Artificial Intelligence (AI)

[Wymsey]

Does anyone use it?

 

Admittedly, I've been encouraged to use it when doing CV's and Personal Statements for job applications but have been put off it in case get found out..

[Daggers]

4 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Does anyone use it?

 

Admittedly, I've been encouraged to use it when doing CV's and Personal Statements for job applications but have been put off it in case get found out..

The Fold 6 has a nifty app where you sketch something and AI transforms it into an image.

 

Now, purely in the interests of science, I attempted to get it to generate images based on two common themes often found on toilet cubicle walls or the inside back cover of a boy's exercise book at school.

 

AI won't do it.

 

...unless you're clever.

 

Like me.

 

 

[Daggers]

You could waste hours playing with it, so I have

 

 

 

[RoboFox]

Does anyone feel like we're witnessing the end of the web as we know it? 

 

Every platform is becoming an AI-generated, click-bait, engagement thirsty dystopian hellscape. It feels like the whole internet is basically disintegrating in real time and outside of shopping and certain services, we're just on these tiny little islands surrounded by enormous seas of digital shit.

 

Already it's becoming increasingly hard to discern between what’s AI and what’s real. Bots are all over every social media platform. Chat-GPT-powered modules all conversing with each other. AI-generated websites. Enormous propaganda machines pushing certain political agendas. Facebook and other platforms (ugh) totally overrun with accounts posting absurd AI generated images with captions like "Why don't images like this ever trend" and they have hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. 

 

It feels like online spaces for everything will soon become become oversaturated: music, images, news articles, discussions. 

 

And we haven't even touched the enormous international content farms and so-called influencers desperately seeking engagement with rage bait and scripted nonsense as well as the total degradation of sites like Google and YouTube to advertising and algorithm based content. 

 

Don't get me wrong, there will always be a demand for authentic spaces, but at the same time it's like watching your garden become a landfill.

 

I just wanted to play flash games.

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Does anyone feel like we're witnessing the end of the web as we know it? 

 

Every platform is becoming an AI-generated, click-bait, engagement thirsty dystopian hellscape. It feels like the whole internet is basically disintegrating in real time and outside of shopping and certain services, we're just on these tiny little islands surrounded by enormous seas of digital shit.

 

Already it's becoming increasingly hard to discern between what’s AI and what’s real. Bots are all over every social media platform. Chat-GPT-powered modules all conversing with each other. AI-generated websites. Enormous propaganda machines pushing certain political agendas. Facebook and other platforms (ugh) totally overrun with accounts posting absurd AI generated images with captions like "Why don't images like this ever trend" and they have hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. 

 

It feels like online spaces for everything will soon become become oversaturated: music, images, news articles, discussions. 

 

And we haven't even touched the enormous international content farms and so-called influencers desperately seeking engagement with rage bait and scripted nonsense as well as the total degradation of sites like Google and YouTube to advertising and algorithm based content. 

 

Don't get me wrong, there will always be a demand for authentic spaces, but at the same time it's like watching your garden become a landfill.

 

I just wanted to play flash games.

*insert Kojima Metal Gear Solid 2 speech on digital information here*

 

Seriously, the guy had it right over two decades ago.

[Daggers]

10 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Does anyone feel like we're witnessing the end of the web as we know it? 

 

Every platform is becoming an AI-generated, click-bait, engagement thirsty dystopian hellscape. It feels like the whole internet is basically disintegrating in real time and outside of shopping and certain services, we're just on these tiny little islands surrounded by enormous seas of digital shit.

 

Already it's becoming increasingly hard to discern between what’s AI and what’s real. Bots are all over every social media platform. Chat-GPT-powered modules all conversing with each other. AI-generated websites. Enormous propaganda machines pushing certain political agendas. Facebook and other platforms (ugh) totally overrun with accounts posting absurd AI generated images with captions like "Why don't images like this ever trend" and they have hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. 

 

It feels like online spaces for everything will soon become become oversaturated: music, images, news articles, discussions. 

 

And we haven't even touched the enormous international content farms and so-called influencers desperately seeking engagement with rage bait and scripted nonsense as well as the total degradation of sites like Google and YouTube to advertising and algorithm based content. 

 

Don't get me wrong, there will always be a demand for authentic spaces, but at the same time it's like watching your garden become a landfill.

 

I just wanted to play flash games.

 

Just been attempting to access my NS&I account and had to speak with the NS&I AI bot.

 

Honestly awful experience because it won't listen to anything outside of its narrow parameters.

[RoboFox]

11 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

*insert Kojima Metal Gear Solid 2 speech on digital information here*

 

Seriously, the guy had it right over two decades ago.

La Li Lu Le Lo. 

 

(I need to replay MGS2) 

[leicsmac]

14 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

La Li Lu Le Lo. 

 

(I need to replay MGS2) 

 

[Zear0]

1 hour ago, RoboFox said:

Does anyone feel like we're witnessing the end of the web as we know it? 

 

Every platform is becoming an AI-generated, click-bait, engagement thirsty dystopian hellscape. It feels like the whole internet is basically disintegrating in real time and outside of shopping and certain services, we're just on these tiny little islands surrounded by enormous seas of digital shit.

 

Already it's becoming increasingly hard to discern between what’s AI and what’s real. Bots are all over every social media platform. Chat-GPT-powered modules all conversing with each other. AI-generated websites. Enormous propaganda machines pushing certain political agendas. Facebook and other platforms (ugh) totally overrun with accounts posting absurd AI generated images with captions like "Why don't images like this ever trend" and they have hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. 

 

It feels like online spaces for everything will soon become become oversaturated: music, images, news articles, discussions. 

 

And we haven't even touched the enormous international content farms and so-called influencers desperately seeking engagement with rage bait and scripted nonsense as well as the total degradation of sites like Google and YouTube to advertising and algorithm based content. 

 

Don't get me wrong, there will always be a demand for authentic spaces, but at the same time it's like watching your garden become a landfill.

 

I just wanted to play flash games.

Think it will change rapidly.  It's a strange thought that Google could potentially become irrelevant in a short space of time.  The idea of "Googling" something and then clicking a link is already sounding archaic compared to the LLM approach of asking a question and getting an answer.  Great for convenience, but terrifying when there's idea where the information is coming from.

 

OpenAI and Microsoft are already generating ai derived news content for media organisations in exchange for their archive of data to train models on.  Again, in the near term I can see much of the "fluffy" news content would be automatically generated.  Now there's actual competition between Chat GPT and Llama etc., I can see massive leaps with the benefits and detriments associated with the risk taking.

 

Even professionally I'm starting to see some big changes.  The "capability" of teams to automatically take minutes from teams meetings for instance has caused the death of me sending the graduate into meetings to take notes and listen in.  Organisations I've worked with have already binned off lots of their data analysts which was a professions recently I thought was something on the rise and demand.  Interesting times...

[Fox92]

4 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Does anyone use it?

 

Admittedly, I've been encouraged to use it when doing CV's and Personal Statements for job applications but have been put off it in case get found out..

Absolutely not. It is horrific but common across the internet now. But you can tell when something is AI.

 

It is scary what people can do with it.

[Trav Le Bleu]

5 hours ago, leicsmac said:

*insert Kojima Metal Gear Solid 2 speech on digital information here*

 

Seriously, the guy had it right over two decades ago.

Wait until Death Stranding comes true!

[Guest worth_the_wait]

7 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

Just been attempting to access my NS&I account and had to speak with the NS&I AI bot.

 

Honestly awful experience because it won't listen to anything outside of its narrow parameters.

Tuesday   

Tuesday

Tuueess-day

Toos-day innit

 

[Izzy]

Exactly two years today since this thread was started. 

 

I've largely avoided all thing AI but decided I need to get my head around it. Spent the last three days disappearing down YT rabbit holes, subscribing to ChatGPT, and trying to understand more.

 

My thoughts so far are that I don't trust Sam Altman one bit and all these datacenters need a shit load of power.  

 

I'm sure the world can/will benefit from AI but I also worry for the future. Luckily I won't be around to see how it all eventually pans out.

[Jattdogg]

AI is the devil in disguise if not controlled.

 

It has some good things but nobody is properly regulating it right now.

 

Wild wild west!

 

Having said that, if AI can fully detail my car (inside and out) any time of year as per my instructions then have at it

[urban.spaceman]

3 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Exactly two years today since this thread was started. 

 

I've largely avoided all thing AI but decided I need to get my head around it. Spent the last three days disappearing down YT rabbit holes, subscribing to ChatGPT, and trying to understand more.

 

My thoughts so far are that I don't trust Sam Altman one bit and all these datacenters need a shit load of power.  

 

I'm sure the world can/will benefit from AI but I also worry for the future. Luckily I won't be around to see how it all eventually pans out.

AI’s the next massive technological advancement that will change everyday life for the whole planet, in the same way the internet and smartphones have. People still aren’t ready for what’s coming - it will be revolutionary and jarring.

 

People are already using it now in a similar sort of way to a spell checker or fact checker when writing documents, or for creativity or recreation like image or video generators. I’ve already used ChatGPT to help visualise my next tattoo which will help me explain to the artist the kind of thing I want. It can be very useful to implement it in your normal workflow - I got it to create a writing schedule the other day and it created a calendar file that I could just open straight in the calendar app. 

 

Yesterday I uploaded a picture of one of my tattoos to a video Ai generator and IT MADE THE INK MOVE. Incredible and quite chilling at the same time. Made me feel like Maui off Moana  

 

The biggest problem we have is the people in power in the US at the minute. There are serious questions around copyright infringement for artists, musicians, writers etc whose livelihoods are at stake. The writers/actors strikes in the US in 2023 both had serious concerns about the use of AI in the industry but seem to have resolved that for now. VFX artists are going to be ****ed even more than they are now. 

 

I’m ambivalent about incorporating it into my writing work but if I stay out of it completely others will still use it to thrive anyway. 

 

The political damage it could wreak is deeply troubling - Musk’s Grok has been accused of serious misinformation in the last few weeks: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/20/business/grok-genocide-ai-nightcap (Worth reading). We have the worst possible people in the US government who couldn’t give a toss about accountability so the safety measures that should already be in place won’t be, and by the time responsible adults are finally able to govern it will be too late to do anything about it because the Ai companies will already have too much power. 

 

Still, the tattoo video was fun. 

[leicsmac]

7 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

AI’s the next massive technological advancement that will change everyday life for the whole planet, in the same way the internet and smartphones have. People still aren’t ready for what’s coming - it will be revolutionary and jarring.

 

People are already using it now in a similar sort of way to a spell checker or fact checker when writing documents, or for creativity or recreation like image or video generators. I’ve already used ChatGPT to help visualise my next tattoo which will help me explain to the artist the kind of thing I want. It can be very useful to implement it in your normal workflow - I got it to create a writing schedule the other day and it created a calendar file that I could just open straight in the calendar app. 

 

Yesterday I uploaded a picture of one of my tattoos to a video Ai generator and IT MADE THE INK MOVE. Incredible and quite chilling at the same time. Made me feel like Maui off Moana  

 

The biggest problem we have is the people in power in the US at the minute. There are serious questions around copyright infringement for artists, musicians, writers etc whose livelihoods are at stake. The writers/actors strikes in the US in 2023 both had serious concerns about the use of AI in the industry but seem to have resolved that for now. VFX artists are going to be ****ed even more than they are now. 

 

I’m ambivalent about incorporating it into my writing work but if I stay out of it completely others will still use it to thrive anyway. 

 

The political damage it could wreak is deeply troubling - Musk’s Grok has been accused of serious misinformation in the last few weeks: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/20/business/grok-genocide-ai-nightcap (Worth reading). We have the worst possible people in the US government who couldn’t give a toss about accountability so the safety measures that should already be in place won’t be, and by the time responsible adults are finally able to govern it will be too late to do anything about it because the Ai companies will already have too much power. 

 

Still, the tattoo video was fun. 

With great power comes great responsibility.

 

AI already confers great power, will confer more in the future, and a lot of those governing it now (except in China, perhaps) have zero sense of responsibility - exactly as you say.

 

The more groundbreaking technology like this is developed, the more our society will have to change in order to use it effectively, or it could (and in all likelihood will) end catastrophically.

Edited 20 May 2025 by leicsmac

[urban.spaceman]

Just now, leicsmac said:

With great power comes great responsibility.

 

AI already confers great power, and a lot of those governing it now (except in China, perhaps) have zero sense of responsibility - exactly as you say.

 

The more groundbreaking technology like this is developed, the more our society will have to change in order to use it effectively, or it could (and in all likelihood will) end catastrophically.

If only we were part of some sort of trading bloc where countries could collectively hold mega corporations accountable.

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, urban.spaceman said:

If only we were part of some sort of trading bloc where countries could collectively hold mega corporations accountable.

And if only other nations with similar or greater power than that bloc would actually put their ridiculous puerile nationalist sentiments aside, at least on matters like this.

[brookfox]

Hugely sceptical about AI having a positive impact on humanity outside use cases in areas like health. Chuck in the potential impact on the environment and it feels like we’re running blind off a cliff.

 

That said I’d take an AI DoF right now.

[FoxyPV]

The more I learn about AI and any application, outside of medical image analysis, the more I hate it.

 

That's not even factoring in the environmental impact

[Izzy]

This $500 billion Stargate mega factory being built in the west of Texas seems like a massive gamble.

 

Open AI, SoftBank and Oracle clearly think there's a ROI but it seems like a huge risk.

 

I just hope they all know what they're doing.

 

 

[Jattdogg]

30 minutes ago, Izzy said:

This $500 billion Stargate mega factory being built in the west of Texas seems like a massive gamble.

 

Open AI, SoftBank and Oracle clearly think there's a ROI but it seems like a huge risk.

 

I just hope they all know what they're doing.

 

 

They 100% don't

[Trav Le Bleu]

Ted

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faro

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Ted

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faro

Remember, it's "peacekeepers", not "killer robots".

[Trav Le Bleu]

6 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Remember, it's "peacekeepers", not "killer robots".

"Self-replicating" "peacekeepers".

 

Best way to keep peace - destroy humans.