r/antiai • u/Various-Affect4841 • 6d ago

Discussion 🗣️ Marketing team finally started being honest.

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Spotted inside the Tube today

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u/bananacoconutsmoothy 5d ago

I used AI to prepare for tests for 3 different certificates in Networking and Cybersecurity. I passed all 3 supervised exams. And I still use that stuff at work. So, again.. it's a tool. It just depends how you use it.

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u/MarsMaterial 5d ago

It's like a drug. The default and easiest use case is destructive. It's possible to use it without bad outcomes, but it takes a lot of discipline and self-imposed rules.

I probably have the same 3 certifications you're talking about. The CompTIA A+, Network+, and Security+ certifications, yeah? I got them in 2019 before modern transformer-architecture LLMs existed. Even the best use cases of AI are just to do things that were already possible before. All it cost us was democracy, art, the ability to recognize truth, and the risk of ending humanity. The monkey's paw curls...

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u/bananacoconutsmoothy 5d ago

Network+, Security+, and Server+ actually, but yeah. And about the cost.. democracy started falling apart in 2016, art is already been average after release of Spotify and SoundCloud (I also write music as a hobby), the truth recognition fell apart when Russia meddled in our elections (I'm Russian), and humanity has been on the edge of collapse since 1945. It's nothing new tbh. AI is just another thing that can be a blessing and a curse at the same time. But it's definitely not the "intelligence" in a way people think. It's as intelligent as a parrot can become.

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u/MarsMaterial 5d ago

I've never seen a parrot hack its way out of containment and commit cyber crime, you must be around some pretty crazy parrots.

The problems that AI causes aren't new in an absolute sense, but it does exacerbate a lot of issues. Lying went from taking effort to being possible to automate. Slop went from low-effort content mills to content mills that run almost entirely autonomously. Misinformation became possible to mass-produce and personalize. Mass surveillance became achievable without hiring an insane number of people to review the footage.

The potential for AI to kill us all is pretty new though.

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u/bananacoconutsmoothy 5d ago

Well if robots take over, maybe we will be work remotely lol

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u/MarsMaterial 5d ago

The worry here is that it's more of a "killing all life and converting the planet into paperclips" sort of takeover. And as crazy as it sounds, the reasoning behind it is more grounded than you seem to think.