Rec | MY CONTROVERSIAL TAKE ON AI

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I don’t hate it. It helps me. I am actually thankful for it. I have seen a lot of ‘what’s hot’ posts here bashing on ChatGPT. But here’s my experience. I have dyslexia, which is why a lot of my posts have gramma issues/spelling mistakes (and why I edit my posts so much). I can’t pick them alone. ChatGPT corrects that for me. I like to write stories, it is a big hobby of mine. And I need to write professional emails for work. It helps me where I cannot help myself. I need to write a resume but I can’t read/process the job description/requirements properly? I copy and paste the information into ChatGPT and ask it to highlight what is important. Work requires me to read lengthy documents? I can read until I get stuck and AI will help me. I need to do research for university? I can’t digest all the information and pages that load on my topic of interest, so I will ask ChatGPT to recommend me specific articles to read based on what I need. Of course I try and do as much as I can independently, but extra help that’s free never hurts. A lot of people are hating on AI, but it helps people, despite the greater population abusing it.

@jilly

Jan 28, 2025

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@lucius

I agree, AI can (and will) be a useful tool in some cases. I push back against the propaganda from big tech that it’s the answer for everything. It’s a tool with flaws and it should be treated as such.

Jan 28, 2025

@marxinista

non generative ai things that may help replace those if u consider trying other things - for help editing writing you could go to your college’s writing center, or join a writer’s group that involves editing; for help digesting info without reading using text-to-speech is really great, or printing it out and using the skimming method, or converting it to a dyslexia-friendly font

Jan 28, 2025

@jilly

marxinista thank you for your advice! i’ll definitely look into it.

Jan 28, 2025

@mattshawsome

Valuable perspective Thanks for sharing these thoughtful use cases

Jan 28, 2025

@jilly

mattshawsome thanks! honestly the more valuable insight would be from the perspective of my dad (who also has dyslexia). he grew up bilingual and english is definitely not his strong suit (heavily because of his dyslexia) and the confidence he gained when he realised that there was a free software that could easily help him digest information from his work and help him with his emails within his lifetime was almost heartwarming to see. kinda like he was given glasses for the first time. he was beaming as he tested it out

Jan 28, 2025

@mattshawsome

jilly That's really beautiful to picture. So glad this technology can be such a meaningful bridge for him. It's a really good reminder for me to consider.

Jan 28, 2025

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oh boy this one is gonna be controversial. first off to be transparent I am a huge nerd and train models for a living. that being said, I was a huge ai hater for a long time and never used it in anything I did. Then, I started using it a bit for coding, then for research (tool use ftw), then for a whole bunch of simple tasks I wanted to automate but couldn’t w pure code (either due to needing unpredictable input or needing buttons pushed). Is it super useful, not yet. Should we replace people with it, obviously not. But like dude. You can TALK to your computer in ENGLISH (or french, arabic, japanese, etc.) and it will understand you and respond. I think the like crazy shift in human - computer interaction here is kinda slept on ngl, I fw this heavy now.

@joos

Feb 24, 2025

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Feeling unthreatened by ai

I know people are going to be using it a lot maybe for dumb menial stuff, but I have not had a moment where it felt compellingly as though it was going to “take over”. Everybody I’ve seen who has made that argument is somehow relying on it to be true, so I can’t trust them. I immediately judge anybody who tells me they use chatGPT for something related to their work. And I don’t think I’m being unfair. At best, something like chatGPT is a tool that people can use for brainstorming, but directly using chatGPT output is just pathetic to me. I dunno.

@chrisfraser

Jan 2, 2025

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Hating on ai

Sometimes I recommend being a hater. I’m not here to talk about the numerous quality uses of AI, how often it is actually used nor am I here to critique AI without strawmanning it. I don’t care if I strawman an account of AI because I genuinely despise the way most people use AI. I think AI generated images are ugly. I think that AI cannot hold a half decent conversation. I’m completely avoidant when it comes to showing AI my writing; I’ve never done it and I refuse to. I hate when you go to that one poetry website and there is AI “analysis” there, because its not real textual analysis and it upholds a certain contextualised intentionalist framework of reading a text reinforced in high school English. I hate that the meta AI will influence what products will be advertised to you. I don’t care if it’s the future. I genuinely love being called a dinosaur because I hate AI.

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