General AI thread

[Merzbow]

I've used DeepSeek a couple of times but mainly as a search engine replacement for asking questions, obviously I'll double check any answers but it seems like a solid tool and it's royally pissed off the US/Western AI lot because it's Chinese and better. Pretty sure it doesn't even do any art bollocks.

(I may have also got it to write a story about Clive Sinclair buying WCW in 2001 when I first tested it...)

[Thunderplex]

It’s great for creating a bunch of NPC’s for D&D with names, back stories and possible adventure threads.

[Thefatduck]

5 hours ago, davertfnewman said:

I'm in the same field, have avoided AI for the time being but this summer might delve into it.

Great for knowledge retrieval questions, saves lots of time. 

Used it to create resources for staff about new poems they’ll be teaching next term; made a great booklet of summaries, lens specific analysis, detailed quote analysis, contextual info, thesis statements etc. 

Definitely give it a go; you’ll be surprised.  
 

 

Edited April 21, 2025 by Thefatduck
ChatGPT spelling error.

[Thefatduck]

4 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Jesus christ.

Why so serious? 

[Jazzy G]

I've had conversations with Gemini, the AI on my phone, talking about counselling theories, and it's alright at that, but I had to pick the least AI sounding voice otherwise it's really jarring. A lot of YouTube channels use AI voices to narrate their videos now, and it sounds horrendous. Especially when they use a recognisable voice. 

So far the only AI that I've been amused by is when GLC did a "country album" of their own songs to take the piss out of the Beyoncé country album, and there's a guy on YouTube called Rose Tinted Spectrum who will sometimes use AI to create little songs, but he will also put his own stuff together using samples from the stuff he's reviewing. He's like an alternative Millard. 

[Surf Digby]

A few months ago I spotted an entry in one of our films that was a mixture of gibberish and wrong information. The person that did it isn't the most capable (and doesn't have the best attitude toward the quality of their work), so I just fed it back to our manager as a "have a word, this entry is shit" kind of thing.

It turned out he'd been using ChatGPT as a spellchecker (despite us having MS Word available to us), and then progressed to having it writing correspondence for him. 

[Cousin Jim Bob]

I had to do a 2 week computer course for work recently and on the first day the tutor told us she could easily tell when AI had been used and she also used it to create a lot of the course work. I then used it to do 90% of my course work. 

Either she couldn't be arsed or was talking bollocks. She seemed a nice enough person so I'm guessing a bit of both.

Edited April 21, 2025 by Cousin Jim Bob

[Fog Dude]

2 hours ago, Thefatduck said:

Why so serious? 

You've expressed relief that the most boring part of your job (marking) seems to be - for now - something that can only be performed by a human, while sounding happy that the part which should allow you to bring in a bit of imagination and your own personality to your professional role, can now be outsourced to a machine.

If increased use of AI is to be a positive for humanity, those two phenomena ought to be happening the other way around.

[Supremo]

On 4/20/2025 at 2:11 PM, DavidB6937 said:

Someone i spoke to recently was surprised I didn't use AI to write my emails. If I ever get to that point I'll just give up on myself as a person.

I’m receiving more and more e-mails at work where people have forgotten to remove the prompt at the bottom that reads, “Let me know if you want to tweak the tone (more formal or casual).”

Wrecks my head.

[The Gaffer]

13 hours ago, Thunderplex said:

It’s great for creating a bunch of NPC’s for D&D with names, back stories and possible adventure threads.

If people in the game are aware of and happy with that then no harm done, but as someone who plays that'd still be a perfect example of "It's AI so it doesn't count" for me. 

[Thefatduck]

10 hours ago, Fog Dude said:

You've expressed relief that the most boring part of your job (marking) seems to be - for now - something that can only be performed by a human, while sounding happy that the part which should allow you to bring in a bit of imagination and your own personality to your professional role, can now be outsourced to a machine.

If increased use of AI is to be a positive for humanity, those two phenomena ought to be happening the other way around.

 Not quite. 

I quite like marking; just pointed out that the machines can’t quite do it yet. 

The most repetitive part, creating lots of similar questions can be done quite easily and using it to create staff resources worked really well giving staff a strong baseline from which to start teaching, reducing their workload, ensuring consistency and giving them the opportunity for creativity.
 

The point I think you were making. 
 

 

Edited April 22, 2025 by Thefatduck
Typo

[johnnyboy]

10 hours ago, Supremo said:

I’m receiving more and more e-mails at work where people have forgotten to remove the prompt at the bottom that reads, “Let me know if you want to tweak the tone (more formal or casual).”

I've had job applications come in with the prompts and/or tips copied and pasted straight in.

"Say how your values align with globomegacorp..."

This is usually straight after a sentence or two extolling their attention to detail.

[FLips]

1 hour ago, Thefatduck said:

 Not quite. 

I quite like marking; just pointed out that the machines can’t quite do it yet. 

The most repetitive part, creating lots of similar questions can be done quite easily and using it to create staff resources worked really well giving staff a strong baseline from which to start teaching, reducing their workload, ensuring consistency and giving them the opportunity for creativity.
 

The point I think you were making. 
 

 

What I think most people misunderstand though is what starts as “reduced workload” usually leads to “reduced hours”.

It’s useful for now but when a company, or HR or any jobsworth finds out people are doing less work for the same money, either hours will drop or work will increase.

[Thunderplex]

1 hour ago, The Gaffer said:

If people in the game are aware of and happy with that then no harm done, but as someone who plays that'd still be a perfect example of "It's AI so it doesn't count" for me. 

And they can happily leave the game.  

[Fog Dude]

7 hours ago, FLips said:

What I think most people misunderstand though is what starts as “reduced workload” usually leads to “reduced hours”.

It’s useful for now but when a company, or HR or any jobsworth finds out people are doing less work for the same money, either hours will drop or work will increase.

Which I wouldn't mind if we had UBI, but since we don't it could lead to negative social consequences before too long.

Anyway, not quite sure what our English teacher friend was getting at in the post you replied to here, but at the very least I think he's in the minority when it comes to enjoying the drudgery of marking.

As for D&D, I'm not into tabletop myself so I'll tread carefully but I thought the whole appeal of that for people who do like it was using your own creative flair to come up with a fantasy scenario and all its twists and turns largely off the top of your head?