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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

For reference, the "Hopeless Dipshit Percentage" in any population is about 25-33%.

About a quarter to a third of the population believes in witches, ghosts and ESP; that the earth revolves around the sun; that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; that Obama was born in Kenya; and that evolution and climate change are hoaxes. A third of the US population can't name a single right guaranteed by the constitution or even one branch of government. And a quarter of the population self-professes that they wouldn't stop supporting Trump no matter what he did.

In that context, only 3% willing to pay any money for AI is an utter failure. The LLM bubble needs to burst yesterday, and the whole Internet needs to roll back to 2022.

[–] dragonsidedd@mstdn.science 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@salacious_coaster @dgerard Wait till you learn the percentage of ostensibly fully functional adults that have an Invisible Friend in the Sky

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but that particular lunacy is grandfathered in to society, so I avoid it in my rants

I don't know how true this still holds but two years after 9/11 70% of the US thought Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. My guess is that number continues to be higher than 30%.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm really hoping it's a slipup that you included the Earth revolving around the sun in the list of crazy, there's quite good evidence for heliocentrism!

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Yep, that was a mistake, thanks for catching

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[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

they look forward to turning chatbots into a sea of spam:

We expect rapid adoption of advertising models, transaction fees, affiliate revenue, and marketplace models.

We're doomed.

In the last weeks Pinterest became unusable imo. The AI "sea of spam" is no joke. 7 in 10 posts are ads now. AI ads. Every one of them is a grotesque AI mimic of the content you're viewing, all words meaningless gibberish. The things on the thumbnails suggest, but you can't make things really out by just seeing the thumbnails.

So i clicked them a few times too much. First by curiosity, then by mistake, because Pinterest does everything to make an ad look like a post.

7 in 10 posts.

After all these years successfully procrastinating with Pinterest, it has become a dopamine blocking experience.

[–] praetor@mstdn.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@kamenlady @dgerard i knew the guys who started Pinterest. My account is literally like one of the first 10 public accounts. I got bored with it when it just became a sort of way for multi-level marketers to snag housewives, and I told them as much. But I'm surprised they allow AI slop on it. Genuine creativity and inspiration is why they really started it. Tote was pretty slick for that. It's sad what it's turned into.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a platform that is where pinterrst used to be?

[–] praetor@mstdn.social 5 points 1 week ago

@Squizzy We Heart It, was founded by a former Pinterest engineer, but I don't know if it's still around. Many early Pinterest engineers went off and started similar projects after after the "the boys" made it more ad infested because they got greedy and Ben used to do marketing at google. So...they're not nice people anymore. But I know a few early employees started similar things.

[–] tk@f.kawa-kun.com 7 points 1 week ago

@dgerard @kamenlady The Internet is dying. :(

[–] masukomi@connectified.com 6 points 1 week ago

@kamenlady @dgerard see also why Duolingo is rapidly circling the drain.

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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Completely unrelated fact, but isn't the prevalence of cocaine use among U. S. adults considered to be more than 1% as well?

(Referring to this, of course - especially the last part: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

cocaine users are convinced that everyone not using cocaine will be left behind, as use of cocaine leads to increase in productivity and innovation

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago
[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

when I put a pull request in my vein and I tell you things aren't quite the same when I'm rushing on my run and I feel just like Altman's son

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[–] zout@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

Seems a lot to be honest.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are going to make it sub service to kill off the poor people from living with society.

[–] Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

While still scouring the free web parts for training data...

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

This shit is not Artifical Intellegence. It's an internet scrabbing software that understands your input then searches and summerizes the answer back to you in your language....AND so many times it makes mistakes while trying to even do that. 0 intellegence, 0 creativety, 0 feelings/empathy/sympathy , 0 everythign. In programming, it's like a computer-science intern on methamphadmines. he's searching stackoverflow and githubs repos for any question you have, but again he will never come up with a new geniuos unseen before scripts of programming and he may make mistakes.

Also, it brainrotted the skill of learning itself to kids and killed our interactions and creativity

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

let me guess 3% are the corporate heads, c-suites, mba, and the people either implementing it or deploying it.

epic

Enshittify faster pls

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I mostly have this gemini assitant because google esentially added it for me. Of course i tried a bit of gpt. My advice is that, if they're good there's a chance that they many not be anymore in the future. Or not how you expect them to be. We have to make it good too, but right now the world is hooked with AI.

I have seen to much ai spam to care for ai images, there is this youtube series with ai assisted animations (monoverse, neural viz), that is the only good use of ai i ever seen so far in media creation. But, other than that, it's getting distopian out there.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (8 children)

That is known & not a problem for the megacorps.

They are building an environment where using AI will be a must (like smartphones that spy on you have become today).

At that point it becomes overpriced & will under-deliver (the monopolistic enshitification of an already shitty offer).

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[–] brap@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I’ve used it here and there for recipe inspiration based on what’s in my cupboard, but really don’t see any other use for it my life. I would drop it in an instant if it became chargeable because it’s pretty shit at most things otherwise.

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