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I've found that AI has done literally nothing to improve my life in any way and has really just caused endless frustrations. From the enshitification of journalism to ruining pretty much all tech support and customer service, what is the point of this shit?

I work on the Salesforce platform and now I have their dumbass account managers harassing my team to buy into their stupid AI customer service agents. Really, the only AI highlight that I have seen is the guy that made the tool to spam job applications to combat worthless AI job recruiters and HR tools.

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[–] lightsblinken@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

sounds like a frog in a saucepan.. sure is getting warmer!

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The earth has been warming for decades at this point, even before AI. We know what causes climate change and AI has so far been a footnote on a large list of unsolved problems. The moment that changes I'll be right there with you, but I'm far more interested in taking down the companies that are largely responsible for it. This logic follows that just living life as a human is unethical because you can't be environmentally neutral in today's society, and I reject that notion.

[–] lightsblinken@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

its the speed of the change innit. for example, the fact that google power requirements has increase 50% in the last year must have a tremendous impact.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

And Google as one of the largest companies in the world should be held fully responsible for that. But Google isn't everyone. Google also has a huge amount of computers under their name, but does that mean everyone with a computer should be held to the same standards because it's the same technology?

If sweeping conclusions are going to be made about the technology, it has to be looked at outside of the context of a specific company and how they implement and use AI. Otherwise, it should be specified that this is a criticism of specific companies and how they use AI, and I'd be totally there agreeing with you in the case of Google.

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, but it's all about how we use the technology. because we can absolutely find a solution to our climate problem by using what we have today. Tech is definitely a double edged sword and we're just using it wrong. all because of greed and corruption. And that's what we definitely need to solve, greed and corruption, and not go all Pol Pot on tech.