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I really wish my Mam wasn't such a technophobe. Doubly annoying that she lives so far away & triply so that she doesn't ask one of her more tech savvy friend's to help her get to grips with her phone.

The flip side is that she's the only person who phones me so I have no way to verify if all the phone call woes are her accidentally triggering things by touching buttons or things on screen (I can imagine her holding the phone slightly away from her ear so the in-call screen is displayed) & putting herself on mute or me on hold.

Is it her or has my phone, network or the Lineage OS developed problems?

After today's particularly Mute & Hold heavy call, or calls - I'd have to hang up & phone her again & again to get back to having a conversation instead of hearing nothing or being on hold - I hope she will take my strong suggestion of asking one, or some of her friends to help her.

I was hoping she would be coming over for xmas or new year's, giving me a chance to check her phone, maybe minimize google spying & if I can figure out how to be patient enough show her how to use her phone whilst knowing she won't remember or will struggle to remember.
I'd also have to hope I can still fathom how phones running android OS work as it's been several years.

I don't have the spoons to go visit her & with the festively terrible (non-existant) public transport between hers & the nearest hotel ensuring my spoon tank is permanently empty for the duration so it's probably not a good idea.
Last year I left her's on xmas day just before we were going to have dinner. Walking back to the hotel in tears & having snacks instead of a good meal. I do not recommend as it's probably my worst xmas & would not like a repeat. 😔😢😞.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons #SelfCare #Technophobia #TechEducation #TechFails #EpicTechFails #Enshittification

If someone is so vulnerable that an AI could talk them into suicide, they need to be under psychiatric observation in a hospital. They are experiencing a severe mental health episode, otherwise they wouldn't consider ChatGPT a valid reason to die.

"No more AI" isn't treatment.

We need to stop discussing this as if sufferers are incapable of navigating our own mental illness safely, or that we lack any ability to ground ourselves in reality.

#AI #MentalHealth #ChatGPT #Ableism #Technophobia

I've come to the conclusion that on balance the best way to deal with the 'problem' of artificial intelligence is to just say 'no'.

Sure there are many focussed applications that will pay local/sectoral dividends, but the widespread use fo AI seems to me (at least) to be creating more difficulties than it solves....

Call me a technophobe, but sometimes new technologies actually should not be part of our future!

#AI #technophobia

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ChatGPT fear reminds me of the Wikipedia fear/skepticism when people started using that resource. The thought was "anybody can edit it, who knows if it's accurate". Now it is probably one of the most valuable information repositories in human history.

#Technology #Technophobia #ChatGPT #AI

You know, people freak out about AI replacing human beings because they can perform tasks better. That is sort of like thinking that cameras would replace human painters when cameras were first invented.

Like cameras, you still need a human being to operate an AI. There is also always going to be an appetite for non-AI products, just as there is still an appetite for painting despite the existence of camera technology.

#Technology #AI #Art #Technophobia #Photography

People should know that not everything said by AI is true, just like they should have known long before the age of AI that not everything said on the internet is true. People are upset that AI-generated stuff of dubious accuracy is replacing sweatshop-generated stuff that had an even lower accuracy.

#technophobia #ai

#technophobia #ai #capitalism

In the past, people hated genetic engineering because big corporations, so they demanded regulations to make genetic engineering more difficult, so only big corporations can afford it.

Now, people hate AI because big corporations, so they demand regulations to make AI more difficult, so only big corporations can afford it.

You don't hate AI. You hate capitalism.

#technophobia #ai #capitalism