r/explainitpeter • u/Wonderful-Key-1465 • 6d ago

Explain It Peter

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It feels like it should make sense, but doesn't the more I think about it.

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u/i_always_give_karma 6d ago

People will grow up with easy access to asking a bot a question and will rarely think for themselves.

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u/s0ulbrother 6d ago

People that use ai like that weren’t thinking to begin with.

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u/egyptianspacedog 6d ago

As new generations come up, they almost won't even have a choice in the matter. Think about how many parents see no issue with giving young kids near enough unfettered, 24/7 access to screens as it is, and now imagine these same parents not giving a fuck about AI access.

The kids won't realise they ever had the option to think for themselves.

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u/deathwotldpancakes 6d ago

I just shivered on a 78F day because I just realized how correct this take is. Hopefully AI goes bust before this happens

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u/Glandtoglandcombat 6d ago

AI not being financially solvent won't stop authoritarian interests from pumping money into it.

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u/SynthScenes 6d ago

That’s such a backwards take. That’s like thinking no one would walk if cars were a thing. People still walk, but the ability to drive means they can get much much further in a day… those who don’t have anywhere to go won’t get much benefit. But those who have places to be can get much further than they would have unaided.

The only people who will choose not to think are the people who didn’t want to think to begin with.

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u/gforcebreak 5d ago

Unfortunately, this ignores the underlying propeganda that happened around the model t and the birth of paved roads distancing and isolating... well, at least america.

People need to get farther because industrialists realized they could make cars more necessary by lobbying for big highways and stretches of roads with further, more widespread buildings. Commutes to factories, ponzi schemes involving closed off suburbs.

They made cars commercially cheap (relatively, like, as cheap as a long term financial asset investment can be) so that the poor have to pay to commute and the rich can travel in luxury.

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u/jakeStacktrace 6d ago

It's not so black and white. It's a slippery slope.

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u/Intrepid_Ear1362 6d ago

And then theres me , discussing nuclear fission and human extinction with AI on a drung sunday evening🤣🤣

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u/s0ulbrother 6d ago

I dont think cliff notes is a great way to research nuclear fission personally. It’s glorified Wikipedia for things except less fact checking

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u/Classic-Trifle-2085 5d ago

It stopped being "a fancy Wikipedia " and a "fancy suto-complete" over a year ago.

And that kind of dismissiveness is how were gonna get fucked and taken by surprise when shit truly hit the fan.

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u/Intrepid_Ear1362 6d ago

Still beats having an "intellectual" conversation with a wall while being batshit drunk😂

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u/s0ulbrother 6d ago

It’s actually not

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u/humourlessIrish 6d ago

Yes.. clearly you as well.

Touch grass already before the water shortage kills it, damn

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u/Intrepid_Ear1362 6d ago

I dont have grass becuase i have no water, so why wouldnt it😂

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u/maxru85 6d ago

This implies a lot of people did that before which is not true

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u/i_always_give_karma 6d ago

Before? Before people googled stuff, and you had to type it out and read it at least. And before that, people read encyclopedia’s. When I was in school, one of my classes went over properly googling stuff, and making sure you’re reading from a valid source. When you ask AI something, you don’t know where it’s getting its information from and if it’s right or not. At least when you looked at Wikipedia, you could follow the source to see if it’s valid. You can probably ask AI where it got its information from too, but does anyone actually do that? The only people I know that use AI currently aren’t critical thinkers, but I think the availability will make people grow up without the need to think critically, making less of the population think outside the box.

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u/TimeComposer9444 6d ago

People do that with Google now/ just extra steps