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FirstLight

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11. good read...

Reply to usonian (Reply #6)

Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:59 PM

Jul 2025

I fucking HATE everything about AI.... I see people using it for things that should require HUMAN common sense!

I just downloaded something to remove it from my google search, and I founf a help page to disable it (temporarily, till the next update) in Office apps...

This whole technology thing has definitely gotten out of hand. This is why Musk deleted all those Govt Jobs, he convinced Tangerine Tubby that he could AUTOMATE the whole Government... That's another reason they want to just eliminate us 'useless eaters' cuz we complain about it too loudly...

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Tell me where I can go to get away from AI. [View all] milestogo Jul 2025 OP

Outside... 2naSalit Jul 2025 #1

Ai should be illegal! SheltieLover Jul 2025 #2

I go out to my garden. Lilithschyld Jul 2025 #3

We can try to ignore it... TommyT139 Jul 2025 #4

Very good advice! NCgayguy Jul 2025 #19

I have successfully ignored it until last week when I engaged with the most recent AI app referred to as Notes, which msfiddlestix Jul 2025 #5

AI comes in many forms. Igel Jul 2025 #15

Ted Gioia says: usonian Jul 2025 #6

He's wrong about Google. udm14 turns off AI, saves beaucoup energy. nt eppur_se_muova Jul 2025 #8

good read... FirstLight Jul 2025 #11

I just did an image search and almost all the results were AI generated. usonian Jul 2025 #12

I hear ya... FirstLight Jul 2025 #13

I only make minor adjustments to photos. usonian Jul 2025 #14

Huh??? hunter Jul 2025 #23

I avoid it by choice. usonian Jul 2025 #24

Back in time. Intractable Jul 2025 #7

Profit-driven "progress" is not the same as well, progress. eppur_se_muova Jul 2025 #9

Some days, I feel the exact same way about electricity. Torchlight Jul 2025 #10

Lol until major lightening storm Tree Lady Jul 2025 #17

My great grandparent's ranch was just about as far away as you can get from civilization... hunter Jul 2025 #28

Bet she was in shape. cachukis Jul 2025 #29

By the same token, was in Madagascar some years cachukis Jul 2025 #30

Anything offline Tree Lady Jul 2025 #16

You can't get away from it. None of us can. NCgayguy Jul 2025 #18

The AI doomers count on your technological ineptitiude TheProle Jul 2025 #20

That would be me then. Point proven. I'm the fool. NCgayguy Jul 2025 #21

No offense intended. I was careful to use your own description: "I'm so technological inept" TheProle Jul 2025 #22

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Maybe the Luddites were on to something about technology. Ping Tung Jul 2025 #25

The Luddites were not actually anti technology. cachukis Jul 2025 #32

Tool ZDU Jul 2025 #26

Rule of thumb for every new new thing WSHazel Jul 2025 #27