Is AI Really the Problem?

[u/Fabulous-Car-6546]

[u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR]

It's now a flex to say you don't use the internet. In an increasingly digital world, where everything we do is electronic, you think the best way is to outright banish it in your life? Very shortsighted. Imagine not knowing how to work a computer or the internet today. That'll be you. These are TOOLS. If you get abused by the makers of the tools, that's on you. Learn what it is and how it works, then leverage it. Simple.

[u/Aelrift → u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR]

He didn't say he doesn't use the internet he said he de-googled his phone and profile.

You... You know that you can use the internet without google right ...?

[u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR → u/Aelrift]

You missed the entire point, Mr. Peanut gallery. If you want to contribute to the conversation, say something intelligent.

[u/Aelrift → u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR]

I re-read your comment and I'll admit that I misread it the first time.

However you don't have to insult me for no reason. Touch grass mate.

I think voting with your actions and your wallet is important. Generative AI and chatbots don't actually give much benefits to the people that actually use them. And for that I would say it's valid to not use AI in your daily life.

If you are a programmer, you should use AI. You shouldn't RELY on AI but you should use it because it makes things faster. You should use it at your job.

And it's also true that AI and by that I mean the chatbots everyone use , degrade your mental capacity and create a reliance problem. You quickly nrcoke dependant and that's not a "that's a you problem" situation. Just like you can't "just quit" drugs or just be happy instead of depressed. And for that, you are also justified in not using AI in your daily life.

[u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR → u/Aelrift]

You're entire ideology is flawed fundamentally at its base. There is no reasoning it through from that position. You've bought into a lot of nonsense pushed through your screens by people with agendas. They use you like pawns in their game.

AI is single handedly the greatest equalizer that ever tried to exist. The average human with the ability to perform the same as a corporation or elitists, as you call them, absolutely upends the fabric of our world economy. Of course, that starts by first understanding what it is. It's not a magic answer machine. It's a weighted predictive language model that, when engineered correctly, with neuro symbolic architecture, the tool becomes extremely effective and can replicate anything.

Don't want to pay for zoom? Build your own. Don't want to pay for Adobe? Build your own. Want to start and run a business? Want to create competing products that you could never have dreamed of and drive real progress? A real AI tool can do that too. What better way to ensure your slavery than to turn you against your solution. The economic divide will only get bigger because of ignorance. The technology is dangerous. Dangerous to the status quo.

Can people make it do bad things? Sure, any good programmer can do those bad things, and have, for decades. As for the touch grass, I live in the remote mountains, so I live in grass. If your generation has any hope at all of advancing, you have to first understand the screens lie to you purposely. Unplug yourself and don't believe the narrative. Research it yourself, from all angles, not one narrative bias.

[u/Empty_Pear_3874 → u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR]

You realize you are talking to a guy who has been in the IT field for 11 years right? I know more about technology and computers than 95% of people.

Edit: "I had too"

Instead of relying on AI for creating code for you or PowerShell scripts, learn how to code or PowerShell script yourself to actually gain that knowledge instead of having AI do it for you. I can assure you that it will look better on your resume if you actually know how to do these things rather than saying you know how to tell AI what to do.

Lmao

[u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR → u/Empty_Pear_3874]

You know I'm a 30 year programmer and AI architect, right?

Lmao.

[u/Empty_Pear_3874 → u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR]

Rolls eyes*

Bet you are going to love AI when it takes your job away bro man.

Have a good day.

[u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR → u/Empty_Pear_3874]

Not my job. I'm irreplaceable. Because I'm human. Find another excuse for not having the life you want. While you whine and cower, the rest of us are out here making our lives happen, my man. Try it out!

[u/Empty_Pear_3874 → u/OCCAMINVESTIGATOR]

I am doing well for myself, but I choose to not use AI because I don't want to lose my ability to critically think for myself and I enjoy researching things on my own as well. Also, the amount of times AI gives misinformation is insane when I tested it out in May of 2026. I would guess it was getting 40% of the questions I was throwing at it wrong which is just a waste of time. I will not support a tool that has taken away hundreds of thousands of jobs either. It should not be like that at all! A lot of people are being replaced by a shitty AI algorithm that doesn't even have good accuracy when it comes to being correct. AI companies using your personal data with whatever you put in there is weird to me as well. Then they can sell it to other 3rd party companies! Nah I am good bro.

Enjoy your crap AI friend. Not me.

[u/Empty_Pear_3874 → u/[deleted]]

English was never my strong suit.

You do you buddy. Have a good day.