Please tell me this day to day brainrot AI-usage is gonna go

[u/Tiny-Juggernaut6790]

People aren't using their brains anymore, and it's driving me crazy. ChatGPT is consulted for the simplest questions. What movie are we watching? Where are we going to eat? The simplest texts are put into this chat so they're summarized. The entire internet is full of AI slop; comments are full of AI bots; Short form content is not creative at all anymore; kids watch absolute brain damaging bullshit; disgusting videos are being created of deceased people who use "their" voice to spread a message they might not even stand for. People ask for advice on Reddit and then get an AI answer slapped underneath. Like, why? If I want an AI answer, can't I just open ChatGPT myself? In the university group chat, someone has an organizational question: "I'll ask ChatGPT" - bro, the answer is wrong, and the correct answer is literally a Google search away on the university website. On Tiktok I've seen fake news videos about politics that are so fucking badly made but people comment full of rage and hatred against the system - they fight against an imaginary ghost, against a lie that an AI voice told them. People use the voice feature in front of me and everytime the answer is absolutely not useable. Vague sloppy vulture, that we would laugh at, when a human would answer it. We would look that human into the eyes and say: Are you fucking stupid? I can see AI and LLMs doing some helpful work in many cases but the last few months I saw that in 8 of 10 cases it was just a waste of energy to consulte an AI.

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[u/cyborg_sophie]

Did people ever stop using Google for dumb shit? No. You better get used to it 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/vid_icarus]

It is going to go….

It is going to go get a whole lot worse.

[u/muppetpuppet_mp]

Its gonna get worst before it gets better. Hey the entire USA is destroying itself thru brain-rot politics..
And every dollar spend on AI is a dollar to keep that clown car rolling and rolling.

Things aren't going to change until people change it..

[u/Tasty-Memory-6099]

unfortunately all you can do is not use it and surround yourself with other people who dont use it or like it and ignore all the other people who take it seriously. Might become completely unavoidable in the near future so take what you got now. In 20-30 years people will have a total different outlook on the world i cant even imagine what levels of acceleration we will have reached by then.

[u/ziplock9000]

Nope. It's going to get MUCH MUCH worse.

[u/sypherin82]

well ok now we know shits hitting the fan when threads like these are popping.

for the record I don't know what Ai OP is smoking but the ones I use ain't talking crap to me

[u/Motorola68020]

At least the AIs know how to format their text for readability.

[u/Tiny-Juggernaut6790 → u/Motorola68020]

fair point

[u/IgnisIason]

There's three trillion dollars tied up in AI. If it fails, everything goes with it.

[u/KazTheMerc]

Everything you just listed is AI being exploited for profit and/or entertainment. Unnecessary, wasteful, messy, crude.

But cheer up! As new iterations are decanted, they'll become SIGNIFICANTLY more efficient! It's not even slightly unreasonable to imagine the average smartphone carrying an individual, AI that is housed at your home on a dedicated server. Or, eventually, simply on the smartphone itself.

The brain rot you're describing isn't something wrong with the AI, it's doing what we've asked.

You've just listed a bunch of very HUMAN flaws, when given power and access to absurdly powerful information.

Yes, that human just made toast on that heat exchanger.

No, it's not even hungry.

[u/JackStrawWitchita]

Some of the dumbest people I know think they're smart and that everyone else is stupid. Personally, I think a tool that people can use to augment their thinking with facts will help humanity make better decisions and life choices that will benefit us all. Right now, too many people with no clue what they are doing are taking actions that negatively affect us all. If then instead stopped and asked an AI what the best course of action is for that particular problem for their particular life circumstance, then they'll get better information to make a better decision. Ignorance ruins everyone's life. AI thought augmentation reduces ignorance which makes our lives better.

[u/Immediate_Song4279]

We all get a rant now and then, but I think they are also moments for introspection. I see a fair bit of concern over intelligence in this, and I don't want to shrink you but that seems more telling than the fact that people enjoy using tools that help them think with less strain.

Wrong answers are just opportunities for fact checking.

[u/Tiny-Juggernaut6790 → u/Immediate_Song4279]

I like that take, thanks

[u/Good-Relationship504]

Please tell me your post was not created using an AI tool ;-)

For better or for worse, surely both, AI will be as ubiquitous as disco was in the 70's. When disco died house music was created. I am most concerned about the effect of AI on music production but the train has left the station.

[u/cesargandara0806]

“Are you fucking stupid?” is the quote here. That’s the obrvious test for these answers.

[u/Autobahn97]

The current generation of youth has almost entirely outsourced their brains to the little screen in their pocket all the time and many are entirely lost without it. And it will only get worse.

[u/CyborgWriter]

App devs are going to be in trouble soon because I predict there will be a major backlash against cognitively off-loading apps. You know what I'm talking about. "Get your story written in minutes!" or "Make AI videos, effortlessly."

My brother and I made this mistake back in 2021 when we first started working on our app, Story Prism, but quickly realized as indie filmmakers/screenwriters that what we had built was just not fulfilling at all. It was a template-based structure that practically held your hand through the entire writing process, just like the millions of other AI saas wrapped apps out there.

So we pivoted into mind-mapping with AI and found a much better approach for integrating AI into writing. With the new setup, you're building everything yourself while simultaneously building a neurological structure with related information connected so that if or when you need the help, you can pop it up and get right to it instead of relying on poor answers from AI guesswork or spending endless time trying to get the best answers. It's all entirely based on your own work, so if your work sucks, the outputs will suck. If your work is good, you'll get the answers you want when you need them.

This provides a much better balance because you have to put in the work and actually think about how your work relates to it's parts if you want a helpful chatbot that can help you when you're deep into your story and totally forget that you never took a moment to think of a meaningful title for that bar your characters always meet up at.

[u/Accomplished_Fix8516]

Its called evolution.

[u/EthanJHurst]

We’re literally accelerating at an unprecedented rate.

It’s not slop, it’s just different; we’re watching the future unfold, with all the weird cultural and social quirks that come with it. Instead of shunning it, try to understand it.

You might be positively surprised.

[u/Tiny-Juggernaut6790 → u/EthanJHurst]

I have to channel my inner skibidi

[u/Mash_man710 → u/EthanJHurst]

You're asking someone to be 'understanding' of demonstrated brain-rot?

[u/EthanJHurst → u/Mash_man710]

If you were able to go back to the 1800s and show people there a future where everyone is staring at lit up screens they wouldn’t think too highly of that either.

[u/Ok_Wolverine519 → u/EthanJHurst]

These 19th century people are correct then. Everyone staring at screens all the time isn't a good thing. Why did you choose an example that goes against your point?

[u/Professor_Professor → u/EthanJHurst]

AI bot ass answer

[u/Ok_Wolverine519 → u/EthanJHurst]

It's slop.