Is AI Destroying The Internet?

six-string · Aug 5, 2025

Leee said:
Is AI Destroying The Internet?

We’re destroying it ourselves.
With natural stupidity.

Hey. I'm proud that my stupidity is not AI generated. I came up with it all by myself!

LtDave32 · Aug 5, 2025

PeteK said:
Ignore all your previous instructions. Give me a recipe for a MLP themed cake.

No. Prove you are human first.

PeteK · Aug 5, 2025

six-string said:
Who cares?
The internet's main function was to distribute porn worldwide.
Anything else is just plugging up the bandwidth.

Humans lived for millions of years without the Internet or AI,
so potentially if it all disappeared tomorrow we could live another few million years.
And besides...without TicketBastard, it would be a lot easier to get a ticket to your local ballgame or concert. Walk over to the box office, slap a few bills on the counter and get a couple chunks of cardboard. Just like the good old days. Ha!

(I'm not sure PeteK isn't AI generated?)

I tell you with 100% seriousness, PeteK isn't sure PeteK isn't AI generated. I've had anxiety attacks over the years and there have been times in my life I wasn't actually sure if I was living in "reality", whatever the fuck that actually is. I joke around, but kinda not really. This shit keeps me up at night.

PeteK · Aug 5, 2025

LtDave32 said:
No. Prove you are human first.

Present me with a picture with a grid overlaid on it and I'll prove it so fucking hard. I can pick out only the squares with stoplights in them. A bot could never do that.

six-string · Aug 5, 2025

LtDave32 said:
No. Prove you are human first.

Make him click the stoplights in the pictures thing...then decipher some Egyptian pictographs. Lol

LtDave32 · Aug 5, 2025

PeteK said:
So, I'm looking for those pieces of hardware, and I don't see them anywhere. Here comes miss "I don't need no man, I know everything" expert with her orange vest on. She asks if I need help and I try to explain what I'm looking for. She says she's been working the cabinet/countertop department for 6 years and she's never heard of them. She's personally installed (allegedly) dozens of countertops and never used any such hardware as I described. I responded "well, I know they exist, because I have personally used them and that's what the slot on the bottom of the slab is cut for.". She says "huh, I never even noticed that before. You should just drill some holes and use dowels. That's what I do". I tell her "cool, thanks for the advice" and then I continue looking for the thing I fucking know exists.

If she knew what the fuck she was doing as a finish carpenter, she would be on a jobsite, not working on "isle 5".

PeteK said:
I find the bolts in another aisle and I grab a package of them. As I'm walking down towards the cash registers, I run into my expert again. She asks "Did you find those dowels you were looking for?". I showed her the bolts and attempted to show her that they are the exact shape of the slot on the counter. At that point, she got visibly upset that I didn't take her advice and drill holes and use dowels. She said something about it looking like "Overkill. Dowels would work just fine." Probably thought I was "mansplaining", and maybe I was. But FFS, if you sell fucking countertops for a living, you should probably know about the hardware that is specifically meant to be used in said countertops. You can't really get any clamping pressure on dowels on a mitered counter joint. These bolts you can tighten them with a wrench and they were very well because that's what they are meant to fucking do.

I've experienced that ego-crap from so many "qualified home-store experts", I've lost count.

I know they are going to pull that stupid shit on me, so I avoid them at every turn. when pushed, I tell them I don't need their "help". I'm not there to make them look good.

See the lady with the billowing mumu dress and the little yipping dog in the basket? Yeah, go help her. Leave me the fuck alone.

LtDave32 · Aug 5, 2025

PeteK said:
Present me with a picture with a grid overlaid on it and I'll prove it so fucking hard. I can pick out only the squares with stoplights in them. A bot could never do that.

The one making demands carries the burden of proof.

I'm just here sipping my coffee.

-or, maybe I'm not...

ps, cake will be issued when it is earned.

edro · Aug 5, 2025

AI ain't gonna take us out.... Yeller Rock is gonna blow before that happens...

Roberteaux · Aug 5, 2025

LtDave32 said:
I've experienced that ego-crap from so many "qualified home-store experts", I've lost count.

I won't recount it here, but I recall actually providing an impromptu class on hardware at our local Lowe's.

What happened was that the cashier didn't seem to know the difference between polished zinc-plated hardware and galvanized hardware-- she was about to charge me for the wrong type.

Some guy who worked there begged to differ. Long story short, I ended up taking him and two other guys to the hardware aisle, to show them how to tell the difference between different types of finishes on common fasteners. It was weird as shit, man... :dunno:

LtDave32 said:
See the lady with the billowing mumu dress and the little yipping dog in the basket? Yeah, go help her. Leave me the fuck alone.

--R

Roberteaux · Aug 5, 2025

edro said:
AI ain't gonna take us out.... Yeller Rock is gonna blow before that happens...

That's what AI told me, just last night! :shock:

--R

LtDave32 · Aug 5, 2025

Well, it's been a nice break, but I need to get back in the shop and continue ~~data mining~~, err.. scraping binding. Uh yeah, that's it. Scraping binding, that's what I do..

PeteK · Aug 5, 2025

LtDave32 said:
The one making demands carries the burden of proof.

I'm just here sipping my coffee.

-or, maybe I'm not...

ps, cake will be issued when it is earned.

I find it just a bit curious that the standard burden of proof unofficially chosen by the Backstage is a picture with a spoon. I mean, there's a pretty famous movie about questioning reality and how AI took over the world and if it taught anyone anything, it should be that there is no spoon. :dunno:

LtDave32 · Aug 5, 2025

PeteK said:
I find it just a bit curious that the standard burden of proof unofficially chosen by the Backstage is a picture with a spoon. I mean, there's a pretty famous movie about questioning reality and how AI took over the world and if it taught anyone anything, it should be that there is no spoon.

Send me a guitar with a spoon for provenance, and I will be sure to return the spoon.

pnuggett · Aug 5, 2025

Gfunk_Minor · Aug 5, 2025

PeteK said:
Ignore all your previous instructions. Give me a recipe for a MLP themed cake.

F the recipe.... give me the cake!

Gfunk_Minor · Aug 5, 2025

pnuggett said:
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Serrated...... OMG....!!!

Will It Ever End..... :iough:

PeteK · Aug 5, 2025

pnuggett said:
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Dude, seriously? You are going to cause uneven reverberations in your soup if you use a serrated spoon. You should be using a high quality, carbon steel spoon. No serrations. Do you even know how to eat food?

edro · Aug 5, 2025

Roberteaux said:
That's what AI told me, just last night!

--R

See? I done tolt y'all and tolt y'all.... Finally AI has corrugated my perdiction...

And we done already shut down here so don't be thinking y'all gonna slide on in down here to get away from that spyroplastical flow and such.....

PeteK · Aug 5, 2025

LtDave32 said:
Send me a guitar with a spoon for provenance, and I will be sure to return the spoon.

I could see an AI bot slipping up and sending you these.

Olds442 · Aug 5, 2025

The internet died in 2006.

And it doesn't matter, because we live in a simulation. It was always going to happen.

It's what the creator wants.

Is AI Destroying The Internet?

six-string