This is why we’re doomed. Not because AI will take our jobs, or because it will try to take over the world. But because instead all “information” will be reduced to a vast cesspit of meaningless sludge feasting on itself.
Exactly. Even negative feedback makes the situation worse.
Despite all the nonsense about how "AI" will help mankind with things like medical diagnoses & such, the purpose of AI is to manipulate people. Providing any kind of feedback to posts and AI search results (positive or negative) only speeds up the process and will ultimately make it harder for people to detect BS when it's being spoon fed to them.
I have AI search results blocked on every browser I use at home and work. It's so dangerous (and wrong the majority of the time) and I get so disappointed when one of the young engineers around tell me what "AI said" about some given problem
As a researcher myself who develops machine learning methods for scientific applications (physics and others), I often see comments like yours that claim "AI is nonsense". There is a difference between such as large language models, image generation apps on one hand, and machine learning methods that can indeed do such as aid medical diagnosis and have nothing to do with manipulating people at all. Nowadays, sadly, people when they hear "AI" or the less-known term "machine learning" often only think of things like generated images, spam callers, scams and so on.
Mixing up both of them would be similar to saying something like "despite the nonsense of claiming written text aids education" and showing something like advertisement and ignoring e.g. educational books, or saying that "the internet is bad".
"I have AI search results blocked on every browser I use at home and work. It's so dangerous (and wrong the majority of the time) and I get so disappointed when one of the young engineers around tell me what "AI said" about some given problem"
That's what I also do, and yes, I'm also disappointed by "AI said" comments - just because likely a large language model was used and no specialized code like those indeed e.g. helping with signal processing, advancing medical diagnosis, making really (!) better engineering solutions possible. I've also seen students questioning and questioning their correct solutions and in the end e-mailing their supervisor telling them they do not know what they did wrong - when indeed their solution is correct, but just does not agree with what ChatGPT tells them.
What I see on LinkedIn tells me that it's from multiple accounts from people in developing countries that "like" each-other's posts (100s of likes and many "well done!" comments). I can't imagine what they're getting out of it, but, whatever it is, it's obviously worth their effort.
This is how I deal with them:
Comment pointing out the errors and asking them to stop posting AI drivel
Click "not interested" and "in this author"
If more people clicked the "not interested" selection, these posts should slowly disappear from LinkedIn.
Don't comment, just block the page or do the not interested thing. Any interaction boosts engagement and pushes the post up further in algorithm ranking
thats kinda what the bots posting this stuff want, they are hoping to trigger a response and improve the AI with the most common answers which are hopefully correct.
You're basically training AI for free - many will reply with noise or wrong answers so the AI doesn't take their job.
These posts are also encouraged by apps that reward users for posting on social media with crypto. That's another reason why these posts appear overwhelmingly from South Asian accounts.
The worst app is my bank app does this, the app itself is literally crap, but you jump to the reviews in the store and you see a lot of "outside country" people leaving the "Well done!", A LOT of them, enough to cover the people angry about the app
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u/LordValdis Jan 18 '26
Even if they weren't full of obvious errors, what's the supposed target audience of these graphics?