We have been bombarded with relentless propaganda for the past 5 years, and it's probably been going on for a lot longer.

 

AI or LLMs are good at certain things and bad at others. That is not a lot different from people. It is a tool that can be used or abused.

You hardly ever know what is real or fake. AI does not change that. It might make it easier to mislead people, but it can also be a helper.
If you are willing to put in the work and check if the information it gave you is correct, it can be a time saver. But you should not expect it to do all the work for you.

 

When you are troubleshooting a problem using AI, the worst thing it does is scroll out way too much information all at one time. If you tell it to actually wait for your input before proceeding it will do that. Say you have a bash shell open, you want to input one command at the command line there, and get the output of it. Send that back to the AI, and have it move to the next step.

If you let it scroll out answers, that is similar to what it reads like when someone posts a big scrolled out solution to someone's question in one post. They see a wall of text and don't bother to read it, even though the answer would be right in front of their face, if they did. It's amazing that the ultimate tool for lazy people is still somehow too much work for them to read.

 

I can rewrite this in a plain, rustic Southern voice

Shoot, these days it’s hard tellin’ what’s real and what ain't. AI don’t really change that none. Sure, it can make it easier for folks to get fooled, but it can helps you out, too.

If you're willin' to put in a little elbow-grease and double-check what it tells ya, it can save you some time. But you can’t just sit back and expect it to do every bit of the work for you.

 

I am generally not a fan of AI especially where music creation is concerned, however it does have it uses for sure.

Take the original OP post, I totally 100% get what you are saying, BUT I look at it like this.

Before we had AI in its current form we had Google, Bing, Yahoo, AltaVista etc where we would type in our query in a search bar and get back replies based on crawler searches of information that was already on the web and we went from there. We all did this and still do but even that information wasnt 100% correct in a lot of cases but it did give us avenues to explore for further answers and possible solutions to the query.

When someone posts here looking for answers FOR ME I would welcome any type of reply be it actual experience (preferable) or AI, I believe again FOR ME I would rather have some sort of answer/reply to explore options than nothing at all.

On most of the AI answers I have received in my forum posts from people they have stated "This was an AI generation" so I have the choice to read it or NOT but I am more grateful that someone took the time to read my post and reply with something than to just pass my post by.

AI isnt 100% for sure but it can set us on a path of discovery to finding the actual answer we seek even if the AI reply didnt give us the actual answer we were looking for, also for some people searching themselves on an AI platform may not have popped in to there head at the time.

But I am with you in that for a lot of people (not saying anyone here) AI is the truth and gospel even if it does stop some people from thinking for themselves which I see a lot with my friends. Two of my closest friends chuck everthing in to AI to do the work for them.

 

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