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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The whiplash between apparent anti-fascism and purity politics on this site is wild.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 1 points 57 minutes ago

Right? Purity politics. I'm not sure what to make of it. I believe it's mostly driven by profit. I haven't read anything about anyone actually driving this as a general strategy. It makes little sense except for general disruption of social cohesion and it feels too spontaneous.

I believe it started with climate / science denialism and fascism, things that you cannot tolerate because they lead to intolerance. Things where the emotional abuse eventually got too much and people just categorically rejected anyone from the other camp. But this has been massively expanded now. Veganism, cars, vaccinations, conspiracy theories, diplomacy, AI.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It’s a poison pill. We can say we want to turn it off to check to see if anyone can still think, but they’re inventing it to turn us all into mindless dolts, so, turning it off kind of defeats their purposes.

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

As a software engineer, please do.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I've actively started doing tickets manually again. Just reviewing is exhausting, and yes, in part because I'm overwhelmed by what I don't understand. I'm somewhat new in our codebase and letting AI do all the work means I'll never get to know it in depth. That means I'm not meeting the productivity goals managers have already adopted, though. :/

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 7 points 12 hours ago

Or forever.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 13 hours ago

My sibling has learned incompetence from AI. They show off the things they had AI make and how they never could have done that themselves when they are things they know how to do themselves (make simple graphics and presentations), and would take much less time than they say they spent refining the prompts.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 10 points 15 hours ago

Please turn it off.. I am currently dealing with a ~~bunch of fu~~ well meaning but intellectually challenged individuals at an IT team who just reimaged a machine running the master database for one of their sites based on what a chatbot told them.

Now what concerns me most is that this site operates critical life saving equipment. While our software isn't too important, some minimum wage workers are about to have a very high stress weekend is about the worst that will happen and then early next week it should be back to normal. But the same IT team has access to the life saving equipment as well.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 15 hours ago

We should turn off AI.

[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 4 points 14 hours ago

It happened yesterday for about an hour

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 8 points 17 hours ago

Can you also turn off LLM generated websites for that week? If so, deal.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago

The CEO's brains are definitely broken. The rest of us? Mostly fine.

[–] MadBits@europe.pub 4 points 17 hours ago

I wish. I would be forced to write some code again and actually get back what I enjoyed to do.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I'm afraid you'll find that for some people they don't - just like they didn't work before AI.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

They weren't using their brains before ai, what made you think they would now?

Are YOU using your brain right now?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Implying brains worked before AI lol

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