The Official Original Artificial Intelligence We're All F***ing Doomed Thread

AI may raise creativity during shortterm usage, but when you stop using it, you may encounter a creative low, a study finds:

When ChatGPT is gone: Creativity reverts and homogeneity persists

ChatGPT has been evidenced to enhance human performance in creative tasks. Yet, it is still unclear if this boosting effect sustains with and without ChatGPT. In a pre-registered seven-day lab experiment and a follow-up survey after 30 days of experiment completion, we examined the impacts of...
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Sascha Franck said:
AI may raise creativity during shortterm usage, but when you stop using it, you may encounter a creative low, a study finds:

When ChatGPT is gone: Creativity reverts and homogeneity persists

ChatGPT has been evidenced to enhance human performance in creative tasks. Yet, it is still unclear if this boosting effect sustains with and without ChatGPT. In a pre-registered seven-day lab experiment and a follow-up survey after 30 days of experiment completion, we examined the impacts of...
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Like that wasn't intuitive from jump or anything. As the late great Norm Macdonald would say, this study was published in the journal "Duh."
 
Just had a look, I bought 2 Sandisk Extreme 2TB SSDs on December 20th, 2025. They were €139,99 each. Price now: €279,99. So that's 100% up. In just 3 months - for SSDs which used to get cheaper each and every month since years.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg is building a Meta AI data center the size of Manhattan in Louisiana - for which he needs all the SSD/RAM/GPU parts. And on top of that, estimated power consumption will be around around 3 times of what New Orleans is using.

So, all of our personal electronic stuff will get vastly more expensive (obviously also true for musical items, especially digital stuff) so we can create silly videos and non-human music all day long.

We're doomed.
 
Sascha Franck said:
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg is building a Meta AI data center the size of Manhattan in Louisiana - for which he needs all the SSD/RAM/GPU parts. And on top of that, estimated power consumption will be around around 3 times of what New Orleans is using.
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It's a 180 degree reversal of all the conventions and ideals of every preceding computing paradigm - at a time when we can least afford it. Instead of further miniaturization, virtualization, optimization, etc., AI and brute force LLM training arrive looking less like the next chapter of an information age, and more like a second industrial revolution. Even if humanity can resist finally misinforming itself into a war we won't survive, the environmental impact will be enormous. And on balance, unnecessary.

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Musk's latest off-the-cuff "solution" is to build these data centers in space. I certainly prefer solar power over hastily-built nuclear power plants, but you know... never mind little details such as gravity, etc. This is right up there with, "We've made Earth slightly less perfect for the life forms that evolved over billions of years to be precisely here. So instead of improving things on Earth (because that's hard), we'll colonize Mars... 150 million miles further from the sun, with almost no atmosphere to speak of." You wanna talk about climate change...
 
The cracks are starting to form. OpenAI just broke up with Disney, canceled its “adult chatbot” app it was going to come out with, and announced they’re discontinuing Sora.
 
I gotta say, it’s a funny feeling. As an IT guy, I generally get excited about technology. But I’ve never wanted a technology to fail so badly as I do AI. 🤣

It’s like they’ve created a virus that the don’t know how to control.
 
paisleywookiee said:
I gotta say, it’s a funny feeling. As an IT guy, I generally get excited about technology. But I’ve never wanted a technology to fail so badly as I do AI. 🤣

It’s like they’ve created a virus that the don’t know how to control.
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I'm with you, but I can't see any way this genie goes back in the bottle. The powers that be will never walk away from their investments; and the rest of us never give up a new toy/ luxury/ convenience once we've had a taste. (Or if we do, it's like trying to turn an aircraft carrier around. Just look at America's efforts to change its relationship with the automobile - or fossil fuels in general - over the past few decades.)

On a more personal/ less important level, yeah - just zero excitement. Everything I've ever liked (and sometimes loved) about working with technology has become dull and redundant to me. "Vibe coding" barf. Monkeys typing Shakespeare.
 
mbenigni said:
This is right up there with, "We've made Earth slightly less perfect for the life forms that evolved over billions of years to be precisely here. So instead of improving things on Earth (because that's hard), we'll colonize Mars... 150 million miles further from the sun, with almost no atmosphere to speak of."
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Yeah, that's got to be the most absurd thing ever. As you say, we are *made* to perfectly fit on this very planet Earth - and still don't manage to leave things intact. But for whatever reasons some tools expect us to survive under highly life-unfriendly conditions on a planet where the very first things to care about would be huge fights about ressources.
 
mbenigni said:
I'm with you, but I can't see any way this genie goes back in the bottle. The powers that be will never walk away from their investments; and the rest of us never give up a new toy/ luxury/ convenience once we've had a taste. (Or if we do, it's like trying to turn an aircraft carrier around. Just look at America's efforts to change its relationship with the automobile - or fossil fuels in general - over the past few decades.)

On a more personal/ less important level, yeah - just zero excitement. Everything I've ever liked (and sometimes loved) about working with technology has become dull and redundant to me. "Vibe coding" barf. Monkeys typing Shakespeare.
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Yeah no genie back in the bottle. But I’d love for things to slow down.

Sascha Franck said:
Yeah, that's got to be the most absurd thing ever. As you say, we are *made* to perfectly fit on this very planet Earth - and still don't manage to leave things intact. But for whatever reasons some tools expect us to survive under highly life-unfriendly conditions on a planet where the very first things to care about would be huge fights about ressources.
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As Neil de Grasse Tyson said “if you have the means to terraform Mars, then you have the means to fix problems here”.
 
I’m all for helping the unfortunates in life.
To give them the means and hope to drag themselves into a better existence.
But we gave computers and the internet to basically a bunch of dumb fucks, just so they can do a running video commentary on their fucking stupid lives. Their dumb clout shapes future developments, because they can’t keep their fucking ignorant mouths shut.
AI for them is something that now tells them how to live, talk, breath, and how to pretend to be an ‘enhanced’ human, when in fact they have the sensibility of fucking toddlers, and deserve utter derision from those that quietly suffer their new-found ‘culture’ of make believe significance..
Fuck them to hell.
No social media under 18.
No internet for those with an IQ less than 120.
No sex either. Chop their balls off and sterilise the women.
Make the internet what it should be - an accurate archive, a positive information exchange, and a fucking quick way of getting tits on your screen.
 
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