Some Kind of Treason

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Generative AI is a cursed technology, making life worse, making us stupider and polluting the environment, all for very little practical upside.

AI instructions on how to connect a Miops Smart Trigger to a Nikon Z6. It says to use the Nikons 10-pin accessory port. The Z6 does not have a 10-pin accessory port.
Two alien newsreaders from They Live: "Al is the future. We must all embrace it because Al will set us free"
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again. Full circle innovation.
A google search for the ”volume of a pair of slippers.” The AI overview asserts that hotel slippers are 29x12x10cm (which is plausible) which is roughly 280 to 300 cubic centimetres, which is off by a factor of ten.
A post by Zack Korman with the caption "Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen." It shows someone trying to sum the numbers 1, 2 and 3 with copilot. Copilot has returned the answer 15.
A duck duck go poll asking if people want AI - it's 94% against AI.