I think most people are going to be in shock once they realize the number of people that use AI to help them with coding. It’s causing a lot more problems then I’m sure people are aware of. Because they then have to get the people that actually know how to code to go in and sift through the mistakes, and probably aren’t always sure what you copied from ChatGPT or what you wrote yourself. So how do you fix a problem like that? It’s not like you can say “Alright, so you see what you did here? The correct answer was in fact this.” When they didn’t have a clue what ChatGPT did in the first place.
The services a person could work for writing articles for pay. Two years ago I was making a good $500 a month doing this. Then some writing app was introduced, and the number of jobs I had to choose from dropped from about 80-100 a day to nothing in three weeks. None of the other services were accepting new writers, so I assume this hit them too.
Photoshopped selfies all over the place. It’s worse when it’s at a child’s expense. People Photoshop their kids in various places that they never went to. I fear for the future. These are the future people leading the country and they don’t even know what reality is.
Employers have only valued degrees because they meant an applicant had acquired certain skills and knowledge. If you can cheat your way through a degree without acquiring those skills/knowledge, then most degrees aren’t going to mean anything anymore.
All digital media.
Having worked on high end vfx for well over a decade, clients always wanted more for less. The amount of work and complexity has only increased while the time and budget has decreased to a point of no return. I think studios have been working on devaluing our skills for years, playing to the narrative of practical being better than cgi. Often stating that there was no cgi in a particular movie i spent months of 60-80 hour weeks delivering. The majority of people “prefer” practical without really knowing what they are looking at. We all love practical effects but we know its limitations and it always needs embelishment. Now “AI” is not controllable or art directable (yet), you get what you are given but a client can spend half an hour, write some prompts and send it to us as reference and expect it to be just as easy for us to recreate and match when in reality it takes often takes hundreds or thousands of specialised artist man hours.
We are then devalued even further when a movie comes out and a random youtuber will then take something we have created, run it through ai models and say “I created million dollar effects in 24 hours”
Unless we move to a basic income model, everything will be ruined by AI. No one will be employed and billionaires will become trillionaires and own everything (moreso than now)
Texting and instant messaging. Was texting my aunt about my disapproval of a certain politician. Halfway into the conversation, their responses switched from short 2 sentence statements (in broken English) to paragraphs with bullet points, capitalization, periods, em dashes, semicolons, and vocabulary I know they don’t have. I asked if it was AI. They responded that it was their own analysis.
People are losing the ability to communicate their own thoughts.
Democracy. Propaganda can be made so realistic it will be almost impossible to tell what’s true and what’s fiction. All sides will be able to point to their own evidence and “truth”.
People are going to lose the fundamentals of language. For example, presently, look how improperly people write on electronic mediums of communication.
Imagine the irrational thinking of shortsighted convenience; “Why waste the time teaching proper grammar and structure? We have AI.”
Thinking for yourself. AI will summarize for you. Write your emails for you. The White House puts out AI garbage pictures, videos, propaganda and national health reports. Students have papers written for them. Lawyers have AI write legal documents for court. Authors have whole AI novels. We are seemingly on the verge of whole movies worth of AI.
Oddly enough, AI. As more AI generated content is online, it gets included in learning data for subsequent models and the AI hallucination problem gets worse. It ‘gets high on its own supply’, in a way.
People.
The people using AI to generate things like assignments, documents etc to totally avoid learning content, and then not even reading it or knowing that what’s been created is a digital turd.
We have people like this out in the world now who on their own have the functional capacity of an over-ripe banana.
CS grad here. AI has taken away most of my job prospects. Companies make more money now by shipping worse software faster with AI. I no longer see a future where my better ability is worth my lower speed in the eyes of hiring managers.
I’m surprised to not see very many people saying copyright.
Copyright is fully dead. Companies are feeding their AIs whatever training material they can find, copyright be damned. Nothing you own or create is safe from being used to train AIs and be endlessly, skill-lessly replicated
It used to be we could trust an audio or video recording: even if we were skeptical about the angles, or what wasn’t being shown or said, we at least trusted that the event actually happened. If we needed to get another recording from another person for a better context, we’d trust that it was actually a recording as much as the first piece of footage.
The creative industry (e.g things like artists, authors and so on). I’m not one myself but I’m friends with some and as consumer I enjoy supporting them or other “indie”/lesser known creatives.
I’ve noticed with the rise of AI, for a lot of them it’s getting harder for them to find work in the field since why pay a photographer thousands of dollars for a wedding if you can get your guest to send their cell phone pics to your tech savvy nephew who will then run it through chat gpt to correct them? Not saying that example is widespread but you get the picture (pun intended).
That and as a consumer I’m beginning to hate it too since I a few months back I was on the hunt for personalized art work for my new workspace and a few other things. The amount of people trying to pass off AI generated stuff as their own is alarming. Plus having things commissioned is just as bad – depending which route you go. It left such poor taste in my mouth that I all but given up on the endeavor unless I come across a piece organically I really like.
Real pictures of Airbnb rentals. I can tell the pics have been altered and hate that I have no idea what I’m actually renting. Another reason to stick with hotels.
AI didn’t just mess with media. It kinda killed the feeling that something unexplainable might actually be real.
We used to get chills watching strange stuff. Now the first thought is “what model generated that.”
Even when something is real, people assume it’s fake.
That kinda sucks.
Interestingly, sewing patterns. Not sure if the “will never recover” thing is true, but it’s a huge issue.
There are more and more sewing patterns out there that have basically fake instructions and cutting directions, and an AI generated picture of the finished garment. If you know what to look out for they’re not hard to spot (at least currently) but many don’t know this scam exists and just buy some pattern off Etsy. To make a sewing pattern takes a lot of knowledge and testing; and there are always new clothing trends that people want to sew for themselves; so you can see how profitable this could be.
The sewing subreddits get lots of posts of people who are confused why their newly bought pattern doesn’t work out at all. When they post the reaction is usually to check the picture on the pattern. When the person in it has clear indications of AI generation (weird hands and such); the garment is seamless; and you wonder how it could possibly have that shape without visible seams; it’s usually AI. The pattern will be garbage and the crafter needs to start over.
The only solution is to buy only from trusted sewing pattern manufacturers, and if you buy from more indie sources, check the picture on the pattern and the reviews very carefully.
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Graphic designers for certain tasks, an AI is capable of making an image in seconds and you do not have to pay it and it is at service 24 hours a day
Search Engine Results
Video proof
Porn deepfakes seem like a genie that’s not going back into the bottle
Trust. There used to be a saying “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Now we can see it – and still not believe it.
Homework
Photographic evidence. We can no longer trust any image or video to be real
I think most people are going to be in shock once they realize the number of people that use AI to help them with coding. It’s causing a lot more problems then I’m sure people are aware of. Because they then have to get the people that actually know how to code to go in and sift through the mistakes, and probably aren’t always sure what you copied from ChatGPT or what you wrote yourself. So how do you fix a problem like that? It’s not like you can say “Alright, so you see what you did here? The correct answer was in fact this.” When they didn’t have a clue what ChatGPT did in the first place.
Writing. What was once too cliche, is now too AI.
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Not the AI ad on this post 😭
The services a person could work for writing articles for pay. Two years ago I was making a good $500 a month doing this. Then some writing app was introduced, and the number of jobs I had to choose from dropped from about 80-100 a day to nothing in three weeks. None of the other services were accepting new writers, so I assume this hit them too.
The Em Dash.
I used to use them in my copywriting, but now it’s a big flag for AI written content because ChatGPT is em dash happy.
I’ll never forgive AI for that.
Edit: Dropping this article for those that are interested in more context about the em dash drama.
Photoshopped selfies all over the place. It’s worse when it’s at a child’s expense. People Photoshop their kids in various places that they never went to. I fear for the future. These are the future people leading the country and they don’t even know what reality is.
searching for reference images online
My colleagues’ ability to write and send an email by themselves.
Duolingo.
My career
Creativity. People have gotten so lazy. Everything is going AI now.
The AITA forums and the like on reddit
A quick AI story and it’s an easy way for bot accounts to get enough karma to fully access reddit communties
A college education.
Employers have only valued degrees because they meant an applicant had acquired certain skills and knowledge. If you can cheat your way through a degree without acquiring those skills/knowledge, then most degrees aren’t going to mean anything anymore.
Googling stuff. If I wanted AI to tell me the answer, I would just ask ChatGPT
All digital media.
Having worked on high end vfx for well over a decade, clients always wanted more for less. The amount of work and complexity has only increased while the time and budget has decreased to a point of no return. I think studios have been working on devaluing our skills for years, playing to the narrative of practical being better than cgi. Often stating that there was no cgi in a particular movie i spent months of 60-80 hour weeks delivering. The majority of people “prefer” practical without really knowing what they are looking at. We all love practical effects but we know its limitations and it always needs embelishment. Now “AI” is not controllable or art directable (yet), you get what you are given but a client can spend half an hour, write some prompts and send it to us as reference and expect it to be just as easy for us to recreate and match when in reality it takes often takes hundreds or thousands of specialised artist man hours.
We are then devalued even further when a movie comes out and a random youtuber will then take something we have created, run it through ai models and say “I created million dollar effects in 24 hours”
Voice acting. Signed, a voice actor.
Unless we move to a basic income model, everything will be ruined by AI. No one will be employed and billionaires will become trillionaires and own everything (moreso than now)
The internet
Civilization.
At this point, the Internet. What you see and read May or may not be real.
I think the worst is yet to come
Texting and instant messaging. Was texting my aunt about my disapproval of a certain politician. Halfway into the conversation, their responses switched from short 2 sentence statements (in broken English) to paragraphs with bullet points, capitalization, periods, em dashes, semicolons, and vocabulary I know they don’t have. I asked if it was AI. They responded that it was their own analysis.
People are losing the ability to communicate their own thoughts.
A lot of the stories in r/confessions and other ‘revealing’ subreddits are AI generated karma farming efforts which ruins the sub.
Democracy. Propaganda can be made so realistic it will be almost impossible to tell what’s true and what’s fiction. All sides will be able to point to their own evidence and “truth”.
People are going to lose the fundamentals of language. For example, presently, look how improperly people write on electronic mediums of communication.
Imagine the irrational thinking of shortsighted convenience; “Why waste the time teaching proper grammar and structure? We have AI.”
Thinking for yourself. AI will summarize for you. Write your emails for you. The White House puts out AI garbage pictures, videos, propaganda and national health reports. Students have papers written for them. Lawyers have AI write legal documents for court. Authors have whole AI novels. We are seemingly on the verge of whole movies worth of AI.
Oddly enough, AI. As more AI generated content is online, it gets included in learning data for subsequent models and the AI hallucination problem gets worse. It ‘gets high on its own supply’, in a way.
Cross stitch patterns will never be the same. Pattern mills were already an issue but now.. crazy.
The entire editing profession.
Facts. AI in conjuction with capitalism will trend opinion over facts. These tools are marketing machines first.
Google
It’s literal shit now.
Also paper writing for school.
Just read a Proffesor talking about how ChatGPT has ruined his career.
People.
The people using AI to generate things like assignments, documents etc to totally avoid learning content, and then not even reading it or knowing that what’s been created is a digital turd.
We have people like this out in the world now who on their own have the functional capacity of an over-ripe banana.
CS grad here. AI has taken away most of my job prospects. Companies make more money now by shipping worse software faster with AI. I no longer see a future where my better ability is worth my lower speed in the eyes of hiring managers.
Politics, is everyone talking about how great/awful [thing] is because they feel that, or because they are bots?
I’m surprised to not see very many people saying copyright.
Copyright is fully dead. Companies are feeding their AIs whatever training material they can find, copyright be damned. Nothing you own or create is safe from being used to train AIs and be endlessly, skill-lessly replicated
Online art spaces feel overrun by AI now. It’s harder for real artists to be seen or valued like before.
My faith in people’s ability to learn
Society. People think AI is super intelligent and they rely on it for way too much. Independent thought has been replaced by using AI. The lazy way.
Trust.
It used to be we could trust an audio or video recording: even if we were skeptical about the angles, or what wasn’t being shown or said, we at least trusted that the event actually happened. If we needed to get another recording from another person for a better context, we’d trust that it was actually a recording as much as the first piece of footage.
Now we can’t trust any of it.
The entirety of the internet. The whole damn thing. And we’re just watching the flames go higher.
The creative industry (e.g things like artists, authors and so on). I’m not one myself but I’m friends with some and as consumer I enjoy supporting them or other “indie”/lesser known creatives.
I’ve noticed with the rise of AI, for a lot of them it’s getting harder for them to find work in the field since why pay a photographer thousands of dollars for a wedding if you can get your guest to send their cell phone pics to your tech savvy nephew who will then run it through chat gpt to correct them? Not saying that example is widespread but you get the picture (pun intended).
That and as a consumer I’m beginning to hate it too since I a few months back I was on the hunt for personalized art work for my new workspace and a few other things. The amount of people trying to pass off AI generated stuff as their own is alarming. Plus having things commissioned is just as bad – depending which route you go. It left such poor taste in my mouth that I all but given up on the endeavor unless I come across a piece organically I really like.
Real pictures of Airbnb rentals. I can tell the pics have been altered and hate that I have no idea what I’m actually renting. Another reason to stick with hotels.
AI didn’t just mess with media. It kinda killed the feeling that something unexplainable might actually be real.
We used to get chills watching strange stuff. Now the first thought is “what model generated that.”
Even when something is real, people assume it’s fake.
That kinda sucks.
Interestingly, sewing patterns. Not sure if the “will never recover” thing is true, but it’s a huge issue.
There are more and more sewing patterns out there that have basically fake instructions and cutting directions, and an AI generated picture of the finished garment. If you know what to look out for they’re not hard to spot (at least currently) but many don’t know this scam exists and just buy some pattern off Etsy. To make a sewing pattern takes a lot of knowledge and testing; and there are always new clothing trends that people want to sew for themselves; so you can see how profitable this could be.
The sewing subreddits get lots of posts of people who are confused why their newly bought pattern doesn’t work out at all. When they post the reaction is usually to check the picture on the pattern. When the person in it has clear indications of AI generation (weird hands and such); the garment is seamless; and you wonder how it could possibly have that shape without visible seams; it’s usually AI. The pattern will be garbage and the crafter needs to start over.
The only solution is to buy only from trusted sewing pattern manufacturers, and if you buy from more indie sources, check the picture on the pattern and the reviews very carefully.
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