Gen AI and big tech makes me dread the future.
2026-05-13 13:55 UTC
Replies (8)
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@disregardable@lemmy.zip 2026-05-13 14:06
Do you think that the desire for human driven creativity, the desire to hold a physical book in your hand, or a physical paint brush, or to hang with your friends outside without cellphones will persist despite all the rubbish? Yeah dude, it’s not like every artistic person died. There are still people out there making movies on literal film.
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@getFrog@piefed.social 2026-05-13 14:23
Does anyone have any thoughts that may somewhat help me feel less dread? A lot of people feel the exact same way, but are just too burned out at this point to say anything. The AI sycophants just scream the loudest atm, doesn’t mean that they’re holding the popular position. So you definitely aren’t alone and will always have plenty of options to hang out with people who aren’t brainwashed by that stupid thing.
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@aceshigh@lemmy.world 2026-05-13 14:43
Spend less time online and you’ll find the support you’re looking for. I’ve always found ways to up my game with new tech, ai included. Tech is the spice to my meal, not the meal itself.
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@iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2026-05-13 15:20
A lot of things make me dread the future, but I can only change the here and now. Doing everything I can with as little AI as possible or none at all, being creative and holding on to my humanity despite the outside pressure to become dependent on this bullshit, it keeps me sane that at least I’m not letting myself be ruined by offloading my skills and thinking to a machine that can only fake them.
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@kibiz0r@midwest.social 2026-05-14 01:22
Well, for one thing, among the general public, AI is less popular than ICE. And the economics of AI don’t add up, so it can’t last forever. And everything that can’t last forever eventually stops. I’m not gonna pretend everything is guaranteed to be fine, but I feel like we genuinely have a lot on our side.
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@wickedrando@lemmy.ml 2026-05-14 04:09
you can still do all those things
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@floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-14 08:00
youraislopbores.me helps me a little bit to remember the internet is made for humans to be silly
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@glibg@lemmy.ca 2026-05-14 04:26
Find a niche in the natural sciences that you enjoy - bugs for example - then spend more time outside learning about it. We all spend way too much time on our phones. The whole world is out there!