What do you mean? Of course some guy in his apartment found a way to simulate a technology that is only interesting because it works in a way that classical computers do not.
Those people dedicating their lives to building actual quantum computers are fools.
Y'know, I would've guessed firefighters had higher cancer rates just from exposure to volatiles, but I would've guessed lung and blood cancer long before colorectal.
I know it was surprising to me too when I was told that statistic. Between that and heart attacks we could use some basic nutrition courses and maybe some better gear
I genuinely don't get keto if you aren't overweight/obese. Its and ok tool to jumpstart weight loss (even that is debatable though) but at the end of the day your body still needs carbs to function, like your brain alone needs half of your calories to come form carbs optimally. It doesn't seem sustainable at all, especially once you get below like 15% bf.
Plus it sucks. I had to go keto for a while because my triglycerides were too high. Honestly, any restrictive diet is no fun. Way easier if you can just eat a balanced diet.
Also your fucking joints. Wasn't eating enough veggies for a year, knees were killing me at my job. Started chowing down on broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, carrots, etc everyday for lunch. Knees felt phenomenal after a couple weeks.
The tomatillo sauce is super simple! It's just garlic, about 6-8 tomatillos, a serano or two depending on spice levels, one Anaheim pepper, a sweet yellow onion, and some cilantro. Mix with a little chicken broth and BOOM a green spicy sauce good for any occasion
Hell yeah. Thank Glob for HEB, I remember trying to put together decent veggie-forward dishes back in the days of Randall’s and that was a real shitshow.
One of my favourite dishes that i made for myself were cannelloni, but i don’t remember what i used for stuffing :(
All i remember is cheese and zucchini, possibly. No meat. Recipe lost in depths of my own mind ;-;
I shared the recipe with my friend and she saved it!
Stuffing was made with zucchini, red bell pepper, mushrooms and red onion all diced and some cheese added. Between cannellini’s i layered zucchini cut in circles. All poured in light cream or sour cream and sprinkled with cheese, then baked. Serve with sour cream (greek yogurt as alternative) (i love dairy)
Time to try this again, maybe i’ll add chicken to the mix for protein. Garlic also could be nice addition
The amount of dudes out there that somehow think that makes you look manlier while being pretty much like a kid that won't eat his veggies just to be a contrarian to vegans is just pathetic.
The tomatillo sauce is super simple! It's just garlic, about 6-8 tomatillos, a serano or two depending on spice levels, one Anaheim pepper, a sweet yellow onion, and some cilantro. Mix with a little chicken broth and BOOM a green spicy sauce good for any occasion
The asparagus is just pan seared with salt pepper and onion powder, and the rice pilaf comes from a box cause lazy and cheap. You bake the salmon with peppers onion and garlic for about...30-40 minutes based on the size and put the sauce on top
I just started volunteering as a firefighter and have so far been "made fun of" for: the size of my feet, having a colored phone case, and carrying things in a "purse" aka a bag.
They were out of size 9 boots. I wear a 8.5 and had to have them order either an 8 or 9 for me. I guess an 8.5 is pretty small! Like I can change the size of my feet or something
Wait they think the health effects are fake or something? I assumed basically all the people taking them know they’re bad but think they’re worth it for whatever reason.
you can take certain supplements with little to no serious side effects with proper dosages and lifestyles but I sure as shit wouldn't trust a roid bro on what ones and what dosages to take lol
people really underestimate how many steroids there are in sports nowadays.
they really think after all the Barry Bonds/Mark Mcgwire fallout in the 2000's that the use of them just disappeared except for the random gas station boner pill or ringworm cure.
in reality tho just about every professional athlete in the world is on some cycle that has been made up for them individually by doctors that will get them as buff or healed up as they need to be without making their hearts explode in their mid 40's like basicaily every 80's wrestler not named ric flair.
Yea bad example. The doses those people took were insane. Most of the people that juice you don't even notice because of how skewed our perception is by the outliers (if you saw that Clavicular guy in the streets you'd never guess that he's been on for years).
Your most common side effects would be hair loss and faster aging (mostly of the skin) not that dissimilar from somebody born with really high testosterone. California right now offers you trt like candy, the chance of serious medical complications is in the 100ks.
Who's talking about competing? I just want to build some mussels, not go on olympia stage. And process of "wow, my body actually can do that just by lifting, sleeping and eating protein? why I didn't start 10 years ago" is the best part!
Scarily AI is actually has very common use in tech circles for looking up technical answers or writing/checking syntax. I can assure you those people are not taking steroids.
Just look at how stackoverflow visitor numbers have gone down since chatgpt use has increased (this was previously the home of all obscure tech answers).
It's the people that sing it praises, act like it's alive and infallible while having zero clue how it works that you should worry about
Programmer here. We use it for way more than just a better google.
There are tools now that you can run inside your code editor, just give it a task and it will do the research, design, and implementation with minimal guidance. It's often a poor result, but when it works, it's magic.
Yeah I'm a systems engineer and we mostly just use it the way I described above. Like you say often a poor result, or a misunderstanding, or a ridiculous tangent but can be magic and a goodish sounding board.
You should also tell the other guy who thinks I just made this up because the term "vibe coding" exists lmao.
You literally only have to look at /r/aiwars find people who talks like this lol. Ain't a strawman they exist in droves. Some are even here already misinterpreting the post.
Ive actually had people in my small home town stop and ask if I need a ride because they couldn't imagine someone biking for fun. They thought my car broke down.
Yes, doctors recommend everyone keep an emergency bicycle in their rectum or urethra for this very reason. What they don’t want you to know though, is that you can also store it in your umbilicus!
I feel some of that hate is jealousy, but there’s also the superiority people “Look at them walk, hah!, bet they wish they had a car like me” and never even consider that person may prefer the walk
If I see someone walking on the highway like I often do it's natural to assume they have no choice or are way too trusting of someone to not run them over
I’ve never heard that one but… you can always just not make a wish? Genies don’t exactly have a time limit, at least from what I know, the phrase doesn’t exactly indicate any sort of rush, but it feels like it’s trying to?
Aladdin was able to be with the genie for like the whole movie (several days in-universe iirc) what is this trying to say
In the original myths, Genies don't just do whatever the hell you ask them, they're just doing the person who freed them a favour in exchange for being freed - you have to actively trick them into getting back into the bottle, because otherwise they're free to do whatever they want going forward... and the Djinn probably didn't get imprisoned for being such a nice guy.
I’ve never heard that one but… you can always just not make a wish? Genies don’t exactly have a time limit
The metaphor indicates that something is difficult to reverse. For example, in 1999, the internet genie was out of the bottle in the sense that there was no practical way to reverse its growth.
There were plenty of people who didn't use the internet in 1999, but the utility and ease of use combined to ensure that those who did use it would almost certainly keep doing so, and more would join every year.
And now here we are, cursed with social media. ;-)
AI bros are the type of motherfuckers who believe they can trick the genie into fulfilling their every wish and there's no way the thing they want will backfire on them, because they're so clever and cool and everyone wants to be their friend and surely nothing will exploit them.
Forgetting, of course, that you only get three wishes from the genie at best, and at worst, you cannot control it and the genie makes a righteous mess of the surrounding area.
There's probably guys out there talking about how they've crafted the perfect Subway order and that's why their sandwiches are so much better than most people.
It’s really frustrating to me what AI gets used for, because machine learning is an incredible technology worth developing. You can use it detect tumors (as funny as the ruler incident was), find flaws in carbon fiber layups, and process datasets too large for humans. But instead we just use them for chatbots that cause psychosis and plagiarism machines…
We do use it for those things, most money being put into AI is being used for banking, retail, agriculture, medical, research…. But most people only know it as ChatGPT, Claude, or Midjourney.
Machine learning is super cool, it’s just also being used by the worse of the worse right now to do terrible things, even if there are also really cool and amazing things being done with it.
Even for the industries you are describing, millions are being wasted. For some reason, execs are trying to force the usage of LLMs for purposes that make no sense. I've seen this firsthand in medical research and finance.
Because the heads of AI companies have been saying that AGI is just around the corner since GPT 4. And AGI means you don't need people anymore and can be "productive" 24/7 as long as energy demand keeps up. A capitalists wet dream basically. These companies don't wanna miss out. So they're using LLMs in the dumbest ways possible just so they can be on the train if it arrives and be ahead of the curve. Which might never happen, who knows.
I think way too much focus gets placed on the bottom-tier user tbh.
AI does do great things, and it will only improve. (The cost might not be worth it, but that's a separate issue from what AI does for the purposes of this kind of conversation.) It's just a 'tool' that's accessible to everyone, and- Well. There's a reason why Jake Paul is (or was) one of the biggest names, and it's not because everyone is smart.
You have to keep in mind that the reason why AI art is so prevalent is because most of these people have never had a real creative outlet before in their life. That it's all so shit/identical is irrelevant, because while it's the worst trash to us, it feels deeply personal to them. We see this shit everywhere because everybody wants to share something special to themselves with others. They get so defensive because, to them, it feels like a personal attack
yup. great post. a lot of reddits criticism is along the line of cringe "photography is cheating"-level of thought, i've also have never seen anyone call themselves an "ai artist" or claim what they do is on the same level as drawing or so, then again i also don't hang out on twitter. most people are just happy to have an outlet to visualize and share their ideas without the need for a team or budget.
instead we get the 100th soapbox comic how "ai bad" with the same tired strawmen.
The only time I've ever seen someone unironically insert themselves as an artist who is on the same tier as real artists is through Reddit posts of twitter interactions. It's really the same baseless argument with AI in education, the lowest percentile students who were already failing/cheating anyway are copy pasting AI outputs and submitting that for assignments. Suddenly everyone who uses AI for feedback, help with formatting, research, etc is lumped in with the strawman level examples. My university seems to be slowly adjusting, when I first enrolled in 2024 it was 100% no AI whatsoever, now there's an entire banner that says "Use THIS for fast AI feedback on your assessments!".
The world is changing with AI, and while it's extremely important to factor in the negative aspects, you can't focus on them. We'd never move forward with this line of thinking. Cars are dangerous and can easily kill people, nothing is stopping someone from getting behind the wheel intoxicated or just driving with the intent to hit someone, therefore we should ban all cars purely because a small percentage of users do the wrong thing. We can embrace AI and be excited for how it shapes the future WHILE criticising EVERYONE who uses it negatively. But this is Reddit, nuance doesn't exist, you're either with me or against me and if you're against me you're literally Hitler.
I really like your comment, it explained my thoughts better than I can. I like it so much I'd like to award it, but reddit awards are stupid so I donated to the Trevor Project in your name.
We do need a reset on the AI stuff. We need to readjust expectations and create regulations for what kind of data AI can collect and use.
It's a fantastic tool, but there's literally no oversight and no one capable of understanding the extent of the data it's collecting. And we need more time to learn how to combat the spread of misinformation and propaganda through the use of AI. Which needs to happen on the national level, the amount of propaganda that is thrown at us is beyond what any individual can manage to check.
Somewhere in the next 5 years, AI is going to crash. It'll still be around, because it is an insanely useful tool, but I think the future is a far more specialized and limited version than what we're seeing with GenAI. In stead of ChatGPT, we'll have ResearchGPT or MedicalGPT and AstronomyGPT. Limiting the scope of what they are used for and the data they process will give far better results.
My university seems to be slowly adjusting, when I first enrolled in 2024 it was 100% no AI whatsoever, now there's an entire banner that says "Use THIS for fast AI feedback on your assessments!".
But is that because your school realized the value that AI can bring? Or is it because many AI companies are pouring millions of dollars into making deals with schools to promote their products?
Wrote my capstone thesis on the risks and benefits of GenAI in higher education (written with AI assistance, with rigorous documentation of methodology to serve as demonstration of how the technology can be used to aid study without sacrificing academic integrity or compromising course objectives).
This is exactly what I was concerned about and hoped to warn against.
One of my key points was that admin MUST prioritize professor input, trusting them to best understand effective course design. They MUST fund further research in this area before making uninformed commitments. And that AI ought to be permitted tentatively and under close scrutiny until educators had more training to understand the technology and how it can enhance and harm the learning experience.
I saw incredible potential but argued that it could ONLY be realized by proceeding thoughtfully and with caution.
I pointed to past institutional failures where administrative bureaucracy bought into marketing hype or worse, accepted what could justifiably be framed as university bribes to integrate third party platforms without proper vetting.
Don't get me wrong, the misuse of AI in education is a symptom of much larger pedagogical failure and ongoing deterioration of academic institutions.
But as someone who's as pro-AI as they come and recognizes its incredible potential, good and bad, it makes me want to SCREAM.
It should never have been this public thing. AI research is fine and all, but we don't need a capitalistic ressource wasting Chattie that sells everyones data.
The fact that language models are "good" at generic tasks was unexpected. So was the sheer popularity of the chatbot application.
We're still solidly in the tech development phase of "try random things and see if it sticks". We don't have a clear idea of what the technology is actually useful for yet.
I know automation testing in transportation design is making heavy use of ai. It'll help find more weak links in coverage that systems engineers miss. I dread anyone say to return to manual testing only.
That last panel is quite accurate though. AI artists (heavy quotes left as an exercise for the reader) don't do art for the process. They want to arrive at a result. Real artists often do it for the process or for a different result (artistic expression vs. a pretty picture).
The runner and driver have fundamentally different goals they are trying to achieve. Nobody goes running to get somewhere unless they also want the exercise out of that. Nobody drives a car to get fit.
One big problem that artists (and many in this or e.g. the tumblr communities) have, is the idea that everyone is engaging with art for the same reason they do. But AI bros simply aren't. If you just want a picture and don't care about the process, the skill, the thought and love that goes into a piece, you can use AI and get a roughly passable result in seconds. And many people who love are can't imagine a person who genuinely doesn't care about art like they do.
I'm kind of assuming you mean that AI artists do not care for artistic expression and just want a pretty picture. Now... I'm not using AI for art, so I can't comment on that use case specifically. But I can easily imagine creating AI art for artistic expression. Expression is what happens in a painter's mind, not their hand. The hand is all process. So an AI artist can hardly care about the artistic process, at least not those of conventional art. But... is it so hard to imagine that in generating an image of a thing they envisioned, they're satisfying their need for artistic expression? Yes, the process is different, and while more technical than artistic, not per se unenjoyable. But ultimately what they're doing as far as expression goes, is the same. I think neither technical ability nor effort nor objective quality of the result are ultimately material for whether you achieved self expression, in fact I'd find those restrictions horrifyingly patronizing. Hell, if I could get fit without the struggle, I'd do so in a heartbeat. Saves mental resources for efforts where I care about the process.
Yes, this right here. I've genuinely never encountered one of these fabled people who insist they're an artist because they can prompt chat GPT, but I've met plenty of people who genuinely don't enjoy the process of drawing but would like some mediocre quality digital art to benefit their other hobbies.
Meanwhile, I've encountered countless artists who cannot fathom the inability to enjoy the process of drawing. They are incapable of understanding the world from a viewpoint that is not their own.
I like burgers but I don't like grilling. But people don't seem to mind me buying already made burgers and no one tells me to pick up a turner and do it myself.
There is a Chinese restaurant down the road from my house that I go to every once in a while. Anytime I go there I add to my order a large fried rice that I save for another night. Later in the week I will pull that out and refry it with sesame oil, a fried egg, and some sautéed veggies, and sometimes I bring that in to work the next day as leftovers for lunch. Anytime a coworker has asked what I had my answer has never been “I made fried rice” it’s always “fried rice from the Chinese restaurant down the road that I added a few things to”.
As someone who enjoys long walks I've had people tell me I should get a car plenty of times. I have a car, it's for long trips, right appointment schedules and rainy days.
OK but the amount of narcissists ive seen and heard from (especially family) who commit crimes or scam people or have in general just done horrible things that have given "i was born without the ability to work" as a reason for their shifty behavior is to damn high
I mean, I agree, but the one with the thief complaining he was "born without the ability to work" veers dangerously close to the kind of stuff my shitty conservative grandparents post about people on disability.
> “It’s not fair! I was born without the ability to work”
This one reminds me of how many AI supporters try use those of us with disabilities as a justification for using generative AI to create art. I have a disability that can give me challenges when creating art, but I still don’t use AI.
It's infuriating as I have several friends who work in comics who are disabled, and illustration is one of the few options they have to earn a living...but because they were published artists their work and style was stolen to help train new AI models.
I'm tired of it too, as a disabled person who relies on AI as an assistive aid and supports AI generally. We exist, and you can't speak for me any more than I can speak for you.
That’s not really the point I took from image 3, I think its meant to comment on the people that say they weren’t “born able to draw” or weren’t “born creative” (both of which I’ve heard numerous times) and is total BS. Not necessarily a comment on disabled people not being able to work. But it isn’t the best analogy of the group thats for sure.
And disabled people have to currently live in a system that is poised against them. Don’t make it seem like this would be an easy or quick transition to your hypothetical utopia, when people are actively suffering today.
The steroids things already happened though, decades before AI. There haven't been any competitive body builders who aren't on steroids for decades now.
the real irony is that by posting these here OP gave Reddit a license to use these comics to train AI
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Reddit sells all of the content submitted to it to OpenAI and Meta
I've seen people genuinely say some form of each of these statements.
Except I've not seen people talk about "simulating" a soccer match but there are productivity nuts out there who will watch everything at 2x speed, or find a summary on YouTube and act like they watched the movie so I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same with sports.
I feel like some people who are pro-AI are not necessarily malicious. They just don’t understand the human emotions behind art because they’re so logic-oriented. They listen to the mind without listening to the heart. Thankfully, like the Grinch, it’s possible for hearts to grow three sizes.
It also really depends on what they consider "art". I'm anti-ai art in all forms but a lot of people don't consider a lot of art/design as "real art" and so it doesn't matter to them if an AI does it or not.
Like "big tech corporate art". Someone made it but it's the some most made by a committee art out there. It feels utterly soulless.
I disagree but understand there is an argument that it doesn't matter if an AI makes more of it following guidelines instead of having a person following the same strict guidelines where the human making the art has zero meaningful artistic control or choices.
The only thing I don’t understand is the Art aspect. Every argument that could be used for art can be used for any other use case as well. Take coding assistants for example. Copilot was trained on the code of other people, often without their explicit consent, and can be used to replace people who write code.
But the outrage is over art, not coding. Look at steam, for example. Any game that uses AI art assets in a game has to disclose and faces a massive public backlash. Using AI coding assistants in the development of the game? Completely normal and to be expected.
I don’t really want AI to diminish anyone’s profession but I think the focus is on art because the value of art is only quantifiable in human terms. Art only has value because people and their perspectives have value, unless we’re talking about art as a commodity or advertisement. It’s that AI is so antithetical to the act of creation that it gets so much flack.
Literally just heard Ed Zitron bring this up. "This is very real and we have to embrace it" is something people don't tend to say if something is obviously real and useful.
Funny... I know famous sculptors who do exactly that. Order the work done from a stoneworker, sign it and ship it to the museum. The only thing required to be a contemporary artist is the concept in your head.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 06 '26
The amount of dudes that I know that use and SWEAR it's ok for you overlaps with the dudes I know that use AI almost 100% funny enough.