nah, it’s going to be the opposite.
if other computer technology has been anything to go off of then only those who lived through is adaption and watched it progress will know how to spot it. those who grow up with hard to spot ai will just accept that they can’t see it and think we’re weird for trying so hard to prove things are ai. they’ll also think we’re weird for caring.
our boomer trait will be doing art instead of asking ai to generate images and video, or wanting things made by people when the ai generated thing is “good enough”.
we’ll be getting eyerolls for gifting a nice art set or a camera to our niblings. we’ll embarrass our grandkids when we get upset at the ai point of sale system that mcdonalds starts using. “back in my day they had big touch screens where you could manually select your toppings on the burger, now you just yell into a box and MAYBE gets it right”
actually, if social media tech is anything to go on we won’t even have that much control. your order will be algorithm based. chosen for you based on your recent ad footprint. the ai obviously knows what you want better than you do. the kids won’t see it as weird. they’ll transition straight from their parents deciding their meals to corporations doing the same, but we’re going to hate it. the corps will push it anyway because it’s so massively profitable with the demographics that like it and every restaurant will be owned by like 2 companies. they’ll just force it on everyone else. we’ll bitch about it, but most people will still keep going.
edit: had more thoughts on this in the shower.
we’ll get to the point where we barely even have to pick a place to eat. there will be 2 apps. one owned by disneycokemcdonsldsalibaba, one owned by pepsifoxraytheonamazon. we will all be either a coke person or a Pepsi person and will likely just follow whichever brand our parents did. they’ll be inherently political and each have a sponsored candidate in every election. it will define the entire world you live in. when it’s time to eat you get a notification and the app orders you your meal.
it’ll start as a service for when you can’t decide what to eat then after it gets a critical mass of users it will start to enshitify into forcing what you eat before selling to the disney megacorp who will then push it into everything they own.
this is only for the rich people that these brands cater towards of course. we who would have once been creatives will be working manual labor at the camps for the underemployed. afterall, we’re better off with the structure. it helps us be productive towards society. it’s what’s best for us…
Your order is already “algorithm based” and has been for like a decade, companies routinely adjust pricing and even selection based on your ad/surveillance footprint, say hiking the price of it think you got a payday recently (based on spending patterns etc). Idk about McDonald’s (though I wouldn’t be surprised) but the fact that Amazon does this is very well documented
I only got through the first sentence.
You’re right.
Have you ever seen Gen Z navigate anything technical? No, you haven’t. They don’t know how.
To be fair on the burger point, plenty would claim right now we shout at minimum wage workers our order who MAYBE get it right
Even if they hear and enter the order correctly, the probably of exactly that ending up in the bag is still pretty low. At least the food service robots might get that part right.
the robots won’t be equipped to fix it. there will be no one left to tell they got it wrong.
That’s too real. I don’t like it. Describing a hellish world of AI anti-choice, then at the end revealing that most of us will just be in labor camps instead. Damn. I’d tell you to write that into a book, but I don’t think there’s a happy ending there.
the only reason to write that book would be for when i would inevitably get to post the “don’t create the torment nexus” meme for tons of social media impressions.
though knowing what impressions are pegs me as a creative who won’t get to post on social media from the mines.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Anyone who uses the term “boomer trait” unironically should be locked up.
We’re already at the point that many people post- millennials actively prefer AI, that preferencd increasing with younger age. They’re the new boomers consuming whatever information is placed in front of them with no corroboration, nuance or fact checking.
I suspect the ones that prefer ai are like that for the same reason I preferred books.
“Tv never came home drunk. Tv never forgot me at the zoo” etc etc
I think the ones you describe are on the fringes with mental health concerns, among others. The mainstream is just mashing the “easy button”.
I think the ones you describe are on the fringes with mental health concerns, among others. The mainstream is just mashing the “easy button”.
Well on paper using an LLM for customer support seems great. A service agent who is infinitely patient, doesn’t mind overlong support sessions, who is always polite? That’s sounds great. But real life isn’t like that, and the people who do prefer LLMs over people haven’t had the time to realize why LLMs aren’t up to the task yet. But that might change in a couple years.
Except for you right? You’re the one person who hasn’t done any of these things.
I don’t use AI search, use it for creating text, ask it to do things for me, or ask it questions. I actively avoid it. I actively distrust any AI search that automatically appears, and yes, I ABSOLUTELY verify facts and check sources when they’re presented to me or I make a good faith honest attempt at discussion. So yes, you’re correct, I don’t do those things. But nice attempt at an Appeal to Hypocrisy, dude.
Well, I once got a callback from a mobile operator support rep, and she was speaking so perfectly (tone, pauses, the way she built sentences, everything), that our conversation came out like:
- Booooring! Give me human. Human operator. O-pe-ra-tor! Person!
- I’m sorry, but you will have to deal with the fact I’m real lol
- !!!
I don’t know what she was doing at a call center, because that was a professional voiceover or advertisement level
Very funny, unique, and well written little scifi prompt, but clearly we’re nowhere near that level of technology. AI sucks and it’s only getting worse at the moment.
Thank God! Too dystopian for me
You should read the Murderbot Diaries. If you find this funny and unique, you will like Murderbot.
I work in tech and I don’t like what AI is turning into or how it’s being used. But saying it’s only getting worse is just wrong. Many hurdles in generation, comprehension have been overcome. Context windows are growing in orders of magnitude. Cycles with different logical approaches can be applied to the same prompt. I mean just topically you can look at the quality of deep fakes over the last 3 years.
We can hate it, but let’s not let that blind us to reality.
That’s a very interesting take
LMAO we are at the point that social security systems (bigger ponzi scheme ever) all over the world are at the verge of collapse due to the stress of an aging population, and this dude not only thinks they will be able to have kids and send them to something resembling a school by 2040, but also worrying about a potential AI future where they will more likely not be a part of given the 3 years takeoff curve.
I have no mouth and I must KEK
