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[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 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.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works -5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I use AI image generation quite a bit for online tabletop roleplay. It's great for doing stuff like generating 12 random cowboys tokens.

Everything else is just shockingly bad, and I hate whenever I see it.

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[–] zout@fedia.io 14 points 6 days ago

Seems a lot to be honest.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 11 points 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

epic

Enshittify faster pls

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 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).

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

how so? how would that environment look like?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip -5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Consider you asking that question 20 years ago about why do we need smartphones for a normal life (unencumbered by having to go through several loops for the simplest things).

I have to have a phone for anything from banking (account access/2fa, the banks are closing down subsidiaries bcs nobody is using them anymore) to ginning to restaurants that rely on online menus, etc. Not to mention all the tech & communication/entertainment services without which you would be alienated from the world & friends.
(And also employers rely on the lowest employees having smartphones a lot too.)

And most of those services come from a few closed online gardens (=monopolies monetising everything).

Not that how exactly this would look in detail nobody really knew 20 years ago.

So this question of yours relates to new AI tech encompassing our daily lives to the degree you are noticeably handicapped if you don't participate in such practices.

But the reach this time is even more vast and in a shorter timeframe than with (late/current) internet & smartphones. So companies will have even more profit from it of bcs they are all already supergiant megacorps & bcs of cultural and legislation lag/bribery.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i was asking precisely because i don't get how exactly could they make it mandatory, apart from being a productivity thing.

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[–] brap@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days 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.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world -4 points 5 days ago

Soon you'll get one or two prompts a day, then be pay walled.

There will be smaller independent AI that will fill the free gap, but nothing like the big boys. You'll also be judged in job interviews for what AI you do use. Hell, it's already a question asked.

Gotta roll with the changes or be left behind sadly.

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