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Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI

11•daringrain32781•1d ago
I ask questions to co workers about a system or why they do something or their opinion. Some of them return a very clearly AI response, sometimes completely missing the point. What’s the point? If I wanted an AI response I’d have asked it myself.

This bothers me a bit because if I can expect this kind of response, what does that say about the thought they put into their work, even if they’re using AI for everything coding related?

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cyanydeez•1d ago
The USA is also building concentration camps.

Sometimes people refuse to acknowledge humanity.

tacostakohashi•3h ago
Sometimes it seems that the primary "benefit" / use case for AI is that people can use it, and if it outputs something useful then they look like they are AI early adopters, geniuses, etc, and if it outputs something dumb, then it's not their fault, it's the AI.

Either way, they get the upside, and apparently now it's your job to sort the AI slop from the reality, for some reason.

A few times, I have pointed out to people that their AI slop is wrong, and they said "yeah, it's wrong sometimes, but humans are also wrong sometimes, so it's no better/worse". It's the same logic as self-driving cars that kill people being fine, because after human-driven cars also kill people. It's true, but that's a _problem_....

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