I have never encountered that bug, seems like an issue with the duck duck go not doing proper url encoding. I daily Firefox on mobile and its the best option by far with all the available extensions and of course working adblock

And oil production, manufacturing sectors, data centers, etc.

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So tell me how using a technology that can help summarize topics, create transcripts from meetings, and act like a teacher to ask questions too prevents this from happening? We need to teach people how to use the tools at hand pretending they dont exist won’t put the genie back in the bottle it will only further excasbate the problem. Yes using gen ai to write your paper for you is a terrible use case. Feeding it a research paper and asking it to break it down into simpler topics so one can build their knowledge and asking for it to help with creating a bibliography on a paper so you can worry about the information at hand instead of trying to remember the syntax for the myriad of different ways one can site sources on the other hand is extremely useful and helps contribute to lifelong learners.

You want to get mad at how capitalist distort inventions into profit machines that continue to enshitify our lives so they can enrich themselves at the expense of others. Go right ahead but acting like a tool that is helpful in summarization and translation is some terrible plight on humanity is just simply put complete brain rot.

By golly you are right we should stop people from using hammers too. Think about it people can misuse them and hit their thumbs or break things. They are so detrimental to society. If people dont try and hammer in nails with their thick skulls everyone’s life’s gonna get so much easier and less busy as they stop having to go to the doctor to get stitches all the time and as a consequence they are all going to get so much more stupid.

AI is literally just a tool. Just because it might have potential to replace certain tasks doesn’t make it something else. A robot can automate a task to allow for automated production lines but just because it can replace a previous task doesn’t make it not a tool.

The point is we value people who are at the top of their specific game for a reason

Which is a fallacy in our society that we should be working to rectify. Being great at something can be valuable and helpful, but it is not the be all end all. This value argument is why you get people who get promoted to the point of their largest incompetency. Which then stiffles innovation and learning as you keep listening to the same ideas instead of learning to be critical thinkers who can vet new ideas based on the argument and research provided regardless of status from the person proposing the idea. Value should be in the idea and whether the solution can be tested and verifiable, not in the person proposing it.

When the barriers to access are removed, that’s great, but it dilutes the end game product over all.

Having more opinions, perspectives, and chances for people to interact does not dilute anything. It can make governance of that field more complicated as it means you actually need to learn to be a critical thinker who can review the research and ideas proposed but it also enriches the field by making sure their are counter arguments and different perspectives available so that ideas in that space dont become route and stale from the same tried vision and approaches.

Easier lives makes dumber people I guess? I get it, busy people can use AI to make their days less busy, but people who aren’t too busy are using it and getting dumber for it.

Making someone’s life easier doesn’t make them more dumb. Does creating handicap accessible infrastructure make people in wheelchairs dumb or does it allow them the opportunity to participate in areas that once were inaccessible. In addition, being busy or not has no correlation to how someone uses a tool or not. I can use a calculator to solve a myriad of equations, or i can use it to spell boobs regardless of whether I’m busy or not. But if you constantly shame those seaking to solve complex equations for using a calculator because some people will write boobs instead of using it to solve an equation all you do is push those who would use the tool productively away. All the while leaving those who could care less and will write boobs with it anyway around. That then leads you to a confirmation bias where only people who write boobs on calculators are the ones using them, so therefore, calculators must just make people write boobs on them. See how fucking dumb that sounds? Thats literally your whole argument here.

I’m not disallowing people from making art, but no one should or would buy it in a real world environment. I would ask, what value does it add to the world?

Why does art have to add value to world? It’s literally just a form of expression as you state below with:

Art is an expression of the artist interpreting the world.

So, how does using a tool to visualize your interpretation of the world diminish the artistic intent of expressing how an artist sees the world?

AI art is rubbish and it gives you exactly what you ask for.

So by this metric, any art which yeilds what the artist intends is actually rubbish and just not art then. Not to mention, if you have spent any time working with these tools at all, you would also know this is complete bullshit anyways. Will it make something from what you ask sure, but to get something meaningful, one needs to tweak their prompt and work around the pitfalls of the system through multiple iterations. Just because it takes less time than having to scrap multiple drawings before you settle on the version that you feel represents your expression doesn’t make it any less an expression of the world by the artist.

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