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AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What's Left of Society

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60 points·by florisuga·12 месяцев назад·87 comments

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florisuga
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I've experienced myself that even if you explain to your AI-loving boss in a well reasoned manner that an LLM is not the right tool for the job he wants you to use it for, you simply get labeled as anti tech and your chances of advancement plummet (he was explicit about that). But I still do it, because dammit I'm still a human with a brain. The thought of being a corporate drone who just falls in line with any demand no matter how asinine is worse than the thought of being unemployed.
florisuga
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Wow this is dark. I wish I could say you're wrong. But some version of this is where we seem to be headed. The scariest thing is how many people are not just indifferent to their gradual technological and political indenture but welcome it with open arms. On the tech side, I'm baffled every time I see people at work get excited about some new software feature that is obviously designed to lock them in and control them even more, sold on the most transparently bogus promises of some marginal benefit. No suspicion, no resistance.
florisuga
·11 месяцев назад·discuss
Those applications may work for some, but they are no replacements for Lightroom in my opinion. My Lightroom 4 installation from 2012 (I never upgraded after Adobe went all in on subscriptions and cloud) still beats the latest Darktable/Ansel versions, hands down. The only things I'm missing are a CLI for automation and a few features that RawTherapee has, like switching to a view of one color channel with a single key. Other than that, Adobe somehow got it incredibly right in terms of workflow and features back then. Using the software feels like it was made for photographers, rather than software enthusiasts.

Still, I'm in the same boat as many who wish they could migrate their decades' worth of photos with all their adjustments to a FOSS alternative. For me too, Lightroom is the last application that keeps me from dumping Windows for good. It already lives in a Windows VM on a Linux host these days.
florisuga
·11 месяцев назад·discuss
I have found most interviews to be such undignified and humiliating theater already that this will barely make a difference. That said, if my experiences with regular interviews had been better, an AI interviewer may well be a reason to walk away.