Lots of things are advertised beyond their capabilities. Especially if people use them wrong.

AI isn’t bad. People are bad. Giving people AI is just one tool in a sea of millions of tools than can be misused. Focusing on it as the issue is ignoring the actual problem.

Is there a specific personal event that brought you to your opinion of AI, or is it mostly just stuff in the media?

Yes but social media is far worse for that, so you’re sort of yelling at clouds here.

How about this: anyone who doesn’t use ai for its intended purpose is banned from the system? 😅

I haven’t lost anything, I’m just not agreeing with you.

I think that if a person is suffering from mental issues that they can get the justification for their delusions regardless of AI. While it does provide some immediate access to information that they may interpret unhealthily, it is not unlike participating in social media within an echo chamber—which I would argue does more damage.

I will give you one thing though… I think more publicly available (ChatGPT) AI models need to cut off topics at a certain point and just refuse to go any further without forcefully inserting warning messages about getting professional help—but we could say the same thing about social media, haha.

I think a heat map might disagree with that on a red vs blue state level, but if that map was specifically by income, I agree it would be higher in poor areas.

How to word this… poor people are killed more than rich people, but poor people are killed more often in red states than in blue. Something like that.

Those kids won’t see a dime with republicans in power.

So today I had it do a bunch of fractional math on dimensional lumber at the hardware store. While it was doing this math for me it asked if this was for the guitar project I was working on in another chat, where I was mostly asking about magnetic polarity and various electronic, and yes it was. So then it made a different suggestion for me, which made a big impact on what I bought. I know that’s vague, but it was a long conversation.

Then, when I got home my neighbor had left a half dead plant on my stoop because I’m the neighborhood green thumb apparently. I had never seen this plant before. Took a photo, sent it to AI, and it told me what it was (yes, with sources).

Then while I was 3d modeling some shelf brackets, it helped my design by pointing out a possible weight distribution issue. While correcting that, I was able to reduce material usage by like 30%.

I don’t see any of that as “delusional”

But to the topic at hand, I think the conversations groups and pairs of humans have, both online and real life, will always be more damaging that what a single person can trick a computer into saying.

And by tricking it… you are abusing a tool designed for a different purpose. So, kitchen knives. Not meant to be murder weapons, certainly can be used for that purpose. Should we blame the knife?

I also had it make you this image:

I’m guessing they don’t want everyone knowing their only source of food is hot pockets.

Oh, well that explains everything, you are using it wrong.

A lot of people think that you’re supposed to argue with it and talk about things that are subjective or opinion based. But that’s ridiculous because it’s a computer program.

ChatGPT and others like it are calculators. They help you brainstorm problems. Ultimately, you are responsible for the outcome.

There’s a phrase I like to use at work when junior developers complain the outcome is not how they wanted it: shit in shit out.

So next time you use AI, perhaps consider are you feeding it shit? Because if you’re getting it, you are.

Tell me more about how you’ve never ever used it and that everything you’re saying is influenced by the media and other anti-ai user comments.

Let’s see what happens when I google for UFOs or chemtrails or deep state or anti-vaccine, etc. how much user created delusional content will I find?

So… you have no clue at all what any of this is. Got it. I’ll bet you blame video games for violence.

You could say the same about social media and the entire internet. Would you choose to regulate that?

I recall in the mid 90s a group of people on the street corner protesting AOL (America OnLine) and saying the internet should be stopped.

They may have had a point, but the technology wasn’t to blame for the shit that’s it’s used for.

The vague way you talk about AI makes be think that you don’t know much about it. what do you use AI for? Is it ChatGPT?

Haha. Vote for Elon!

/s

Okay so it has guardrails already. Make them better. Government regulations can’t be specific enough for the daily changing AI environment.

I’d say AI has a lot more self regulation than social media.

But, I run ai on bare metal at home. This isn’t chatGPT. And it will, in theory, do anything I want it to. Would you tell me that I can’t roll my own mania machine? Get out of my house lol.

It will give you whatever you want. Just like social media and google searches. The information exists.

When you tell it to give you information in a way you want to hear it, you’re just talking to yourself at that point.

People should probably avoid giving it prompts that fuel their mania. However, since mania is totally subjective and the topics range broadly, what does an actual regulation look like?

What do you use AI for?

So what kind of regulations would be put in place to prevent people from using ai to feed their mania?

I’m open to the idea, but I think it’s such a broad concept at this point that implementation and regulation would be impossible.

If you want to go down the guns don’t kill people assumption, fine: social media kills more people and does more damage and should be shut down long before AI. 🤷‍♂️

I don’t want to restrict any of those things including AI, what are you talking about?

Look, it is very clear that you aren’t interested in reading you were just interested in screaming so I’m not wasting my time on you. Thiswill be my last comment feel free to continue on your own

You are creating a conversation that does not exist. I don’t have concerns about not banning kitchen knives? I’m comparing tools to tools and you are turning a conversation to something you feel like screaming and yelling about because this is the dopamine time for you.

I will not speak to someone who puts words in my mouth, and doesn’t use their ears.

I think that more effective regulation would be on social media

I never used the word epidemic. I don’t believe the article use the word epidemic.

If we want to talk about things that are more damaging to People, let’s talk about social media. That is exponentially more damaging than AI.

Since when is this an epidemic?