Everyone is stupid (I hate AI)
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It's starting to become inevitable, the AI takeover. Is it a takeover? It's like an AI wash. Clouding actual knowledge and ability.
If you've not seen the film Idiocracy, I would recommend you watch it. It's not the best film by any means, but it's pretty accurate. The best bit is that everyone wears crocs in the future, and it's stupid. Everyone is stupid. Everyone wears crocs.
There's a bit in the film where everyone thinks it's stupid to water their crops with water, because water comes from the toilet. What they think they should be using is Brawndo (gatorade), because it has electrolytes. No one can explain what electrolytes are, or why they're good for the crops. This is what AI is like to me.
In the past week I've had a colleague send me a fix for my code, which they'd written themselves, as opposed to just letting me alter the code to behave how they wanted. When I listened in on a call explaining the fix, they couldn't actually explain how it worked. When I queried it in an email, I got about 6 paragraphs of explanation, using vocabulary this person wouldn't normally use.
Instead of a helpful demonstration of a person's understanding of a problem I got a shart of code written by an algorithm, specific and concise to an issue with no regard for the other 10,000 lines of code in the project and a 6 paragraph lie about how they understand the problem and can prescribe the best solution, all delivered with the confidence of a man with a ten foot cock.
Just yesterday, I had someone else ask me for help with something, I'm not even sure what it was to be fair. It was something along the lines of 'design a deck in my brand colours with bullet points and I'll bung you 50 quid or something'.
They asked me because they couldn't do it in ChatGPT. I'm not even sure what a deck is. I think it's something marketing phonies use to convince someone to spend money with them, as I've only ever seen it in SEO reports and we all know SEO companies are nothing but snake oil salesmen.
Anyway, I declined, as
- I don't even have a Powerpoint equivalent installed on my Linux laptop and
- I'm not a human fucking stand-in for AI.
I digress.
I know it sounds otherwise, but I don't actually think these people are stupid. To be fair they're probably smarter than me if they can use AI all day to do their job and nobody notices. Or maybe no one has high hopes of them.
It is increasingly frustrating to have a lot of people who know absolutely nothing about a topic be deluded by AI into believing they've actually put the work in and understand a topic. 100 years of training, research and experience, pissing from their fingertips.
In the first instance I've listed, this could have been an interesting conversation about how and why our search function is failing on certain queries, and how we can improve it. We could have both learned something new and seen the issue from each other's perspectives.
The second instance is a 30 minute exercise in the sort of basic IT skills we were taught at school.
It feels like some people are too good for learning.
It reminds me of when I was at college, and this attractive, popular girl was struggling with the academic course work of her degree and asked me to do it for her. I declined, thinking why do you think you can take the credit for someone else's hard work? They'd already done some of the more fun visual stuff but couldn't be bothered to learn the technical aspects of the course.
I want to fight against AI and call out the stupidity - actually not the stupidity but the lazyness - of people nowadays, but at the same time if life has taught me anything it is that resistance is futile.
AI's going to be here, it seems, as long as it gives the impression it's useful. It's a salesman's wet dream. As I mentioned before, it has the power to give anyone who uses it the facade that they are knowledgeable in their field.
My only hope, is that soon enough everyone will realise that they don't need the middleman, and all of these AI users will become obsolete. Much like the developer who sent me a 6 paragraph explanation of the code he had written for him - I did not read his explanation. If I wanted to hear a clanker's opinion then I would ask it myself.
That girl lives in a very, very expensive house now. I wonder who's ignorance paid for it.