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No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
What the fuck is this. Conflating literally everything, LLMs and algorithms used to edit sound or determine a feed are not the same thing lmao.
This is what calling this shit "AI" does to people's brains, it's meaningless and it ends up blurring together in their minds
This is something that really makes me dread talking about "AI" almost anywhere. To some people def add(a,b): return a+b is AI it would seem.
This is my personal dumb hill to die on. The calculator is actually quite intelligent.
If you've ever tried to design even a basic ALU, yeah, pretty much
AI is when a computer does things
AI is when the computer does stuff. And it's more AI the more stuff it does. And when it does a real lot of stuff, it's AGI. 
OTOH, it is very funny to read an article penned by a 'journalist' who treated every electronic device possessing any level of autonomous functionality with the same level of paranoid delusion that a puritanical tribunal in the 1600's would have treated any woman capable of basic arithmetic
Clearly somebody who’s completely bought into Sam Altman’s hysterical AI apocalypse theatrics that he does to convince his dumbass investors that AGI is coming any day now
It's because AI doesn't actually exist so any definition that includes current technologies is incoherent.
Damn that was my first thought reading the like 2nd line. AI face recognition? It's probably Machine Learning, yeah, but it's not a bullshit spitting LLM doing that. Face ID would still work if OpenAI shit the ebd. And then that conflation just kept getting worse lol
In a few more years people will forget the word algorithm because all of the AI have marketed the word away in favour of their AI (LLM/global warming super charger but really just algorithms)
Its cause true ai doesn't exist and probably never will. Its a scifi term. We got shitty chatbots and image generators they call ai and now everything is ai. Just like how everything was gonna be on the blockchain lmao
literally one step from saying "i can't play a video game because npcs have ai"
i am once again reminding you that nyt readers think reading it makes them smart lmao
We are in the "Everything is AI" arc of boosting this bubble.
Everything's computer
Everything's compooter.
Some people are paying money to read this trash.
I typed in my passcode like it was 2017.
Except that it's mandatory to enter your pass code on an iPhone periodically. This dude is legit stupid.
5 years from now
Not giving a faceless corporation a jizz sample to open your phone is like soooo 2020
Imagine not drinking your verification can. Couldn't be me.
-- an NYT "journalist," probably
It's like the editor wants him to come off as a moron.
So, none of this is AI, it is all just machine learning programs. Absolute idiot.
Before doing AI meant calling the OpenAI/whatever API there was a meme.
Machine learning company. Looks inside: linear regression.
Honestly, that has been the most important thing that has happened, the marketing coup on the concept of 'AI' not being what is now being called a 'AGI', which is a horrendous twisting of the historical concept.
Heuristic algorithms and Markov Chains are older than dirt. Some of the first industrial software ever written is 'AI' by that measure.
LLMs are a very specific application of that algorithm to processing large quantities of text and that's it.
I thought this was about not interacting with LLMs and was about to rant about how easy it is to not interact with them for weeks alone 2 measely days smh
I think that's the point of the article. It tries to shame you for not wanting anything to do with LLMs.
Oh, you think you're so smart for not wanting to use and support the planet killing gadgets, what if I told you algorithms are used in every day stuff like water infrastructure or the news? Who's the dummy now?
A shocking lack of talent in manufacturing consent, especially from the failing New York Crime
Very good point, framing image processing or sensor fusion as AI under the same category of LLMs seems dishonest. The former are used as parts of tools to do a single specific task (biometric security, water quality analysis, speech prediction, etc.) and are usually pretty resource efficient and useful. They are not the general purpose AI that LLMs are sold as.
That was my thought at first too.
This confirms that we need to spend 7 quintillion dollars on chat bots
pointing at concepts like running water and claiming that only AI enables this is something that only AI enables
I tried playing StarCraft without AI but it stopped working none of my units could make their way down the ramp I ordered them to walk on and the computer didn't even start mining. Just 5 AFK SCVs and it was game over.
"I tried to live in modern society without math"
Manufacturing consent...
edit: or better yet, inventing reality 
The book Manufacturing Consent came out in 1988 and I read it a few years later. Of all the awful stuff in that book - I remember being gobsmacked at how few companies controlled the major media outlets in the US. And here we are in 2025 and the number has gotten tiny to the point of absurdity. Plus many of the owners are 10 figure billionaires or 11 figure billionaires or even 12 figure billionaires.
inventing reality
By ~2050 maybe a handful of companies will control media and everything else. And trillionaires will be pulling all the strings. People like A.J. Jacobs will be directly sending messages into people's brains saying....
Look, you may not like trillionaires but they do more to benefit the world than you! I'm speaking to you via something 100 times more powerful than the microwave auditory effect. And you don't even know! Mind correction time. Move your lips with this. Trillionaires are good. Trillionaires are kind. Trillionaires are beneficial. Trillionaires...
Drivel.
If it was a Substack post - it would be right at home in c/slop.
I don't know anything about A.J. Jacobs but he clearly wants some juicy, highly-lucrative PR job shilling for AI. He'll probably end up with one.
I like how the NYT insists on writing it as "A.I." That makes me think of the Spielberg movie that came out 24 years ago.
That movie was such shit that it made me mad when a friend to whom I complained about it at length went to see it anyway.
Reminds me of an old cracked article where its author tried to spend however long being "completely logical", except that was a self-effacing shitpost where he went around acting and talking like the space elfs from Star Trek and concluded that the only good thing to come of it was he liked the non-foaming toothpaste he tried.
god damn "Everything's computer
...so you should happily consune these stupid chatbots that boil the oceans"
A.I. WITH THE BRAIDS
oh the "year of living biblically" guy
