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I asked a chatbot to write a thread about AI and mountain biking.
It did — quickly, efficiently, and probably by torching a few more kilowatts than my e-MTB ever will.
There’s a strange guilt in that: outsourcing creativity to the same system that’s quietly cooking the planet.
We used to just erode trails; now we melt glaciers for the privilege of sounding clever online.
The AI said something about “progress” and “optimisation.” I think it meant well.
Maybe this is the real full-suspension experience — moral and mechanical dampening working in perfect harmony.
Anyway, the forest might outlive us, though at the current rate of deforestation and “technological progress,” I wouldn’t bet on it.
Ride safe, type less.
So, you used ai to produce something that you haven’t shared and feel guilty about doing it?
why did you do that? Or why did you tell people that you did that?
No that OP was the AI post and thread title. Something that was said in the 'dobbed up a drunk driver' thread to cause me to experiment with ChatGPT with the goal of creating a controversial thread to cause division and extended debate and argument 😆
I think it failed 🤣
I tried to guide it along, getting it to tweak the things it said, so maybe it was my interventions that killed the thread dead. The stuff it came up with originally was far too obvious and caricatured. And is still carrying those hallmarks. I tried to get it to be meta and nihilistic.
But anyway, quite happy to watch this thread sink slowly into obscurity, won't be repeating it.
Hmmm, not sure of the point of the OP other than to prove a point that AI in the way it's being presented to the public is just a gimmick. I want the AI bubble to pop sooner rather than later, but fear that too many organisations have blindly followed and a mother of all recessions comes along with it. I have no sympathy with these companies, but get vexxed that their greed potentially punishes all of us.
And yep, stop using it to generate mindless pish.
AI is a broad (and crap) catch all for lots of things, of varying degrees of cleverness and usefullness.
AI is brilliant at what it does well, but "the media" and senior management in many companies just get impressed by shiny pictures of themselves riding lions and other such nonsense.
Its a tool, and as with any tool you need to udnerstand where its getting its answers from, what its limitaitions and biases might be.
Its fantastic at assisting with entry level coding task, finding errors and developing improvements. But code is very binary. It works or it doesnt, and there isnt really any room for it to go wrong. When your AI goes off to look up the answer, its going to find an answer and not an opinion.
AI art i a tough one. Books, its downright plagierism, but i think what it actually produces is unreadable waffle.
Images, are the nice to look at? still a bit of an uncanny valley in most cases.
Bringing me round to Music. I would love toknow how much "AI" went into this, and how much human effort went into it, because it slaps.
As someone who has an art degree and used to enjoy painting, and also someone who's worked in design, I find AI art tends toward an aesthetic which I dislike, there's always tells that identify where it's come from. I'm glad that's the case though, and hope the tells will remain. There's that meme "AI was supposed to do the boring jobs to leave us to be creative, but unfortunately, AI is doing the creative jobs leaving us to do the tedious mundane".
I'm not sure about AI music, I'm not confident about identifying it, I don't know what to listen out for as tells like I do with visual work. I don't want to listen to AI music even though I'm a lifelong enthusiast for electronic music, and AI might be seen as a progression. I find the thought of AI produced music off-putting. I don't trust it.
That's coming from someone who has countless albums produced by algorithms! However, they were algorithms crafted and developed over time by humans using their creativity.
Hmmm, not sure of the point of the OP other than to prove a point that AI in the way it's being presented to the public is just a gimmick. I want the AI bubble to pop sooner rather than later, but fear that too many organisations have blindly followed and a mother of all recessions comes along with it. I have no sympathy with these companies, but get vexxed that their greed potentially punishes all of us.
Having this conversation with a friend at the moment about the amount of AI-crap that their manager keeps coming up with. Sadly, the place I work at is also big on pushing the "benefits" of Copilot. It's going to get to a point where a chatbot writes an email, sends it and at the other end someone says "AI, sum up this email and write a response" and before you know it, you've basically got 2 chatbots exchanging notes with each other and minimal human input or critical thinking.
No-one listens in online meetings any more, they just assume that Copilot will record it all in a couple of paragraphs. No-one reads technical info any more, they just get Copilot to give a summary.
Total gimmick (at least, it is in that context, I'll admit it's quite handy at things like image recognition and coding).
I used AI knowingly (ChatGTP), for the first time last week. I got it to write my annual P&DR for me. It was bloody brilliant! I don't feel an ounce of regret for saving myself a day of self reflective angst with a side salad of imposter syndrome. Sorry about the climate, but I'll be doing the same thing next year.
AI is also good at is updating CVs. I couldn't sell myself if my life depended on it, but I gave my CV to ChatGPT and it made me sound like a solid professional. Only downside is that makes the imposter syndrome even stronger.
You lost me at P&DR.
You lost me at P&DR.
I've never heard that before either but 30 years of tedious office work is forcing me to make a guess...
Performance and Development Review???
I used AI knowingly (ChatGTP), for the first time last week. I got it to write my annual P&DR for me. It was bloody brilliant! I
I'd guess at Performance and Development Review as well.
Related to that - where I work has some of those nauseating corporate fluff "values" that every employee is supposed to embody, live by etc. One of them is something to do with how we bring "the human touch" to everything we do.
As part of our Performance Review stuff, we have to write about how we live by these values in our work. A colleague wrote his using AI. The absolute irony of getting AI to write about how he will show humanity and bring the human connection to his work seemed to be lost on him. But he's only young, he probably wrote half his uni stuff using AI. 🙄
There's that meme "AI was supposed to do the boring jobs to leave us to be creative, but unfortunately, AI is doing the creative jobs leaving us to do the tedious mundane".
Yup. I wonder how much 'creative theft' will increase, and what about the millions that don't want more leisure time,or happen to enjoy mundane work/jobs as a means to an end.
as someone who's worked in design, I find AI art tends toward an aesthetic which I dislike, there's always tells that identify where it's come from.
Absolutely, I subscribe to a few custom motorcycle forums, and the occasional AI designs posted are really annoying.
AI ,bringing dull lives to the masses 😉 🤣
Yep, Performance & Development Review. An annual wheeze cooked up by the university's HR department to justify their existence.
ChapGTP became my new best friend when I realised I could feed it each review statement and steer it with reference to the stuff I do in the lab.
A job that normally takes me a couple of days, turned into a few minutes editing to make it more personal. My boss said it was the best I'd ever submitted and was gobsmacked when I told him who actually did it
One of the schools who send DofE kids to camp in my field asked for a copy of my risk assessment the other day. Cue 2 minutes of panic at the thought of an evening of tedious paperwork (I have written a few RAs in the past). Then I had a light bulb moment and asked chatgpt to right a RA for a small farm campsite by a stream and 30 seconds later there it was. Almost exactly what I would have written myself without any of the typing. A few minor changes and off it went to the school who asked for it.