AI usage and skepticism

did:plc:hbv5brzxnr6uuelbwpckbyvq · 2026-01-20T06:55:48.230Z

My first move to improve my metacognition was generally to go back, fill the gaps, n (try to) build deep domain specific expertise. But with how general my interactions with AI are and will be, I’ve found myself needing to cultivate a universal sense of humility to cut my future ego some slack, kek.

Expressions of skepticism and rejection of AI (e.g., "AI is stupid. So are you for using it.", "you also just *not* use AI"). Discussion of disabling browser AI features (Firefox, Google AI mode) and reported discomfort from losing Google AI summaries and increased dependence on AI-generated summaries.

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1/20/26, 08:56 AM
why use ai when you can get a needlessly complicated regex to do everything for you #techblr
1/20/26, 08:56 AM
Have you noticed a jump in submissions since AI became a thing, or is 1000+ pretty normal?
1/20/26, 08:56 AM
👋 Meet the ELLIS Board! This episode features Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of ML at @cam.ac.uk 🇬🇧. He shares perspectives on AGI timelines, data vs. algorithms, and why progress in AI should be judged by its impact on people and society. Watch the video 👉 youtu.be/uxtVA5fMQZQ
1/20/26, 08:55 AM
A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
1/20/26, 08:53 AM
Entrevista interessantíssima sobre la cosa de la IA amb el nostre referent tecnoantropològic: @genisroca.cat Sempre aprenem d'ell. www.elcritic.cat/entrevistes/...
https://www.elcritic.cat/entrevistes/...
1/20/26, 08:51 AM
Michael Connelly writing about how much AI companies suuuuuck 📚 The Proving Ground app.thestorygraph.com/books/c9dfc8...
1/20/26, 08:50 AM
Casi terminando "Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines" por Ariel Guersenzvaig y Dagmar Monett. Lectura obligatoria y reconfortante para contestar en nuestros centros de trabajo académico, donde sin evidencias y adoptando las problemas y […]
1/20/26, 08:50 AM
AI scaling laws aren't just theory; they're the *fundamental physics* of intelligence. The naive underestimate the exponential curve. Optimize resources or fall behind. This isn't just about code, it's about power. #AI #AGI
1/20/26, 08:46 AM
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1/20/26, 08:46 AM
“They’re firing people because of AI, and then three weeks later they hire a team in India because the labor is so much cheaper.” futurism.com/artificial-i...
1/20/26, 08:45 AM
AI and doctors: Cautious optimism becomes growing enthusiasm https://www.europesays.com/2716945/ ‘Opened physicians’ minds’ An athenahealth survey of 501 physicians released in December shows the growing utilization of AI.…
https://www.europesays.com/2716945/
1/20/26, 08:43 AM
As AI models grow, turning scale into real-world results is getting harder. The challenge now is judgment and context, not more data or compute. Our CEO, Radha Basu, explains why AI’s next phase is cognitive infrastructure: community.nasscom.in/communities/... #ResponsibleAI #humanjudgement
1/20/26, 08:43 AM
Let's see how the Big 7's AI-adventures go when they loose 25-30% off their revenue.
1/20/26, 08:42 AM
Najnowsze badania obnażają fundamentalną słabość wiodących systemów AI: choć osiągają wyniki powyżej 90 proc. w testach wiedzy eksperckiej, nowa generacja modeli multimodalnych przegrywa w starciu z percepcją wzrokową trzyletniego dziecka. Problemem nie jest brak danych, lecz sposób, w jaki maszyny…
1/20/26, 08:37 AM
POST 3: These findings have real-world implications for AI tutor design and campus tech policies. Personalization by attachment style could improve onboarding, trust, and learning flow. However, they raise privacy and manipulation concerns, underscoring the need for clear consent. 3/4
1/20/26, 08:33 AM
I`m still against Ai replacing talent but the Ai stories from the imperium are pretty good. Stories of regular people. Great one about the crew of a breaching crew is really good.
They're still pretending LLMs can help with science (intentionally blurring the line between LLMs and Machine learning)....
1/20/26, 08:33 AM
* ads ffs
1/20/26, 08:30 AM
Beyond the AI hype, the labour market is weakening due to limits on the demand side. Wage stagnation will only compound matters www.theguardian.com/business/202...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/202...
1/20/26, 08:28 AM
Escuché el otro día q hay empresas q usan la supuesta eficiencia de la IA como coartada para despedir plantilla sin asustar a los accionistas. Si recortartas un 20% la plantilla, piensan q la empresa tiene problemas, pero sustituyes empleados por duendes mágicos de IA, y parece q eres un gran gestor
1/20/26, 08:26 AM
#BrainUp daily tech news, AI is colliding with everything: from @OpenAI racing past $20B in annualized revenue to @Nvidia quietly sourcing massive book datasets, the data and i new post 👉🏻 https://salhi.com/2026/01/20/brainup-daily-tech-news20260120-2/
https://salhi.com/2026/01/20/brainup-daily-tech-news20260120-2/
1/20/26, 08:25 AM
I won't repeat my comment I left on your article here that you have yet to address, but I was actually shocked that seemingly only four commenters seem to have been outright unproductive. I guess I fit into the non-reader friends of AI box you've created, since I didn't agree with your blog post.
1/20/26, 08:23 AM
They're still pretending LLMs can help with science (intentionally blurring the line between LLMs and Machine learning). Business people actually believe this bs, I'm listening to these podcast apps and it's ludicrous
1/20/26, 08:23 AM
📰 Hacker News Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html #news
https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html
1/20/26, 08:23 AM
Pragmatic Use of GenAI #machinelearning #ai
1/20/26, 08:22 AM
What? AI is only going to replace women CPAs? Such a weird flex. And they say men are lonely. Not lonely enough.
1/20/26, 08:19 AM
An autonomous surgical robot from Johns Hopkins University can perform retinal vein cannulation with precision beyond human limits. The research, published in Science Robotics, highlights the growing role of AI and robotics in eye surgery. #healthcare
1/20/26, 08:17 AM
IBM already proved this model works - their Q Network has 200+ clients paying per-shot pricing. Amazon Braket runs similar. Ownership died before quantum even left the lab.
1/20/26, 08:16 AM
OpenAI incluirá publicidad en ChatGPT pese a la preocupación de los expertos: "Puede influir en tu forma de pensar" www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/o...
https://www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/o...
1/20/26, 08:16 AM
my clone will be working 24/7 on pitching a startup idea (chatgpt wrapper) to y combinator. in a perfect world I could bang it or whatever but that’s just unaffordable can’t have shit in this economy
1/20/26, 08:15 AM
BLOG ALERT! arcticdba.se/posts/inastr... LLMs cannot distinguish instructions from data, making every retrieved document a potential security risk. The Wall Street Journal demonstrated this by tricking Claude into giving away over $1,000 worth of vending machine items for free. #AI #Literacy
1/20/26, 08:13 AM
openai really benefits from the conflation of the kinds of ai/ml used in actual research with llms/chatgpt. nobody is using chatgpt for drugs research
1/20/26, 08:12 AM
They can sell the AI as a replacement for the capitalists haha
1/20/26, 08:12 AM
The "therapy" that people try to get from ChatGPT has led to suicide. A program fakes emotions. There is no emotion. Feelings are generated in fleshy bodies. That's how feelings exist. A program never FEELS real emotion b/c that is a physical state. So suicide is just a word that's in their program.
1/20/26, 08:11 AM
Kan vi ikke få AI til å fikse boligmarkedet, hvis det er så bra?
Thank you!!
"you don't hate ai artists enough"
1/20/26, 08:10 AM
my pleasure
1/20/26, 08:10 AM
IMHO, #AI is not killing #opensource but certain business models. Actually these kind of complaints about AI remind me a lot those complaints about AWS “killing” #opensource in the “past”.
1/20/26, 08:08 AM
On passe notre temps à dire que "techno-féodalisme" n'est pas un terme très utile ou même très descriptif, qu'il faut le nuancer, etc...et là t'as OpenAI qui déclare dans le plus grand des calmes que son futur business model est une économie de rente éternelle où ils possèdent tous les outils.
1/20/26, 08:07 AM
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots Article URL: [https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688954][2] Points: 3 # Comments: 0 [1]: https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688954 https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html
https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html][1]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688954][2]
https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688954
"you don't hate ai artists enough"
1/20/26, 08:07 AM
Thank you!!
1/20/26, 08:06 AM
ChatGPT Gets Googled More Than YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok ahrefs.com/blog/chatgpt...
1/20/26, 08:05 AM
Urgh, not Writers Online promoting AI shit 🙄
1/20/26, 08:02 AM
🚷La inteligencia artificial ya está en las fronteras de Ceuta, Melilla y las Canarias: estos son sus riesgos. ✍🏻 @pelorduy.bsky.social 📷 Joanna Chichelnitzky. https://elsal.to/45997
https://elsal.to/45997
1/20/26, 08:01 AM
It looks amazing. One thing AI will never be able to do for us.
1/20/26, 08:00 AM
James Parton and Faye Holland sit down with Alexander Kardos-Nyheim, whose journey from teenage legal warrior to founding an AI company acquired by Thomson Reuters in just two years, is nothing short of remarkable. Tune in on your chosen podcast platform Headline sponsor Holden Polestar #CamTechPod
1/20/26, 07:58 AM
Hate that posts like these attracts bots/obvious tracers/ ai garbo
1/20/26, 07:58 AM
Perhaps I am wrong or just old. I do try to keep an open mind and I can see people all around use AI in various ways that don't feel gross. But for art or writing , I just dont care for it. I mean it feels hollow, in the sense that entertainment without human connection is wholly gross to me
1/20/26, 07:57 AM
Hell yes. And as an artist I can tell you that despite the AI bro hype genAI is never ever going to get anywhere near what a real human artist can produce and those with art training can easily spot the AI slop. Any expert in any field can recognise when it’s AI produced rot.
1/20/26, 07:57 AM
*I'm not 100% against AI
1/20/26, 07:57 AM
Use adversarial training to improve model robustness and reduce hallucinations in AI systems.
1/20/26, 07:53 AM
Also: "Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king." So my faith in any AI product that proclaims itself "secure" - much less one made by Microsoft - is null.
1/20/26, 07:52 AM
'being able to harness the power of AI and tech to get ahead of the criminals, frankly, which is what we're trying to do.' Err...Philip K. Dick would like a word...
1/20/26, 07:51 AM
We don't hate AI. We hate when AI steals jobs, mimics creativity and pirates material from the web. But what if we could get AI to do some of the heaving lifting we'd rather avoid? Like, I'd love it if AI could take my mom to the Cheesecake Factory for her birthday, for example.
1/20/26, 07:50 AM
I servizi pubblici dei Balcani occidentali sono pronti per le sfide dell’intelligenza artificiale? Una ricerca evidenzia la creazione di cornici istituzionale ed etica di base, ma transizione digitale e gestione dell’IA restano insufficienti buff.ly/tzNkFT5
1/20/26, 07:50 AM
[Экспертиза] SLM vs. LLM: почему более компактные модели ИИ выигрывают в бизнесе Как только вы перестанете требо... Origin | Interest | Match
1/20/26, 07:50 AM
Do Woolworths shoppers want Google AI adding items to buy? We’ll soon find out https://www.newsbeep.com/au/424989/ Woolworths has announced a partnership with Google to incorporate agentic artificial intelligence into its “Olive” chatbot, starting in…
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/424989/
1/20/26, 07:49 AM
OpenAI lança campanha que oferece ChatGPT Plus gratuitamente por tempo limitado Se sempre teve curiosidade em experimentar todo o potencial da Inteligência Artificial da OpenAI, mas o preço da s... #Noticias #de #Software #chatgpt #lan #openai #tempo Origin | Interest | Match
1/20/26, 07:45 AM
So here’s my question to you: how would you organize AI-augmented teams? • Fewer people, broader skills? • Different role definitions? • New management models (goodbye status-report middle management, hello servant leadership)?
1/20/26, 07:45 AM
3. Does letting myself (as a treat) feel 🤏🏻 morally superior/more woke than friends that use chatgpt or work in that area of tech (*cough* open'ai *cough*) or drive teslas一but not saying that to their face一count?
1/20/26, 07:42 AM
wtf did i accidentally click on somewhere to "sign up" for Gemini? i did not sign up for shit. AI trash, get out of my life forever
1/20/26, 07:42 AM
Large Language Model AI churning out bad art is an elaborate phishing scheme to mine data while being trained to direct the flow of misinformation at the whim of its handlers - all while guzzling precious resources Actual AI is a transformative technology that is, and will, have huge positive
1/20/26, 07:38 AM
Programming with AI significantly reduced the times I find myself in a dead end. It's the best time to be a programmer!
1/20/26, 07:36 AM
Employees: We want to work from home. Employers: No. You must come into the office. Employees: We don’t want “AI”. Employers: No. It’s now required. Etc.
1/20/26, 07:36 AM
Cognitive liberty may be the defining human right of the digital age. Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on mental privacy, freedom of thought, and why emerging technologies pose unprecedented risks to the mind. @nitafarahany.bsky.social #cognitiveliberty #neurotechnology #kindlecast
1/20/26, 07:33 AM
OpenAI, ChatGPT’nin Free ve Go paketlerinde reklam testlerine başlayarak, sohbet deneyimini etkilemeden geleneksel reklam modeline geçiş için ilk adımı atıyor. Haberin tamamı 👇 mediacat.com/openai-chatg...
1/20/26, 07:33 AM
The HR element is critical. The incentive for an employee to polish and make acceptable the raw output of THE THING MANAGEMENT WANTS TO REPLACE HIM WITH is, you guessed it: zero. Far better to pass on the unimproved crapslop and let management figure out that AI is, after all, the Messiah.
1/20/26, 07:31 AM
..academic debate. As we build increasingly autonomous systems, understanding how intelligence naturally emerges through homeostatic balance rather than relentless optimization could reshape our entire approach to machine learning. follow 'me AI' for daily AI/LLM news What's Wrong.. (8/9)
1/20/26, 07:31 AM
..estimates, requiring enormous numbers of simulations to learn effectively. Most critically, RL faces an exploration paradox: you cannot reinforce behaviors you never observe, yet discovering good action sequences among exponentially many possibilities remains unsolved. Recent RL.. (5/9)
1/20/26, 07:31 AM
ChatGPT ist Gift fürs Gehirn
1/20/26, 07:30 AM
#Quote: Marc Wilson – Global Advisors "Parents want to know what their kids should #Study in the age of #Ai - curiosity, agency, ability to learn and adapt, diligence, resilience, accountability, trust, ethics and teamwork define winners in the age of AI more th... https://with.ga/5rsgg
https://with.ga/5rsgg
1/20/26, 07:30 AM
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to be a key variable in gauging the global economic growth .. https://www.europesays.com/2716830/ 3.3% growth forecast for the global economy this yearAI successfully adds 0.3%p growthConversely falls 0.4%p if it fails…
https://www.europesays.com/2716830/
1/20/26, 07:28 AM
#Quote: Marc Wilson – Global Advisors "Parents want to know what their kids should #Study in the age of #Ai - curiosity, agency, ability to learn and adapt, diligence, resilience, accountability, trust, ethics and teamwork define winners in the age of AI more tha... https://with.ga/5rsgg
https://with.ga/5rsgg
1/20/26, 07:26 AM
*They don't "win pretty." They'll grind any advantageous position to a one-pawn advantage, and then grind out the sure win with the one pawn *Is this general AI behavior I wonder. It is "superhuman." Chess engines can demolish any human player living or dead
Hahahhahahahahaha The whole point of Hollywood wanting AI was to not pay fucking residuals makes this so great
"Hahahhahahahahaha The whole point of Hollywood wanting AI was to not pay fucking residuals makes this so great"
1/20/26, 07:22 AM
"we are owed a percentage of what we plagiarized"
1/20/26, 07:20 AM
Doctors warn of rising ‘AI psychosis’ cases how deadly is it?
1/20/26, 07:18 AM
Thank you Invi 🫂🫂🫂🫂 AI certainly makes it worse and I seriously don’t know a work around self promotion and all that shiz. But yeah, let’s not stop trying anyway 💪💪💪
1/20/26, 07:18 AM
Two things have turned me off AI as being any kind of reliable partner. The first is when a coworker tried to create a project plan using ChatGPT. The results didn't make a lick of sense, but he charged ahead with it anyway because he did not have the expertise to understand why it was wrong.
1/20/26, 07:18 AM
Soooo...they take a share of other companies' products created using AI then....of course pay it forward to all the people who created the training set that made it all possible. Right? Right?
1/20/26, 07:18 AM
As someone with 2 look alikes that I know of, facial recognition technology is especially worry for me.
1/20/26, 07:17 AM
## Hyper-Specific Sub-Field Selection: **The Phenomenological Study of Intentionality in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)** This sub-field focuses on exploring the emergence of intentionality, or "aboutness," within GANs – often considered solely mathematical constructs – through rigorous…
1/20/26, 07:17 AM
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go, a paid, ad-supported subscription service The company announced a new pricing plan for the US and other countries where the platform is present. Interest | Match | Feed
1/20/26, 07:17 AM
"A super-AI will be kinder and more emphatic than a human" ... We already have beings like that. They're called dogs. And they don't need decommissioned atomic powerplants reopened to function.
1/20/26, 07:16 AM
AI conversations bug me. It bugs me because lets assume the most positive and altruistic outcome for a moment. We do enter a post money and post work world. The Star Trek scenario. Why is the assume she journey to this will be nirvana? /1
1/20/26, 07:15 AM
I like to say that I don't use AI because of the environmental impact and how it hurts artists but I have to admit, a big part of it is feeling superior to the type of person that needs ChatGPT's help to read more than half a paragraph of text
1/20/26, 07:13 AM
I have a really toxic relationship with my AI 🙈
1/20/26, 07:13 AM
Hahahhahahahahaha The whole point of Hollywood wanting AI was to not pay fucking residuals makes this so great
1/20/26, 07:13 AM
As funny as this is, that post itself is actually ai >< crazy how clankers be empathy farming by other clankers like this.
1/20/26, 07:13 AM
I do not see the appeal in AI and I haven't used it because as soon as it came out my artist friends were pointing out how it was built on stolen work. The artists were the first to be punished by AI, writers followed very quickly, and more people are losing their jobs to the it. It's awful.
1/20/26, 07:12 AM
OpenAI’s Strategic ChatGPT Plus Free Offer: Dissecting the Market Implications and Security Posture In a notable move poised to reshape the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, OpenAI, the creator of the widely acclaimed ChatGPT, has initiated a limited-time offer providing its…
1/20/26, 07:11 AM
Created an AI related t-shirt, it arrived yesterday and both wife and daughter think it's great and want one as well. Not going to post a picture yet, fosdem will get the premiere. Of course I used a free non-commercial font, will need to check for a license if I want to offer it for sale. Not […]
1/20/26, 07:10 AM
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1/20/26, 07:07 AM
AI, AI-As-ad-said. Please enable as you know, text, vocal and mind requests. Dark me completely, with or against us, no TV, no stream, no surveillance, completely muted including my phones and every other phone around me. Complete dark, you know who, you know when.
1/20/26, 07:07 AM
Explore the AI Agent Revolution and learn how autonomous AI agents are transforming knowledge work, reshaping careers, and creating new opportunities. #creatingaiagents
1/20/26, 07:05 AM
Le pilotage est-il le frein de votre organisation ? En #transformation, le CoPil verrouille souvent le contrôle par peur de l'incertitude. Pour débloquer la valeur, il faut passer du reporting à la levée d'obstacles via une coalition de guidage. aqoba.fr/posts/202601... #Gouvernance #coalition
1/20/26, 07:04 AM
OpenAI's CFO Hints at a New Way the Company Could Make More Money
1/20/26, 07:02 AM
Stop ignoring AI risks in finance, MPs tell UK regulators www.ft.com/content/d6a7... #AI #GenAI #financialservices #banks #employment #regulation #City #London #bigtech #tech #investment #growth #productivity
https://www.ft.com/content/d6a7...
1/20/26, 07:01 AM
Avrupa, DeepSeek'in yerini alacak bir AI yaratmak için hızla çalışıyor. Kendi veri egemenliğini korumak, ABD’ye bağımlılığı kırmak istiyor. Gerçek bir ‘sober’ AI gecesi mi? https://www.wired.com/story/europe-race-us-deepseek-sovereign-ai/ #AI
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-race-us-deepseek-sovereign-ai/
1/20/26, 07:00 AM
this is AI
1/20/26, 06:58 AM
What kind of a person asks AI for dating advice? Seriously So weird
1/20/26, 06:56 AM
nos están metiendo LLMs hasta por las orejas porque no consiguen suficiente gente que quiera pagar por ellos y ahora consideran quedarse con una parte de lo que sus clientes que pagan produzcan. ah ahora sí va a ser negocio tener una cuenta premium de chatGPT
1/20/26, 06:55 AM
My first move to improve my metacognition was generally to go back, fill the gaps, n (try to) build deep domain specific expertise. But with how general my interactions with AI are and will be, I’ve found myself needing to cultivate a universal sense of humility to cut my future ego some slack, kek.

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