I think I'm going to be sick...
Real ass conversation I just had with my mother...
My mom: *searching google for black mold allergy bc she has a cough* so the AI says-
Me: wait what-
My mom: ?
Me: don't listen to that
My mom: I've been listening to it for the past week it's fine
Me: ... you can't trust that stuff, just go to the MAYO clinic link
My mom: but that's where the AI gets the information
Me: no, it's an amalgam of different people's posts from websites like twitter. It doesn't know where it's getting it or what it's doing. You can't trust it. You can't trust any AI
My mom: ...I'm not anti-AI you know
Me: ...
My mom: It's like this with every new invention. It's going to help us
Me: How?
My mom: It'll help with the medical industry. It can cure cancer and help with autism
Me: How?
My mom: ...it will
Me: Where are you getting this information from?
My mom: that's just what I thought in my head
Me: *facepalming* ok that's not at ALL what people have been using it for
My mom: y'know...
Me: ?
My mom: it generated an accurate picture of Jesus...
Me: ????? Have you been playing around with this???
My mom: AI is everywhere, you can't get away from it
Me: That picture is just artist's interpretations that real people made that the AI mashed together. It's disrespectful to the original artists. Just like the generated search answer. Do you know what it's costing us? Our water.
My mom: Our water?? How??
Me: It's a massive energy user. Just another climate destroyer like any other factory. All for what?
My mom: I think we need a higher intelligence thing.
Me: Humans cannot create a higher intelligence like this. Just because it's an amalgam of many people's thoughts and recommendations doesn't make it smarter than us.
My mom: ...
Me: please just go to the MAYO clinic
My mom: fine
She'll keep using the AI answer though... I know it.
I'm a visual artist and my mother "trusts AI"...
I want to fucking die.
Please don't hate on her though... she's just... confused...