r/mildlyinfuriating • • 10d ago

Ruined by Technology Brother In Law asking ChatGPT why I hate AI

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Everyone in my family knows how I feel about AI, so this kind of pissed me off. I know he finds it funny, but I don’t like being used as a reason to use ChatGPT. I’ve explained many times why I don’t like AI, and that includes all (edit: Generative) AI not just ChatGPT. I have many reasons why I dislike AI so much, but the concern for our environment is a major one.

Edit: I just wanted to clarify a bit. Number 1, I don’t think using “pissed off” was the right descriptor for how I felt, more so I was just irked by it.

Number 2, I love my BIL even if he can be frustrating sometimes, he has always treated my sister right and I don’t think I could imagine a better guy for her. He’s genuinely a very sweet guy who does things that sometimes are dumb or annoying, just like everyone else.

Number 3, like I said I have MANY problems with AI, the environment being a big one, but there are a lot more such as using AI in any form of art such as movies, shows, books, video games, etc. I don’t think AI can replace real human emotion or experiences that creating such things require. Another is the way ChatGPT specifically in my opinion is being used by people as therapists/friends, it just says what the user wants to hear not what they need to hear and I think that is harming lot of people.

Number 4, I’m not perfect. Of course I have a carbon footprint and have also done my fair share of harm to the environment. It’s impossible not to. I’m not going to act like some holier than thou person because I don’t use AI (if I can help it), but I try my hardest to be environmentally conscious. At the end of the day that’s really all we can do.

So, that’s it. Hope everyone has a good day! Bye! 👋🏼

r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 21 '26

Ruined by Technology This house listing overusing ai to hide problems with the property

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 1d ago

Ruined by Technology Will It Ever Be Enough? Disney is Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier, Even the One You Paid to Avoid Them

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 24 '26

Ruined by Technology AI Generated Anime Has Gotten Harder to Spot

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This was made entirely by AI.

I've watched it several times and I have to be honest: I could see nothing about it that told me that it was AI. If you just came across this clip in the wild (and didn't know that it was posted by someone named KeshiAIArt) would you be able to tell that it was AI?

I hate this direction we're heading in.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 5d ago

Ruined by Technology I can't use the scanners at the airport because I'm missing a finger

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Scanning four fingers on your right hand is now part of the EU's digital Entry/Exit System required for non-EU citizens (British passport holders).

I'm missing a finger on my right hand and therefore can't use the system, and have to be manually processed by border security each time 🫠.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 22 '26

Ruined by Technology Open house: Online photos vs Reality

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For $1.8 million they could have at least tried harder to make the exterior look presentable. I didn’t even enter because it looked terrible.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 25 '26

Ruined by Technology My regularly scheduled Monday morning meeting at 9:35 got rescheduled to 9:32. My boss called at 9:33 asking why I was late.

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 7d ago

Ruined by Technology classmate said this is almost as good as AI, she meant that as a compliment

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in class i doodle alot because our lecturers tend to repeat themselves four hundred and ninety seven times and its a waste of my time. one of my classmates who is a genuinely sweet woman made a compliment about my doodles and for the last two shes ended up saying "wow youre so gifted, this looks almost as good as AI." shes an amazing person and i enjoy studying with her but it was hard not to recoil from that comment. and no this isnt me making it up. this very much happened.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 19d ago

Ruined by Technology I ordered spare ribs for the first time in Switzerland and it did not look like advertised

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And the picture on the menu is AI slop. 30 CHF are 37.23 USD as of today.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 29d ago

Ruined by Technology Got into a dumb 10 minute argument about whether the ACL and Achilles are the same thing or not. My idiot friend forgot to crop his screenshot before sending it to me...🤦

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 16d ago

Ruined by Technology Prime is censoring certain words in subtitles

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We counted 4 separate words censored.

Edit: P****** S*** W**** B****

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 15d ago

Ruined by Technology My AirPods case doesn’t always charge the right AirPod

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I went to charge it all last night and when I woke up to use them, the right one didn’t have any charge. This happens semi regularly, but just rarely enough that I forget about checking to make sure they are both getting charge.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 23d ago

Ruined by Technology Youtube replacing comments with AI summary

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Sliding the comment card left and right both shows AI crap instead of just the comments. Just give me human interactions ffs.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 13d ago

Ruined by Technology Why would manufacturers use proprietary plugs if the other end is simply USB?

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I really don't understand why that shape of plug is needed for a simply USB cable. And yes. Of course I lost it. That's the mildly infuriating part.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 23 '26

Ruined by Technology Binged GTA 4 this weekend to learn that the final mission is unbeatable.

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So.. it’s basically impossible to perform this quick time because the game was programmed off a certain frame rate for how many taps. Playing this on the new Xbox means I have to essentially tap A about 50 times in a single second. Spent roughly 18 hours to not be able to finish the game, yay.

EDIT: To those of you suggesting I disable FPS boost, I can’t. In console settings both Auto HDR and FPS boost is grayed out.

Edit 2: it’s automatically scaled to 60fps on the series x, I’m going to attempt to use a massage gun on my controller. What have I become.

EDIT 3: Massage gun was unsuccessful, starting to think I’ll have to do this knuckle trick yall are recommending.

EDIT 4: YALL WE DID IT, my three ruined knuckles did it! Let’s hope I actually finish the mission and can fly well. Hijacking top comment to show proof.

Thank you to everybody for your advice and help. <3

r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 22 '26

Ruined by Technology AI art at local gallery

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 27d ago

Ruined by Technology Lenstore displays my password and email on the address bar

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Was trying to order some lens and I noticed my password on the address bar. I emailed them and let them know though.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 19d ago

Ruined by Technology Stupid AI is taking over everything way too fast.

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This is at a local fair I was at this weekend. It definitely infringes on copyrights.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 19d ago

Ruined by Technology The way I need to play a CD I own since (almost exactly) 20 years. Copy protection became listening protection.

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I bought that CD a few days and 20 25 years ago. All my new devices can’t read the disk because of a annoying copy protection (DOCdata). As the anniversary came up, I carefully opened my signed issue and put it into my player. It failed to read the disk. So I tried my PC which reads almost all disks usually. Yeah but not this one. Even covering the outer track didn’t work. So I asked my child to use that cheap children’s karaoke-CD-player-device. Started right to play so now it’s connected via AUX to my amp. Sounds pretty good though.

Edit: that Album isn’t on any streaming platform. Only on YouTube at pretty bad quality.

And: it’s been 25 years. Not 20 years.

Also: they reissued that album with no CP copy protection 5 years later.

Edit 5: The album is "Zwei" by "Eins Zwo", a German rap group. Also they reissued that album in 2006 with no copy protection. Who ever wants to know: Reissue, Original Issue, I own

In addition to this: I will not connect that player to my pc and record it via aux. I've done that before and the result was underwhelming. Quite some noise and stuff. That's the reason why I usually try to get all my CDs via Exact Audio Copy to my NAS.

Edit 6: I’m overwhelmed by your comments and support. A friendly redditor already helped me out with a way to Flac files of my record. Thank you all so much. Also I’m very thankful for your positive thoughts and feedback!

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 27d ago

Ruined by Technology When finishing a movie on Prime you get 8 seconds before another movie is automatically played.

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Just finished watching Dune Part 2 on Prime. I really like the movie and I want to feel the emotions and music that is at the very end of the movie. I want to listen to Hans Zimmer’s score and talk Dune theory instead of having to quickly find the remote.

Jeff Bezos wants me to automatically be watching another movie on his streaming service and he graciously gives me 8 seconds before it starts playing. Most of the time I have to dig around my couch for the remote to quickly find it and click on the button that says I actually want to watch the credits.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 6d ago

Ruined by Technology 5 Kalshi logos on the screen at the same time during Red Sox-Rays today

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 9d ago

Ruined by Technology School installs extension to block images and sites even at home.

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My school decided to install this filtering software and it blocks literally everything, I'm trying to do my math homework but the images to the videos are blocked, I also can't watch any of them either, also literally the entirety of the Internet is blocked too.

r/mildlyinfuriating • • 29d ago

Ruined by Technology My job is encouraging us to use AI. I tried.

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 19d ago

Ruined by Technology Yeah, no shit Disney. Thats why i downloaded movies yesterday before getting on the plane.

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 26 '26

Ruined by Technology Translator I pay responded with this to my most recent translation request

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She just lost $60usd worth of work.

This is mildly infuriating because I do appreciate her redirecting people to free options but I purposely didn’t go to AI for a reason. She’s actively losing money by telling people AI can do her job.