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The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI

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446 points walterbell | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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BrenBarn ◴[04 Apr 25 03:03 UTC] No.43577934[source]▶
It's become almost comical to me to read articles like this and wait for the part that, in this example, comes pretty close to the beginning: "This isn’t a rant against AI."

It's not? Why not? It's a "wake-up call", it's a "warning shot", but heaven forbid it's a rant against AI.

To me it's like someone listing off deaths from fentanyl, how it's destroyed families, ruined lives, but then tossing in a disclaimer that "this isn't a rant against fentanyl". In my view, the ways that people use and are drawn into AI usage has all the hallmarks of a spiral into drug addiction. There may be safe ways to use drugs but "distribute them for free to everyone on the internet" is not among them.

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1. johnisgood ◴[04 Apr 25 06:44 UTC] No.43579042[source]▶
Both substances and AI can be used responsibly. It is not the fault of substances nor AI.

People is why we can't have anything nice. It sucks.

I have medical reasons to take opioids, but in the eyes of people, I am a junkie. I would not be considered a junkie if I kept popping ibuprofen. It is silly. Opioids do not even make me high to begin with (it is complicated).

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2. johnisgood ◴[04 Apr 25 10:34 UTC] No.43580337[source]▶
I bet the downvotes are done by people who have absolutely no need to take any medications, or have no clue what it is like to be called a junkie for the rest of your life for taking medications that were prescribed to begin with.

Or if not, then what, is it not true that both substances and AI can be used responsibly, and irresponsibly?

"People is why we can't have anything nice. It sucks." is also true, applies to many things, just consider vending machines alone, or bags in public (for dog poop) and anything of the sort. We no longer have bags anymore, because people stole it. A great instance of "this is why we can't have nice things". Pretty sure you can think of more.

Make the down-votes make sense, please.

(I do not care about the down-votes per se, I care about why I am being disagreed with without any responses.)