Not my text. But thought Joe here a point.

OC : https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ddt0K1tB_52/

people are fucking stupid

So my girlfriend/fiance wanted breakfast and I did a basic set. She mainly wanted French toast. I have two photos. I took one of the actual breakfast setup (kinda boring) and sent the photo to her. Whatever her phone does it "enhanced" the picture and added coffee, cake, and creamer. It literally did this as I sent the picture for her to share to her sister.

There is no cake in my house. I did not have coffee and I don't use these cups. Nor do I use cream wirh my coffee. Now my girl thinks my house is haunted.

She is tripping thinking there are ghosts. Those plates were empty. AI did this to a regular photo and my GF didn't alter anything. I have never seen this before.

It is absolutely insane to me.

I've been thinking about this a lot as someone who's been in the software space for ~10 years now. I can't tell you the amount of hours I've spent learning, troubleshooting, growing, and understanding different languages and systems because I appreciate how they work and care for their implementation. Plus, it is my day job.

So I feel strange when people say to "don't get left behind" or "you might as well everybody is doing it" because... well I can't be just a little sad that my livelihood is acutely threatened? Like, I'm not crazy for thinking that. There's some real grief that comes along with it. I take a lot of pride and joy from programming, just today I was working on some API code in Python for a work project and I really enjoyed it. Learning about the API, how it worked, and how to best implement what I need to do. Sure, could I go to a LLM and have it spit out a script for me? Maybe. But... it just sucks all the joy out of it. Even if it would be correct. Not to mention I wouldn't know the implementation well and couldn't troubleshoot issues that much.

But that's beside the point. I love programming and I'm really afraid that I won't be able to do it in the long run, at least in the way I prefer to do it. Now every Joe Smoe can create a mod for their favorite game in a moment when it used to be such a cool technical achievement to create a mod that you knew had some love and care put into it. I'd love for more people to be interested in programming but utilizing an LLM to do all that heavy-lifting is not doing that. I created a mod for one of my favorite games recently, a pretty small one that just adds an item. I loved the process of figuring it all out and how to do it. Now it's just... you press a button? Yay... Environmental and societal problems aside, that just doesn't sound fun? But I guess not everyone cares about that and they just want the content.

I'm just not sure what to do. Thankfully I've been able to avoid all the AI stuff at work/personal life but I'd hate to be pressured into forcing it into my workflow. Not sure what the point of this point is, mostly just venting I guess.

Hello, so my birthday party is coming up on the 3rd because my actual birthday was on a weekday (Sept 29!) And I wanted to have a warhammer game party at home! So, my mom sent me this image to send to my friends as an invite. Please don't be mean to her in the comments, this is the first time she has ever done this and even asked me if I disliked AI and I told her I disliked it for art and if she wanted to, we could make cards or just text them the location, date, and time and she was very understanding! She isn't pro ai so it sorta shocked me but after a talk and me thanking her for understanding she sent me a message I copied to sent to my friends.

For context this was under an ai video where a kid pulled a watermelon off a stand in grocery store and everything fell down in response. So what do you think of the general public just “not caring”

Seriously what is this argument