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Joinfortmill

(21,751 posts)
Sat May 30, 2026, 08:50 AM 4 hrs ago

About AI

I had my TV on while I was making my morning coffee and some dude was talking about the health benefits of exercise and nutrition. When I sat down and began watching, it was clear pretty quickly that this was AI. So, I listened to the AI dude for a while and, because I'm an old gal, I knew at least some of what he said was true.

My thoughts on this are just to label it AI and let watchers make up their own minds.

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About AI (Original Post) Joinfortmill 4 hrs ago OP
Generative AI is always unethical because of the way the AI tools were trained on stolen intellectual highplainsdem 1 hr ago #1
Again... WarGamer 1 hr ago #3
man you're adorable WhiskeyGrinder 46 min ago #4
AI is sophisticated BRAINWASHING some_of_us_are_sane 1 hr ago #2
I trust and like AI much more than the old Google gulliver 17 min ago #5

highplainsdem

(63,273 posts)
1. Generative AI is always unethical because of the way the AI tools were trained on stolen intellectual
Sat May 30, 2026, 11:13 AM
1 hr ago

property. Labeling it AI doesn't changed that.

It allows wannabe creatives and content producers with no real talent or expertise to produce fraudulent and sometimes dangerous content that will fool a lot of people, which is why YouTube is flooded with so much AI crap including medical advice from foreign content farms.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220865373

Generative AI is mostly good for enabling fraud and scams of all types.

WarGamer

(18,879 posts)
3. Again...
Sat May 30, 2026, 11:40 AM
1 hr ago

By YOUR definition... any human being at school is also using stolen IP

AI accesses publicly available data to "learn".

The difference is, AI maintains a database incorporating decades of international medical journals while a human learns from a handful.

As one who was recently in the hospital for a few days... I caught several Doctors being unaware of things I spotted using AI. When I met with the GI Specialist later he acknowledged that most Doctors away from GI field just don't know...

But hey! The Scribes Union Local 444 was mightily upset about the printing press too! And don't forget the Horse Drawn Buggy Mechanics Union...

some_of_us_are_sane

(3,716 posts)
2. AI is sophisticated BRAINWASHING
Sat May 30, 2026, 11:22 AM
1 hr ago
i think it's extremely DANGEROUS. We now have and entire generation who are GLUED to phones. No discernment, no guard rails.

gulliver

(14,103 posts)
5. I trust and like AI much more than the old Google
Sat May 30, 2026, 12:35 PM
17 min ago

The trouble with the old Google was that people who have only shallow knowledge and are prone to run with their feelings are easily misled into rabbit holes by old-fashioned Google queries. The queries inevitably turn up some cray cray stuff intended to sell ads or recruit and hook the "cult think" prone.

AI tries to keep people from thinking dumb or crazy things. That's a huge benefit. It's just in time.

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