Everyone's convinced their thing is special, but everyone else's is a done deal.
Meanwhile the only task where current AI seems truly competitive is porn.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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I'd suggest that if you think AI porn is anywhere near the real thing, that's probably because you think porn is already slop in the same way that these AI bros think of code or creative writing or whatever other information-based thing you already know AI can't do well.
Porn isn't slop, people aren't just interestingly-shaped slabs of meat. Sex is fundamentally about interpersonal connection. It might be one of the things that LLMs and robots are the worst at.
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AI is really good at creating images of Jesus that boomers say βamenβ to.
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False. Porn is sexy, and I can't possibly be aroused by an image of a woman spreading her cheeks when her fingers are attached to her arse with a continuous piece of flesh, giving her skin the same topography as a teapot.
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I work in QA, even devs who've worked for 10+ years make dumb mistakes every so often. I wouldn't want to do QA when AI is writing the software, it's just gonna give me even more work π«
I'm a senior developer and I sometimes even look back thinking "how the fuck did I make that mistake yesterday". I know I'm blind to my own mistakes, so I know testers may have some really valid feedback when I think I did everything right :)
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Definitely bait
AI also isn't close to replacing other industries. They are both wrong.
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it's funny that some people think programming has a human element that can't be replaced but art doesn't.
Art doesn't have to fulfill a practical purpose nor does it usually have security vulnerabilities. Not taking a position on the substance, but these are two major differences between the two.
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I take issue with the "replacing other industries" part.
I know that this is an unpopular opinion among programmers but all professions have roles that range from small skills sets and little cognitive abilities to large skill sets and high level cognitive abilities.
Generative AI is an incremental improvement in automation. In my industry it might make someone 10% more productive. For any role where it could make someone 20% more productive that role could have been made more efficient in some other way, be it training, templates, simple conversion scripts, whatever.
Basically, if someone's job can be replaced by AI then they weren't really producing any value in the first place.
Of course, this means that in a firm with 100 staff, you could get the same output with 91 staff plus Gen AI. So yeah in that context 9 people might be replaced by AI, but that doesn't tend to be how things go in practice.
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I once asked chatGPT to write a simple RK2 algorithm in python. The function couldve been about 3 lines followed by a return statement. It gave me some convoluted code that was 3 functions and about 20 lines. AI still has some time to go before its can handle writing code on its own. Ive asked copilot/chatGPT several times to write code (just for fun) and it always does this
Thank you for your opinion.
Anyway.