# AI is wonderful and will make your life better! (not)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [July 20, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117 "2025-07-20T16:40:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 52
### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1021 "2026-03-23T19:42:01Z")
The point of the article is that the inherent sycophancy of human-calibrated models can make them overly-agreeable. There were, off the top of my head, two examples in the Sanders conversation:
- Sanders talks about “the data AI collects” in a confident tone, and the model pivots to what companies collect as part of typical scraping in browser and app usage. But AI isn’t collecting that, at least Anthropic claims Claude isn’t.
- Sanders argues against Claude’s balanced appraisal of the dangers of data centers, and Claude collapses like a wet noodle.
It’s important to note that these are issues of perspective and opinion; at no point does the article claim you can get Claude to misstate hard facts.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1022 "2026-03-24T22:02:08Z")
Looks like the bubble’s starting to burst.
> **[Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/)**
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> The studio giant will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1023 "2026-03-24T23:21:14Z")
Wow, missed this news.
Dec, 2024 - Sora released to a broad user group
Dec, 2025 - Disney announces deal with Sora
Feb, 2026 - OpenAI funding round opens and closes.
March, 2026 - RIP Sora and Disney deal.
I owe you an apology, OpenAI. I really wasn’t familiar with your game.
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### Author:  [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1024 "2026-03-25T00:13:44Z")
Sora was an IP attorney’s dream. Well, they all are, but Sora specifically was gonna get sued into oblivion.
This is a good sign.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1025 "2026-03-25T12:35:35Z")
I have never understood the confusion over “Cow tools.”
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1026 "2026-03-25T13:45:44Z")
Really? Lots of people don’t get absurdism. I tend to like absurdist humor, especially of the literary kind, but I find it tends to leave a lot of people scratching their heads. I mean, I know this is Far Side and absurdism is to be expected, but this one is somehow more pure abstracted absurdism than others. Plus I guess there’s the wrinkle upthread that one of the tools is identifiable as a crude handsaw, so some people are left scratching their heads figuring out the others.
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1027 "2026-03-25T15:32:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Looks like the bubble’s starting to burst.
yes, but THEN what?
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### Author:  [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1028 "2026-03-25T20:47:56Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Looks like the bubble’s starting to burst.
Or, we’re just entering the Trough of Disillusionment, to be followed by some shakeout and a Plateau of Productivity.
[ ](https://s7280.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hype-1024x682.png)
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1029 "2026-03-25T20:51:04Z")
I swear the Gartner hype index used to take like 18 months, two years to get to the peak, now it feels like two months.
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### Author:  [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1030 "2026-03-25T20:59:01Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> I swear the Gartner hype index used to take like 18 months, two years to get to the peak, now it feels like two months
Remember, the “Trigger of Innovation” for the LLMs was a 2017 paper on transformers (coupled with accessible compute power reaching the threshold needed for the processing needed), which led to very quick explosion of hype/GPTs in 2018.
So if we are measuring the the Trigger to Trough time, it’s likely to be 8-10 years (I’m not sure we’re entering the Trough now or just heading that way)
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1031 "2026-03-25T21:01:11Z")
> [@peccavi](#):
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> Or, we’re just entering the Trough of Disillusionment, to be followed by some shakeout and a Plateau of Productivity.
I think we’re just on the downslope from the Peak of Inflated Expectations. The Trough of Disillusionment will come after some combination of AI replacing human workers in large numbers, followed by some major AI fuckups that result from poor implementations and misguided applications of the technology. But I remain optimistic that AI will follow that curve much as illustrated.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1032 "2026-03-27T19:28:14Z")
OpenAI has dropped its plans to release a sexbot after being unable to stop it from engaging in incest and bestiality.
> **[OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot](https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-drops-plans-to-release-an-adult-chatbot-113121190.html?src=rss)**
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> OpenAI has "indefinitely" abandoned plans to release an a erotic chatbot for adults following concerns from employees and investors.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2026, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1033 "2026-03-27T19:35:44Z")
This is ominous to me.
The company had all incentives to make the AI refrain from certain activities and try as it might it couldn’t.
That seems to indicate that AI, in a way like humans, is not fully controllable.
But where humans have self-preservation and usually don’t want to lose their jobs the AI doesn’t care a bit about that.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2026, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1034 "2026-03-30T16:19:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> OpenAI has dropped its plans to release a sexbot after being unable to stop it from engaging in incest and bestiality.
Oh, they’ll have a version available to the senior management that allows all perversions.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1035 "2026-03-31T00:11:42Z")
Bob, what the hell are you doing?
> **[Bob Dylan's AI "Lectures from the Grave" Are an Accidental Warning for What...](https://consequence.net/2026/03/bob-dylan-ai-lectures-from-the-grave-review/)**
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> Bob Dylan's new AI "Lectures from the Grave" Patreon series is available for $5 a month to the curious and masochistic.
> There are currently six posts: three audio monologues in the voices of Aaron Burr, Wild Bill Hickok, and the Confederate outlaw Frank James; a fictional letter from Mark Twain to Rudolph Valentino; a short story called “Bull Rider”; and, for reasons known only to Dylan, an embedded YouTube video of Mahalia Jackson performing on _The Ed Sullivan Show_ . It is unclear how much of the writing comes from Dylan himself, though the words sound passably period, if historically wobbly. But the flaws are so glaring that “Lectures from the Grave” — advertised with the tagline “the dead speak!” — almost becomes an anti-manifesto: a wild warning for the AI age of what not to do.
> Three of the five reviewed pieces are audio monologues performed by AI-generated voices, and not one of them can decide where it’s from. Aaron Burr’s accent swings from Alabama to Texas, rarely alighting in the Newark and New York where the real Burr lived. The software seems pulled toward a generic southern drawl like water down a drain, especially after proper nouns like “Richmond, Virginia.”
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> At one point Burr sighs “Ahhh, Hamilton,” and the tone is dead wrong — it sounds like someone turned on the vibrating bed when he didn’t expect it. Wild Bill has the opposite problem: after establishing the character’s British, Irish, and Scots background, the voice bounds for the mid-Atlantic. Frank James, born and raised in Clay County, Missouri, sounds vaguely British — less Confederate guerrilla, more Errol Flynn doing Robin Hood. I kind of doubt Dylan listened to any of these all the way through.
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1036 "2026-03-31T00:18:13Z")
And 1000 years from now, historians will cite it as near-contemporary accounts of those people’s lives. 🙄
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1037 "2026-04-04T00:19:35Z")
One of the stars of Netflix’s live adaptation of One Piece didn’t have time to give an interview with Esquire, so they told Claude to pretend to be him, interviewed it instead, and published it without his consent.
> **[AI-Generated Interview With One Piece Actor Published By Esquire](https://kotaku.com/one-piece-netflix-live-action-mackenyu-interview-esquire-ai-singapore-2000684648)**
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> Esquire Singapore opted to run the Zoro actor's previous interviews through Copilot and Claude, as Mackenyu couldn't attend an in-person chat
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2026, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1038 "2026-04-05T05:32:37Z")
Chipotle’s customer service chatbot runs on Claude and people are finding they can use it for free access to stuff you normally need a subscription for.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1039 "2026-04-24T20:23:10Z")
Well, maybe? This guy vibe-mathed an Erdos proof and got an answer of sorts, or at least enough of an answer that in the hands of a professional it was formalized.
[Amateur armed with ChatGPT ‘vibe-maths’ a 60-year-old problem | Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TIS_042426&utm_term=a%20method%20no%20human%20had%20thought%20of&_kx=-HwyPha542b-1pv7gfU0Kmjwv-u4hfsLsnEXxmyTJf0.WEer5A)
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### Author:  [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1040 "2026-04-24T20:44:18Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> vibe-mathed
As I age, I try hard not to be a luddite or grumpy old man-type, but then I read a word like this and - as the kids say - I just cannot…
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