Post by @aesthr@wandering.shop

RE: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117507186194815039

I didn't expect so many answers to literally sound like people trying to talk away an addiction problem. This is grim.

Serious question: If you willingly use generative "AI", do you believe you're immune to or sufficiently protected from de-skilling, cognitive decline, and what's commonly known as "AI psychosis"?

If yes: What makes you believe that? How are you special?

If no: Why do you still use it, given that you're aware of the risks to your cognition? Do you just accept it?

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Trey

@tbgp@mastodon.social 26 min. ago

@aesthr P.S. everybody codes launches in 5 hours
https://everybody.codes/events

May be a good time to manually code again :)

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manifold

@manifold@mathstodon.xyz 35 min. ago

@aesthr its like asking people about scrolling short form videos in 2020

Trey

@tbgp@mastodon.social 51 min. ago

@aesthr I have to use it at work during the day. I do feel my coding skills slipping. I stare at the code, unsure what to type. I have started doing gamedev and math coding on the weekends with zero ai help to practice again. Fuck i hate ai. I hate the way it feels. This will be a slow battle.

cuan_knaggs

@mensrea@freeradical.zone 60 min. ago

@aesthr sounds just like a bunch of folk in the office with me. in all cases they're the special boy that can use it safely

Glyph

@glyph@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

@aesthr the boosters think we live in an echo chamber but do not realize that hearing from boosters is FAR more radicalizing than hearing from fellow skeptics.

Rob Vincent 🎙️

@Rob_T_Firefly@masto.hackers.town 2 hr. ago

@aesthr The "the risks are overstated" and "I just like it" responses are definitely making me think of people who, in this modern era, decide to take up and maintain tobacco habits despite all the well-known info about its effects.

F4GRX SÃ©bastien ⸚

@f4grx@chaos.social 2 hr. ago

@aesthr https://ciberlandia.pt/@hackersbot/117456281827802187

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@aesthr@wandering.shop 2 hr. ago

The more I read the more bleak it gets. Fucking hell.

Y'all need a friend to take you aside and tell you you have a problem.

Ambivalent Dictator For Life

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 2 hr. ago

@aesthr

"You can't get addicted. I got friends been doing cocaine fifteen years and they're not addicted"

Pandora

@pandora_parrot@beach.city 2 hr. ago

@aesthr @baldur it’s so good that companies are asking us to become addicted to these poisonous machines in fear of losing our health care. Definitely no bad consequences there.

Mx. Eddie R

@silvermoon82@wandering.shop 3 hr. ago

@aesthr
I only use heroin at work, on my day off it's plain white yoghurt from a hand-thrown pottery jar.

So I'm fine. I'll be fine.

River the Crow Witch

@therivercrow@wandering.shop 3 hr. ago

@aesthr yikes. And this (among other reasons) is why I refuse to have anything to do with AI, so far I've managed to tell my work I won't touch the damn thing and they're not forcing me to (for now).

rude Goldberg machine

@dngrs@chaos.social 3 hr. ago

@aesthr it's deeply sinister in that way (and of course many others). Grim indeed.