Notepad++ is just, a top tier app
TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.
DRM wasn’t good either, tech companies are just really creative at making their products worse.
People are allowed to want what they’re comfortable with to not be riddled with llms
On the subject of Foss and AI - one of the G summer of code projects is about integrating an AI voice platform into Neochat and I’m somewhere between bemused and amused by the lack of reaction from de KDE/Plasma community
I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.
I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.
Instead of just “All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies” or “All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution”.
LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.
Fingers crossed it’ll end up like crypto. Here to stay in the world of finance, no longer in every product that never needed it.
Normal people are losing themselves in AI. I’ve seen multiple instances of people using LLM to fact check someone. Endless “uhh, but I asked ChatGPT and it said blablabla” making me lose faith in humanity.
I don’t keep the kind of company that goes “well chatGPT says” if I’m being honest. Though I imagine that’s more of a “yet” statement.
Yeah it’s become impossible to have philosophical discussions, although this truly does seem limited to the virtual world (i.e. via text, online, etc.). If I were to go have some drinks with a friend and they busted out some LLM to take part in our discussion I would chastise them endlessly for it.
Honestly its not much different from a google search and reading some nonsense written by someone who has no authority in the subject. As long as it reinforces their belief itll be true in their eyes
My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds
Unpopular opinion, but it’s also fine to hate having AI being added to a tried and true industry standard. FOSS is great, and I use many FOSS programs, but it’s often a decade behind in features, compatibility, & stability.
Example I always give is GiMP. Great team, great software, but also 10 years behind photoshop. Great for hobbyists and slightly above but professionals simply can’t use it as a daily driver.
Yea, not everything is a binary choice.
This is Lemmy, which is a byproduct of Reddit, and both of them have generally devolved into worlds of black and white only, although here tends to at least still have some nuance.
You just did it lol
It’s catching, I tell you!
Yeah, but some things are. It’s like, things are either a binary choice or they’re not. Whoa 🤯
What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.
They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.
And I get that, because I feel it too.
But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.
When it comes to computing, technically everything is a binary choice.
except for encryption
u might even say its a nonbinary choice laugh track
I wanted to disagree with you. But I also wanted a sandwich.
Have you met end users before?
Too many times.
Or you can use AI and FOSS - optimization of both worlds!
I don’t want hallucinations and lies in my open source
It wouldn’t be used to fact check you know.
I rather like AI to fold my proteins.
AI is for lying to investors that your company is going to turn a profit in a few years. FOSS projects don’t need that.
Try to separate the AI hype from AI.
AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.
Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.
It’s the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it’s no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what “intelligence” means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.
Even LLMs have value, just not how they’re being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.
I’d love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn’t want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.
Stop referring to LLMs as AI for starters
Why? On what basis?
LLMs are AI as much as the enemies in a game are AI. It’s not General AI though, which companies really seem to want people to believe it is.
It was kind of OK to refer to enemies as AI back then because not a single human (or investor) truly believed that a bot in CS can write text, paint an image, or replace you at your job. Now misusing the term leads to an unnecessary dangerous confusion.
Robotic Arms with AI have been taking over jobs well before LLMs were a thing.
Sometimes you’re in the feelings phase, not the solutions phase.
Underrated comment
I’m chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.
Yeah but duckduckgo has loads of adds now, too
at least its not more than Google
last I checked you can disable that? or has that changed?
Why are the robots making art? Why are the humans packing the boxes?…
Because hardware is more difficult to develop than software.
Exactly, we should focus on the highest paid jobs first! Automate the bankers and executives!
MO: Make high cost human low cost human
Wait who doesn’t already use Notepad++? It’s even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already
Me because I use Sublime Text
I use nvim, btw
I use vintage vim, fucks hard on my arch (which I use btw)
Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well
Son, I was using Emacs before Notepad++ even existed.
Tap for spoiler
Oh shit, I looked it up and it’s literally true. Notepad++ was first released in 2003 and I’m pretty sure I used Emacs for the first time in 2002.
Real talk. I’m beyond an amateur, mainly doing super simple scripts for low power sbc’s to output an I or 0, and even during my ~1hour learning process every video uses np++.
Next version of npp should reference this comic.
Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.
I don’t mind that they can do it so long as it serves those users who want that feature.
You could replace the reactor core of a small nuclear plant with Lemmy users hearing the letters “AI”.
“We’ve been using this reactor to power the AI, but the more we use it the weaker it becomes!”
It’s one thing to think AI is poor quality in some tasks, but some users act like AI is personally assaulting them every morning as they wake up for work and pissing in their coffee.
Generative AI in different forms is more than just a poor quality tool. Image generators are being used to create fair pornography of real people. People are replacing actual mental health techniques with ChatGPT reaffirming every single one of their internal biases and making their problems worse. Employers are using metric shit tons of natural resources to generate “no you can’t take the day off” emails, and people are generating AI summaries of AI generated presentations and saying they’ve learned something.
And if the human impact doesn’t appeal to you, all the financial capital being poured into NVidia and OpenAI and all of this other rubbish could be solving real problems.
Can you name a single technology or human endeavour that doesn’t have negative side effects or potential for abuse?
The rise of anti-AI sentiment isn’t based on objective measurements of societal harms, it’s a meme because it’s new and popular and, like all memes, some people feed on the outrage-based reinforcement generated by social media interactions.
I’m not saying that there are no problems with AI. I’m saying that people are treating it as if it were a massive problem because their perception is warped by social media.
I believe there are significant downsides to AI because of my understanding, not because the internet has told me to. The flip side of this conversation is people who do not understand, or choose to downplay, the downsides and who inflate the benefits through ignorance or vested interest. Of course all change has to be balanced against both good and bad consequences but to me it reads as though you are discounting valid criticism of AI as groupthink, when just as much happens in the opposite direction.
You sure your understanding isn’t even a little bit based on things the internet told you?
Like, did you get all your knowledge about AI from offline?
Because I highly doubt it. Especially since you are on Lemmy on a post about AI.
Sure, discourse I’ve read on social media has encouraged me to go and do further reading and educate myself. You got me?
hearing the letters “AI”.
I’m fuming!!
I like ai, but only when its doing something actually helpful, not making ‘art’
It’s all fun and games until ai is mad at you
I was going to suggest Zed but it has Ai as well now
They don’t shove it in your face though, they just offer a possibility of integrating AI through external services.
A button for AI in Notepad as seen in the image doesn’t seem like shoving in your face either
