when someone showed me something they designed and I know they're the least creative person with no art skills so I asked, "did ..u use ai to make this?"
"no! not ai! I did it myself!"
"oh wow man that's rly good ..I mean it still kinda .....I mean it looks like u used a.i. I didn't know u could draw?"
"oh I didn't draw I just put in a prompt to chat gpt but I did it!"
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I got trained on a new route recently at work, and the guy training me played YouTube videos through the vehicle's Bluetooth system the entire route and it was on learning how to use AI better.
So I, despite wanting to make his phone eat gravel, decided to ask what he was wanting to use AI for. We got to talking and he actually wanted to use it as an assisting tool to streamline work stuff, not gen AI, and actually knew about the negative impacts it had on the environment. He was more concerned about understanding it and staying ahead of the tech curve than actually using it, so I gave him a link to the 1700 free online college courses I had where he could look up this stuff without relying on AI and he got EXCITED.
These kinds of people give me hope. Sometimes they want to learn about the devil so they can fight their own demons. But those who think using AI to create stuff rather than creating it themselves or working with other humans to create it and calling it their own? Nah y'all can eat concrete.
























