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There have been scarier graphs in the 2020s 🙄
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Climate change wants to have a chat with you
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Climate change is scary, but not as scary as the idea of having a high probability of getting a disease right now that might kill me or leave me debilitated with ME/CF.
the sooner the ai bubble bursts and takes down big tech with it the better
Honestly the AI bubble is going to take the entire stock market with it. Over a quarter of the S&P 500 (an index of the 500 and something most valuable companies on the US Stock Market) is made up of tech companies directly investing in the AI bubble, and most individuals and funds these days invest into indexes rather than individual stocks so when a single overvalued market sector making up over a quarter of the market loses most of its value, every stock portfolio is going to lose a shitload of value.
If the AI bubble pops, people’s retirement will also probably disappear tbh. Lotta money right now in IRAs and 401ks
Yeah it’ll be bad, but realistically it’ll be like every other major economic calamity. Your accounts lose a ton of value very rapidly, but as long as the money keeps going in (or as long as you have a small enough withdrawal rate if you’re already retired) ultimately it’ll eventually bounce back and then some in the recovery, because when stocks are down that’s the time to pile more money in (buy low sell high)
It depends on the person’s age group, if they just hit retirement and the stock market collapses, then they’d feel the pain the most. It could mean delaying their retirement by years.
Younger people on the other hand usually bounce back, unless of course there are other circumstances like war.
It’s going to happen and we cannot keep subsidizing this shit.
Like, sorry about your imaginary deserves-to-live points, im sure your dumb game is very fucked by this, but that money’s on the roulette table and the wheel is spinning. We got productive capacity electricity ghg’s and fucking water to salvage.
._. I never said I supported the stock market, just that the stock market collapse will affect a lot of people.
If I had it my way, companies should never be public. Lots of current day issues are because public companies act upon shareholder whims and thus cause the worst of modern day societies
I’d love to have pensions also be reintroduced in companies, but they’ve essentially been all phased out by lobbying for 401ks and IRAs instead.
pensions
Preferable in almost every way, but this vulnerability is shared, right?
Depends on how the pension is set up but yes.
Fair. But typically.
Maybe we shoukd just provide for each other as a society?
It will take everything with it. We’re betting the future of the whole global economy on a homework machine.
This dream that we’ll wake up tomorrow and AI will be a profitable product is the only thing saving us from the full fallout of the tariffs.
It’s so much worse than most people could understand from a chart.
June 6th is not when school’s out over here.
So is the hypothesis that OpenAI’s usage is heavily regionally skewed to… wherever classes end that date? I’m guessing US, because that’s what I guess when somebody forgets there’s a planet attached to their country.
Yeah that kind of coordination coming from the end of the school year doesn’t make sense. Zooming out a bit it looks like there was just a spike in May 2025. It was all useage of a particular model, OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini, which barely registers outside of these short periods of high use in March and then May of 2025. I don’t really know what a ‘token’ is so maybe it’s not a 1:1 comparison when useage shifts between different models? Or the data’s bad? Or some particular project used that model a large amount in those specific months?
A token is the “word” equivalent as far as AI is concerned. It’s just not a full word, it’s whatever unit of meaning the neural network has decided makes sense (so “ish” can be a token by itself, for instance). Point is, tokens processed is just a proxy for “amount of text the thing spat out”.
At a glance, and I haven’t looked into it, this looks like a product launch or a product getting replaced or removed, maybe putting something free behind a paywall or whatever. Definitely not the school year ending in a particular place. It’s pretty clearly misinfo, I’d just have to do more homework to figure out what kind than I’m willing to do for this purpose, but your assessment definitely makes a ton more sense than the OP.
Holy shit, you can even see the weekends.
I wonder if the weekend dip is Friday and Saturday with an uptick on Sunday night when students try to do all their weekend homework?
If you think that’s the scariest graph in the 2020s you have a shit memory of what happened at the beginning of this decade…
I’d argue the scariest graphs are about the climate, but few people seem to care anymore. We are already at 1.5°C global warming. Coastal regions around the world are almost definitely going under by 2100.
For a brief moment, I felt hope.
His is the scariest chart of the 2020s? Not the alarming warming spikes or the more powerful natural disasters? Who gives a shit if kids are cheating in school if they world they’re going to inhabit one day won’t leave them time for book learnin because they’re too busy surviving.
Tbf, part of why shit it so bad is because people are uneducated. If they can’t think for themselves then they’ll just believe whatever bullshit Fox News or the algorithm feeds them without critically thinking about it at all
And we’ve already seen that a company CAN change the “behaviour” of an LLM with a flick of a switch (“MechaHitler”, anyone?), so imagine people being too lazy to research/learn, and a popular LLM being run by malicious actors.
I definitely get it. The chart is bad. I just meant more like…we are so close to that point of no return on the climate. If we haven’t already surpassed it. The damage is done. It’s game over. How bad is it going to get is the question now.
Is there a source for the chart? How do we know it’s official data?
When parents fail to reinforce the value of education at a young age, this is the result. I know people personally who openly admitted to using chatgpt during finals at college, and they aren’t bad people, but they don’t see the value in the serious mastery of education, and they weren’t exactly model students before chatGPT came around either.
The education system is fundamentally bullshit and they’re not wrong to try to get out of doing the make work. I just encourage them to do self-education outside of school because at least then no one’s going to make you write some dumb essay. If Chad GPT existed when I was in school you bet your butt I would have used it and retrospect I would not have been unjustified in doing so
School as in post-secondary? Otherwise June 6 seems early
Depends where you live. Where I am at, most schools end at the end of May, but then start around the beginning of August
In my district in Arkansas school ended May 28th
This is such obvious bullshit lmao. I’m about as anti AI as they come but come the fuck on you must have had friends with schools that started summer break at different dates of the year? Or that other countries exist with different schooling requirements? I know some contries are better but everyone besides places like france probably have students using LLMs.
I was thinking the same thing. Although the graph does have some taper to it and maybe “most” schools end around the 6th?
This seems like a good place for a thought i had yesterday. I was driving home and watched a younger woman, no older than 20 take a corner fast and sharp on the sidewalk. She was on one of those electric scooters you can rent. My first thought is how fun that would have been at that age. Then i really started thinking.
Here was this young woman pretty sure at driving age but vehicle prices are out of control. So owning even a beater may be too much for many. I had a scooter very similar but you had to push it everywhere. The deference is, I was eight. I think what I’m trying to find the words for is their privilege of a motorized scooter came at a price they’ll never even understand.
These poor youth think they have it easy with there motorized scooters and chatgpt for answers. Truth is there are benefits to some things, maybe history will show I’m being an old fuddy duddy but I know i would still rather afford a cheap car than have rentable scooters.
Maybe like my teachers before me they will only be half truths. My teacher was right, I don’t carry a calculator on me at all time. The supercomputer the size of that old calculator, that just so happens to also have that function? Well, its never far.
Lol, your comment about the vehicle is stupid as fuck. There is a woman on a scooter. Your city network provides her the possibility to drive with a small vehicle with low emissions and low noise pollution, she doesn’t need to take the car. You don’t know if she owns a car or not, maybe she just prefers the scooter? Her using the scooter is a net positive for everyone. Less traffic, less noise, less emissions and she still gets to her destination quickly
What school gives work in the last few days, though? At least from what I remember, it was mostly wrapping things up, watching movies in class, etc.
Tests and stuff?
They banned fun in most schools
This is implying that LLM usage by students is all bad (either because of cheating or because or because of kids getting bad information from LLMs). If I were a student, I’d absolutely be using LLMs to help me organize notes, summarize things, quiz me on material, and get general overiews of certain topics/explanations of problems, etc. I’d also not assume everything it spit out was correct.
LLMs have a LOT of problems and pose potential pitfalls for students, but they are a tool. They can be used in different ways and those ways are not all bad.
Also school gets out on different dates in different places.
That is ignoring the vast majority of usage. Read about what professors, teachers, etc. are saying about its use and you will not hear it being used as tool as the major use. Everyone claims they are using it as a tool, but most people are using them to outsource thinking, unfortunately. Which is highly problematic when the outputs of LLMs are highly wrong much of the time. You need to use the same skills to evaluate the output that people are outsourcing away. Tools like calculators at least do their tasks correctly as long as your inputs are correct. The same is not true of LLMs. Moreover, people are blindly trusting the LLMs to a point where they are completely stuck whenever the LLM can’t do something or are wrong
Tools like calculators do not take away your ability to think logically, just to do route computation. Research is still emerging, but suggests long term negative effects on cognitive abilities from high LLM use
Also: Regardless of if this graph is caused by schools getting out or not, it’s still very highly used in schools.
Uh I’m a student and the only real thing most people do with LLMs is make it do their work for them. At least the good students will use it to avoid doing busywork. I used it in my physics college class to do my homework because the class was easy, and I got an A on the final exam.
LLM are powerful when used for what they are - predictive text. While I dont trust them completely you can usually catch most hallucinations of a bit cautious. Just like I don’t trust a blog post blindly.
Have trouble understanding some topic / technology? I’ll ask two of them to explain. Or copy one answer into the next and have it verify.
What do the colors mean?
different models, with blue being the most basic and red being also most basic with extra features
Jesus
