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Doodley

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21. With all due respect, I don't think you understand how incredibly useful AI is.

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 12:42 PM

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Let me give one example of how my wife and I have used AI in the past week, and I could give many: I removed a hedge in our yard that had been damaged by ice storms. This left an unsightly area, leading to our front door. We used AI to visualize several design options, tweaked it to perfection, and AI produced a list of materials (timber, trellis, bench, plants, ground cover) that we needed and where to buy them and at what price.

What has that got to do with being "delusional enough to want to use it to pretend to have skills I don't have, or knowledge I don't have," or about being "bored or lonely enough to see any reason to chat with a machine?"
Frankly, that is insulting to people who embrace technology in ways you do not understand.

You say you posted hundreds of articles, but I don't think you have even scratched the surface of how useful AI is.

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Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies (NYT, 6/1/2026) [View all] highplainsdem Yesterday OP

No. QueerDuck Yesterday #1

Why not? highplainsdem Yesterday #3

A 50% STATE TAKEOVER of private companies is not the answer... it's overreach. QueerDuck Yesterday #24

Ownership of an AI built on public data is just. It gives the public class action standing in federal court. ancianita 23 hrs ago #28

How does that help pay for the food, health, and shelter of the tens of millions of people who will lose their jobs Doodley Yesterday #2

It isn't enough. Ideally, generative AI models trained illegally should be destroyed, with new legal AI models highplainsdem Yesterday #4

I understand what you are saying, but the genie is already out of the bottle. This is where we are, and Doodley Yesterday #6

Just using AI dumbs users down and makes them dependent on AI. There are few if any good uses highplainsdem Yesterday #9

With all due respect, have you used it much? Doodley Yesterday #14

I've used it enough to know how it works and how tempting it can seem. And I've read thousands of highplainsdem Yesterday #19

With all due respect, I don't think you understand how incredibly useful AI is. Doodley Yesterday #21

With all due respect, you asked AI to give you ideas and tell you where to shop. IMO that's an example highplainsdem Yesterday #22

With all due respect, you are making a lot of assumptions. Doodley Yesterday #23

My "assumptions" were based on what you'd told me. highplainsdem 22 hrs ago #29

Try all it's tech we paid for. In-Q-Tel funds or should I just say CIA. Blue Full Moon Yesterday #5

I don't want to own it. I want it to not exist. WhiskeyGrinder Yesterday #7

Agreed. MineralMan Yesterday #8

Same here. But as I said above, in the meantime I like seeing regulations and penalties on AI suggested highplainsdem Yesterday #11

YES! Emile Yesterday #10

sigh... WarGamer Yesterday #12

It isn't true that "Training is Learning, Not Storing" - that's AI company propaganda to try to defend highplainsdem Yesterday #15

Thanks for the information. There is also a lot of people who have formed an opinion about AI Doodley Yesterday #16

See reply 15. highplainsdem Yesterday #20

Well, he's halfway there. BlueTsunami2018 Yesterday #13

Bingo!!! Doodley Yesterday #17

While everyone is debating the issue xuplate Yesterday #18

With what? 40% don't have enough cash to cover a $1000 emergency expense. thesquanderer 17 hrs ago #30

Norway has a sovereign wealth fund on oil and they're almost always ranked at the top of the list of happiest nations. Uncle Joe Yesterday #25

The AI bubble is on the cusp of a crash Bev54 23 hrs ago #26

Didn't Cervantes Write A Book About Bernie? ColoringFool 23 hrs ago #27