What is the use case for the average non-technical person?

LLMs are cool and all but I feel like the average person is not really getting enough value out of them to keep the "wow this thing will probably make me jobless in 5 years" thoughts out.

My mom uses to take and create pictures of things: identifying birds, identifying trees, and showing her house with different decor. I didn't teach her any of this, she just figured it out on her own.

A non-tech friend of mine who's writing a book uses it to get feedback on his writing. He's gotten pretty good at crafting prompts to get it to be fairly objective.

Another non-tech friend used it to do a lot of journaling and processing after a recent breakup.

A non-techy friend who happens to work in tech uses it to make presentations at work.

Another non-techy friend of mine who works at a tech startup uses it to browse LinkedIn and find people she's searching for.

These are all good examples.

My point is that I just don't think the value-add for any of these are worth the existential dread most people have about losing their career. Then there's the scams, misinformation, trying to find a job when every recruiter is using AI to filter job listings, etc.

> What is the use case for the average non-technical person?

"I used the button they made biggest and closest to the top of the page."

How can something be simultaneously useless to the average person and likely to create massive joblessness?

It’s really not hard to think of examples. Copywriter with an English degree from a state university who used to write boring blog articles for the local vet office. They aren’t really needed anymore to write the yearly article about ticks in the summer. Doesn’t mean they are enjoying any of the benefit.

the people moderating the platform that you signed up to post on?

what do you mean?

See my comment below. On HN for example it isn’t necessarily the moderators, it’s the users with downvote power who can influence what everyone else sees.

So the elite users are the ones who choose. Funny how our communities mirror the social structures we supposedly hate.

The site owners chose to implement it that way. That's their right. If you don't like it you can go elsewhere.

sure but to other users that's a feature and part of why they're here

it's like going to a cafe and complaining that everyone is drinking coffee

“Elite users”? I don’t think that avoiding being an assclown long enough to collect 500 points to downvote status is a high bar to clear.

And? Go somewhere else. I get elite-downvoted semi-regularly but that’s all in the game. You knew the rules when you came here.

Isn't this the promise of AI?

>AI removes all these hurdles and directly presents you with the end problem - communication.

Which is why 99.9% of AI art is worthless. There's literally nothing personal or interesting about getting grok to fart out some picture you thought about while sitting on the toilet in the morning.

AI art will never be good without actual artists embracing the medium.

do you ever get tired of making up scenarios to be scared about lgbt people?

yeah but mine don't reveal my unhealthy obsession with trans people

More constructively, and moving on, do you have any suggestions for a good throwaway example of an extreme radical transformation in a person?

TBH I had a chuckle at the Elon -> Frank-N-Furter example that transcends any specific love or hate for either Elon or the Rocky Horror Show.

The point was being made that a billionaire figurehead drastically changed their views after an "indeterminate time" detained by national authorities.

IE what if Musk suddenly behaved in such a manner after being detained by a Biden administration. Wouldn't that be profoundly weird?!?

And yet, it happened to Jack Ma under the CCP.

But instead, you try to link the "weird behaviour" with the GP instead of the hypothetical Musk - whom this is fitting for.

> The point was being made that a billionaire figurehead drastically changed their views after an "indeterminate time" detained by national authorities.

> IE what if Musk suddenly behaved in such a manner after being detained by a Biden administration. Wouldn't that be profoundly weird?!?

We've seen that. Durov in France after detention began sharing Telegram users' data with authorities. It's unclear how much, but likely full real time access to all of it.

Is this supposed to be funny

It's obviously an unwitting parody account. Calling yourself "Der Einzige" while reciting an incoherent script of internet clichés is indistinguishable from satire -- hilariously unintentional parody.

We need a social media Nuremberg

Too bad legal persons can't be executed.

Your body is 50% water and you can still die from drinking too much.

The one my doctor was using got my obs numbers completely wrong.

We had to correct them at the end of the consultation.

Gotta break a few eggs to save 2 minutes of thinking and work

No different than if that doctor was using a human scribe and they typoed. We make all our doctors proof their notes, it's SOP even long before AI.

Much like when people discuss whether these companies are profitable: training costs don't count.