To be fair, yes, I’m just another person on the fediverse for all of you, but for me, this is the reality I live in.
I’ve always wondered about all the AI hate around here, and if this is just a fediverse thing, but realized recently that it’s not. In fact, people are generally getting tired of constant LLM and genAI use. I’ve already noticed people getting turned off by AI flyers more and more, sentences like “oh, they switched to an AI flyer”, in a voice of disappointment. And recently, I was at a trade show, talking to one of the reps at a booth, and it was really interesting to hear what he had to say on the topic. Apparently, two years ago, he constantly got questions about AI, wanting to hear that the products contain AI. This year, people also ask him fairly often if his products have AI, hoping to hear that they don’t have AI. And he was able to clearly say, there is no AI in his products (at least not the LLM kind, only the classic, non-neural network kind).
Rote memorization, disillusioned educators, lack of role models and personal aspirations, and more distractions than ever - like we’re more awash in entertainment than at any point in history.
The awash in entertainment thing is real. My wife has a Youtube addiction I can’t seem to pull her away from. She gets home from work, TV comes on, and she watches shit on YT until bedtime now. Then she turns on the TV in the bedroom and falls asleep to YT. She’s watching some pretty braindead stuff like a channel where British schoolboys are being fed American fast food. Try to get her to go for a walk with me and she’s glued to the idiot box. She also watches videos that are clipped togther, obviously by AI.
I hate all of this.