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Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive (www.theregister.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Cross-posted from "Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive" by @along_the_road@beehaw.org in !technology@beehaw.org

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago

I’m pretty fucking tired of seeing all the ads for computers with integrated AI chips. You’re telling me you made an RV for the virtual dumbass and you want me to pay for it? Fuck off!

[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Lack of familiarity with AI PCs leads to what the study describes as "misconceptions," which include the following: 44 percent of respondents believe AI PCs are a gimmick or futuristic; 53 percent believe AI PCs are only for creative or technical professionals; 86 percent are concerned about the privacy and security of their data when using an AI PC; and 17 percent believe AI PCs are not secure or regulated.

ah yeah, you just need to get more familiar with your AI PC so you stop caring what a massive privacy and security risk both Recall and Copilot are

lol @ 44% of the study’s participants already knowing this shit’s a desperate gimmick though

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago

you just need to get more familiar with your AI PC

they haven’t released autoplag sexbots yet

[–] capital@piefed.social 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Remember when normies couldn’t even find what they wanted via normal web searches?

This seems like that.

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago

maybe it was a mistake to lionize a corporate monopolist to the level where we ostracized people for not being “good” at using their trap of a product

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What does three word normie mean to you

[+] capital@piefed.social -6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification.

Generally, people who don't know how to work with the systems. As it relates to newer LLM search tools, not knowing how to prompt it correctly to get the desired output, knowing the limitations of LLMs to prevent you from doing something stupid, and knowing to check the sources that most of these LLMs provide before fully trusting the info it provides.

Normies are the ones microwaving their phones after 4chan encouraged them to which happened way before LLMs were spitting out sometimes bad info. Those are the same people who are going to eat glue or whatever the LLM says because it read too much Reddit.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 2 hours ago

People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification

This is you: LLMs are good, except they are enshittifying search, which follows from the fact that LLMs are bad. But actually, even though they are bad, I know how to use them, so LLMs are good, actually. Normies are dumb and I’m better than them and it doesn’t matter if search is good or bad, normies r dumb and normies will never learn to google good which they can learn from me, a LLM understander who is very smart

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's just googling with several wildly pointless extra steps of also googling.