It's also like commissioning some other entity to do stuff. People will say, "I made an app...", or " I made an image." When in reality they didn't?! All they did is pay their $20 subscription fee or whatever, and most people just accept whatever the AI got for them. And it's not like the chatbot outputs some exquisit 5 michelin star cuisine. At this point in time you're certainly served McDonald's.

I love the fast food comparison, because just like fast food, people know deep down it's harmful, but they just turn away and pretend they don't know because they just want to be lazy and stupid and feed that deficiency at every opportunity.

This is the most strange comparison I've read in a while. I kind of like it, I guess?

"But you essentially do damage to yourself long term and slowly kill yourself."

That's essentially being alive.

"I just hope this means that similarly, those who respect their mind/body can easily live their life and avoid it."

Don't care, this piece of shit body has so many issues and food allergies that I can't be bothered.

Generative AI is more like the idiot rolling coal on a cyclist then wondering why no one cheers them on because at the end of the day you burned through your cash and made the world a shittier place.

It is fast-food that works like the replicator in Star Trek: you can virtually ask it to spit out anything you like... but the taste won't be there (and the nutritional, health and environmental properties will be the ones of fast-food).

Also by using it you seem to quickly lose capacity to discern good from bad ingredients, and the ability to even cook...

who abstain themselves; whom totally feel sick when they consume it

Do people feel sick from eating fast food? Depending on how you define it I only eat fast food once every couple months on road trips since I'm vegetarian and the options are usually shit outside of Taco Bell, but cyclospora jokes aside I've never felt sick from those occasions.

You seem to be assuming that the food someone would make and eat at home is automatically healthier than fast food. I wouldn't say that's a given. The recipes that people show on social media are super fancy and using all sorts of expensive ingredients and cooking tools. It's basically just another form of elitism, but now it's rich people judging people for what food they can eat and where they get it.

Out of everything that has been written about AS, I've found The Oatmeal's write-up about AS 'art' to be the most accessible and insightful one.

What? Most people do realize this.

There's a minority of rich billionaires who say otherwise. And maybe 30% of poor people who are hopelessly short sighted or stupid.

But that's still a minority

Don't make stupid similes. AI sucks.

Reminds me of the fake plastic bowls of soup noodles in the restaurant window.

At least fast food serves a basic human function.

Good analogy. I also think fast food is ok to have. And I also think AI is ok to have. Hear me out. I'll continue the analogy.

When fast food is bad is when it creates food deserts, when it is the only affordable food (not anymore but nothing is) for massive parts of the population, when it is being pushed for profit incentive that contradics the interest of a healthy society. It is less helpful to look at an individual fast food restaurant than it is to look at the health outcomes of a neighborhood who's main form of food consumption is through access to fast food.

The main issue with AI is similar to the issues with fast food. It is fundamentally a systemic issue.

If we used AI to get our work done faster, work less hours/days, and had more vacation time. If we dropped all of the countless AI uses that are absolutely brain rotting and counterproductive we could see benefits. We could have more time to take up physical or intellectual hobbies.

But we have no control over that in our society. We fundamentally do not have freedom if we do not live in a society that is able to democratically decide how AI is applied and who benefits. And it's not just with AI. It's with fossil fuels. It's with infrastructure. It's with healthcare. We do not have Democratic control of these fundamental parts of our lives.

Right now, we just have a bunch of rich tech oligarchs deciding that setting the planet on fire to monopolize the totality of human knowledge, destroy the internet, destroy our environment and our planet. Oh, and we gotta do it because "China is gonna do it first".

we need to introduce you to the greatest of all fast food restaurants, the Taco Truck from That Place. it's cheap, fast, delicious, and most importantly tacos.

Don’t be embarrassed. Short-term bias is a problem across all human thinking.