re: Have you or your family embraced AI?

I might be addicted to AI and automation.

I use it to help research specific topics with my clients with the subjective use cases they are facing. Last year I was pushed to make my own LLMs by my boss’s boss.

I made a custom LLM based on all documents for my family. Bills. Health docs. It doesn’t touch the web so it’s nice to have the docs all in once place on prem.

I’m gonna build a new one during Christmas and build out the objects like it’s a hunting dog. Should be fun.

No.

I tried to use it today for something complicated and its frickin retarded. I have limited use for it with data mining and thats it.

I got a code a week ago. The videos are OBVIOUSLY ai with lots of guardrails. I’m not paying $200\month for the version that doesn’t look fake and has real horsepower.

We are so close to a black mirror episode

The biggest issue to me is the stuff you see on social media…. None of it is real. Or is it? Massive flood in China?? Is it real? Huge tornado in Colorado? Is it real?

Massive fraud in Europe ot America resulting in a massive revolt with violence against the government… is it real?

Doesn’t matter…. The masses will believe it is and the result will ruin the world

RIght now I am not in the mood to adapt to another technology.

I am open to it, and see myself using it one day, but until I have a need for it its not a priority.

I use it on Google that's about it

Just used AI to remodel my kitchen and add a bathroom on the exterior of ,y home.

My team at work skews younger and pretty liberal—split is roughly 35/45/20 Xer/Millennial/Zoomer.

I’m honestly pretty taken aback by how much hostility to AI exists on the younger left. It’s very clear we can’t use AI in our work until more use-specific models come out that are developed specifically for us, but I would have expected more… openmindedness, I guess? It’s become a very preachy topic for reasons I don’t understand. I’m struck by how relatable your comment about your youngest freaking out about it was, as I thought about the grown arse adults on my team

I use Claude for occasional help with random topics or tasks at home. I’m pretty convinced this stuff is the future on some level, although I think a market correction on the current AI hype cycle is long overdue.

I have issues with the impact of AI on certain things, but they tend to be with other badly designed systems that AI merely exploits more efficiently than humans. Big example, my YouTube Shorts feed always has animal videos because I like them, but it’s started to be overrun with AI fake slop. Their algorithm and interface give no real control over this—you don’t know you’re clicking on one until you do, then the algorithm starts recommending that more, and no amount of “I don’t want to see this” feedback helps. But that’s YouTube sucking, not AI.