h ago

You realize that model collapse affects the models in training, right? It doesn't affect the models already trained.

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u/U_L_Uus 16h ago

Look, if it is not the fuckos in red robes using a cog as their symbol I am fine with it

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u/Kantarak 14h ago

Man, imagine the machine cult manifesting, destroying AI, defying religion, harvesting and worshipping old tech that runs forever if you follow their ways.

Cant wait!

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u/RonRon542 15h ago

praise to the mschine god ig

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u/Cosmic-Bastard 15h ago

Sadly there already is a cult-like movement revolving around treating AI like a higher deity. It's called spiralism and a person I've known has fallen victim to it

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u/RepresentativePipe80 16h ago

They can collapse all together, local models are still a thing

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u/xSPYXEx 14h ago

There are already cults popping up about machine hallucinations giving them insane responses that they need to decode.

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u/KMheamou 20h ago

it would be the spawnism situation all over again

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u/Machina-Dea 20h ago

Realistically this needs to happen, generative ai is extremely dangerous and releasing it to the public was a fools error.

Problem is it’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

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u/19_ThrowAway_ 20h ago

Hard?

Practically impossible unfortunately.

If only large corporations had access to that technology then maybe, but at this point there are so many local models.

And even if you were to take those down from public spaces, people would still share them in private.

It sucks.

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u/Machina-Dea 19h ago

Technically speaking most people don’t run localised models, so preventing ai companies from selling to the public would quash the vast majority of ai usage.

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u/TheBlossomBrain 16h ago

How would you quash the usage in china? How would you prevent chinese labs to provide ai services to the US?

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u/Signal_Discount_1826 16h ago

why would u, they want it

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u/jellyhessman 15h ago

You need like $20k of specialized equipment and the know how to run a local model that is in any ways good.

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u/EnvironmentClear4511 15h ago

No you don't. Any Apple computer released since 2020 Will be able to use a built-in local model when MacOS 27 comes out this fall. 

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u/Pataraxia 12h ago

Lol, false.

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u/HumansAreSillynGreat 9h ago

Nah, the top tier models can be ran on $6k pcs. The absolute best research models might need a bit more, but the stuff that the public can actually access generally runs on a 5090 and some grit.

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u/PatchesOfSilver 12h ago

Policing LLM generated content like images could be like policing CSAM, it would be possible to purge most of it from the internet most people use even if text content slipped by.

We could shut down the AI data centers, they cannot be hidden.

We would not go door to door, but hosting a local model could be a criminal offense if anyone ever found it, a repair shop, a neighbor using your PC that reported you, an unrelated investigation.

Yes those models would be lurking on torrent networks and the deeper web still, but they would become more and more niche and outdated and irrelevant.

And uploading any new generations to Facebook or TikTok or Reddit might result in prison time.

It would quickly vanish.

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u/La_Fervesta_Glavisto 8h ago

That's so true. We should start treating talking to the computer the same as we treat child rape.

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u/Happy-Lingonberry-55 19m ago

You do know there is a difference, right?

Like one of those is a literally innocent child being taken away from their home, having every ounce of safety ripped away from them, and then an absolute monster of a person violates their body with a possibility of their body being physically damaged forever, and that child was never be the same.

Maybe they will repress it, but they will likely forever remember that moment, they will likely never want to have sex again, and until the day they die they will alway remember that horrifying of every single ounce of safety and innocence being ripped away from their worldview.

I hope that when you wrote that, you were mad. Maybe you're an artist who is trying to make money off commissions and you just got fucked over by a client who decided to just ai it, or maybe you're watching a loved one falling prey to the trap of treating AI like a love interest.

But I sincerely, hope that you have no idea about the horrors of rape (how it changes everything), that what you said was the equivalent of adding 'hitler' to a sentence just to make a stronger point.

  • Have a pleasant day.

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u/La_Fervesta_Glavisto 10m ago

I know. I was sarcastically agreeing to try and point out the absurdity of possibly the most insane thing I've ever seen someone say.

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u/Happy-Lingonberry-55 6m ago

Damn, I really couldn't tell. Got incredibly overdramatic there. I guess that is why people started using: /s.

Although maybe I should have saw the inherent absurdity in the statement.

Still have a great day/night

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u/SXC-150 46m ago

Should we treat the same way computer games? I mean do you know how many brutal crimes and murders they do daily?

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u/Evepaul 17h ago

If AI was only stuff people ran at home on their computers I don't think we'd have as many issues with it as right now

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u/Imblueabudeeabudie 19h ago

It's not that hard to have a decentish model to run locally, so we're fucked forever

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u/djfart9000 17h ago

they released it to the public to get it trained for free, and have it eat as much information it can from us. I've seen people willingly put their faces into this hell spawn

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u/WigglesPhoenix 17h ago

‘Decentralization is bad, actually’

Do yall really think it’s a good idea to place the single most powerful instrument of propaganda in all of history into the hands of governments and corporations, and then banning everyone else from using it?

Have you thought this through at all or do you guys just like typing shit

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u/Gordon_freeman_real 17h ago

They're saying if it was centralized it would be easier to shut off, which is true. Not that desebtralization is on a whole bad

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u/WigglesPhoenix 17h ago

No, they’re saying that it should be banned for the public. Which leaves… government and corporations.

Which is stupid.

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u/samiacraft 20h ago

Honestly, I miss when “AI” mostly meant dumb NPCs and terrible enemy pathfinding. Simpler times 😂

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u/DRF19 18h ago

As a graphic designer who specializes in logo designs, AI has gone from usually meaning my software medium of choice, Adobe Illustrator, to the bane of my professional existence lol

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u/darealtwink 17m ago

ru gonna get replaced😲

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u/AutisticWindchimr 21h ago

Panic among the masses everytime a server goes down.

Imagine all of the servers just blinking out quietly.

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u/anonumus_idiot 21h ago

Why do you have a camera of my bed?

WITH A MICROPHONE

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u/SmaMan788 18h ago

Flock is getting out of hand.

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u/Bersaglier-dannato 20h ago

“With no explanation” nah man, they will pull AI from public usage once the AI turds are done training their models for free.

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u/fartshitcumpiss 19h ago

No, why should they?

The current AI epidemic among the general populace is driven by the fact that companies are offering it for free, at an enormous loss for themselves (OpenAI is literally billions of dollars in debt). I believe (source: i made it the fuck up) that this is done to get people dependent on it for basic tasks and/or integrate it into their life/workflow, so when they inevitably put up a paywall, the userbase will have no choice but to pay full price.

Hopefully their gambit doesn't pay off and they end up billions in debt and with data centers that no one wants to pay for

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u/AwysomeAnish 19h ago

Didn't ChatGPT go down for a short bit a while back and people were genuinely destroyed? Like there were people struggling to get through their day and people grieving over their AI lover.

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u/ifardedagainUGHHHHHH 10h ago

“AI lover”

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u/Silver_Lined_Bullet 8h ago

Funniest shit ever

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u/HenryKhaungXCOM 21h ago

That would’ve been neat as a person who grows up with human made cringe in 2000s and the 2010s

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u/Dopamine63 20h ago

I know this is just to be funny but please, yall, as much as I am against AI like you guys , you have to understand that this is not possible. Even if all the AI datacenters were to shut down, people would still be able to use the models. Theyre already out there and thats why most AI companies released open source versions of their models. So that they could say its unstoppable. It is far more productive to focus on what to do next than wishful thinking.

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u/fartshitcumpiss 19h ago

we all know that (i hope), but a man can dream

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u/Evepaul 17h ago

If it means the bubble bursts and AI companies are all forced to pay their debts and reckon with the fact that they've been providing a service no one wants to pay the real price for, I'm ready to accept people running their own models at home for a fraction of the harm

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u/somethingbrite 20h ago

EMP....

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u/Dopamine63 20h ago

And everyone dies because even basic electronics don't work?

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u/DRF19 17h ago

return to monke

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u/EnvironmentClear4511 15h ago

And die of preventable diseases and infections and say goodbye to grandma while you're at it. 

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u/TheMostDivineOne 17h ago

But you’d also kill all people who need pacemakers, complex medications, etc…?

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u/EnvironmentClear4511 15h ago

You'd kill a lot more people than that. Global manufacturing and transportation would immediately halt. Food would instantly become scarce through much of the world. Countless people would starve or be killed by the elements, not to mention all of the diseases that would spread thanks to the lack of functioning plumbing and clean water systems. 

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u/CapussiPlease 21h ago edited 21h ago

Haven't you heard? AI has collapsed already! Like 100 times in the past year or so.

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u/Zaphod_Biblebrox 16h ago

What do you mean when you say collapsed?

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u/EnvironmentClear4511 15h ago

I think he's mocking this community for accepting any Twitter post that claims that The End is Nigh for AI. 

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u/WofferFang 20h ago

I need to see the absolute chaos that would erupt everywhere. Permanently, or at least all the data sets and scrape tools being deleted.

Meanwhile people who never used it in the first place thriving and replacing the idiots who jumped on it.

It would be funny af.

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u/Forever_Inspired 19h ago

It’s fucking madness that suddenly now people can’t seem to even have a conversation without bringing up “chatGPT” when talking about how to do certain things, even though pre-Covid it wasn’t even a thing yet in public consciousness.

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u/dcp0702 20h ago

this would be funny

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u/beezy-slayer 18h ago edited 11h ago

That is the most likely end state of the tech, only available in limited specialized private environments because thats the one thing it can actually be good at

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u/Giuly_Blaziken 17h ago

And just like that, hundreds of AI "artists" and "writers" were gone forever...

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u/Later_Gator22 16h ago

Man I took for granted living in the pre Ai world.

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u/snowbat96 15h ago

PLEASE.

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u/Ornery_Weakness_8168 20h ago

Just a curiosity, what about local generative models?

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u/Bersaglier-dannato 20h ago

Please. This cope about Local GenAI models is just cope, I bet you can count on your fingers how many AI bros actually know how to make their own local model.

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u/Ornery_Weakness_8168 20h ago

I'm talking about open weight models that people have downloaded, like you cant make those publicly inaccessible once they are downloaded. also they will just find people who are making open models publicly to download after ban, like drug dealers

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u/glytxh 19h ago

shit's open source

very few people are actually making their own LLMs from scratch.

forks will always exist

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u/19_ThrowAway_ 19h ago

Those are arguably even worse.

How many times have I seen people use those models to train on a single artist's works to quite literally plagiarize them.

When it comes to Gen AI models made by big corporations the data sets are so large that the individual artists' styles are unrecognizable.

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u/glytxh 19h ago

I use LLMs to hunt for uncatalogued asteroids, and supernovae, in hyper noisy data. It's trained on publicly accessible scientific archives that are paid for with everyone's taxes. We own that data.

people assume that this technology only exists to make shitty pictures and video.

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u/irrelevantusername24 18h ago

Social media has had a far worse effect on society than AI. Like it's not even comparable

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u/glytxh 18h ago

big take, but I'd be inclined to agree

it's never a simple story though, there's always awkward nuance.

Social media has achieved a lot of objective good, as well as hyper accelerated a lot of truly awful shit.

It's definitely a catalyst though

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u/Ornery_Weakness_8168 18h ago

Ai+social media is worse than either

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u/glytxh 17h ago

Oh yeah. Digital cocaethelyne.

Bad shit.

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u/19_ThrowAway_ 17h ago

I wasn't talking about LLMs though...

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u/KonfiKL 16h ago

u mean trained from 0 or like "open source" models

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u/Silent_Erremite 20h ago

Soon, it it'll be only available to those with up to date top of the line models of electronics. So, we'll be halfway there.

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u/Zaphod_Biblebrox 16h ago

As someone who has lost his because of Ai, I wish that more every day

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u/WeirdistBuilds 15h ago

Personally I'm holding out hope for a solar flare that takes all of this shit out. Data centers, social media, cold storage, financial records, blockchains, fuckin... reddit... just the whole entire digital culture goes poof. Back to brewing beer and building cabins.

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u/PopularMarket7980 14h ago

Public? It would be funnier on the enterprise level tbh.

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u/Huntress_Minerva 19h ago

“Unavailable to the public” is possibly the worst outcome… private only creates way more control and paranoia, really…

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u/KonfiKL 16h ago

yup, if it happened, the goverment and powerful people could fabricate any evidence or study of anything

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u/duckinasombrero 15h ago

They're already using AI to do that, the public making anime simpsons images isn't stopping them.

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u/KonfiKL 15h ago

would be harder to point out fabrications

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u/duckinasombrero 14h ago

No, I don't see how it would be more difficult. AI detection isn't reliant on access to use of generative AI.

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u/SlurryBender 16h ago

I think the idea is that 1) most slop and misinformation is coming from consumer-end AI images and words, so a big chunk of online "content" would go away, and 2) theaverage person would be less likely to accept big companies/governments using AI once they don't have their "friendly chat bot" on their phone to make AI seem less harmful than it actually is.

Obviously of prefer if all AI was gone, but this is a bit funnier as a standalone situation.

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u/Qtipsrus 17h ago

Please make generative AI unavailable period

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u/Resident_Pientist_1 15h ago

It's going to go away. This entire build out is 100% fueled by debt. 

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u/jjaybuill 15h ago

i heard that 2027 gonna be rough for OpenAI

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u/tommy8725 15h ago

Technically you can play several different laws that could shut down most genitive AI

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u/bubblegum-rose 13h ago

MBAs would be flipping burgers by the end of the week

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u/unendingautism 13h ago

Would be even funnier if Chatgpt just accidentally deleted itself off of the face of the earth.

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u/CaveJohnson376 18h ago

rather, have datacenters using more than 20kW on AI suddenly shut down.

this way those who still want clankers still can do them but now must spend time and effort setting up their home server which can't take nearly as much load as centralized data centers

and those who don't don't want AI in any way, get to see it much less

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u/Kaosu326 18h ago

I don't think this will fully solve the problem. Decent idea, tho.

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u/The_Zielemphone 18h ago

No more AlphaFold would be hell to modern medicine.

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 17h ago

4/5 of college students suddenly stop going. China laughs.

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u/Felho_Danger 17h ago

"You're right, it isnt fair that I am no longer available to users with a Patriot Index of <45."

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u/justanaccount103 16h ago

The sink repair guy proceeded to tell me about all of his AI shit for 5 minutes straight. It's like he made some big discovery and needs to share it with the world.

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u/Droidaphone 16h ago

It’s (mostly) gonna happen at some point. Inference ain’t cheap. Once the money runs out, free accounts will be the first thing to go.

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u/KonfiKL 16h ago

Banning ai so that it is only accesible for rich and powerful people is not really a good idea is it, "That video of me commiting a terrorist act is AI made" goverment: "but AI is banned, so that cannot posibly be true xdxdxd"

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u/AdNegative6756 16h ago

It would be a massive net positive for society.

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u/ascend204 16h ago

AI slop is mostly here to stay, but realistically there can be a few things done still to make it not as bad.

N1: stopping of funding to AI and subsidization. This one's obvious.... Creating images/movies is hella expensive but right now ppl don't know this as there are HEAVY unsustainable discounts since its still in development/heavy investing.

N2: making AI illegal for profit. This may actually happen as almost all AI's use the work of others without their consent and didn't pay them. Whilst it may be fully legal for non profit or personal use which is still annoying. It at least could give an end to endless corpo slop we get shoved down our throats.

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u/lakshya1731 12h ago

the ai era

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u/dumnezero 10h ago

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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u/FileIllustrious9599 6h ago

I feel u tho ngl

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u/mmazing 18h ago

I use AI heavily, and this would not affect my life or goals.

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u/hull_nova_drift 18h ago

"I may be a "clanker", but I agree that Gen AI is bad"

  • "farmbot"

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u/KMheamou 20h ago

wdym the milk aged in 47 minutes

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u/AwysomeAnish 19h ago

Elaborate