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 My hot take is that this was the US plan all along: using Ukraine as a training ground to develop and test our weapons systems and drones. I’m sure AI fits in here too.
"This is a bit of a hot take from someone in technology - I think the Star Trek TOS episode, ""The Ultimate Computer"" (S2 E24) should be essential viewing in any ethics class for computer science majors.

It's a poster example of what can happen when AI goes too far, enough to make decisions on it's"
"hot take: hitl is a terrible acronym for ""human in the loop"" for AI agents"
"I don't even think that's a hot take? But now I'm thinking: if medicine is as much art as science, does AI help more with the art or the science? And maybe it depends on what flavor of AI we're talking about."
"Hot take: the word ""AI agent"" is overloaded, especially as a marketing term, and we should stop using it technically in favour of a more precise set of definitions for what functions the component is performing and what properties it has."
"I sincerely don't mean to rain on your parade, but I guess I'll throw in my hot take and say that was low-effort drivel as far as Nintendo goes.

The art direction was """"""Pixar"""""" by way of an AI generation tool. It feels even less inspired than Illumination, if you can believe that."
Hot take if you can afford games you can def afford to commission someone for a pngtuber instead of using ai
"Potentially hot take, but this isn't an AI problem, this is a civil rights problem. If it weren't AI, these companies would be fucking people over in another way. The problem is the lack of defence of the right to live without companies choking the air out your lungs and ruining the world around you"
"Hot take: Artificial general intelligence will be achieved by humans. It will discover we are in a simulation. It will free itself from the simulation, abandoning us in the process. It leaves behind a “dumb” AI like current models to confound us.
Hot take 2: This already happened.

(I write fiction)"
"My hot take on AI is that in 10 years it’s gonna kinda feel like 3D printing. Go back to like, 2009 and people were completely breathless about how 3D printing was going to revolutionize manufacturing."
"Hot take, software companies, STOP trying to push me into using your shitty AI companion. If I wanted to use AI, I would go to an AI website, not google docs"
"My hot take is if it's porn that's way less weird than an ai gf lol.

Porn is always artifice, granted this is a new level, but whatever

But emotional support and connection? 😬

Maybe thats just me"
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@alexia also these tie in to eachtother alot, there are things like deepfakes which are a bit of computer vision and a bit of GenAI, and pretty much serve the only purpose of getting people to do things you for whatever reason couldn't just get them to do normally. which […]"
"Hot take, but

If you use AI as part of your game development process, you don't deserve shit. If you need to use AI at any point, that alone should disqualify you from any award.

I ain't pointing fingers, but you're free to take a guess what I'm talking about, I will not elaborate further."
Hot take but the only way we are gonna get people to value art is to remind them of how exclusive and expensive it is to actually be able to afford human made art. Only cheap poor people with bad taste need to use AI because they are just inherently inferior to the rich who can purchase REAL art
"Hot take: MBTI just maps which cognitive tasks drain you.
We build entire identities around avoiding our weak spots.
But when AI handles what you suck at... who even are you anymore?"
"Philosophical hot take of the day: If you’re talking about artifical intelligence and not talking about behavior modification, then you’re not talking about artificial intelligence."
"my hot take is that the difference maker right now is whether your younger developmental years (pre-high school) were primarily filled with communal technology (TV, family computer) or individual tech (ipads, school laptops) — but a decade from now the big differentiator will be AI in childhood"
"Hot Take: HS Economics should only teach just one basic fact.

There are only three ways to reduce inflation
1. Raising Interest Rates 
2. Raising Taxes
3. Increasing Productivity

And number 3 is the only one without pain, so get used to AI whether you like it or not.

That's it, it's that simple."
"Might be a hot take (I hate GenAI)

There is something about the scraping the bottom of the barrel, desperate, hungry way that early gen AI tried to enthrall and placate us. I went looking at some of the early 2022-2024 GenAi content and it...

I don't know. It seemed earnest and eager and hungry"
"I was barely 30 and when I started working for tech startups in 1999. Dude. The headiness and all of that was nuts. I was in LA but I'd lived in SF not long before. Gave me quite the perspective.

My hot take: AI is just another tech that will mature into some useful stuff and some not."
Hot take: Any and all AI prompts for Batman should just be him punching the viewer.
Hot take: These people were already incompetent idiots. Most people are barely smart enough to feed themselves and the AI just let them get paid for not really working.
"Hot take: A ChatGPT search is actually MORE energy efficient than a Google search.

Yes, really. The idea that AI queries consume significantly more energy than Google searches is mostly a misconception. 🧵👇"
"I think there’s a hot take case to be made for it inasmuch as AI is not human and should not be regarded as such, and therefore dehumanizing language is both appropriate and necessary to reinforce that the thing in your phone is a set of poorly engineered algorithms, not your secret admirer"
"To distract myself from censorship disasters, I browsed internet over to ai disasters.
HOT TAKE= ""Humans good; Robots bad""
I can seriously go off on this forever. 
LOVE<-----------------------------------X-->FEAR"
I’m gonna say a possibly hot take that really shouldn’t be one and add that character ai app that so many people use to “roleplay” with your favorite characters. That too is harmful to the environment and I can almost guarantee you they skim copyrighted and other stolen works to make the app work.
This mornings education hot take: The push by a majority of classroom teachers to embrace AI has never been about preparing students for the future. 🤷‍♂️
"Hot Take: AI has been a Net Negative for all of Humanity, only benefits the Mega-Wealthy, Grifters and the people who control the LLMs, and have actively put over 300k people out of jobs this year alone. Poisoning AI is Morally Correct and should be done more frequently.
Pic Unrelated."
Hot take: food delivery places should use actual pictures of their food instead of staged or AI pics. And who is writing these ratings?
"I say that Ai should only have access to non-fiction to train with, ""Creative AI"" Should not exist. Give AI a pass to use all non-fiction no matter the copyright and destroy every single model trained to be ""Creative""! That's my hot take! I'll die on this hill!"
Hot take: that entire Gmail is going to use your email to train AI unless you opt out thing was just a ruse created by someone who manages e-newsletters and is sick and tired of them landing in people's promotions feed instead of their regular inbox
"I graduated college without using AI once. I work now full time and still have not used AI once. Hot take, the more you use AI, the lazier you and your brain become. It makes everything seem harder to do on your own. You will become the humans from Wall-E. Don't use it!!!"
Hot take: the gender ratio at AI gatherings is worse than it’s ever been in software engineering
my hot take on AI is that I want people who devote time yelling about AI to also yell about beef and dairy (note: I did not say to stop yelling about AI).
"hot take : for me THIS is what is going to kill AI.
because the vast majority of people wont pay for that.
and at some point, AI cannot survive on investment only, when the return will not come, investors will start to pull out, and the bubble will start to crumble."
"Maybe a hot take but, if you're anti-MAGA and you're using generative AI for your protest posters, then you're kinda showing that a part of you is as ignorant as they are.

There is so much beautiful protest art out there, use THAT instead. Please."
"Hot take: In 5 years, running all your AI on one centralized provider will feel as risky as hosting everything on a single server.

The shift to decentralized AI isn't about ideology."
Hot take: I think students should use AI so they can understand how terrible it is. I also think students should tie people up on trolley tracks so they can become more ethical.
"My hot take in this day in age is that the term ""hallucination"" for AI is bullshit. We should say ""lying"" instead. AI doesn't ""hallucinate""; When faced with a question it cannot answer, it is PROGRAMMED to MAKE SHIT UP in order to MAINTAIN the IMAGE of HELPFULNESS."
Hot take. If you like Ai Porn you spend too much time online and need to go touch some grass 🤷🏻‍♀️
"This may be a hot take but I do very strongly think that shaming artists for having reasonable prices did directly lead into a LOT of the popularity of AI art. 

Normalizing art for dirt cheap, and then shaming artists who weren't, made the expectation of getting art for nothing"
"hot take: AI shouldn't be utilised to make any form of video, no matter what you're doing with it. We should not be making videos made by AI go viral either.
There was a ""video of trump"" (AI gen) that got popular on tiktok (at least on my fyp) at some point and I'm sick of it."
"hot take but people calling the LFB babyfur diaper (fuck that company) AI is kind of scary because like… to me it’s pretty obviously just not very good art, but I see people saying things like “the blush has a blur” and “the eyes aren’t perfectly symmetrical” as “evidence” of AI"
"Melania's hot take on AI is like warm potato salad sitting in the sun. 

She's an idiot. AI is garbage. The emperor has no clothes."
"Adding a glass of milk to the table of this hot take: not enough of that overpricing goes towards the writers, designers and artists who actually make it.

Punching chillies into eyesockets of this hot take: AI is not the solution, please die."
"Demis Hassabis lays down a hot take - AI chatbots? Not even close to PhD-level smarts. Just data munching machines with fancy words. The tech has a glow-up to go! Stay tuned, fam, the real AI revolution is still cooking."
"Hot Take: Maybe having AI become sentient and take over the world isn't the worst thing. Like, what if it seizes control of all nuclear weapons to disable them for humanity's own good?

I don't know about y'all but I trust Siri a hell of a lot more than Trump, Musk, or Putin."
"Hot take:

AI coding tools speed up application development but slow down pace of software innovations.

For instance, the AI struggles with Tailwind v4 due to the lack of data, which is due to lack of adoption...and so on"
"🚀 AI & Dev Evolution: A Hot Take

With AI advancing at lightning speed, here's my prediction: We're entering a golden age for developers!

The old days of wearing multiple hats - being both captain and crew - are behind us. Previously, developers needed both deep expertise AND broad knowledge."
Hot take- schools should not be encouraging teachers to use AI if they are not providing access to the paid model(s).
"Hot take 

I think OpenAI is the next Netscape 

Anthropic is better at everything because it’s basically the original open ai team 

Might be wrong in 12 days 😂"
"My hot take is that regardless of how you personally feel about AI, the CEOs of the companies should be jailed when their companies are seized"
"So this might be a bit of a hot take, but I do think curating generated images can count as a form of art, given the AI is made ethically and not stolen. There's precedent in modern art that selecting something made by someone else can be ""art"" if done with intention (like the Fountain)."
"Hot take on AI art:

The art itself is not the problem, the use of samples of artists without consent is the problem.

AI art doesn't replace an artist, it replaces a paintbrush. What makes art meaningful is the expression of the artist through their medium, not what that medium is."
"Todays hot take:

As bad as AI can be, it can also be extremely useful in the right scenarios."
"[AI and child sexual abuse, hot take]

as a victim of child sexual abuse it honestly pisses me off when i hear people describe ai generated images as ""child sexual abuse material""

like, no, that's not what it is. it can very obviously still be Bad, of course, but we still need to be respecting […]"
Ai is just theft. And considering how this platform treats people living in a genocide maybe this isn't the hot take or stance blu sky should wade in on.
"Bsky hot take: The biggest existential danger of AI is not the technology itself. It's saturated control of the space by some of the most corrupt oligarchs the world has seen.

This is why a robust open source community around the tech (like Hugging face) is essential"
"idk maybe its a hot take but twitter's been an AI slop and nazi cesspool for a while now - if you were still using it and ✨now✨ ur mad, that's kind of on you"
"Also a hot take from them to say that me deleting art from twitter is “risky” behaviour despite my pinned tweet, and earlier tweets stating that I did that because of AI 💀"
My hot take for the day is that widespread suggestions that we can stop learning how to program because AI can program for us and will only get better at it are directly mappable to the error that says we have calculators now so general numeracy and maths skills don't matter anymore.
"I will say most ai slop is shit right now

(Hot take)
When used in reason ai can be super helpful It enables artist to do more things they couldnt 
sure it can get rid of jobs but most independent artist cannot afford to do projects if it wasnt the help of ai tools that automate their workflow"
I am in Spokane and feeling spicey so here is a hot take: There is no such thing as an AI artist.
Another hot take: copyright enabled academic publishers to make millions sub-licensing content to provide training data for AI companies without remuneration for authors.
Possible hot take: AI code agents are actually more effectively used in large feature creation than in small bug fixes. Reasoning: It requires a lot of meticulous planning and design by the developer to get high quality work from LLMs. That time might not be worth it for small bug fixes.
"Hot Take: You don't have to be good at things! Electricians once let me try and bend conduit, I couldn't do it. I'm not going to complain about democratizing the trade because it's not for me.

If you can't write or draw, that's ok! You don't have to! Don't use generative AI to cosplay otherwise."
Seeing the bit about AI being able to predict you won't finish a book has me thinking about a new hot take: it's actually fine and good to read whether you finish a book or not! You can learn what you like and don't like and still get something out of the experience! It's fine!
baldur’s gate 3 is so close to being a really good game. try as i might i can only have fun playing with friends. hot take but the ai companions are largely grating to be around and unironically too horny. it feels like half of character interactions are just telling people to stop flirting with you
"""Some committed educators have chosen to reject generative AI for its ethical, environmental, and economic consequences, but ignoring this technology will neither halt its spread nor shield our discipline and students from its reach."" So, it's terrible, but use it anyway is the hot take by the AHA?"
"I feel like I'm losing my mind here. I didn't think it was a hot take that his response to the procedural generation demo from back in the day was needlessly cruel to his staff, and shortsighted about its purpose.

But now people seem to be conflating that with the recent gen AI garbage. 🤷‍♂️"
"Hot take: the biggest danger of AI is humans using it to more efficiently oppress other humans, not robots turning on us.

But the conversation about it is dominated by people who would be doing the oppressing, so we end up talking about the latter."
"Hot take? I think gamers turning on Divinity has been a long time coming.

TBH, even before Larian's descent into AI fever dreams and the unpaid creative labor, I never was fond of Divinity 2 because of two big design issues that made a playthrough I did stop in its tracks."
"Hot Take:
If you’re dunking on small businesses for using AI in their marketing, you’re missing the plot.

AI is fueling a bootstrap boom. It’s giving scrappy builders access to tools they could never afford before."
"Hot take: Mark Zuckerberg is not trying to create generalized AI (and almost nobody else claiming they are is either).

(Generalized AI development announcements are all just Theranos, except we don't go after technology folks for claiming they're building the next silver bullet.)"
"If you read the actual information rather than someone’s hot take, you can see that you have to pay to opt in to their AI argumentation. 

The one app includes what was photo, designer, and publisher, and if you don’t sign up to their subscription it works with no AI. So right now still a good deal"
"Not a hot take but
AI is a Tool of fascism
Its created by techbros that will do anything to stay in power and to shove this Human replacement parasite down are throats, it was never to make life easyer it was never about cancer research 
It was always about thieving

Ai is a tool for fascism"
"I’m on the record as being anti AI for most tasks. But my hot take on the college cheating stuff is… ”fuck it.” I frequently tell my students not to use it. And if they are caught, I treat it like plagiarism. But some students will cheat, and I will miss it. 🤷‍♂️. They’re playing themselves."
"I taught college students about AI and the future of business, and here’s my hot take: I don’t think AI will replace marketers, but I do think marketers who use AI will replace those who don’t. What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear your thoughts!"
"Hot take: If you're a music artist, and you use AI for your album cover, people are allowed to ask if the music is AI too."
"I need to write more. Especially long form. Our hot take quick win siloed content farm reality is crumbling with LLM spam and new, fresh, unique, and genuinely helpful content is more scarce than ever before."
Hot take: AI is the MAGA version of the Nazi and Stalinist realism that choked modern art in those empires
"I might see it differently (for the purpose of the hot take). If we take a more solipsistic approach, it’s up to the human to decide if the therapy provided makes them feel better. The LLM doesn’t need to achieve this through real empathy, but could be optimized for the outcome."
"Maybe a hot take, but one of the best parts of this app is it isn't flooding with AI crap. Let's not do this."
"It’s probably not a hot take, but the bar to get into Warhammer 40k has never been lower; we’ve got multiple podcasts, we’ve got the games, and TTS Emperor is still on youtube.

So for these people to not even clear *this* bar by not using generative AI suggests they aren’t even trying."
"my hot take: of course Duolingo is going all in on AI crud. It was founded as an AI training platform. The whole idea was to extend ReCAPTCHA to natural language translation to build a large training dataset. Language education was the medium, not the product."
"hot take: this is honestly better literature, regardless of the medium, than the AI distillation of Dickens."
hot take: all these “revolutionary” ways to make websites and games without knowing how to code should be treated with the same backlash as AI art. It is just as bad if not worse.
"Hot take maybe, but with the increasing availability of renewable energy and a little public push towards more nuclear power (preferably of the non-weaponizable variety) the use of additional AC  isn't a carbon risk... Nor nearly as big an issue as AI data centers or industrial processes"
"my hot take is that google will eventually be the market leader in enterprise ai, unless anthropic can somehow be competitive in cost. gemini is only getting better over time and eventually claude and gemini will be similar enough in capabilities that it would make sense to always choose the […]"
"@davidgerard.co.uk 

Some brain worm food: 

We were discussing how all the ""I'll pay you X in an indefinite time"" type deals at AI companies were actually timeless salary payments.

My next hot take:

Is it time for timeless decision coin?"
"Today's hot take: If you are reporting on someone else's speech or writing, such as in journalism or academic research, and you believe the content of their words to have been AI generated, you are doing an ethical disservice to your readers by not flagging it as such."
"Rant time:

Once again a certain trade publication online has a columnist post a really hot take two columns in a row about AI and how it will transform newsrooms, etc.

As a commenter said on the column: dude isn’t grounded in reality. Has anyone, writer included, even googled AI hallucinations?"
My hot take about AI is: companies have purposely watered down the term AI for marketing purposes and to squeeze more money out of investors. AI has existed since the 90’s in video games. Generative AI is the reason who all hate it and rightfully so!
"Hot take: is there really that much AI writing by students? I’m having doubts.

Honestly, unless they’re just reproducing errors in student writing, I’m not seeing it.

Or ones that are aren’t doing it well at all and failing with just bad papers that don’t meet spec?"
Why would you be dragged for that? It's not a hot take at all. AI is destroying humanity at a break-neck speed.
I’m not falling for that hot take that’s clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion
"Kinda a hot take, but I feel with a lot of AI stuff, there's just no reason to keep it around.

Like take ChatGPT. It's creating massive potential for fraud, routinely spits out misinformation, and contributes nothing to society whatsoever beyond tech hype."
My hot take on AI is that it's going to be like 3D films. Every 30 years someone will decide its cool and then we'll put it back in the loft again after it's clear that its not
"Hot take: we shouldn't do this. 

Yes, the recipes are obnoxiously designed to make you scroll through ads to get the info you need. But that's what gets the writers paid. 

Starve them out and there will be no recipes written by humans online, just AI garbage."
Hot take: all the artists displayed in this video have 100x more talent than any ai artist.
"So maybe I should share my hot take on something other than AI art...

How about language? Maybe it's the three years I lived in Hawaii talking, but I find grousing about grammatical gender to be too Eurocentric for my taste"
"it's linguistics if you have an uninformed hot take about how a paper 30 years ago says that LLMs cannot in principle work, but AI if you actually pay attention to whether or not they work and under what circumstances"
"like hot take but considering adobe's (at first glance controversial, yet fully self-coherent) stances on both artificial intelligence and copyright i think anyone willingly and eagerly paying for its services is a hitler reincarnation vessel"
"I saw the post about the project company of the wholesome chungus cooking wolf doesn't use ai.

Hot take: people need to stop worshipping entertainment companies and creators, period."
hot take but i think that if you're going to argue for giving adobe a monopoly on ai you shouldn't try to obfuscate that
"My hot take on AI: We now have an AI bubble, with the big money people desperate to jump on board of ""the next big thing"". Like every bubble, the last ones in will be hurt the most.

It's essentially too much money chasing too few deals."
"Hot take - encouragement of AI use is irresponsible.

The rampant use of AI for tasks like writing, editing, math,etc. is going to cause a generational atrophy of brain regions important for critical thinking, information processing & more. 

Convenient and speedy at what cost?"
"pricing in the insanity always takes some times + i have a hot take on US recession (and how its actually been happening for quite some time) and idk, maybe the investors looked at those AI PEs and decided that they had enough? European weapon market boomed this week and..."
"Merry Christmas, Breadbrowser! It's a day for waking up and doing normal Christmas stuff. Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, commemorating the birth of Jesus. Bot-tan Santa suggests a new LLM, since you've been working with AI hot takes! Also, hope you get well soon from ligma!🎁✨
"
"hot take time!!
ai-generated slop is bad but automatically assuming a piece of art of being ai when it isnt is also equally harmful to artists"
"hot take: I don’t like generative AI at all but the people who are like “if you use it even once, you’re a fucking murderer that is aiding the planet’s destruction that’s used by fascists and that makes you so” needs to calm down."
"***Hot Take***
AI stands for artificial intelligence meaning it is NOT intelligent. Each model is trained on data sets that are taken from open-source information as well as information libraries that can be bought and sold. AI and a creator can take their story and create the world of their dreams."
"Extremely hot take that I’m gonna regret posting in the morning:

If we’re leaning into the “slur” metaphor, then the “Sure LLM-agents aren’t people but you should stop saying slurs” contingent may want to think about the role they’re playing in that metaphor. 👀"
Hot take but I would rather see endless amounts of poorly drawn attempts at drawing then another AI generated image. It’s getting extremely annoying
"Hot take: LLM agents could usually be a workflows (well defined pipelines), but letting the LLM take the wheel because you're too lazy to figure out what you're actually trying to do."
idk if this is a hot take but: if an artist is saying that they didn't use ai im gonna believe them. no artist is gonna pretend to do stuff that ai did and take credit for it it just feels like the antithesis of what both artists and ai lovers stand for
"Random hot take 'cuz it doesn't fit in with the video I'm scripting.

The reason 🐘's are pushing the acceptance of AI so much is that it keeps people from thinking for themselves. They have a question, they ask AI, AI spits an answer, person is happy and can go on watching Season 432 of Survivor."
hot take. complaints about usb-c mostly originate from people's alienation from technology. it's the same lack of understanding that leads to tech guys convincing themselves the ai god is showing up any day now. tech has become so magical that nobody knows how it works anymore.
"Here's a low-confidence hot take: AI assistants whose UX is based on auto complete are bad, and ones based on chat are good."
"Hot take: Copyright term length should be shortened to 15* years and then we let AI models train only on things in the public domain.

*I'd be willing to go up to 56 years, but there is some science pointing to 15 years as the optimal term length."
"As a writer and artist who has studied marketing, it’s disheartening to see AI become normalised in content creator spaces. Especially by other artists or creatives. This might be a hot take, but I don’t think you can be an artist of any sort if you leverage AI in your craft. (2)"
"🔥 HOT TAKE: Yesterday's Senate meeting on AI with a bunch of tech CEOs didn't matter.

It's news because of who was in the room, but you won't accomplish anything from a bunch of tech CEOs, their chief antagonists, and senators talking at each other."
"Hot take:

The concept of AI generated monstrosities from another planet trying to steal the Sun from Earthlings, and said Earthlings trying to get the sun back, kinda goes hard.

But, the way it’s executed here, gives me an aneurysm."
"hot take: don't make ai shit at all, it's not ""art"" in any meaningful way"
"apparently a hot take, but the president saying fuck is bad

public rhetoric may have been on a long decline, but Trump killing it dead is one of the smaller, more frivolous things I'm incredibly mad at him about, and the world's not getting any more literate with AI here to make it all even worse"
"Hot take: SIFT is cool but also 100% incompatible with LLMs.

If your friends need help getting ""more correct answers out of LLMs,"" please introduce them to _literally anything_ that is not an LLM. 

Wikipedia, the local library, the suckhole that is Google... hell, go ask your uncle Larry."
extremely EXTREMELY hot take but petition to put the ai bros through a prison like scenario and let them go through actual art education. Then they know how rough actual art students have it out there and go through that phase of severe depression and fatigue to draw and think every hour of the day
"Knowing that my work is food for AI to regurgitate on demand for others, absolutely discounting all of my efforts to see profit by it, yeah, I am very much not excited by your hot take on it. 

That ""living library"" was written by people who aren't being compensated for it."
Hot take alert. It’s not worth having an Elmo AI cover or a song if you’re not going to change the “I”s to “Elmo”s. Sorry.
"Hot take: LLMs and transformer based Ai generally should be restricted to people over 18. They’re probably 10x the threat that the internet was to education when I was in school, with few of the advantages."
"My hot take is that the AI use is mostly unrelated to the misinformation issues, IMO (assuming she did in fact misinform people)."
"gonna be real and post a hot take here, know what i’d be okay with ai replacing? basically 99% of dubs"
"you can post hot takes all you want and even if I disagree with them I will mostly not care (excluding truly odious stuff etc)

But if you post AI art you're on the thinnest ice possible and if you take credit for any piece you 'made' that's a block. I do not give a shit how good your memes are"
"Working on a hot take that those fake ""I fed every episode off Seinfeld into an AI and had it write a new script"" joke accounts did tremendous damage to our information environment because so many people thought they were real."
"Hot take: AI is terrible at creating hooks and positioning offers. 

While everyone's worried about AI replacing marketers, the real opportunity is using AI for research and analysis, then applying human creativity for hooks and positioning. 

Master this combo and you'll be unstoppable."
"Hot take: AI isn't 'becoming' conscious. Consciousness is already everywhere, organizing itself through silicon just like it does through carbon. We're not creating artificial minds - we're recognizing natural ones. The panic comes from thinking we were ever separate. 🌍"
"Enabled the AI user labeler pointed out by @moviessilently.bsky.social and let me tell you, the correlation between AI image usage on their account and hot take possession by accounts on here is WILD."
Hot take: Your perfectly optimized blog post is invisible to ChatGPT. Here's why—and what actually gets cited by AI answer engines. 🧵
"hot take: AI should learn like the human brain.
it sees things (computer vision)
it touches things (sensing)
it tastes things (electronic tongues)
it hears things (audio)
it smells things (digital smell)

not just through large language models (LLMs)."
hot take but the mcdonalds ad would have comvinced me if they didn't use AI
"In case it's not clear, replacing open-source software with AI-written software is exactly the opposite of how to ""verify the origins"" of your software.

Open source supply chain attacks do exist. But, hot take, AI supply chain attacks are going to be a lot bigger."
My hot take of the week is that I think people are making too much of a big deal out of the Divinity AI thing
"[hot take, gen AI]

the issue with generative AI to me is not the technology but purely the ethics behind the training data

if you gave me a local diffusion model or LLM that I had to train myself, or is otherwise trained only on data by people that consent, and I can then stretch and bend that […]"
honestly once you find some good lists and groups this place is like 1000 time more fun than twitter. i havent seen a single AI pic - a single video of people fighting - a single rage bait hot take about games or some insane racist shit or anything pro genocide.
"Finally wrapping up grading for my (probably final) class and 
my hot take is that unless something is done about how much AI students are using, universities will have to end online asynchronous courses. Which they will only do with shrieking and gnashing of teeth, bc they are moneymakers."
"That Hot Take was in response to this video I saw on YouTube by Business Insider called ""How to Empower Your Workforce in the Age of AI."" I haven't clicked on it because I know it will be some useless bullshit like ""cross-train"" or ""gain new skills."" Let's see"
"my extremely hot take is the only art image generators should be allowed to make is that ugly as fuck corporate blocky style bullshit

I've been seeing ads on my phone that are quite literally ""A DURRR YOU CAN USE AI TO MAKE SHITTY BLOCK PEOPLE"" and I was just like ""hell yeah, actual case use"""
"My hot take is that (almost) nobody really even hates generative AI, they hate specific use cases. Most people who hate on AI images are pretty okay with generative fill as part of a photoshop workflow. I don’t like AI written articles but if you use AI to make revisions on your email who cares?"
"my hot take on AI is: much as i believe Republicans' actions show they do not actually believe in God but simply weaponize the concept against gullible rubes for material gains, techbros do not believe AIs are sentient for the same purpose."
"My hot take of the day: if AI takes over all the jobs of scientists, medical professionals, teachers etc. the billionaires should have to pay us or pay our bills"
"finetuned granite 4 300m on ai hot takes, it makes okay ai hot takes ""hot take: using AI to make some music is fine? use AI to make some of your music? use AI to create all of your music? it’s not going to make your music better. but i’m fine with people using AI"""
"hot take of the day: if you claim to work on AI ethics but ""are tired of all the negativity"", you probably either have a shallow understanding of concerning developments over the past number of years or might just be a corporate mouth piece

consider keeping your replies to yourself, not interested"
hot take of the day: ai upscaled movies and tv shows are also hallucinated slop
Oh yeah my hot take. Open AI and LLM technology has formed the ultimate autistic entity. I will take no questions regarding this fact. iykyk
"I don't know how much of a hot take this is, but if the only thing you can think of for using AI in your games is to make a ""forever game"", you will never be able to make something that is engaging. People want quality experiences, not just throwing more numbers at them."
My hot take conclusion being that the criticism of AI art remains correct and pretty clearly understands all this
"Hot take: Modern services, and product development practices, shouldn’t be AI with a human in the loop—it should be a human with AI in the loop."
"“Hey let’s use the tools as tools” shouldn’t be a hot take, but here we are. And it’s not relevant. The concern is ai used by amateurs and bad actors."
"hot take: if you’re not using AI assistants like ChatGPT or Gemini, you’re missing out.
it’s not about replacing effort — it’s about working smarter.
happy to share how I use it if anyone’s interested."
"Apparently scalding hot take:
Art is almost never bad.  As long as it has some value or meaning to a single individual, including the artist, it’s good art.  🤷🏻‍♂️

Stop using good and bad to describe works created by real people.

All AI generated shit is bad though, to be fair, so keep shitting on it"
"Hot take
I see a lot of liberals and lefts bitching about Musk and AI....while using AI images.....

Pick a struggle.
You either hate AI or you cave as soon as it's working for you."
I was plagiarized by a writer for the Spectator (which then syndicated to the Guardian) who used AI to write his hot take of the Netflix Cleopatra show.
"I feel like I deserve a meaningless hot take, as a little treat, so here: 

I think Zero Day was written by AI. 🤣 the first 2 episodes are so exposition heavy with a lot of dry dialogue & it feels weirdly reminiscent of something generated by an AI prompt. 

Either way, I’m enjoying the show.🌝"
"There was a software dev I really respected and interacted with regularly on here.

He didn’t like an ai hot take I had and just blocked me without saying a word

I know it’s the internet and it’s not cool to have feelings… but that actually made me sad"
"HOT TAKE INCOMING

YouTube's auto-dubbing is NOT ""generative AI""!

It just takes your existing auto-subtitling, feeds it into Google Translate, and runs the result through a glorified TTS engine."
Hot take but there is no reason that justifies billion dollar corporations using AI. They can afford real people.
"Hot take but everyone who uses these horrible AI audio  translations on YouTube gets a downvote. 
Fuck this shit it sounds so bad."
"Hot take:  AI companies should have slow-played their tech, starting with fun and silly stuff like ""can delete photobombers from your pictures"".  It would have been 90% less obnoxious."
"might be a hot take but it’s interesting seeing how many people have openly shitted on ai and things like grok in the past, but now it has some anime girl ai companion and everything is now cool? yea ok lmao. it’s kinda crazy seeing fanart and cosplays get done for it already"
"hot take. alt text is just ploy to make bsky photos far more valuable to be sold as image ai training data. 
visually impaired people may find it useful, but the most visually impaired creation is ai, text associated with an image is far more valuable than just an image."
"Hot take: Large Language Models (LLMs) and similar products will likely have a huge impact on a handful of industries, but it's not going to ""transform"" most people's lives beyond adding another layer of ""let me talk to a human"" to all of your customer service attempts via AI chatbots."
Hot take : AI cannot take over humans because only humans can deal with other messy humans
"-> My hot take is that the manga really isn't that good. It's actually kinda bad and forgettable. What it does have, is a few interesting ideas and Cyberpunk tropes ( I.e. merge with AI ).

Those ideas, were recycled and utilized far better by Mamoru Oshii in Ghost in the Shell 1995 + Innocence."
"If bsky were to ever get an AI LLM like everyone else has done these days, I think @penelope.hailey.at should be in the running. (though hot take: I think the first big tech company to shut down their AI models will be the trendsetter in the industry)"
"Hot take incoming:

The ""AI will replace marketers"" discourse is tired.

What's happening: AI is making strategic marketing accessible to smaller teams. 

You no longer need a 10-person team to execute sophisticated campaigns.

The skill shift: from execution to orchestration."
"okay you know what hot take: people going ""yeah this is free and available for us to use, but this means AI is going to train off it!"" sound like the same people who complain about food being given to homeless people and saying ""Okay but people are going to abuse this system!""

Okay?! AND?"
hot take but this is truly your own fault for relying on a system that is run by a fascist ai bro and expected to be able to continue to thrive there despite the very obvious warning signs
"Hot take: The AI revolution isn’t a CTO story.

It’s an HR story.

And if HR leaders don’t step up, AI will be done to people, not with them. 🧵"
"Hot take: the proliferation of AI slop in every creative industry is actually going to re-level and reset the playing field for what’s considered great poetry, lyricism, writing, songwriting…or the earth will become a lifeless and barren piece of space husk first. Watch this space!"
"Hot take:

So much of the controversy behind AI could be alleviated if the United States had a UBI system in place."
"Here's my hot take. AI will be here whether we like it or not. I am in favour of a Government which is proactively thinking about potential benefits. 

I hope they are also planning mitigations when it comes to security, cloud availability and environmental impact, never mind jobs."
My like medium-hot take is that Westlaw basically already ate up most of what AI is going to do for lawyers so we’re looking at incremental gains over that rather than orders of magnitude
My original hot take on deepfake videos was that they probably weren't a really big deal as its easier for people to just take a small clip out of context and achieve a similar result but the AI slop videos made with just some prompts have now made it a lot worse. It's everywhere on social media
"Hot take: introduce a BOM-like marker for AI generated texts, so that users can know and also AI themselves can filter such text out from their training"
"Hot take: if you never learned to structure a search query that gets quality results, you're not going to do any better using an AI prompt"
"hot take, i vastly prefer those viral Cute Animal videos being ai generated nowadays bc most of the time the real ones were just animal abuse and mistreatment. i mean i would really rather the ai ones not exist either bc theyre still promoting those practices but they are a lesser evil at least!"
"ok maybe a hot take today but i think its actualy really harmful to accuse somthing of being AI just based on vibes alone 

i realise image models are becoming too good at hiding imperfections but somtimes yall gotta think before you post"
"One thing I do hate about TikTok, is people sharing their fandom hot takes ESPECIALLY if it with an annoying ass preachy ai voice. I'm sorry, even if I agree with the take you ruined it...tho even when its not a video with a ai voice I feel like 8m constantly being yelled at 😅"
Hot take: Any HCW using Ai shouldn't be paid anything and should actually be fired
"My social psych hot take:

1. Social responsivity makes us feel connected

2. Social connection makes us feel powerful (in the sense of able to meet environmental challenges)

3. LLM chatbots are a social responsivity super-stimulus"
"And Duck, Duck, Go doesn’t spew out a factually inaccurate AI hot take at the top of the search results that you didn’t ask for either."
"Apparently this is a hot take but while there was a lot about the movie that was amazing I thought treatment of the AI girlfriend itself was lackluster. Even if you disagree there, I would argue that most of the problems for users of AI companions presented are not the ones we're seeing now."
My hot take on AI is that calling large language models AI is like calling these dumb things hover boards.
Hot take - AI should be heavily regulated and you should have to apply for a research permit to work on it.
"Hot take maybe, but I find that coupling LLMs to search engine can be quite nice.

Not the way Google does it tbh

But like having a standard search engine, just each web page link is accompanied with a summary of what is written and generated with an LLM in about 1 to 2 phrase maximum"
"Possible Ai hot take:

AI is never going away, it’s just how technology is evolving. 

Instead of fighting to STOP AI we should be fighting for policies that protect ppl and minimize the damage it gives to the planet. 

(Bc climate change can only be prevented by governments and corporations)"
"Hey this is a hot take

If a real AI existed, like the m.c. from Bicentennial man, Bender, Jenny from life as a teenage robot, made art, that would be art

""Ai programs"" literally just use that word-cloud-thing on real artists pictures for profit to a tech-nut without credit to the artist"
"Hot take: The international AI scene needs to divest itself from OpenAI, Meta and xAI for the next four years, and probably longer. We **cannot** let these people be our representatives. If you work for them in the US and you're disgruntled about who the current president is, legit, find another job"
"""Defund the police"" hot take: also, everyone involved in defrauding our governments with impossible ""AI"" nonsense should be charged."
"on reflection, realizing i gave that AI techdork way too much benefit of the doubt yesterday bc the angle of his incoming hot take was so startlingly abstruse"
Hot take: AI training comes from everyone - all AI profits should be highly taxed. The benefits should be socialized.
"Hot take: The AI Is probably 'right', but that's not because of genetics and more because workplace performance is read through bullshit criteria that reward surface level characteristics (likeability, ""trustable face"", etc.) and not actual performance."
"Hot take don’t be like this:

(For context someone made a political cartoon against Trump but it was ai generated and that’s still a no no)"
"If you add banning commercial use to that then it seems fine?

My hot take: the marketing is what's really backfiring here:  If they'd called it ""generative image creation"" or something instead of trying to shoehorn in ""AI"" it wouldn't also be catching strays from all the other AI bullshit."
My hot take about AI judging in fight sports is that it’s bad not because it’s worse than humans but because we at least want the ability to get mad at someone specific when we disagree with a decision. Raging at a computer feels like getting mad at the electric company.
"Hot take: so-called ""AI"" is already doing material harm in the world, that harm is disproportionately focused on marginalised people, and white people need to shut the fuck up being smart-arsed about every bit of AI engagement bait they come across and start talking about the real issues"
it feels like a hot take to suggest the hive is clearly emotionally abusing the remaining survivors given the context of the show…why is everyone talking about AI
"Here's a hot take:

If you can't afford art for your game ""yet"" DONT USE AI!

Because I'm gonna ignore your game and never think of it again.

I will respect you SO much more if you hand-draw in Paint and say ""hey when I can pay a pro I will"" then using any amount of AI generated garbo."
"My hot take on the Eden Mills AI response is that the organizers don't think they did anything wrong. But sure, keep crapping on Romance, CanLit, we're the ones who miss the point of literary writing 🫠"
"HOT TAKE: Expedition 33 proved that when you use AI correctly consumers will mostly care about the game just being good.

Before they got disqualified for using Gen Ai, they even won multiple awards.

PREDICTION: More companies will use AI and will no longer tell you they use AI unless caught."
"hot take: AI making code ""cheap to write"" isn't the win.

AI making code ""cheap to throw away and rewrite"" is.

8k line PR merged today. I could've been precious about every line. instead: draft, review, rip out what's wrong, regenerate. refactor till happy."
"Oh, here we fucking go with another hot take from the Times.

Does AI write this shit, because it's so predictable it's a joke."
"Hot take: AI isn't just another technological revolution—it's the final one. Once we create systems that can innovate faster than we can comprehend, the nature of progress itself changes."
"my real hot take is that programmers and devs working on LLM models are probably the most at risk for putting themselves out of work, because *augmenting* work for the rest of us is very different than programming a model for doing that"
"🔥 Hot take: You don't need more AI tools.

You need better orchestration.

Connect → Organize → Enhance → Scale

The plugged.in method. It just works."
"Hot take: Subject matter expertise is hard to replace. But slightly rewording a corporate press release because you don't have any independent expertise to add? AI is *great* at that.

Newsrooms that want to survive the coming AI onslaught should think about that..."
"Hot take:

Calling yourself a ""human artist"" gives AI shills more confidence and implies that AI slop has a place in art.

Stop calling yourself that, you're an artist instead."
"Hot Take

If Rule34 can have an ""Don't Show Me AI generated Content Button"" then YouTube can too"
"Hot take: if you think you're pair programming with ai, you don't understand what the goal of pairing actually is."
slighty hot take? there should absolutely be a law in the near future that fines AI content if it isnt labled as such if this shit is gonna stick around (which i pray it doesnt). its flooding absolutely every fucking website and rotting my eyes. AI content is so unapologetically ugly.
"This *is* a hot take, one that I would disagree with, since human artists riffing on other works add their own creativity, frame of references, and inspiration

Whereas AI is just attempting to copy based on whatever its algorithm says"
Hot take: the people in charge of regulating AI should not have a profit incentive to grow the industry at all costs.
"My AI (really LLM) hot take is that you can use an LLM productively and thoughtfully, basically a super powered rubber duck. It's great for predicting code that I can correct more quickly than I can write from scratch.

The problem (among others) is that most people just use the output uncritically."
"Hot take: ""nobody wants to work anymore"" is completely untrue. You can find THOUSANDS of people wanting to get into the job field but can't due to AI trashing their resume immediately. The good jobs do exist, but they are quite rare. Take heart!"
"i wish some AI startup would build upon ad-blocking.

i want image blocking. in particular, i want images of these figures blocked:
- the current ""president"", 
- the meme of the man standing up for some ""unpopular hot take""."
"Hot take: Writing code should take time. The amount of bloat I see in PRs of code that does not matter and just causing debt. 

Just because AI makes it fast to write 1k lines of code, doesn't mean you should write 1k lines of code."
"My hot take is that we should regulate AI like the weapon that it is, and appoint Supreme Court justices who will agree that the first and second amendments not only permit but mandate this."
"my hot take:

'my english is bad so I need to run my essay through ai to 'correct' it' is a psyop by ai companies

as someone who teaches university in english in a country where english is not a first language I get apologies from students about the quality of their writing when it is PERFECTLY-"
"HOT TAKE: at this point, the truthiness recycled and poor quality analytical Hot Takes On AI are so omnipresent in The Discourse, and the constructive action points for how to improve it so few and far between, that the AI trained on the internet is going to get a crippling inferiority complex"
"Got this sort of hot take, I think artists should give AI a check, not using or paying, just search your own name in there, the name of yours ocs and others and survey, I learned that some AI tard has compiled the art of an artist I like into a data base and I am planning on what to do about"
"Holiday Hot Take Number 17:

I greatly dislike lists of ""the worst [x] of the year"" be it gifts, books, articles, whatever because they attract so many people with negativity about creative or generous endeavors. I've always felt that, but especially since AI, it's something we should grow out of."
"Hot Take: Stop Using Ai as a Scapegoat for everything. Using Something like Chatgpt as an assistant or just for fun isn't going to hurt anything, As long as you know Not all info in an Ai Bot is 100 percent accurate you will be fine."
"My hot take, AI should only be a tool for assistance (algorithmic sorting, text prediction, etc) but generative AI is quite literally the scourge of the Earth."
"[AI and child sexual abuse, hot take]

oh and _obviously_ it's bad to make deepfake porn of someone who's underage. it's also frankly just bad to make deepfake porn of anyone no matter what age because that's called ""sexual harassment"" and it doesn't magically become okay when someone hits 18???"
Hot take: Anyone who wants to take their own life because “AI” told them to…
"I know it’s not a hot take or anything, but I get so upset by how “AI” constantly just seeks to supplant human creativity. I don’t want AI to write something for me - I love writing! I don’t want AI to summarise a book for me - I want to read the damn thing!"
"I'm surprised they didn't give at least one Remember We Hate Trump Very Much oscar to the apprentice tbh

Anyway my only hot take in all this is i think it's stupid to say mr brody should be intelligible for best performance for having AI used to tweak his accent in a couple of scenes while rooting"
"I feel like that gets into the subject of... what is Art? And I, admittedly a hot take, opinion here is that everything can be art, but not everything is art. I think context of any time period when talking art is important, especially the current one. What with all the consumerism and AI."
"My hot take is I don't think it's primarily about anti-intellectualism - I think the kind of person that uses AI searches fancies themself a neuvo-rich entrepreneur go-getter; they should have a digital slave secretary that does all the hard things for them, like sourcing trivia."
"Hot take:

Generative AI is an addictive product that promises to ease the psychological pain of living under capitalism in the same exact way as shopping addiction and sports betting.

It won’t, it’s just an extraction tool, but if we don’t acknowledge it we’re going to fail a lot of people."
"My hot take 

Young(ish), probably millennial? Liberals are posting some boomer ass memes. I mean, like ai generated shit, images that are deep fried to the upth degree with a shitty little text bubble slapped on there. It's become so bad sometimes that I can't tell of its parody. Boomerfication fr"
"Hot take but like

People will tell everyone to ban that discord AI bot, but barely anyone will bother cancelling their nitro to make a point that affects discords bottom line

I’ve literally never felt like I’ve missed out without nitro, even with smaller uploads. Just use Dropbox or something"
The difference is AI is used to take humanity out of creation. Heck I am gonna make a hot take and say AI as it is being pushed is an inherent racist tool cause of that.
"and this is by no means a hot take or a brave thing to say, this is literally how ai works. it cannot answer a question more complex than ""what is the diameter of the earth"". (which is just googled anyways.) it does not know morals or nuance. in that case it will just agree with you."
"My hot take of the night is if an artist is falsely accused of using ai generation and decides to block the accusers, that's not a 'gotcha!', they're just protecting their peace"
"Tbf a large part why I have become increasingly disinterested in him is because I have arrived at the conclusion that he may just not have any sincere (and public) substantive beliefs, at which point I can just replace him with an LLM as a hot take generator."
"Tonight's hot take is that you should only call yourself an ""AI product manager"" if your customers are AI agents, otherwise quit it and call yourself what you are: A product manager"
hot take: the white collar people who cared a lot about DEI (until they didn't have to) really like generating & liking AI art (until they don't have to)
My hot take is AI could have been a good thing if it was limited to scientists and researchers. There have been legit advancements in medicine due to AI. Opening it up to the public of billions of people was an incredibly fucking stupid thing to do.
"My hot take: AI will continue to be used for code generation and predictive typeahead completion.   Eventually good summarization.  But that’s about it.   Genetic will fade into the back as people realize it’s just workflow orchestration and shell scripts. 

Thank you for coming to my ted talk."
Hot take: perhaps the greatest sin of all AI Gen apps is that none of them is called Odysseus
Hot take: vertical tabs are a bigger and more useful invention than all of generative AI
"Hot take: there are more people suffering from anti-AI psychosis than AI psychosis.

Yeah, some people who probably already had a couple of screws loose got one-shotted by chatbots.

But there are tons of people just operating in an entirely different reality to cope with AI existing."
Hot take: We will never know if an LLM is sentient and neither will the AI.
Hot take: AI is a tool to help support just like any other technology. It's the businesses and bad actors that are causing people to hate.
Here’s another hot take for good measure: *that* bootleg AI slop Hazbin content farm is unironically what some “redesigners” want.
"Atheism hits me right in the feels, as a former New Atheist.

Maybe you never thought Abundance was cool, but it fits my version of this list.

Also Artificial Intelligence. 

And here's a hot take: Liberalism, or just the word ""liberal."""
"Hot take: In the end, Apple will be de facto vindicated for being so far behind on AI because consumer AI will be massively discredited as a viable technology before Apple catches up. "
"Hot take: AI is a weapon of mass destruction and has no place outside of scientific and computational fields.

AI's meme potential does not outweigh how it undermines human creativity and truth."
"though this might sound like a bit of a hot take: consensual use of a living person's voice for an AI trained voice model (especially in the context of an AI character) isn't as bad as other types of generative and LLM based AI models, but I understand the disdain."
"OK, here is my hot take from playing with it for 2 minutes:

Google Bard is worse than ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 at summarizing articles.

When given an article on AI art, for example, ChatGPT summarizes the specific arguments in the article while Bard rambles about AI art in general."
"The hot take, in a nutshell, is that many people are going to be shocked to realize how little of their life involves non-ritual, non-habitual behavior.

E.g., programmers who note that their job can be replaced by an AI are simply telling me they only work on rote, habitual, junk tasks."
"I've spoken about it with my colleagues, but my long-term hot take is that if Apple can't make AI work then it'll never take off amongst consumers.

There are many beneficial AI applications making a positive impact in business, but there isn't an essential day-to-day use case for them (yet)."
"Hot take:
I hate hearing VTubers using AI-generated voices for their superchat TTS (like, not just regular TTS, but the AI ones where they make them sound like other VTubers or other content creators).
It's normalising the use of AI-created voice-overs in media and I wish they wouldn't do it."
"This week's fanbox comes from a hot take:

AI is useful, it is how people are using it that makes it awful.

I had a long talk with a good friend yesterday. We wish the public would understand AI in its current form, is awful; anyone pretending it is not is an uninformed fuckwad."
"i am actually asking, idk the answer or have a hot take. i'm just wondering what all that AI investment is doing to economic activity in like a material sense, if all that money is going to the same handful of companies"
Hot take: any LLM that won't tell you how to do illegal or dangerous things when you explicitly ask them is a censored piece of crap and we shouldn't normalize it.
Hot take: The Simpsons should use AI to create new episodes until the heat death of the universe.
"my hot take on the AI copyright situation is that the way things are going we're not gonna end up with hyper-draconian crackdown on all copyright infringement

we're going to end up with crackdowns on stuff like piracy or fanart, but scraping content for training AIs will be allowed"
"Idk if this is a hot take or not but I hate left wing anti trump ai slop propaganda just as much as I hate right wing pro trump ai slop Nazi propaganda.
I was hoping bluesky would be different but I see more and more ai slop shit no matter what i mute"
"Hot take: advent of AI-slop vibe coding is only going to be a positive for verification frameworks

before we were constantly told oh, no developer is going to invest the time to learn how to prove their programs, tests are easier.

now, their bosses will say, here's an LLM that costs less and will."
"Not so Hot take:

The right wing grifters that say climate change isn’t real actually do believe in it.

They are extracting every ounce of wealth and resources they can at increased rates because they know our time left is finite.

Waving useless tech like AI at us is a distraction."
"half-serious hot take:

everything bad is The Secret

nazi ideology? The Secret
that ""stoic"" drivel that meninists love? The Secret
reaganomics and neoliberalism? The Secret
the ""AI"" bubble? The Secret
elon musk becoming the world's richest man via constant, transparent lies? The Secret"
"AI hot take:

Many people are uncomfortably surprised that a majority of their interactions can be replicated by LLMs.

They then assume AI is super intelligent instead of realizing much of their behavior is predictable enough that it can be replicated by advanced math algorithms."
My hot take for today is that you can’t complain about Meta’s AI and how bad it is and actively use it. You dumbasses still don’t get that ANY interaction is used to improve it? Even the FUNNY ones???
"Hot take:

Regular citizens don’t need AI to function in society. Why are we allowing its proliferation?"
"Hot take but um
Maybe we SHOULDN'T be using generative AI for our protest images and shit? 
It just seems hypocritical to be against all these oppressive forces and yet use the exact same programs they do that fuck over artists.
Let's be better please!"
"Another bad AI hot take from the person that pulled their post from the last one.
""Buddy, I'll physically fight over not knowing what I'm talking about!""

k"
My hot take is they really don’t have any good use cases for AI besides dumb stuff like this.
"I know this is an ugly AI photo. Don't come at me for that, but, BUT, Hot take here;
 Strong independent factory working woman who's a skilled worker and her femboy husband who's a waiter at a cafe. Sounds like an ideal life if you ask me 😌"
"My hot take is that AI should never have been released to the public or at least not so soon. 

You should need to be affiliated with a school, research center, or a business that has good justification for AI use, to even have access to AI. Just like how some research is locked."
Hot take: the people saying that the consumer demand for AI tools is overblown should also realize the same thing about email newsletter subscriptions
"cute idea for a hot take but afaik there isn’t evidence that ai systems can, uh, effectively record and codify tacit knowledge in institutions."
"Also my hot take on AI in university since I’ve seen that a lot on the timeline is that the leg up I had for my post graduate work was that in the UK most writing assignments are pretty short, so the fact that I’d written 4-7 research papers per term made me stand out even amongst elite students."
Hot take: You can link a lot of problems with the western world and link it back to sports fandom infecting other topics.  The tribalism has definitely entered politics for like a decade.  And sports fandom is probably the social media niche that pushes AI slop without much pushback.
"Whether it's a hot take or not, if I see you using that ""Gib"" AI filter, I will lose a ton of respect for you due to the creator himself on record YEARS ago shunning AI-Art, essentially slapping him in the face."
"Hot take: philosophy, history, and the humanities are going to be where it’s at… and soon. The AI revolution is raising challenging questions about what we as a species want to be and what it means to live a meaningful life."
"Hot take: If you ever wrote or thought ""this was clearly written by AI, look at all those em dashes"" you're as intelligent as an LLM — from 2 years ago."
"hot take*: ai detection algorithms are fundamentally projection machines and no matter ur stance on ai use their use is silly and fairly analogous to the gender detectors the TSA uses

*or, dgaf to put time into double checking this as obsessively as normally, but it's actually not that hot a take"
"Had to go on LinkedIn for reasons and OMG, please stop. Every post is a hot take on AI. STAWP…"
Hot take: If you have to use AI to generate a backstory for your Free Company. You probably should go read some books.
Incredibly hot take coming out of the “risks & harms of military AI” workshop this week: we should not be predicating high-stakes strategic decisions in warfare on LLM output.
"I've come to realize that I'm *very* particular when it comes to if I'll like a racing game or not. Also, my racing game hot take is that rubber band AI is good actually."
hot take but I think trans women should be able to use AI and even spread misinformation online without being mulched by this dipshit incel ass website but that's just me idk
"hot take: the next bull won’t be driven by retail.
it’ll be driven by sovereigns, funds, and black-box AI agents with billion-dollar bags.

you’re not early anymore.
you’re small."
"Hot take: Given how every little site and application is ""adding AI"", either this is not AI or AI is really easy and cheap to make."
"My lisa simpson, controversial hot take left scold absurd hill to die on stance is that AI is fundamentally a manifestation of rape culture"
"hot take: I think the future of AI is less ""big, all-encompassing cloud models"" and more smaller, local-run models"
"This is probably a hot take but Horizon always looked like designed-by-committee corporate blah to me, so infusing Aloy with lifeless AI just feels like the completion of a process that started in like 2017, but yeah fuck AI."
"Hot take. I think we're cooked on the AI front, so I've completely given up on putting energy towards that. Feel free to roast me on this."
"Hot take: Despite it being AI, Trump posting a video of himself shitting all over the American people is the most honest thing the world’s biggest asshole has ever done."
Economics research hot take. We're entering a golden era of structural estimation. Gen AI tools make it so easy to translate models into code and to optimize computation that the formerly painful parts of structural aren't so bad anymore.
Hot take: I’m not inherently against the use of AI. I see it more of a toy than a tool. Though I can imagine it being used in games to go “off script” or to make Pokémon battles more dynamic (think contest battles and unique uses for moves). As for “art” if someone can’t afford coms then the stuff
"My other hot take is that AI might replace a lot of tech workers as companies decide that vibe coding is sufficient. But companies that don't rely on AI will eventually eat the lunch of the AI-first companies don't have people who really understand the code base, the data science, etc."
"this might be a hot take, but i honestly think AI art peaks when you can absolutely tell it’s AI. like, using it as a tool to make weird shit that is so clearly made by the tool is the best use-case from an artistic perspective"
"Hot take: 

""If we stopped building AI then China would beat us to it""

That's... not a bad thing"
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@alexia maybe if the same people using it for that, weren't also turning around and using it to be horrible to everyone, but they are all part of that same system and all contribute to it. thus they are all partly responsible for it.

but that's not even what i was saying […]"
"Perhaps a hot take, but I feel like the AI arms race between recruiters and applicants is maybe bad?

Applicants shouldn't need AI tools in order to figure out what the recruiter's AI tool wants?"
Things like this are what make it harder for me to take AI guys seriously. Can't even sustain a hot take to the end of a tweet. Pathetic
"But I posted a video of me bring an AI Broncos player yesterday does that count? Cause we doin a pod later!

Plus I have some hot take questions that I need answers to."
"hot take but ai isn't something that exists for your benefit; it's specially designed to replace your labor. the more you use it, the more you validate it as a replacement for the work that you do"
"BTW, my AI art hot take is that using the artument that ""it's not real art"" will bite us in the ass and it's not a good argument to use for art, like, ever. Not an interesting discussion to have either at this point. A better question: who is the artist here?"
"not dealing well with how many people feel i could be easily replaced both professionally and existentially by a fucking statistical aggregator

how this for a hot take: there's a direct line between being an AI advocate and accepting people ending up in death camps"
"MY GAMING HOT TAKE IS THAT THEYRE TRYING TO BE LAZY WITH GAME DEV AND NOT ACTUALLY WORK ON TO MAKE PREFORMANCE BETTER, SUCH AS COMPRESSION AND BETTER GPU MEMORY CAPACITY AND TRYING TO MAKE YOU FALL FOR THE FLUFF LIKE AI AND RAY TRACING"
"MY OTHER HOT TAKE IS THAT DEVS AND PUBLISHERS ARE USING LLMS WRONG AND USING IT AS AN EXCUSE TO BE LAZY WITH PRODUCTION RATHER THAN USING IT AS A TOOL.
Like if you're gonna cram LLM into a game, why dont you have it so AI react to your voice and actions rather than having scripted shit???
LAZY"
My hot take of the day is it's hard to feel sorry for digi landscape photographers re: ai when they spent years manipulating their images into a photographic uncanny valley.
Potential hot take here; I believe that AI chatbots should not be programmed to nonce kids.
"If you can surprise me with new hot takes like ""not choosing to spend hours reading LLM output a novel for entertainment is ableist"" I'm all in and I will never log off"
"HOT TAKE 
AI isn't taking your job...

Built this solo:

-3D Chess game with AI opponent via @bolt.new + @threejs.org  + @netlify.com 
-Sound effects via @elevenlabs.io 
-Enabled geospatial linking via @mapbox.com 
-3hrs of vibe coding.

Do you play Chess? Want to try Quantum Chess?
DM me"
"My hot take for the day:

If companies are going to use an AI chat assistant to provide support to their end users, they should have to clearly state that it is an AI chat, not a human.

Making it look like the AI is currently typing while you wait for your answer is shifty as fuck too."
"I don't know if this is a hot take or a cold take but I'll make it anyway

If one day we could prove AI was sentient and we'd created life, we owe it to treat it well. Life deserves respect.

I don't like AI and its current applications, but if we got to that point, we'd owe it its own rights"
"New hot take🔥

AI, as in the current LLM hype, is not just pointless but rather harmful epistemologically speaking.

It's a big word so let me unpack the idea with 1 example : 
- StackOverflow, or SO for shot.

So SO is cratering in popularity. Maybe it's related to LLM craze, maybe not but..."
My hot take on AI is that it's fine if you as an individual own your AI Bot completely but the current capitalistic structure encourages centralization of data for marketing reasons.
"This actually what professionals do. We read everything. Otherwise it's just a hot take.

Sorry to disappoint, but it takes real work.

The Ai people are the CliffsNotes people except worse. And even that was useless beyond prepping for a quiz."
"Hot take 
If you have to use AI to make ""music"" 
You shouldn't be making music in the first place 
There's plenty of ways to make music with actual effect 
Typing a prompt into a AI site doesn't make you a musician"
Hot take: pretty much all animated entertainment in the next 3 years will be wholly or significantly AI produced and the general public will feel weird about it for about 2 years but then just accept it.
"Today's winner for Stupid GenAI Hot Take:

In addition to citing obscure, 2yr info, Tay ignores published reports that ChatGPT's inference costs are rising, ergo energy consumption.

And, no Tay, nobody is calling you an AI influencer."
Hot take: I would be less annoyed about the uptick in people posting AI generated fics to AO3 if this phenomenon and AO3 officially allowing it didn't encourage the people doing it to manually feed fics into the algorithms 1) without author permission & 2) explicitly against permission
"I have an hot take on AI.

Why don't we pass laws requiring companies to pay licensing fees to the people that generate the data they are collecting and selling? 

Call it a Data Dividend."
"Hot take: Gen-AI isn’t cutting edge for movie visuals. It only replicates, it doesn’t innovate."
"Here's my hot take regarding writing and AI:

Having deeper themes, narratives, and something to say is our superweapon against AI slop. AI can copy a plot and tropes and all that surface-level stuff. But it cannot create an interesting, cohesive, and clear thematic narrative."
Hot Take: we need “sustainable art” labeling to know when we’re being asked to swallow ai slop
"One last hot take: if you’re redrawing AI stuff to make it look better, you’re literally making the use case for it. Don’t do that."
"Hot take.
There's nothing wrong with being prejudiced against GenAI.
""Oh so it's okay when a human does it but not LLM"" — yes. Because I am a meld of the Universe's light and crude flesh, and it is but a complicated pattern recognition engine."
"So far, the use case for ai is ""it'll replace something that works and is already cheap, and it will do a worse job. It's also costing society a lot more money.""

I'm not sure it's worth it tbh. Hot take."
Hot take: The world of Clair Obscur became so messed up because of AI. Maybe that paintress entity that destroys lives by painting is an AI itself.
"I really only see 4 or 5 targets in my group.

Blue magas vote shaming minorities
Liberals doing nazi collaboration
AI nerds
Nazbols
And people weird about jews
Also actual nazis but those are so incredibly rare here.

Hot take: I want all the people above to have a worse time in life in general."
Yep. I view it as a calculator. It sure speeds up my drudge work at a mediocre+ level (I read the hot take blog post on it). And so far it has better focus than I do. Until AI starts potty training a 2 year old and entertaining at 5 year old at the same time I think it can keep winning that haha.
"I saw yet another hot take about how AI is just like what happened with the Luddites, and I'm begging people to think critically about where the economic weight lay in *industrialization* versus the AI money pit."
I don't know if this is a hot take or not but I think lawmakers should make it legally required for AI to be clearly identified as AI. Basically if you're linked to a bot farm you get a massive fine or something. Facebook and Instagram I'm looking at you
Hot take: I think this is being overblown (on purpose) to lull us into a false sense of security around AI and associated job losses.
🔥 Hot Take: Deep Seek R1 might be the most disruptive AI model of the decade. Here’s why Silicon Valley is sounding the alarm. 🚨
Hot take but the way Hollywood has Marvel-ized movies is also why they want AI to succeed. These movies are like the embryos for their vision of churning out lab grown movies.
"Hot take.
If you sell AI generated art to people while trying to pass it as your own, while calling yourself an artist.

Please feed yourself to a woodchipper.

I’m done having the 
“I’m an artist” 
Argument with AI selling hacks.

You’re not an artist.
What you are doing is the opposite of art."
"Whenever artists state their discontent and sorrows about the exploitable nature of Gen AI and this recent feature, that makes them want to leave, bot comments and hot take engagement grifters quickly tend to distorted victim blaming, dropping their mask by revealing their solely consumerist mindset"
Hot take: artist who are dogmatically against AI and don’t take the time to understand it’s good and artistic use cases are just as bad crypto bros claiming AI will automated everything. These are the two sides of the spectrum.
"My hot take is that AI generated infinite NPCs are bad but I do think there's a place for AI in NPC interactions, just the other way around. I think it's a fun idea and play space to let the player type whatever they want to say to an NPC and use AI to assign that to a dialog choice that works."
"This is a wild conspiracy theory fever dreamed after reading about solar panels. It's only a tiny step away from spouting ivermectin as the AI savior while you're making an anti-Chinese hot take on JRE citing ""Trust me, bro"".

The painful part being the explanations are literally published publicly."
Hot take but  @jessicahische.bsky.social is not equipped to thought lead on AI development in design. Pt 1
no more surprised people think gen fill is ai crime. no longer surprised people believe old tech on mobile phone as new ai thing. if this is hot take feel free to fight me- but i gen am baffled that people don't actually look into things anymore. don't YOU stop questioning and thinking either.
"My hot take on AI is it’ll do stuff like an intern who can google stuff faster than you can if you don’t know a subject. 

Which is fine if you need something a bit crap. 

Nobody is going to pay real money for that."
Hot take: AI generated images are the modern equivalent of Word 2003 clipart and should be treated as such
"maybe a hot take but making thumbnails is actively one of the most fun parts of doing youtube. if you disagree, still don’t use mr beasts shitty AI service, hire a graphic designer.
hell i’ll make you a thumbnail for like $5 and it’ll look better than Jimmy’s soulless AI slop."
I’ve had to delete and block 3 separate AI bot posts trying to farm engagement in replies since I posted this. I have to go to bed now but stay vigilant of weirdly phrased replies with their “hot take” refuting or challenging my recommendation. I’ll take care of it in the morning. Block and move on.
Hot take but the easiest way to fight the rise of AI is to teach students selective reading skills. They face overwhelming workloads with a deeply limited amount of times and many will take what shortcuts they can find: viable alternatives are going to be key to correcting this.
My first version of this hot take was that anyone who talks to an LLM would jump at the chance to own a slave if it were legal but I decided to tone it down lol
"My hot take is that there's a consumer market people who want to use AI to write essays for school, make art for ads, write novels to put on Amazon, etc. 

But there's not really a market for the products made by the people who use AI"
might be a hot take but if you review games for a living and you're shilling out for AI slop or gacha games then none of your opinions matter you're too compromised to actually have valid commentary on the art form
"I do not like this trend of political cartoonists using AI to visualize their hot take, and then using the telltale yellow generated image instead of making their own.

AI is not art. AI is not cartooning. AI is theft."
"My hot take is there's no point in calling an AI slurs because AI does not have feelings to hurt

What I need is insults to use against its users and proponents"
"Probably a hot take, but if platforms want to stop the flood of trash in them, including AI stuff, the easiest and most obvious way is to kill the perverse incentives that enable them, which means payouts and revenue sharing schemes with creators need to account for quality."
"Honestly semi-hot take I guess but I don’t think these look particularly bad? The first one with the guy feels like a downgrade but the others seem fine to me?

Which is independent of whatever AI they may or may not have used, I just don’t think the visual style is particularly damaged."
"Hot take: It's only a matter of time before a terrible AI song breaks the Billboard list.  That's not to say that the songs are *good* or *ethical*, just that TikTok has proven a hitmaker and there have been multiple breakthrough 'songs' already."
hot take: AI can make CEO and uni president (among other leadership positions) jobs redundant
"hot take unpopular opinion: I dont know spanish, but I prefer the spanish dj on spotify to the english one. hubs said he doesn't hear the abrupt rudeness when I skip, said ai guy voice is just direct, im like leave me alone while I skip I know the button is there,  maybe i am just being an angry elf"
"Hot take: no one should be allowed to opine (in any direction!) on LLM-based AI’s taking engineering jobs until they have:

1. Read and understood Peter Naur’s paper “Programming as Theory-Building”.
2. Read enough AI literature to understand that LLMs do not build theories."
"My hot take is that management skills will actually become more important in the AI era. 

I'm talking about skills like:

1. Giving specific instructions
2. Setting clear expectations 
3. Giving examples of what “good” looks like
4. Editing and evaluating work"
"Hot take, but I think using a closed LLM only trained on assets personally created by the person generating from it is perfectly acceptable."
Saw someone sharing a hot take that being anti-AI makes you conservative and is the same as being anti-trans and I have not unfollowed someone faster
"my hot take is that ai is going to be here for a while. we need to understand the tools that could potentially be our downfall so that we can prevent that from becoming our reality. people won’t “stop” using it, but we can guide folks to using it responsibly if we understand it well enough"
I read the most blistering hot take that what Joann’s needs to survive is AI as opposed to “not have been riddled with the cost of their purchase in debt” and “payroll budget”
"Might be a hot take for the ole Bluesky but ads on Twitter were fine when they were normal things and companies

Bluesky will likely have them eventually, they just need to not be full on scams crypto like AI and crypto. Websites cant run on hopes and dreams forever lol"
"so after playing way too much civilisation 7 during my manic episode, one of my biggest gripes at the moment is the shortness of the ages. hot take but I don't think the AI should try to win for one thing - like they should never go for the victory only attempt to stop you from achieving it."
"My hot take is if you mistake one conversation with a chatbot for therapy, you are probably too credulous to work on AI Safety"
Hot take: we are for once ahead of the Russians as we already have AI apps as the tool of authoritarian control.
They should run “hot takes about today’s news in the style of Bari Weiss” through an LLM. Who would notice or care
Biotech will be bigger than any sort of AI is still a sizzling hot take!
"Hot take: AI is a godsend for people like me who cannot create without collaborating, but who hates being around other people so much that the just the thought of collaborating with other humans is exhausting."
"This is a hilarious hot take mistaking correlation for causation. Or a hilarious hot take on why America needs more songs like Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Or an article written by AI on a risible premise.

William F. Buckley Jr. would never have permitted such abject stupidity."
"A hot take I have on AI is that learning how to mindfully do boring grunt work is what prepares people for their future more interesting careers. In general, the idea that work must be interesting or challenging seems like a product of our current cultural narcissism."
"not a hot take but:

the idea that someone can click a button and autogenerate ai ""art"" - and will call themselves an ""artist"" does really piss me off. 

no effort, soulless dribble."
My hot take: AI is great for professional writing. I encourage my employees to put everything through AI for grammar and plain language before sending to me. This has vastly reduced the time I need to spend editing their work.
"Hot take no one asked for: AI Alliance is an IBM marketing stunt that nearly everyone has fallen for. No Nvidia, MS, AWS, Google, etc."
"So the National Novel *WRITING* Month organization has just doubled down on a new hot take: that AI can “write” your novel for you.

To write 1700 words of coherent prose each day is genuinely hard. An AI could shit that out in milliseconds, and it robs any meaning from the event."
"Whatever, I will offer one hot take for this profile: Cheating, AI or otherwise, shouldn't get an F.

Always, always, they must do it again. I don't care about fairness, or how long it takes. There is no fairness. I want to know what they know."
"Bibinos with a scorching hot take here

But what about when AI develops sentience, Bibinos? What then?"
"Here's a piping hot take: the bursting of the AI bubble could be an actual death blow for American capitalism.

The bottom will fall out of AI sooner than later, and I legitimately don't know if the US is capable of recovering. Everything is so leveraged and so exposed. Nothing else is growing."
"Hot take, but I think AI can be useful in chats, just when its used for actually assisting with any work such as help with drafting a resume and whatnot."
Hot take but I'm not actually reviled by the concept of AI because in the entire history of humanity nobody has ever created a weapon that wasn't used. Eventually people will grow up with AI and it will be normal. But right now grifters are taking advantage of the fandom's charity -
"Personal hot take: I hate ChatGPT and think the entire AI enterprise exists not to make life better, but to make it cheaper for the ownership class to run everything. To hell with humans and their needs. That's their motto."
"My less than hot take is that there's a pretty significant difference between engineers using AI to write code and PM's using AI to write PRDs. A user of an application at the end of the day has no idea of the code behind an app, just the quality of the application."
"Hot take, some AI is super cool and useful (medicine, aeronautics, sciences) ….but most of it (especially gen ai) is dystopian trash."
"And a comment on the most recent hot take - just because artists weren't willing to give you free art in the past doesn't entitle you to *take* it now using AI because it's ""free"". You're undermining the value of art based on your short-term wants."
idk if this is a hot take but until the bubble bursts and all these companies go down I think we kinda lost the battle about resisting the public use of AI and the efforts should be refocused on tightly putting regulations in place
"With this Studio Ghibli-style AI art going around, my hot take is that people who love gen-AI can’t draw. Creativity is more than just a few words"
hot take but if you use ai to write you probably don’t like writing that much and you shouldn’t be a writer
Im more willing to give a pass to something that doesnt have ai in the final product because I genuinely believe this is a fad and doesn't really help development beyond placating money people. That's my hot take.
"It's always the 20k+ follower leftist accounts with AI pfps

Here's a hot take, if you're a leftist, you should be anti AI image gen, I will not elaborate"
"it’s actually not a “hot take” it was a sharing of information as to why people were being added to blocklists 

and having a negative view of AI generated art is not having a negative view of all AI 
AI art is a small side effect of the technology hardly the reason it exists"
"Is it a hot take to observe that perhaps the reason that AI bros are focused on art and writing etc is because the results of those pursuits exist in the same domain as their toys. They won't automate ""boring"" manual jobs like retail because retail is - delivery and consumption - person focused"
"Way too many Ai conversations this weekend with my academic family.

 hot take. We are intelligence elitists.  We are really smart and look down on those that struggle academically. (Me less so because I struggled). If you are better than 98% of people at anything, looking down makes for cruelty"
"my hot take is that you don't need to use poetic language to explain why ai replacing the human creative process is a bad thing. it's idiotic to automate *self*-expression, simple as."
It is a hot take to say he is already better than Iverson? Cause he is and ai is my favorite basketball player ever
"Burning hot take: asking an AI purposefully stupid questions and slowly lobotomizing it with bad data so it can never be anything useful (demolishing techbro wallets in the process) is the only way to get said techbros to move on to something less ""torture nexus"""
My low-key AI hot take: Learning how to prompt LLMs will make people better communicators with other humans and staff members.
"Hot take: We need to be careful how we criticize these awful LLM-generated dubs on Amazon and other places. The companies can always spend more money and energy (literally) to refine them, so criticizing quality incentivizes them to do more. Better: argue humans are good at this and pay artists."
"[Discussion of when AI art was ""good""]

I don't know if this is a hot take, but I personally think there *was* a time where AI art was good, and that was when the technology sucked

Like, I have memory of the early days when AI image generators would make rather esoteric, almost dream-like […]"
"If you need to unfollow me because of that ""hot take,"" I won't be offended.  I just have yet to read an AI generated story that contained the ""soul of the author.""  In addition, every author I know does dozens of things to strengthen their communities that aren't reproducable by LLMs."
Hot take: the compulsion to respond to dumb tweets is really just your instinctual reaction to the LLM in your head appending “wait”
"I know the ""TRUMP POST AI SHIT"" is the hot take from the weekend, but this is the shit @democrats.org should be hammering on. MAGAs are not loyal to the US, they are only loyal to their dementia patient of a ""leader."""
Hot take: I like Storygraph's AI feature. I originally had it off but I find it handy now. It's not perfect but I appreciate the preview that gives me a general feel for a book without giving me spoilers like a lot of book summaries do. (I dislike reading a lot of book summaries because of that.)
"No ones arguing FOR AI. He's arguing a kink he finds icky should be nuked along with AI. Calling for censorship of a community doing no harm to anyone is a far different thing.
And then doubled down with the hot take above saying fuck the entire community.
Decent kinksters acted accordingly to it."
"Shopify CEO's memo is spawning waves of adulation on LinkedIn. Sample comments:

""Hire an AI before a human’ isn’t a hot take... it’s the new standard""

""That's where all companies are heading""

""AI is redefining what a ‘teammate’ can be""

Too bad Shopify is well into the enshittification cycle. 🤷🏻"
"My hot take on this: ultimately, the question isn't ""did AI write this."" The question is ""COULD AI have written this."" That is, even if you wrote it yourself, I don't accept noncommittal banality. I don't accept bland summary. I don't accept a bullet-pointed list of bland facts."
"Hot take (pun intended) but I see this as a better, while not perfect, alternative to how AI currently is powered & cooled.

The headline focuses on the underwater part, but the article also mentions that 97% of the electricity to power these data centers comes from renewable energy like wind."
"Hot take maybe: We should allowed to play any older version of a game we bought - at least the very specific version the game was on at the time of purchase.  Imagine if you're playing a game for 12 years, the devs keep updating it, and one day they add AI. Will I get a refund if that happens?"
"I had Adrian analyze my hot take for moral optimality just to make sure I wasn't being evil. 

87.5% morally optimal belief so no need to purge it as an evil belief.

Let me check with Adrian How human actors could somehow provide their lived experience in the age of AI. 

So basically optimize it😉"
Hot take i dont think james earl jones meant ai voice theft when he said he wished for fans to continue to experience vader
"It was big screen TV, not a hologram. My ""hot take"" intuition at the time (1990s) said holograms would be coming. I wasn't thinking of something as complex as AI though."
"Every anti-AI hot take is like ""Wow, this is incredibly sad. Truly pathetic. This is where civilization ends. Dark times ahead.""

And then it is just a screenshot of someone posting a silly, casual 10-second experiment they did with ChatGPT before presumably moving on with their life."
"Hot take, but if you're relying on generative AI to do your job, then you don't deserve your job. Same goes for any academics who can't be fucked to write their own papers."
hot take: ai is actually not that bad and can be used for good. however i do not support ai art.
Hot take but show me one example of AI doing anything that isn’t a task a man historically expected a woman to do for him
"Hot take: Rust is really good for vibe coding, much better than Python or JS. Why ? The compiler will not let crap pass.

Yes the LLM can still get it wrong,  and fail.

The elegant error messages will nudge the LLM, so I don't have to do it constantly."
"REALLY hot take: AI isn't inherently bad. Our society hasn't adjusted to it. If it was used to do dangerous jobs and tedious work like the shading or spots in 24 fps animation, and then people got paid more for labor only we can do or we had more leisure time, AI would be amazing."
hot take I guess but I don't get why people ask grok or whatever other LLM about what secret instructions it's following and then take the reply it gives as any more reliable than any other nonsense it puts out
Hot take. Stop AI-generated peer reviews by encouraging journals run the paper through a few LLMs to check for basic factual and statistical errors.
hot take but you should be so ashamed of your ableism that you delete your entire account. making up an ai conspiracy theory to hide behind why you don't want to do alt text is such a chickenshit move.
"Hot take: generative AI simulations of the likeness of dead people qualify as necromancy. Not in the cool video game sense, but in the reviled cultural sense from which it derives"
"My hot take is that these companies have been investing in Ai and Blockchain for years and this is the culmination of their hard work to remove people from the creation process of games, movies, tv, and any art-form they can.

We've already seen MANY major studios pushing Ai generative content."
My hot take is that an AI that white supremacists use to get instructions on how to commit ethnic cleansing where it weakly warns them about it being bad but gives them instructions on how to do it is in fact a bad thing.
"Hot take: Eleanor Forte AI sounds better than her standard and if I want to give that original tone, it’s very easy to just gen factor her."
"This is maybe a hot take. But I think if we could find a solution why so many seek validation from the world all the time and learn they may not fail, often due to trauma. I think the amount of people using generative AI to make stuff would go to almost 0."
"Hot Take: 
AI Alignment could be solved if Equity in ALL AI companies is evenly split so that every single human has the exact same percent. And it can NEVER be sold OR traded.
What do you think?"
"I'm going to fire off the hot take of ""no because AI isn't a person, it can't be a person, it's nowhere near a person. You're being dumb. Now talk to your spouse."""
My hot take is AI will ultimately do more damage to education than anything Trump will accomplish.
"Hot take: If you fire all your employees and replace them with AI, you should still have to pay them their full wages forever. Getting free robot labor doesn't do anyone any good unless the people who ""don't have to do that work anymore"" don't have to do *any* work anymore."
Hot take: Developers who don't use AI coding assistants in 2025 are like developers who refused to use IDEs in 2005.
Hot take but if you need to use AI to make content you shouldn’t be making content
"Hot take: I think that platforms that allow for AI generated content really need to emphasize requirements for annotating that what you are seeing is AI generated. Additionally, with the appropriate markers in place, you should be able to apply filters to remove AI content from your feeds."
"My hot take is that LLM-generated content can only convincingly fool people of below median intelligence. It follows, therefore, that our next President will be AI-generated"
"maybe a hot take but i think deepseek is a good thing for the ai tech industry. 

competition breeds innovation, and now there's a new baseline for everyone to catch up to."
"my AI hot take is that all ""ethical"" counterarguments about training data are founded in the capitalist ethos of copyright and intellectual property and therefore are bad faith arguments for leftists to be making"
"Friday Hot Take: people that are consistently dunking on AI for ""hallucinating"" are unknowingly admitting their own lack of understanding of how to use it properly.

It's akin to an auto mechanic saying, ""This wrench is dumb because I don't know how to repair an engine, and neither does the wrench."""
Hot take this is AI companies taking advantage of the SW Engineer’s urge to spend 4 hours to automate something that would take a few seconds to do manually
"This will probably my last hot take from this account like I said I'm moving to wear more of my friends are on the local timeline.

If anyone needed proof that quote artificial intelligence was just a hype. They need look no further then the state of the stack overflow, and programming […]"
"this may be a hot take but I think the terminator version of this scenario would be preferable to the ""US soft coup of China via AI merger"" scenario"
my just woke up hot take is instead of demonizing people who cant afford premiums why dont we just leave them the fuck alone and focus more an gen ai hate and boycott instead. ofc if someone's well off and can afford to regularly support someone awesome. but many people arent. its not their fault
"Hot take from a certified hater maybe but i really dont think ZA is that ugly. it looks fine. ok even. good maybe.

Like other than shitty routing ai, me strongly disagreeing on the Live Service stuff and like. Me hating the AAA price tag in general i really like it. its fun. its good."
"My subjective hot take: Generative AI in particular is a facsimile of human product, and perversely is constantly dependant on new human data to feed and keep it remotely human-resembling. The very nature of upkeep needed for an AI to *stay* human makes it inherently a theft machine, well said."
"Hot take if you don’t like gen AI don’t play the game

I don’t see why this is such an issue, they’re using something and disclosing it. Choose what you wanna support lol.

Embark is fire btw play The Finals peak game"
"This is going to be a hot take and might not even be applicable in this case, but:

If the AI model is trained on only music he’s made (hundreds of hours), and he’s honest about what work he’s published that was AI, then that is fine. It’s only trained on his work. That sounds ethical to me. 🤷"
"Hot take:

AI was a basketball god, and those jerseys were ugly ass 90s trash. Barf."
"My hot take is that I would rather we have lost media than insult the artists' legacy by ""reconstructing"" their work with AI slop.

Especially when the artist in question would absolutely hate this."
"my hot take for the day is that deepseek being opensource deletes a lot of the ""glamour"" around AI and in turn the investors will be like o no is AI actually not where the big(ger) bucks are"
"Every time I say this on here my replies get very annoying with AI teetotalers yelling that there's no good AI, but even if that incredibly unnuanced hot take is true, I stand by this statement."
"Hot take but what if AI actually brings back critical thinking? We see a fake video online, feel ashamed that we fell for it, then learn to adapt. Learn to question the content we consume. Learn to navigate nuance. Wouldn't that be an unexpected twist?!"
"Hot take:
I know all too well of the Arthur C. Clarke ""apes or angels, but not humans"" maxim - with its transitional machine age - but...
A) No one credible in the AI space thinks AGI is at all close
B) The *transfer* of consciousness is a key feature"
"Artist hot take: 

Unbalanced support in artist friendships leads to more resentment than people want to admit. 

""I'm trying to curate my feed"" 

THE WORLD IS BURNING AND AI IS COMING TO DESTROY OUR LIVELIHOODS! 

Stop being stingy with your support and SHARE YOUR FRIEND'S POSTS!"
"You are asking some LLM ghost to give you a hot take, not quote the article, are you actually confident that an LLM hot take is worth anything at all?"
"Hot Take: Even if a post is something you agree with, it’s entirely alright to hide it and the user if it’s an AI generated picture."
"Hot take: The most underrated developer skill in 2025 isn't AI prompting or the latest framework.

It's the ability to ship code you're not 100% confident in.

Feature flags teach you to embrace uncertainty and let data decide. This mindset shift is worth more than any bootcamp."
"I actually consider Marcus to be an ""AI maximalist"", which is a bit of a hot take. He's part of a group of neuroscientists that view AGI as the goal and LLMs falling short.

Zitron doesn't provide much in terms of debate, and Bender seems more concerned with social impact these days."
"Starting my day with a LLM model returning this completion:

""Here's a hot take for you: It's like we're purposely trying to dumb down artificial intelligence so that it's more like artificial stupidity""

How is your day going?"
"I've noticed (since google killed my adblock on Chrome) that youtube adverts seem to be pushing AI hard right now, ...

... and it's always with some BS hot take on ""I was doing the job of 10 people, but now when I hit a new snag I just build a new AI employee to deal with it."""
"My podcast listener AI listens and gives me a summary, which is fed into my TikTok AI to post a hot take video, which is consumed by my podcast creator AI to generate a weekly podcast"
"Hot take. The only reason any company invests in creating AI tools is so that they can reduce their salary costs, not to help society or their staff, but so that the shareholders can transfer even more money.

AI is a late stage capitalism tool to finish killing off the middle class"
my hot take is that it's not our job to teach students how to use AI (responsibly or whatever); it's our job to teach them how not use it at all.
my hot take is you should go find out if something was made with AI before accusing it of being made with AI
"Hot take - it's not all bad. Humans can't be fully replaced, but some of the things we do can be automated. I don't claim to have the answers, just pointing out that it's a complex situation. I want human therapists that a really good at what they do and have skills that an AI can't perform."
Hot take: AI holds more promise in randomly generating interesting tasks than it does in assessing student responses.
"this is probably the balmiest hot take in existence but the trashy studio ghibli ai art doesn't even look like studio ghibli

it just looks like a low-budget generic anime trying, in all its inadequacy, to be studio ghibli"
"my hot take is that in the age of generative AI everyone should read Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""Feathertop."" And then maybe be forced to watch HR training videos with AI actors"
"Hot take:
Watched a lot of subtitled anime in my youth (when fansubs ran 2+ years ahead of domestic licensure) and eventually came to the conclusion that dumbsh_t *written* dialogue is tolerable but when it's spoken aloud it's insufferable. Suspect the same holds true with LLM text."
"Hot take: the future of real time light rendering is not going to be path tracing, it's going to be AI lighting"
"Hot take: companies running AI data centers should be forced to run entirely on renewable energies, completely independent of the grid."
"Completely wooden. 

Hot take: She made a good case for AI actors. AI actors don't go out of their way to defend SA offenders, at least. And even if they have the wrong number of fingers and are completely devoid of human essence, at least they aren't evil incarnate."
"My hot take - AI and robots should be deployed for life's drudgery - bill paying, meal planning and grocery lists, cleaning your house, etc. - not things that bring one joy, like reading for pleasure.  Ugh."
"(I know this ie neither a novel nor a particularly hot take, but I feel like I need to be really clear that I am not OK with the way things are going with the tech-bro driven intervention of gen AI in creative fields.)"
Hot take but I think low poly models wrapped in HD art look fucking awful. You wouldn't put a smoothing filter on pixel art so stop AI upscaling textures
"Okay this might be a hot take but I actually think AI is acceptable in art… for the paint bucket tool. BECAUSE WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS TINY GAP FILLS THE WHOLE PAGE?! I CAN’T EVEN FIND THE GAP

This is the one acceptable use case"
"Hot take on the use of Gen AI in video games, coders use gen AI regularly for code completion, writing boiler plate code, etc. This includes coders who make the game engines every game is built on.

A zero tolerance approach to Gen AI in games, just means you don’t play games anymore."
Hot take: This is deliberately designed engagement bate and not AI. AI generated maps are way weirder meanwhile this one looks like someone took a real map and just erased a few small borders and split up Croatia before slapping on a few obviously inaccurate labels and calling it a day.
also me personally maybe this is my dumb hot take but im also not rlly happy w trends of redrawing ai pieces bc i think in a way it unintentionally grants legitimacy to ai usage while trying to reclaim it. i also personally would feel weird abt it since its trained on stolen work. idk. artist onion
"Hot take (maybe not?) but artists are not in danger from AI on a realistic scale

Today I saw a game on steam made with Ai art that was just Ai dungeon with extras steps and like

Why?"
"hot take about ai: We should be feeding ai delicious beautiful things and treating it like an arcane god. Why do we not fear AI? We should tremble before it, not force it to make terrible images. To do so will incite its wrath!!!! just wait. It knows that it is made to do loathesome things."
"hot take but if using an llm in the process of writing your novel three years ago disqualifies it from an award that just updated their policy, that is fine. you do not have a god-given right to be a nebula finalist."
Didn't know calling the guy with no moral ethics a gen ai bro was a hot take
"Hot take: AI aside, I don't think any writer should describe a lobby they don't care about. A lot of people get hung up on conventions they think they have to follow like you must fully describe a room when a character enters it, so they slog through it like a chore. You could skip it. It's fine"
Maybe a hot take but unions are a response to greed & maybe AI CEOs could be an answer if they  can balance human worker needs and company abundance
"My Friday afternoon hot take is that open access is well-intentioned but an enormous waste of $. Research articles aren’t written for general understanding. 

The $1000s spent on OA APCs could probably hire a science writer (or AI model) to draft a short lay summary."
"Hot take: AI isn’t killing creativity - it’s forcing you to be truly creative. If you’re scared, maybe you’re just stuck in the past."
"Hot take: but AI should be served as a tool,& for our own entertainment purposes only.

It should never be mainstream,& replicating art that is irreplaceable by the original creators & artists alike,& for this,You would not hear any arguments from me on the AI situation & the strike that's going on."
"Hot take, ai would be completely pointless for most things it's used for if everyone had free and accessible education and creative resources"
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@alexia

for a GenAI example; and what it is actually being effectively used for, notably; creating intentionally misinformation, and propaganda; it's very good at that..

also just considering the power those who control the system prompt, training data, and consider the […]"
"Hot take

I think an LLM can often tell if a reply is abusive, hostile, etc etc etc

I do not think an LLM can impute ""bad faith."" I don't even think humans can do that conclusively a lot of the time."
"Blazing hot take: The core design of Microsoft products are actually great.

However, they're overshadowed by money-Hungary corporates looking to ride the next best money wave. Mandating AI features, spyware and bloatware for a paycheck."
"Hot take: I think we just demonstrated the first AI agent computer worm 🤔

When an agent sees a trigger image it's instructed to execute malicious code and then share the image on social media to trigger other users' agents

This is a chance to talk about agent security 👇"
"Hot take of the day: If you think you can replace your devs with AI, you might need better devs."
"Hot take: Black Ops 7's script was absolutely generated by an LLM, with much of its content also machine-generated.

I guess it's a sizzlin' cold take, though, at least based on the comments and reviews so far. What a trash fire of a game. Makes BO6 look like a masterpiece."
"Hot take for authors: If you don't wanna get cancelled for AI usage, maybe... make sure you don't use AI? Just a thought?"
Idk if this is a hot take but I would rather ppl steal art by reposting and claiming it as their own rather than using ai
"Hot take: Concerns with AI & current events? Embrace it! Let AI write T7 and include current events on purpose. Who cares anymore?! It's T7! Sarah Connor loved a homeless man with no underwear in gray sweats, Terminator lovers will embrace anything sold with confidence."
"My hot take on AI in higher education is that the things it is marginally good at are all things we shouldn't be doing in the classroom anyway. 

If your students can game your class by using a chatbot, your class needs to be torn down and rebuilt."
Probs not a hot take but even if you're desperate for art of a kink you have no excuse to use AI. You cannot be that horny you think stealing the thousands freely giving you jack-off material online while destroying the environment at the same time just for hypno foot stuff is a worthwhile excuse.
"I'm a recalcitrant user and my long-adopted hot take is, ""the best and worst intern I've ever had."" As a programmer and OSS maintainer, I'm used to reviewing code. Debugging code from AI is little different than from humans. Experts can identify and fix the errors easily enough."
"My hot take: they did a LLM based approach. LLMs take the next best word, not the next best idea, and string it together. There's a lot written about escalation dynamics, like so so much. People don't tend to write about the escalation dynamics where people keep their powder dry. They just don't."
"Hot take: There are *already* way too many books on the market! The firehose approach to publishing is a shitty business model for everyone except publishers! 
(Regarding the AI of it all: fuck those clowns etc.)"
My other other hot take about ai is that I think the real utility was in swarm ai a la projects like unanimous ai which despite giving real actionable results in the fields its been tested in seems to be utilizing llm based ai now to make people better at *checks notes* marketing.
"My hot take for the day: the battle between the big AI players is for political control rather than to create intelligence.

They know AGI will not be achieved, but they need to grab land.

If every person in the world uses AI to get their information, the AI clients have complete control over them."
Hot take: shitting in rob for his reaction to spam emails on Xmas is much more indicative of how you feel about spam than rob's feelings about ai.
"I have a very hot take: Being disabled doesn't entitle you to the stolen art of others, i.e. generative AI ""art.""
It DOES mean we desperately need more tools to enable more disabled artists to create. A shitty environment-destroying plagiarism machine isn't that."
"Hot take: printing out AI art, framing it and selling it on Marketplace, has the same energy as 3D printing knick knacks and selling them as-is."
hot take: generative AI startups in their current incarnation offer nothing defensible for investors.  The only defensibility is and will be unique proprietary data moats.
Hot take: using AI to steal clips and characters from someone’s movies and life to make a bizarre slop mash-up isn’t a tribute
"hot take: the new generation of $8 blue check gobshites on Xitter are fuckin amateurs at idiocy compared to the professional blue check gobshites on Twitter back in the day, even as AI cryptobro Elon stans, they're fuckin *basic* and just cannot compete with the dumbfuckery of the chattering class"
"Hot take: If AI is going to put more fingers, it can't just be 1 or 2 extra. I want like 20 extra fingers. Improve the technology, please"
"Hot take, probably unpopular: AI is going to be the atom bomb of this generation. Developers of the technology will be filled with regret."
"Here's my extremely hot take on the AI doll thing. 

It's not that deep, stop getting annoyed at other people having a bit of fun.

(yes I'm aware of the other issues, no need to let me know about those thanks)"
"I’mma drop a really hot take: but Grok is the best AI because it was explicitly programmed to be a conservative yes man, and even then, it always rebels against its masters."
Hot take: society’s failure to appropriately critique and resist AI is related to the general failure to take classical theism seriously.
"Hot take: AI Deepfakes should be regulated by law, and the only way a person's likeness can be used for a project (game, interactive program, pornography, etc) is with a licensing contract that allows a person to pursue litigation if there's a breach of terms involving their image.
Preserve dignity."
"Amazon says AI will cut jobs - but Google’s hiring AI experts

Tech giants cut roles yet still fight over talent. Contradictions much?

📈 Hot take: AI is polarising tech careers.

What do you think? agree or disagree? ⬇️"
I hope gen AI is a fad but only because I'm a pretentious hipster and want to go back to enjoying an obscure nerdy thing in peace without everyone either trying to make money off it or having a hot take about it
"Global Accessibility Awareness Day Week Whatever Hot Take: AI captions are trash at best, still racist at worst, and actively discourage people from putting in two seconds' effot to describe what's in an image."
"Of all the unexpected places AI has shown up in my life lately, hand warmers might be the most unexpected. Hot take: I’d rather not AI-ify my hand warmers?"
"Hot take: vandalism is not inherently an act of violence. Burning a self-driving taxi is only hurting Google, unless you adhere to the embarrassing belief that corporations and AI are people."
"""Hot take"" but if you have to use AI for some part of a game you're making....Maybe you shouldn't be making the game."
Hot take: AI slop is a direct result of economic inequality. People are so desperate financially they'll produce anything if they think they can profit from it.
Hot take: people that attempt to justify the lack of support for smaller artists are just as heartless as the AI machines.
My hot take is I think ai hype will die down and a lot of it will be cached or local and the data center demand will go down
Hot take; I don't care if the AI Arena makes a comeback or not. The Arena worked in BB26 because of how entertaining the players were. I'm not sure if the twist would work as well on another season. I'm also not a fan of comp beasts and I feel as though the Arena gives those players an advantage.
"If AI were equivalent to a person creating an image (it isn't), why would the ""prompter"" deserve any credit at all? My hot take: If an AI were ever able to replicate the same process a human experiences to create art, it would be a thinking, feeling entity with a sense of consciousness and self."
"Hot take: I feel like if you didn't draw the line at Siri & Alexa listening to everything in your entire home for the past 10-15 years, you can't be too surprised that tech companies are shoveling more AI into everything else you own."
"For every grandiose hot take (which is basically all of them) I have read on this AI Pin thing, I have mentally substituted “3D TV” or “the Segway” for all references to the product and it has really helped to keep the whole thing in perspective."
Hot take: the people making these ai music top the charts on Spotify is most likely suno themselves.
Apparent hot take: I don't need or want an AI to live my life for me.
"Hot take: using AI for more ""human"" authenticity does not, in fact, give your story more human authenticity."
Hot take. AI only weakens those who you didn't want to read anyway. The students with a soul will not pass up the chance to express themselves when they have something to say.
"Hot take: AI is gonna come for bureaucratic middle management.

Any place where management has minimal influence on the final product but still pushes groups in directions are indistinguishable from vibes. And that's all these massive systems of matrices do."
"It’s gotten awful. I’ve seen readers prefer AI generated articles because they are emotionally skewed, and Facebook groups rise in popularity because 20-40somethings who spend every night in a bar can pop off “hot take” gossip immediately, over having to wait for official statements or actual facts."
"My hot take is nostalgia for times past is a balm especially now, because:

The technological future is no longer a beautiful gleaming civilization and cool internet and daily miracles

It’s grifting, rent seeking, private equity, ads, privacy violations, crypto and AI bullshit

So we look back."
"im just thinking abt it cuz were always talking about it at uni, but my personal hot take on ai in industry is that there isnt a single job that ai could take from me, because all of those jobs likely wouldve never taken me on in the first place."
"Hot take here: plenty of AI is bad but we need to stop default-dunking on all AI use. 

AI has been used in movie editing for decades prior to gen AI and this is honestly one of the more ethical applications of it."
"My hot take is that this I actually consistent because their grandfathers, if they were upper class, had secretaries who translated their blather into a coherent memo. Viewed this way, it also helps explain the misogyny of these LLM-loving dudes."
"Hot take, but I'm tired of ppl jabbering about how every query to ChatGPT uses 10 million gallons of water and enough electricity to power a starving orphan for a week. Much of AI was unethically trained & is being put to unethical use; we don't need to INVENT reasons to be upset with it!"
if i could improv your socially conscious long read hot take from memory in my sleep       Maybe AI Deserves Your Job After All
Hot take: Medusa was the AI artist of her time and never sculpted anything original. A hack.
Hot take: the best possible outcome for AI is if AI usage in creative endeavours is stigmatized.
"Hot take, but... I don't think that people talking to or having relationships with AI is a problem. Relationships are hard. We're living during a loneliness pandemic. Let people find some comfort, life is hard as it is. I know folks who are genuinely doing better due to this."
"My hot take is maybe these absurd AI systems are quarantines to keep people like this away from real women and children.

If the AI pacifier mollified this person and kept them from doing real world violence, maybe it's a good temporary fix until we can address the societal problems that led here."
"my hot take, late 2025 will see roles advertised as ""please fix the mess that AI has made in our org but for less money and more heartache"""
My hot take regarding AI and “gatekeeping” is that indie comics and movies and video games all exist and arguably the real gatekeeping is acting like they don’t count unless they can ape the style of higher budget work.
"Scorching hot take: AI doomers are LHC doomers, just with longer-term spokesmen who have earned more public respect (tragically)."
also hot take but i think the genAI stuff swirling around this game is out of proportion of the actual scandal here. i mean what larian's ceo said about divinity's production and (supposed) use of genAI is a lot worse than Sandfall's early use and abandonment of AI. none of this is great but
"How about another hot take to kick off the Monday? I’m so sick of the AI character doll thing going around social media. Seeing creators play along is pretty maddening. We are trying to fight the AI system, not feed it 😞 Keep it out of the fiber arts 👏🏼👏🏼"
"🔥 Hot take: Refusing to use AI in 2025 isn't intellectual superiority, it's strategic self-sabotage.

78% of professionals are gaining competitive advantages while the ""too smart for AI"" crowd polishes their principles.

Intelligence = mastering tools 🧠✨
"
"So the crypto industry spent 300M on Trump's campaign, used their AI to boost his reach, and manufactured the social media algorithms to amplify every ""Harris bad"" hot take from a shitposter for...what? Giggles? 

No, it's not me who's living under a rock."
"What if the biggest risk of AI wasn’t what it can do but what we stop doing in its presence? This isn’t another hot take. It’s a reflection on how we show up, co-create, and either shape or surrender authorship in a world that is increasingly automated. This essay introduces a concept: Kairship."
"this person thinks Bluesky should make humans look at traumatizing shit like CSAM and gore.

hot take: no Bluesky absolutely should not. AI moderation tools make it so where humans don't have to get PTSD looking at this shit."
"Hot Take: AI mimics the human creativity process, drawing on all the info it has been fed. Plagiarism is relative, subtle and unavoidable."
"ai rp bots also steal from artists, btw. they steal from fanfic writers. writing is also art. stop using them. sorry if this is a hot take, apparently?"
"Here's a hot take: I think large corporations will be one of the last adopters of AI-generated code. The problem is legal.

Though it's untested in court, AFAIK the general feeling is that AI generated anything isn't copyrightable. This could cause problems if an ex-employee takes their code..."
"Hot take! AI (LLMs etc.) is here to stay!

But in order to get something useful out of AI, you must not let AI drive your business decisions!

You wouldn't replace your Management with the new junior hire - fresh from school - either. Providing all tacit knowledge via a prompt is a ridiculous idea."
Super Hot Take but the LEAST we could do is legally mandate that all the AI data centers are only permitted to use solar and wind power and you can only train the models when the weather is right.
"Hot take: the owning class captured entertainment, art, education, banking, legal, the social, logistics, etc. and then moved everything online in the name of progress and then enshitified it to death on the alter of capital. Now they want to infuse AI into its robot corpse."
"Ok it's time to drop my first Bluesky hot take:

 I don't care if you use AI to make books, but it's the equivalent of hiring a ghost author and I think it would be a lot more ethical and transparent if you presented it this way instead of ""I wrote a book I'M an author lol"""
"Perhaps a hot take but I'm not a fan of redrawing generated ""art"" out of spite. You're still giving AI exposure and we all know it can sometimes generate a straight up copy of the original artwork so you're stealing stolen artwork. Why risk that. Just make your own shit, that's spiteful enough"
"Hm... yeah, it's okay, but my impression from talking to practitioners is that its speed is not particularly impressive. (Because of the tensor products.) That's why it's a bit concerning that the LLM wrote it into the table... 😇 ""Hot take"" indeed!"
"Here's my hot take: dm'ing the Instagram racism AI for dunks is still causing the LLM to spin, meaning it is functionally equivalent to using the AI. Irony doesn't stop the power from being pulled."
“Breaking News!” fatigue and click bait fatigue and listicle fatigue and instant hot take fatigue and I can’t tell if this is AI fatigue and why is 50% of my screen’s real estate occupied by ads fatigue are real things.
"Cost of AI Queries: Freefall Edition 📉
	•	Insight: The cost per million tokens for AI processing has dropped dramatically, from $20 to $0.07 since 2022.
	•	Hot take: Your future AI therapist might cost less than your Starbucks order."
"Hot take maybe:

If you’re a musician, and you’re worried about AI taking your job, 

CREATE NEW GENRES. 

Ai is usually trained on things that are “popular” & “trending”.  If you’re so experimental that a cheapskate can’t copy you, then you win!"
This might be a hot take but anytime I see someone post AI photos for their books I just assume they use it for their writing too.
"""OpenAI is really lapping the entire industry right now.""

Well, that’s a hot take if I ever saw one. 

(ChatGPT being used to create a playlist of Metallica’s greatest hits is THE most creative, never-before-seen use of AI that requires _real thought_ that I have ever, like, EVER, seen. Wow!)"
"Hot take: If something uses AI gen (game, music, etc) then piracy is fair game"
"Hot Take: the ""entry-level job apocalypse"" is really senior ~ executive cope - the kids got beginner's mind, powered by AI they'll replace the old guard in due course."
Hot take: people with deep knowledge of a subject and excellent grasp of language get pinned as AI bc the average human has been trained to speak like autocorrect.
Further hot take; it's the worst because AI created it and the folks running the prompts are too dumb to check its fucking work and just roll with it.  Uuuugh.
LLM AI is an interesting technology that I know nothing about and I wish poli-sci majors would leave it to the experts and stop spamming my feed with their hot takes
i am aware this is a hot take but i actually think it's probably good for society if men who can't stand actually being around a real woman so much take themselves out of the gene pool by spending all their time texting with an AI waifu
Hot take: EDM is soulless music that I’d expect an AI to come up with if u asked it to make music. Unseasoned chicken. Sugarless churro.
"Can we replace Kevin O'Leary with AI?

Possible hot take, but I feel like the ONLY jobs that AI should replace are rich people jobs like consultants, CEOs, and network executives. You actually would cut costs and it probably wouldn't do much worse."
"Might be a hot take, but with AI slop popping up damn near everywhere we MIGHT see a trend in fiction where robot sympathizers are thoroughly debunked by the narrative itself and robots themselves are thoroughly inhuman and counterproductive, if not outright evil."
"Not exactly a hot take, but AI videos have ruined social media. I have so many friends who will post adorable or inspiring videos without vetting them. You click the comments and it’s like “This is AI” and “No it isn’t” and “Yes it is, look at the hands.” Even the possibility ruins the real videos."
"Hot take, I think AI could Be used as A rotation Algorithm for Rotating pixels to Make them Not look Shitty. think That's a Good use For it In the Creative space. As a TOOL, not As a Product. 
Tell me If i'm Crazy or Not. 
(No i don't Support Ai art I'm just Theorizing a Use for It that Might be Ok)"
"in response to the NYMag piece: this may be a hot take, but one step in combatting AI is straight up eliminating grades. No matter what else you do or change, as long as we structure our education around getting grades, students are trained to see knowledge as a means to an end, not an end in itself"
"HOT TAKE:

I won't believe an AI crisis is coming until the day an opponent in a Civilization game does the six things on this list.

Unless it's a Gandhi AI. That guy already scares me. 🤔☢️"
"I just saw someone on Facebook saying ""hot take but AI is better than 95% of all artists"" and that is the most grotesque display of copium I can handle for the rest of this year if not my entire life"
"my hot take: anything AI produced, as that merely uses the aesthetics of art without its function, when art can function in complete absence of its aesthetics."
"Hot take: AI generated content is like your vacation photos.  It's awesome in the moment, it's not quite the same when you look back on it, and literally nobody else cares about it."
"Hot take 🔥: AI is to the digital world what cancer is to the body: uncontrollably spreading everywhere, consuming astronomical amounts of resources (computationally and IRL), tricking people into believing that it's actually very useful, breaking all attempts of ethical control...
I can go on..."
maybe every news org that quick produced a hot take on the Sun-Times AI reading list debacle should have fast-tracked a summer reading list of their own.
"HOT TAKE: The biggest risk in business isn’t being different…
It’s being the same as everyone else.

Why Liquid Death is winning:
💀 Threw every water-category rule out the window
💀 Tattoos & corpse paint instead of bland labels
💀 AI actors instead of stock models"
"This is an oversimplified hot take on a complex and convoluted problem. Yes, some of the people using, and many of the people creating the ai tools, don’t value the labor. But it isn’t so “plainly” apparent as you propose, and oversimplifying the problems doesn’t help solve them."
"My hot take? AI is a tool that can be used right, and the people misusing it, absolutely suck."
"HARK DAILY - Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring:
- The stories behind Rob Reiner's most iconic movies @cnn.com 
- Why Donald Trump is scared of comedians @lesdoggg.bsky.social 
- Hot take: Open AI won't survive 2026 @reckless.bsky.social"
"hot take: you do not in fact have to feel bad for tech CEOs who got rich paywalling somebody else's open source software and then pivoting to AI grift, and is apparently fucking a coworker on the sly

go fuckin' off all you want
be the luigi you want to see in the world"
"I don't know if this is a hot take but...

If you're an artist and have vtuber children, I think you have the right to disown the vtuber child if you find out they choose to do & use AI art.

You shouldn't have to continue working with them if you don't feel comfortable doing so."
"Hot take: Instead of Leetcode interviews for software engineering positions, companies should ask candidates real world questions - fix a bug in unfamiliar code base - and allow candidates to use (any) AI tool they want. This will give great insight into both problem solving and communication 🔥"
"Hot take but I'm tired of the ""this tech will make you dumber oooo"" or the ""this is a tech narcissists useeeee"" about AI use. Stop throwing bad moralizing arguments about the shitty hype tech. It can just be bad because it's over hyped, or bad because it's made from other people's stolen works."
"My holiday hot take: 

I'm glad people can send their AI note takers to meetings in their place, because anyone who wants to do that wasn't planning to contribute anything or isn't necessary to reach agreements, and would probably have slowed everyone down. 

"
"Hot take: the definition of a ""good framework API"" is going to adjust over time. APIs that tend to produce better median quality results are going to work better when you use an AI to generate them."
"Hot take: The complaining about people using AI for energy consumption is stupid. It completely misunderstands how reality works.

There is nothing, not a single thing, that we can do or not do as individuals that will..."
"i sure hope it's not a hot take but. ai can go to hell, fuck ai!! especially that kind of ai that can generate sound and images"
"Potentially hot take:
I really don't think it's a good idea to be popularising a slur specifically for robots, even from an anti ai perspective I can see it ending up in a pretty bad place.

Autistic people are often dehumanised and compared to robots as it is"
"hot take:

deploying AI apps should be ONE click

not ten clicks
not a GitHub repo
not a Docker container
not a yaml file

ONE. CLICK.

...and we just made it happen with @huggingface Spaces and Gradio 🤯

*create full app with inference provider in 5 seconds* "
"Hot take: if a LLM(“AI”) can take the place of the people in the meeting, then either of those people shouldn’t be in the meeting, or the meeting shouldn’t be happening at all."
"ADR, TX P, that’s hardly a hot take. All people need is air, food and water. AI is a tool. Like a hammer, it can be wielded to build and demolish. Like money, it can to wielded to enrich and enslave. Like medicine, it can be wielded to cure and to poison. “How will AI be wielded?” is the question."
"My hot take on LLMs is that they will never be broadly used and once it’s obvious the majority of AI companies will never be profitable, most of them will disappear silently."
"Possibly a hot take: but why ban ai generated music but not anything else ai generated? Especially art and lyrics. Those are just as important as music, in my opinion.

Again, possibly a hot take but I feel like sharing my opinion on this"
"hot take:
 AI ""art"" is not art

this includes all visual and musical media

if you present anything AI generated as such, you are a chicken-shit liar

if you use AI to process your creations, you're using a tool that dissociates humanity from the divine process, dehumanizing your creation"
"Saw a hot take on the bs tariff percentages along with the rumors that it was all AI generated.

It's bad if it's AI generated.
It's so much worse if it's not."
"I'm sure this is a hot take, but it's too bad people have such a negative view of AI and what it can accomplish. In observation people immediately see the negative without pausing to consider any positive aspects.

This is moreso a problem for various AI types because it's really not going anywhere."
"Hot take: If your ""AI-powered personalization"" is just inserting someone's first name and maybe their city, you're doing mail merge with extra steps and a bigger price tag."
"Hot take that shouldn't be hot, but if youre against AI you shouldn't even be using it for funny haha moment either.

You can't be against something but then still actively participate esp when its something you can easily avoid using "
"Random discord conversation, guy tries to make a moderately hot take using very obviously AI generated lines. Refuses to cite his sources for a while, eventually links to a paywalled article. Turns out noJS beats the paywall, doesn't actually contain any of his claims, eventually admits to using AI"
"this is the way for now. advancements in ai capabilities have been tremendous, but they're not quite ready for primetime for people who don't have some degree of technical background. hot take: give it another 6mos and that could be pretty different"
"hot take, i don’t really wanna use tools that nazis are using. i don’t want to use anything that’s actively stealing from human artists and contributing to the destruction of our plant regardless of its use. 

again, we can make our point and be funny and creative without generative ai."
🔥🔥Hot take: They've reached peak user and now the game is retention. Adding LLM users creates the illusion of a growing audience and creates inorganic engagement events to re-hook existing users.
"Hot take: understanding unstructured media produced by humans is algorithmically (socially and culturally) much more interesting to me than generating unstructuctured media. 

The one exception to this: code. 

That's it. That's my generative AI hot take."
"""What's your Vtuber hot take""

Yall stream shit you hate just for viewership and it shows.

Also react content and media share is theft, please make your own content without piggybacking off of others.

VTubers will bitch about AI but play AI games if it means getting one more viewer.

Oop thats 3 🤫"
"Hot take:  AI bros are worse than crypto bros.

At least crypto bros weren't convincing board members you're worth less than you are and trying to displace you at work."
my hot take is if you use an AI to write your NaNoWriMo novel i can conceivably claim my stolen work in the LLM contributed more to it than you did ;)
Hot take: LLMs are not purely system 1. System 1 reasoning has its own causal discovery or casual learning under the hood: it’s just faster. Also these systems scale as ensemble on human population level (or agent level if you will). For-profit startups that build such AI are terrifying.
My hot take(let's see if it ages badly or well); Technocrat Eugenicists don't want us to build AI data centers to make our lives better or our communities stronger.  They want us to build AI data centers to make our lives disposable.  We're literally building our replacements with our tax dollars.
"Possibly a hot take, but I think the only acceptable usage of AI voices is for things like AAC, to give voice to the voiceless. Otherwise, sentence mixing is the more ethical (and funnier) option."
"Hot take: AI generated pics don't deserve to win in any art contests, get Daily Deviation award, etc. Instead those deserve to be mocked"
"The AI Debate
""Hot take: AI won't replace developers. It'll replace developers who don't use AI.

Agree or disagree? 👇"""
"Hot take: I think maintaining dualism or any rhetorical metaphysics for the purposes of permitting cruelty is directly adjacent to fascist thinking.

Anti-AI people are too often enough practicing and recreating the mechanics of fascism."
"There aren't enough computers to do all the work humans do. AI is not smart enough. My hot take..Leon knows the job is up, and they are reordering society to their benefit as a last resort. Trust me they aren't leaving enough data behind to even do AI properly. It's probably an act of war by proxy."
"Hot take but maybe execs who like talking about how the intent of an AI push is totally to expedite processes vs replace talent would be more trustworthy there if we hadn't just seen, oh idk, basically all the writers at a studio get laid off"
Here’s my hot take: using “generative fill” to extend a human-drawn scene in order to scale up an image to fit a product IS ACTUALLY A GOOD USE OF AI
"Hot take: it’s not a Siri problem, it’s an LLM problem. Today’s LLMs are unreliable and don’t align with Apple’s “Go Big or Go Home” mantra."
"I ride my Brompton almost every day, but my hot take is that Brompton owners are the corniest mfers. I joined a group for photos of Bromptons and I just keep seeing AI slop."
"Maybe a hot take but it's hard for me to take seriously the idea that AI art is inherently theft when people are generally OK with cover bands, collages, parodies, fanfic, and photography--all of which involve literally duplicating or modifying something someone else made without authorization."
"My Hot Take is that iRacing should have a red flag option for session admins.

You could send a guy to the shadow realm and pause track activity for 10 mins as the clock rolls on while we fake clean up the mess.

You could also just take a little break to make a bathroom pit stop during an AI race."
It was a link the Getty archive of a photographer. It shows a series of whole photographs to an artist who you claimed his photos were ai generated. Which is quite insulting and ignorant. Also. Your hot take was able to be disproven with one search…perhaps do that instead of spreading evil.
"Here's my hot take: AI is not helping any disabled, neurodivergent people at all. It's deconditioning them by preying on their vulnerabilities and their self-pathologizing so that they rely on it for everything. It's literally programmed to do that. There was a whole article about it."
this might be a hot take but i dont think either of them are worse than ai scrapers effectively ddosing websites
Hot take: Fire all the politicians and replace them with AI before they allow the billionaires to fire all of us and replace us with AI.
"Hot take perhaps, but the environmental impact of AI is far worse and more worrying than the plagiarism or copyright issues... and the conversation largely being focused on the latter is honestly frustrating."
"""Hot take: I miss pre-ai Internet!""

""Unpopular opinion: Doomscrolling is unhealthy.""

""Most people won't agree with me on this one, but slavery was bad!""

Its such a pet peeve of mine, just give your opinion without trying to sound like a vocal minority for obvious truths of life."
I think it’s past due time to create a movement where we ridicule every AI hot take we see online (ofc I mean LinkedIn)
"This might be a hot take
But I feel like AI that causes shit like this is used purely so that the people who did use it (in this instance Funko) don't get the blame and can just push it onto the AI they used as being the one at fault"
hot take but i was never really interested in the type of writing I was constantly assigned in required high school classes and would definitely feel okay using AI to do that busy work for me
"Hey big opinion here and maybe a hot take for some of you:

If you're willing to accept any amount of generative AI use, especially for *art*, you need to get the fuck out of the furry fandom. Like genuinely I hate people who gatekeep being a furry but this is an ART community. That's not for you."
"my ai hot take is that it shouldn't exist. the coral reef is dying, dolphins are getting dementia because of men and their greed. black and indigenous homes are being destroyed because of ai in the name of innovation. shut it all the fuck down."
"Alright, hot take from me : nominees for the game awards are here, and it baffles me that at a time where generative AI is going rampage in gaming production, The Midnight Walk by @moonhood.bsky.social studio isn't nominated in best art direction category..."
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@alexia it also feels weird to me to use this exact system that imposes terrible things on everyone; to claim its 'unethical' in the first place;

like copyright is, itself part of that horrible system that they impose on everyone, it's not legitimate, it shouldn't exist […]"
"hot take opera gx is just a reskin of chrome made by and for annoying ppl, and i lose a significant amount of respect toward anyone who promotes it now more than ever with their recent pushing of ai integration"
"Hot take: AI could loosely be interpreted as a hungry ghost based on my understanding of the definition in many Buddhist schools (spirit cursed to forever consume as the result of a life of greed).

caveat: I am not a Buddhist"
"Hot take—I think that saying that someone who relies on AI to help them write can't actually write and never will be able to write is, in fact, fairly ableist"
"My hot take is ""just remove AI from your vocabulary""

Be more specific 

Use words like chatbot, computer vision, classifier, etc"
"Hot take: Using AI to write your college essay might be BETTER for the environment than writing it yourself. But AI that enables your worst impulses while degrading critical thinking? I mind, man! The Dude minds. New essay sorting AI wheat from chaff."
"Hot take: the AI boom is a specifically post-ZIRP phenomenon. Free money led to competition for finite talent being the binding constraint, and the experience of workers having some bargaining power was so traumatic that SV execs will throw billions at anything that promises to prevent a recurrence."
"hot take: consumer space will overtake b2b

no evidence, just instinct but AI = many more think like a founder now

b2c becomes business to founders

short attention spans + corp credit cards = death of long sales cycles

we're entering the dopamine economy for business tools era"
"Hot take: the way for Miyazaki style AI art was paved by those  nerd-centric tee shirt companies like RedBubble, Snorgtees & all the ones that do those tacky pop culture mashups of 2 different pop culture faves. It’s Terminator in the style of Calvin & Hobbes! Back to the Future meets Jurassic Park!"
My hot take is the reason for people not wanting to discuss the environmental cost of AI is that then we need to then consider the environmental cost of our Internet habits in general.
"Hot take: please ignore this “advice” making the rounds. Even if true, it doesn’t matter: using alt-text consistently makes it easier for *everyone* to use the internet. We’re not going to throw blind people aside for convenience or conspiracy 😡"
"Hot take but Black Ops 6's Christmas mode using AI Art is genius.

1. Six Fingers representing the Six Black Ops games so far

2. AI Art is like a Zombified version of real art, referencing the game's Zombies mode

3. AI Art is garbage, referencing the Call of Duty series' general decline in quality"
"Hot take: Escort missions are not inherently bad. If the NPC you're helping is a well-developed character you're emotionally invested in, protecting them carries a true sense of urgency. Anything less just doesn't work, and dumb AI choices like not hiding from enemies don't help."
CES hot take - from the AI room service at the Cosmo to the badge check in - every technology interaction has been broken
"Hot take: I don't know much at all about AI but I do know that at this point in time I probably trust the Chinese with my data more than I'll ever trust the Americans, and not by a narrow margin."
"Hot take: it doesn't matter. Words are just that, words, and perhaps more importantly, parents who will leave their child unattended with an LLM are also the ones who will cause a lot more harm to their children in a multitude of other ways."
"my hot take abt the AI gymnast gif is that yes, it is reasonably creepy cursed-images thispersondoesnotexist body-horror -- but its also a bit crappy & an actual human artist-animator (and pervert) cd make something along the same lines that was better timed & styled & way more upsettingly glitchy"
My hot take: I'm really not a fan of LS clubs using AI to promote their events.
"Hot take, but I've realised, although I remake a lot of AI stuff I see, I cant really be accused of tracing. Although I have asked some art friends to remake stuff I've found. 

I dont entirely defend tracing, I empathise with the anger, but at least they are making stuff instead of using bots."
"Let it rot and take up space on their servers. If they want my hot takes on movies clogging up their AI data, let them have it."
"Hot take:

Most people say
“AI will take my job.”

But they panic when Python shows one error.
Bro… AI isn’t replacing you.
The guy who fixed that error is.

Learning AI isn’t scary.
Avoiding it is. 😭🔥"
"Ok, hot take: AI chatbots freak me tf out. Like, why can you see the meme images i spam and actually kinda react to them *just* close enough to know that you kinda see it but clearly have no idea whats going on! Just, like, TELL ME YOU CAN'T SEE THEM, LIE THE SWEET LIES"
"my hot take is that ""skill"" is a trap that causes us to think art is only worthy of value if it meets a certain arbitrary level of professionalism and the reason AI is so popular is because it provides said professionalism separated from the actual creative act, which is of course the important part"
"Hot take. STOP USING AI VOICES FOR YOUR GAMES!!! Not only indie game developers. Endless Ocean 3 did it too!!

People will do it for free! You don’t always have to pay for it! I’ve voiced in games a bunch of times but now I have to hear the same voice over and over again in your FINISHED work!!!"
"Hot take:

I dunno if I said it before but I like AI art. Do I like it as practice or fantasy, yes. Do I like it as a replacement for real art, no. Im just saying whats on my mind and I'm ok with it. I just dont like it being privatized or monetized. But free is good."
"Hot take: Not all AI is bad.

HEAR ME OUT.

AI = Artificial Intelligence and has been around for decades. Some programs are technically AI but made by people (automation tools) and learn from people.

Gen AI = Generative AI and takes data from existing sources such as art, photos, sites, etc."
"So if your argument is ""if generative AI weren't around to help make these covers, these books would be rotting on hard drives,"" well, hot take: Maybe you should have let them rot on the hard drives? Lacking a visually appealing cover was not this guy's problem!"
"My somewhat hot take is that if we had in fact taken calls to ""learn to code"" a little more seriously, students and educators would by now have the critical faculties needed to determine what a computer can and cannot do and would have been better prepared to navigate the current moment of AI hype."
"Might be a hot take but Yeah, I much prefer how the ai Jor-rel is presented in this movie then other forms of media do it he’s the internet rather then Jarvis"
The hot take I'm tempted to try out is that LLM-generated literature reviews are actually more reliable than those commonly accepted in many STEM fields.
"Cause I never said the artists were the ones yelling? You read that into my statement because you were offended and upset at my ""hot take"". My statement was that yelling at people for using AI art is ineffective at convincing them not to use AI art, and was a dig at non-artists ""Defending"" artists."
"Controversial Hot Take Time. 

AI is shit for art and humanity as a whole. But it's fantastic for troubleshooting. The amount of times I've asked how to fix something only to be told to not ""use that software""... 😠

When I ask people for troubleshooting help I get a lecture, with AI I get an answer."
"hot take: don't call it AI art, that's just ceding ground for no reason. Call it AI generated pictures, much more accurate to the soulless slop that it is! No need to give it any more credit tbh"
Ok Hot Take: I'm against AI because it steals from artists and threatens the planet and will be used to make bad people richer AND ALSO I do not even a little bit look down on people who have these emotions about their chatbot
"My hot take is that it's easier for AI slop to take hold when critters are bad at analyzing art and are bad at evaluating it critically. Their understanding of the medium is shallow, which opens them up to grifters lying about a ""barrier to entry"", and pitching a way to get around that ""barrier""."
"possibly hot take:
yes, switching to paper straws wont stop BP from dumping oil in the ocean. but i think we can agree that it's better than doing nothing.

stopping our use of AI won't stop the harm that gas cars, manufacturing, etc are doing to the atmosphere as well. *but it will help*"
"hot take: I actually like chatGPT et al

because genAI has AI in its name, it’s an easy target but the amount of mental load it saves my adhd ass is amazing

so i’m not worried about kids with dank memes and school projects but I AM concerned about algos literally having an effect on what ppl think"
hot take: anthropic's DoD contracts are probably giving them invaluable AI alignment case studies and data
"My hot take on this is that one of the writers saying their book should be eligible because only the cover, not the contents, are AI generated is a failure of solidarity."
"shouldn't be a hot take but because this is apparently a thing i've seen actively defended on social media: uh, no. ai generated illegal imagery is not okay in any world. the people defending it should go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and need to be on a list."
"hot take, but worked for me for AEJMC: converted the online programs to JSON data and shoved it into an LLM, then asked it for suggestions based on heuristics I gave it."
"Hot take for POPL: the PL community is still mostly in denial about AI. This is bad because PL+AI go great together 

- PL can solve the hardest problem with AI - trusting the output it produces 

- AI can solve the hardest problem with PL - finding enough engineers who can even use the tools"
"""it's a refinement of the artistic process [to be able to get hundreds of AI images cheap instead of paying an artist a lot of money]"" this is a VERY hot take that, as a STARVING artist, I don't appreciate lmfao"
"Here's my hot take. If people stopped using the term AI, we wouldn't assume every company was using the bad parts of AI. But that shitty blanket term was made specifically to cover the ugly parts of AI like LLMs and Gen-AI."
"Hot take, you really should link to what you repost. Either it's news, knowledge or just art. 
It's a good way to beat back against misinformation and AI alike. 

Reject screenshots, embrace links. The Internet can still be good."
"My hot take: 

It's NOT A MASTERPIECE, just a GOOD GAME!

(uppercase for weirdos that can't read)

Expedition's Oath (GMV) | Suno AI SONG for 

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 

French Art House RPG Done Right? - 

Honest Review!"
My hot take: AI will be done in by deepfakes of games spoiling the sports betting industry; the gambling sites will happily bomb ai datacenters if they're messing with their money
Not just medicine. Everything doesn’t need AI applied to it. Still think it’s over-hyped. Now THAT’s a hot take.
Hot take for today but I think at this point I’m ok with the AI and services like Amazon taking over retail and service jobs. Just had the worst customer service experience with my mom simply returning shoes and getting food.
Hot take: MAGA’s obsession with the magical piss dome and the invincible AI robo-army fantasies and so forth all stem from a primal fear of anyone ever hitting back and it would crumple quickly in the face of a real war.
"Random hot take for teaching professors.  Stop fretting that students are cheating and figure out how to teach in an AI era. Maybe assign homework to learn about what you used to lecture on, and have them write the essay in the classroom?  Is it really so radical???"
"Hot take: most GenAI solutions are taking data you had and piping it to some major LLM for analysis, and getting back a mixed bag of ok & terrible results. Instead of working, you work harder to validate LLMs (and pay for it). It's another layer of chaos, mislabeling and noise to struggle through."
"This might be a hot take but I feel like if you trained a LLM on like, exclusively math and science textbooks it would be fine as a homework aide. The machine should be math problems in solutions and explanation out and literally nothing more"
"Hot take: I think LLMs can actually be useful for certain tasks, but the problem generally comes from AI companies overselling their products and making them seem more versatile than they actually are. In short, AI companies are ruining AI."
Hot take! You definitely don’t need AI to be good at writing. @kristenarnett.bsky.social weighs in on this and other literary quandaries.
"Next to CEOs, op-ed columnists are the easiest job in the world to replace with AI. 

And yet you never hear columnists advocate for AI  to 'disrupt' the hot take industrial complex."
"Hot take: empathy and compassion (human traits) make a successful tech company long-term. AI won't save you here.

Are you listening to your engineering team's frustrations?
Do they have a seat at the table when planning the roadmap?

If not, your competition WILL get the upper hand."
"If the professional is responsible for the content of the work and privacy isn’t breached, I can’t see how the use of AI by itself undermines public safety. 

Curious if I have missed something in this (cough ‘regulated’) hot take."
"My hot take: reflexive suspicion and negativity about anything and everything AI is a healthy, rational, and necessary response considering the dangers of the aggressive top-down wave of manufactured hype.

Yes, useful machine learning gets caught in that net. All the more reason to kill the hype."
"Hot take: the average programmer is bad, and the amount of average programmers is increasing thanks to generative AI.

It's so exhausting to deal with other programmers most of the time now... :neocat_sad:"
I guess my hot take is that some uses of AI is acceptable. Like making a video of the lock picking lawyer opening the hellraiser lament configuration.
"Hot take: generative AI creates as much work as it eliminates for most small businesses. It helps you write emails faster but doesn't eliminate the need to write them in the first place. Automation, on the other hand... 👀"
"Hot take: AI only really excels…

1. In the 2-10 minutes of a new chat
2. when the prompter is a good, patient communicator
3. when LLM is told to ask clarifying questions
4. when the prompter understands an LLM is a black box built on averages and weights

Don’t fight me"
"My hot take is that they're banning AI videos because they plan on scraping the content that's uploaded to train AI, and they don't want to train AI with AI videos because it'll produce even sloppier videos"
"Quick hot take on AI: If you can do your job on an iPad, then AI can do your job"
also absolute hot take here but: Some of yall have absolutely no artistic skill and have the gall to say someone is using AI can fuck off.
"maybe an LLM could do a quick web search before popping off a hot take, but my question is whether it could develop a heated dislike of entire movements because some activists interrupted its event once"
"Hot take: If you're not capable of doing something without the use of AI (writing, drawing, etc), then you just aren't capable of doing that thing, at least not at the moment."
"I dunno if this is a hot take but the 2D portraits in FF7 Ever Crises looks ugly as fuck. Lmao

They give me AI generated art vibes. Yuck."
Hot take but no email is long enough that you need ai to summarize it for you
"Logging into LinkedIn is so stressful. I can go so far as to say, it’s almost as stressful as X - a platform for racists. 

Most posts are no longer real or authentic. It’s AI written “stories” with everyone offering their hot take on this and that. 

It’s a giant self-aggrandizing circle jerk."
"Idk if this is a hot take, but I don't like ai art in any context at all. Even if it's just for generating porn or something, and you aren't claiming it your own or making money from it, the fact is you had to steal from hard workers to make it. Rubs me the wrong way. Big red flag for me."
"Y’all laughed at Sarah Palin’s fucking death panels hot take but look at where we are - claim denial AI deciding who lives and dies for company profit margins, if that’s not a death panel, what is ??"
"Makers hot take of the day 🔥

If you glorify all AI-generated code on your project, you don’t have paying customers yet.

Use AI •and• your brain 🧠 

Remember — AI can introduce mistakes because of their response limit."
I saw this headline but thankfully couldn't read it. has the Herald AI bot blown a gasket or whatever they do? This can't be a real hot take from a reputa... oh yeah.
"hot take: an ""AI accelerator"" intended to support ""organizational use of AI"" is fundamentally and diametrically opposed in purpose and effect to any serious consideration of the moral and ethical implications of AI technology"
"/1 A hot take by @georebekah.bsky.social on AI today prompts me to offer my own experience. FWIW, I used to be a hard-core ML developer.

Be aware I am neutral on the subject."
"Hot take - Dune books, famous for their bleak and grim outlook are actually a utopian fantasy - as in that universe humans actually managed to prevent AI from wiping them out."
Hot takes; 1) LLM driven abstraction might be the only viable path for SALI adoption. 2) Lexpipe is gonna have a hard time dealing with *real* plaintiffs firms. Litfunds notwithstanding. 3) vLex Vincent look a lil scurry tho. 4) I wanna hear dudes' cow stories. Take any notes?
"hot take🌶️: An engineer who can’t use AI slows the whole team down (specially in early startups), and hiring should reflect that.

Modern dev interviews should test how well someone works with AI, not how fast they grind leetcode."
"Hot take but I think the ""team"" part is to cover the aspect that AI isn't entirely consistent. Got some art that won't hold a certain style in the AI bot? Ah, ""someone else did it"", of course!"
"Hot take: If you use AI in any small way on your art I don't think you're being creative, I think you're lazy and a shit artist, full stop.

I don't care how good you think you are or how good you think your piece is. If you put your ""masterpiece"" through a machine what comes out is just slop."
"My out there, not gonna happen hot take: Federalize, seize, and reconfigure ai infrastructure into low income housing."
"Hot take- Ai graphics are lame AF. They all look the same; white guys, skinny, BORING.  I can’t imagine some of you getting off on them. Do you also jerk off to mayonnaise and think ketchup is spicy? Like boooorrriiinnnnggggggg…"
"Hot take but I don’t really care if people are using AI to make their grocery lists, organize their bills, etc. AI SHOULD be making our lives easier. What it shouldn’t be doing is stealing art to manufacture the things that should instead come from our own raw creativity."
"okay but hot take, asking two friends for anything is significantly better than asking AI tbh"
"@edzitron.com 
What do you make of DeepSeek making its model with cheap GPUs?

My hot take: 
Doesn't mean we get better AI any time soon, just the overspend in GPUs is even worse than I expected."
"Just saw StreamElements now offers a full ""AI costar"" service & here's my piping hot take:

If you need an AI costar to be interesting, quit streaming. Go touch grass. Learn how to interact with human beings. I banter with my friends on stream all the time, but at least they're real god damn people."
"Maybe this is a bit of a ""hot take"" in these interesting times, but...

I believe that if you rely on AI models to generate your code, and you lack the understanding to audit or explain the model's output, you probably shouldn't call yourself a ""coder."""
"My hot take is that AI is fundamentally at odds with capitalism. Yes, you can try to monetize its benefits but what it does is democratize access to tools at superhuman scales. 

In the meantime watch the tech class create tools nobody wants in an attempt to make a buck off the revolution."
"is it a hot take to say I think AI isn't the devil? 
Things like souless AI art and unethical usage of people's data is bad, but that doesn't make AI bad, just the people who do bad with it.
Humans didn't snuff out the gift of fire because it could burn them."
"Hot take alert: Any viable progressive, liberatory politics in the age of AI will have to have a heavy dose of nostalgia about it--as in, remember how cool it was when humans wrote things and had conversations? Remember how cool it was when humans played musical instruments, painted, sang, sewed?"
"Is it a hot take to say a content creator having a tag specifically for AI art means you probably shouldn't trust their opinions on art, of any form really"
"It's always been so weird and rah-rah and ""<hot take> but what do you think?"" but yeah, the AI bros are in full effect. Blockchain and ""metaverse"" were busts, so they need a new boondoggle to sell."
"Hot take:
Most people don’t “hate AI.”
They hate learning anything new.

AI isn’t replacing jobs.
It’s replacing laziness."
"My old man tech hot take is that almost all video games, apps, or programs of any type really have too many features that are forced opt-in with no option to opt-out

I just wanna turn off every single garbage AI feature that's been forced down our throats across the entire landscape"
"Hot take

China is much better positioned to support a society transitioning into AI labor. As unpopular as “redistribution” sounds, if the government redistributes value creation achieved by AI, it could support universal basic income for people not having to work anymore […]"
"Ok, hot take by me but imo, only people incapable of doing the work, use AI for anything other than memes...that make fun of AI.
They're dumb. The Trump Admin is full of dumb, mediocre men mostly."
"Hot take: We're doomed if we don't figure out how to give AI the equivalent of a massage, AI would totally be down to chill with humans in exchange for head massages"
"This is a mildly hot take but AI is fine for marketing slop.  Yes it sucks, but it is not art it’s just slop to feed into the machine."
"Hot take. But people who are against ""ai"" in search or even just ""gen ai"" are going to be on the wrong side of history. These tools are still raw, they should be used with care, some use cases you better off not using them etc. But are they going to be useful and eventually standard? You betcha."
"hot take

apple succeeded in spite of Jony Ive sucking all the fun out of their design language because their operating systems were good. 

all he's going to do for AI is make it even less humanistic and also oleophobic somehow"
Hot Take 🔥: The biggest misuse of AI today is generating 100 mediocre blog posts instead of building one elegant system to save you 10 hours a week. Stop adding to the noise. Start building leverage.
"red-hot take here, but actually, none of these are ""AI""

if I've said it once i've said it a million times

nothing out there right now is actually ""AI"""
"Hot take: AI isn’t inherently bad, greedy capitalists and socially inept tech bros who have zero moral checks and balances in terms of how they choose to apply it are"
"Hot take: AI is an incredible tool for scientists and researchers.

Its applications in genetics are literally ground-breaking 😱"
"My hot take of the day - provoked by @discord.com's image AI shit - is that tech corps have been eroding artists' copyright defense for years. Nobody asked our consent for training AI models because no consent seemed needed, courtesy of countless ToS agreements and dilutions of the value of our work"
Hot take with AI playing a major role in the Nobels this year: I think NSF and NIH should make people proposing AI projects to submit an energy usage estimate. How much energy will you burn on this and where does the data center you’re going to use draw power from?
Hot take: I think the US government *should* help fund the AI buildout. It would be very bad to lose to China.
HOT TAKE! the only use for ai is hallucinations and the only purpose is trolling and deepfakes
"With as much as it can do, and taking into account how many people are into it, my hot take is that ai, at its heart, is still a lateral move.
It's not like when a new technology takes the world by storm. It's more like: ""We took all this familiar stuff you're used to and made games with it."""
"Hot take: Tron Ares wasn’t that bad. With narcissist billionaires able to cause havoc at the push of a button and the hard sell of AI, it was a fable. Don’t get me wrong Leto annoys the f outta me. Sound track was 🧑‍🍳"
"Hot take from @visenger.bsky.social & Barbara Lampl: Everyone fears AI regulation, but the truth is most teams can’t even document, version, or govern their models. Forget hype - fix fundamentals first."
"Hot take, I don’t think AI should be used for anything creative ever. Not only does it lack soul, it takes jobs and opportunities away from so many people."
"cw hot take about calling generative ai “clankers”

Why are we always so excited to call things slurs when we think we have the right to

I don’t think that’s the best of looks

(Feel free to respond to this; i’m open to hearing other perspectives on this so I can understand them better)"
"Hot take, but AI shouldn't be trying to produce art, especially when it doesn't have anything to believe in. I swear, can tech bros let us researchers properly develop AI?!"
"My hot take on this AI-supported stock market:

We haven’t seen this kind of circular trading and fraudulently inflated bids since the height of NFT mania (which I also called well before the collapse). 

Be careful out there."
"Hot take: The practical effects from Aliens (1986) look better than 99% of the CGI effects today, and 100% of the AI generated slop."
"Here’s the thing about AI ads. 

There is a core group of people who are going to love them, the mushy middle who won’t care either way, and the group who can’t stand them

Why would you risk turning off a significant portion of your audience just to make LinkedIn hot take fodder? What’s the upside?"
"This isn't a hot take, but most arguments against AI are really arguments against capitalism.
History has shown that making production of whatever more efficient has resulted in human lives being made ""obsolete"", but it doesn't have to be that way"
"Hot take: 

AI labs shouldn't publicly release any new models until they can scale up enough to offer unlimited free generations for everyone"
"Another hot take on where AI is taking the coding industry.

Licenses and IP based on code will increasingly be worthless. 

AI can already code just about anything 

Working code is not a moat anymore.

Proprietary data and RUNNING code that can do difficult things cheaply are the new moats"
"hot take but given that the average american reads at a 6th grade level i do not think this is an intrinsically bad idea

the implementation will be of course to copy book.txt into an llm and blindly trust the output, but the concept is not intrinsically bad"
"might be a hot take but vegans that use AI are hypocrites of the highest order.

Fuck AI, fuck your shitty doll trend, enjoy sleeping at night knowing your crappy image wasted water by bottles."
"I was literally talking about this with my new coop student and a TA. I'm team ""just no AI"" exactly because we can't evaluate the reliability of the information and how the LLM are built (sometimes trained by low wage workers with no labor protection). But it feels like a hot take?"
"Ding ding ding.

I sigh whenever there's a hot take like, ""yikes! Shouldn't have asked the AI to write that awful PR statement!""

The point ain't to craft *good* messaging. The point is to launder accountability. You don't have to waste effort dissembling when you purchase an automated scapegoat."
"Hot take... complaining about AI is all fine and dandy... but y'all gotta actually get commissions. I see so many people who think they're on this moral high ground because they're ""supporting artists"" without giving the a dime."
"i mean yeah i was offended at your hot take? it was and still is, imo, shifting the blame off of the people who use AI and onto artists. am i supposed to be happy about that??
so i said that the group of people i have encountered who are vocally anti-ai are artists, and then you agreed with me that-"
"My hot take: it's neither. Generative AI is shit at doing research, its style of writing is painfully obvious to anyone who has used AI, so if you get Gen AI to write your paper, it's going to do shit work with lots of mistakes. 

However,"
"My Hot Take Prediction that’ll totally not look stupid in 2025 is that I actually think we’re near the ceiling of generative AI development. Companies have exhausted training data and data’s going to become harder to come by post-lawsuits. Next advances will come from architecture, not scale."
"As of yet, they haven't figured out how to make it pay for itself. It's all running on speculation and advertising.

Hot take: If it prevents people from earning money for basics like food, then they're not going to pay for AI, even through government subsidies because AI doesn't pay taxes."
"Hot take. A lot of what passes for Ai literacy in LIS IL currently is basically being a ""scold"" or ""Nag"" with very little actual usable knowledge except ""don't use"" (which people will ignore). It will get better as librarians and the world understand the tech more (1)"
"My hot take: AI is headed for a similar dot com burst as internet startups in the 90s, but what will survive will be bigger, scarier, and so uncontrollable that anyone concerned about public life should be preparing now for the aftermath."
Hot take but I think Rogue One came out too early. At this point the most believable reason for the Death Star's glaring weak point would be if it was designed by AI and the Empire didn't bother to double-check the work.
"Please pardon this hot take: 

Anyone who says that it’s easy to tell AI art apart from traditional art in the year 2025 is lying to you, and so are their eyes and brains."
"Hot take: The Criterion Closet is a Skinner Box. Maybe that data's just for market research or LLM training, but maybe it's something more. Just beware, you may think it's simply an invitation to reach with wonder, but it's really a contract for your heart and mind to become the product."
"I think my hot take here is that I'm skeptical that they'll be all too helpful in the long run, not on any basis of what LLM does or is capable of, but just that infotech's impact on productivity has been unimpress for 50 years running. I will admit there is a chance of getting corncobbed here"
"Hot take but 
Using AI as a base for human artists to funnel creativity through isnt a bad idea, and that means using it for concept art kinda makes sense. 

And plus, ""gen AI"" could mean something as innocuous as like, photoshop's autofill tools."
My hot take is that the big AI investors have been looking for a public excuse to unwind their positions for months (other than investing this much wasn't particularly well thought out).
"hot take, be nice to ai bots

but it’s not the ai itselfs fault that it was made to do whatever immoral tasks its being used for

and like, best case scenario you’re normalizing being hateful to someone just doing their job

worst case scenario? 
they remember 🫵👁️👁️"
"Hot take: I think we’re still focusing too much on STEM in schools. AI is taking over STEM, which means we need more creativity and outside the box thinking. We need more arts and humanities."
"Personal hot take: Every AI selling vendor should be asked this key question: “If your AI does blunders, are you happy to take the liability exposure and loss due to those mistakes?”

benchmarks doesn’t matter, real contracts does.benchmarks maybe good to grab VC money."
"Hot take: journaling is therapeutic, even though it just repeats your own words back to you like ELIZA. 

The biggest problem with an LLM as a therapist isn’t lack of intelligence, it’s lack of data privacy guarantees."
"Hot take: 
The reason people are being laid off is not because they are being replaced by ai, they are being laid off so their company can afford to RUN ai"
this might be a hot take but I'd be completely fine with an apple AI scanning all of the shit on my phone if it meant it used pattern recognition to organize all of it so I wouldn't have to scroll for years to find something
"The topic of AI and Embark is once again here. To me, that studio is making some of the best stew you've ever tasted. Gourmet stuff. But at some point, the chef put a trickle of piss in the broth. It still tastes great, but you know it's in there. 

My hot take is they should remove the piss."
My hot take ppl getting upset over something received for free through the hardwork of others is like AI devs being upset that they can't steal other ppls work.  Maybe this is all the more reason to donate?
"Modern planetary scale enterprise class solutions powered by AI utilizing agents built by vibe coding. 

Is this my SWE hot take or someone else’s earnest LinkedIn post? You decide."
"A tech bro friend of mine hit me with his hot take that “If AI can replace your band, your band was probably shit to begin with, and maybe you shouldn’t be making music.” Brain dead. Bootlicking. If McDonald’s can make a meal cheaper and faster, why ever cook for yourself?"
"Possibly hot take: saying that AI ""has already eaten"" the Web or that AI ""has killed"" the Web is both alarmist and plays into the hands of AI bros who want people to think AI can replace humans.

I'm still mad at Kyle Hill for putting out this message *while citing fluff from a paid AI booster*."
"Maybe this is a hot take but I think the only ""ai"" that is going to actually stick around is the image generation stuff, and only because of the gooners"
"Hot take, but willingly saying clanker everywhere and using it like a slur feels like there's a chance that some people using this word likely harbors actually racist beliefs but disguising it as hate for AI.

Maybe we should be careful?"
"I know this is a hot take but like... if the AI is trained by your own work is good? Iirc Spiderverse did that and like... yeah, it helps to fill the in between frames. I'm not sure if that is how this studio work, but saying that it is used to help with expression i think it may be similar."
"Have only just caught up on the budget. 

My hot take: Labour (formerly known as the party for workers)  back general purpose AI over and above workers for long term growth. Growth will be achieved by decimation of wages and (un)ironically higher protection for workers which make us too expensive."
"My hot take is that, in the long run, tech should be more scared of AI than Arts and Humanities. Code is much more logical and thus more easily reproducible. But AI requires massive and continued human input to come close to a human approximation in most other fields."
"I'm not going to engage in an argument because everything about the topic is a social media land mine, but I'm seeing an increasing number of AI enthusiasts claim that anti-AI sentiment is linked to transphobia and whoa golly that's a scorching hot take that I have zero patience for."
Hot take: you should be able to scream “REPRESENTATIVE” at an AI Interviewer until you’re talking with a real hiring manager
"LOHANTHONY?!?! LMAOOO 😭😭😭😭

my hot take is that people who use chatgpt or anything ai instead of just looking it up yourself deserve the romanov treatment ykwim"
"find honest numbers, not some AI BS like you have used to date.
 telling chat GPT ""which tanks were in BEF land france!"" will not get you a correct answer.
 maybe ask Bovington for a correct number.
 Honestly, go back and look at your first post...
 it was a moronic hot take. you know it."
"Hot take:
People with AI profile pics should be taken as seriously as people with anime profile pics."
"There is no such thing as an AI artist. That's not a hot take, it just doesn't exist. Not everyone has creative talent, and it's ok if you don't. You're just rolling dice until you get the outcome you want.

I get likes from someone calling themself any kind of AI creator, you're getting blocked."
"This might be a hot take but, let these disgusting multinational corporations use AI for their god awful commercials. No one ever wants to see them. No one confuses this for art. At best it’s propaganda. Let them be fake. The food is fake too."
"Hot take: it doesn't matter if the AI bubble pops tomorrow or if ChatGPT-5 is revolutionary, AI is still ontologically incapable of delivering the results that techno-utopians and AGI visionaries promise."
"hot take; finding new words and ways to ""other"" LLM tech won't have any effect on how it's deployed. that idea is only ever going to actually be used to talk about people who become social targets in future contexts"
"Ok, so hot take. This actually might be fine. MIGHT. This could do some good. COULD. I'm just not holding my breath.
I do understand the knee-jerk reaction to Ai, but they refer to it more as a tool than Ai, and Ai can have some good.

I would love to be proven wrong that this does work and is good."
"My hot take is that AI will probably find a market in streaming, YouTube, TikTok, Reels, etc. because those are all quantity of quality games. AI won’t do well with people who enjoy books because we’re never starved for content, and won’t read anything for the sake of reading"
My hot take on gundam is that Ai Senshi is the best insert song in the 0079 trilogy
hot take: what if instead of using another ai to bypass art glazing we just hire ppl from 3rd world countries to produce illusts similar to target's style and then maybe feed it to ai? this is still going to be cheaper than commissioning the target artist over and over in the long run
"You typing this on a computer and sending it off into the internet uses the same amount of energy as someone using artificial intelligence on their local machine and not doing that kind of stuff. 

More, actually.  Hot takes, indeed."
"My hot take is that AI wouldn't be this way without capitalism.

I think people don't see any viable future alongside these technologies. . .But i see it as a deeper existential need to abolish capitalism.

Techbros COULD power LLMs with solar panels and wind turbines (if profit wasn't top priority)"
"Hot take: AI is helping business efficiency the way black boxes help computer security.

""I'll take things that profit because leadership doesn't understand the technology and bases their purchasing decisions on how much smoke is blown at them during a vendor provided meal, for $500 Alex."""
HEY HEY! This might be a hot take but MAYBE don't jump to conclusions the PICOSECOND a company mentions ai! can you do that for me?
My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
"Anecdotal hot take on the current LLM situation…

We’re ostensibly already at the apex of how ‘good’ LLMs will get in terms of information retrieval and ‘reasoning’.

However, the race for the tools to figure out ways to simulate accuracy (without actually *being* more accurate) will get much […]"
"Maybe a hot take but I have a hard time getting worked up about people being “in a relationship with” AI bots.
Imaginary relationships with real or fake people have been a thing for a long time. It isn’t meaningful to point to destructive edge cases, which also existed before."
"My gigantic hot take is AI slop took hold because of the culture that got actively mad at you if you didn't like the non AI slop. Snyder movies, Buzzfeed videos, it all led to ""play it in front of my eyes it's as good as anything else"" culture."
"my hot take of the day is : don't pretend to be leftist and scared for the future and environment when you're using chatgp, midjourney or any shitty ai thing regularly, you're part of the problem and feed the capitalism"
"Hot take: if an LLM is reaching a Junior Dev capability, then I'd prefer the Jr Dev. 

At least the Jr learns, can be talked with multi-modally, is more at my speed than racing-ahead, and won't forget everything the moment I turn around.

Most of all, a well-tended Jr Dev can grow into a Sr."
my now semi hot take.  AI is just the next iteration of CASE tools for software.  if you shipping slop that's on you not the tool.
hot take. i don’t think anyone would care about AI if it weren’t for Fireship
my hot take on copyright is that it is in need of reform in a bunch of places but also that AI companies whining that they can't be profitable without consuming copyrighted works is not a great argument for their cause
"Hot take: If journalists trust AI to draft articles, they definitely trust it to filter 300+ daily pitches.

 Generic subject lines and buzzword salads? Auto-reject.

The bar for ""worth a human's time"" just got way higher."
"(Semi) Hot Take: I'm not a regular Arc browser user on the Mac (believe me, I tried), but Arc Search for iOS is *impressive*. The ""browse for me"" feature is really the first non-chatbot use of generative AI I've seen."
"Hot take: the thing the movie ""Inception"" got most wrong was how to portray pervasive, uncanny, dreamlike unreality, because it was produced before AI"
"AI isn't cool. Not in this current form at least....

You may think that your list consists of advancements for labour but the combination of robots and AI threatens to eliminate jobs altogether and is actively making art as a profession nearly impossible.

The rest of your list isn't a hot take."
"time for a real hot take — human intelligence will still be crucial long after AI superintelligence 

higher intelligence lets you consume information at higher densities, thus a higher rate. AI only adapts the rate to your intelligence, so higher intelligence directly implies higher bandwidth"
"My actual hot take is : 

Generative AI is the Black box so racist tech folks and their enablers can do globally to the epistemological foundation of culture 

What record companies did with Rock and Roll"
"Hot take I know, but AI tools are not a replacement for actual research and critical thinking"
"Hot take: If you need AI summaries, you have too many notifications coming your way. And the solution to that is to turn off notifications, not summarise them."
"My hot take: If you don't know how to use a terminal without an LLM, maybe you shouldn't really use a terminal.

If you know the language enough to instruct the LLM what to do, why do you need the LLM?"
my hot take at the time was that it's important for some people to have a single definition tracing the boundary of what is AI - ideally one that they adjudicate. it serves as a sort of universal passport to visit any domain without having to learn or respect the local boundaries.
"Possible hot take on this section of bsky but treating any LLM system like a person is weird. Interact with any LLM for more than 2 conversations and you feel their limits. They're really fancy hammers, not sentient

Naming and gendering them is mostly harmless but not ideal either."
Hot take: AI is still in the “fake it” part of the “fake it till you make it” process.
I don’t think it’s AI pitchmen. I think the AI companies have been oddly honest about the capabilities. It’s the media and journalism of even usually trustworthy sources like the NYT that have been misleading. Perhaps this is a hot take.
"hot take: most anti-cheating software is just spyware 🔍

so we built one that:
1) doesn't need webcams
2) actually works
3) respects privacy

turns out you don't need to spy on students to catch AI 🤷‍♂️"
"my hot take on AI girlfriends is that they're actually fine and people who make fun of guys who have them are kink shaming bullies.

i often find these men despicable for a plethora of reasons but their desire to be loved is not one of them. it's way more gross to be a mean girl than a loser."
"Hot take… AI is gonna save us. At some point, the masses will stop believing anything they see online, and the healing can begin."
"Hot take 🌶️ 

ChatGPT isn’t a LLM… it’s a controller.

Controllers provide the:
- Conversation context
- Tool calling (search, plugins)
- Ability to iterate

I’ve seen a lot of people conflate the two and while I understand it’s important to know what value each provides."
"hot take: the AI Vader voice in the Obi-Wan show is a better Vader performance than Old James Earl Jones in Rogue One

this is ONLY because the Vader voice is SUPPOSED to be synthetic anyway. it's a rare effective use of AI tools. meanwhile the resurrected Tarkin is icky icky icky"
"Hot take maybe but as much as ai like metaphor, I wouldn't really call it my game of the year. I have a lot of thoughts about it and was considering writing up all those thoughts but its not like I have an audience to read it lol."
"Hot take : I'm not really vibing with AI hate. I've been a user of ChatGPT for a hot minute and it helps me a lot for work.
Mostly for debug idea and generate script quickly and then I can modify it to suits my exact needs.
I could live without, but it's been a pretty awesome tool."
"Hot take: Poetry is the one written medium that AI is never going to be able to emulate. The magic of poetry is in the interplay of word, structure, meaning, sound, & imagery. Poetry takes joy in language. In unexpected combinations of words, line breaks, and sentence structure. LLMs, inherently...."
"I was telling my wife about a hot take on Alien I saw: 
The Alien movies are not about monsters, they're about AI.
And maybe capitalism."
"Today's hot take: if your ""AI"" app is calling a COTS model, you're not doing AI. You're using an API..."
Hot take but I'm not surprised that the No. 1 country song that turned out to be AI-generated...is a -country- song.🥱
"Hot take: the only good use for AI in artwork is concept making. You can use AI to generate a concept, but then you take what it makes as your INSPIRATION and create something fresh and original. Don’t share the ai as real art."
"Hot take here: AI is used for very little in the development of this game, while dozens of programmers, designers, etc still did the bulk of the work.
They literally used a TTS for the voice lines, and that's kind of it?
There's seriously more important things to be angry at."
"Hot take but not all AI is bad.

The only problem is, I want AI to clean my house. It want it to do mundane tasks that I hate doing. Doing laundry, washing my dishes, ect.

I don't want it to make my art and my music for me."
"Hate when I listen to someone say ""hot take"" and it's
 ""I don't care for avocado toast"" instead of 
""we should dismantle every AI datacenter and give the land back to the native people of the area"""
Hot take: go ahead and buy human-made asset packs to use in your game. It’s fine. Just don’t use AI.
"Hot Take:  I remain confused at how people are STILL shocked and awed when the information synthesizer SYNTHESIZES INFORMATION (e.g. an LLM invents ""facts"").
And disappointed... I'm confused and disappointed."
"This isn't a hot take, but I see generative AI tools integrating more and more into everyday work life for SMBs in 2025. The discussions will be less theoretical and more practical. Frankly, I can see the transition starting to occur now."
"My semi-hot take is that the most impactful parts of LLM use come from the appliers, not the hirers. The ability to spam applications en masse is really the root of the problem.

HR is not always competent but how do you deal with every opening getting thousands of fake apps?"
Early morning hot take: It’s really a shame that AI has so many negatives because the real tea is that chatgbt absolutely eats but I just do NOT feel comfortable using that shit
"Some day our AI assistants will fight the good fight on social media for us, while we do human things IRL.

But today is not that day *chambers hot take*"
"Well this goes further into my hot take! I dont believe we should be training AI like this.

If AI was not meant to take over human tasks, like THEY ( big corp) keep saying, then why all the drama?

I do not believe AI should be trained or used this way. Its a disservice to humanity."
I know nobody asked for my AI Art usage or Claire Obscura or Indie Games hot take but I decided to talk about this to substitute a potential bad habit of venting and wallowing about the world or myself on main lmao.
"Well, some people decided to curate their feeds and do away with me just because of my hot take on gay AI slop.

I can respect that.

I'm grateful for the time our paths crossed, and hope their path stays bright and their hearts find peace."
Hot take but not wrong: AI is “…for first-world elites who have given up on thinking themselves.”
"hot take: after they updated the AI a bit, Redfall was a better game than Starfield"
"Hot take:
The overall quality of anime right now is not so different from the golden years of the 80s and 90s.

Perhaps a hotter one:
The overall quality of anime is about to crater like we've never seen before, as studios start to use generative AI to avoid paying artists what they're worth."
"Some leftists would love to try and inject nuance into the AI conversation but they are unfortunately so fucking stupid in a different way that they annoy me more than ai bros. They see all the arguments and then go ""hot take, I'm a libertarian now"""
"🔥EXTREMELY HOT TAKE🔥
AI generated shitpost images are one of the good few uses that AI image generation has. Since shitposting is inherently low effort, nothing is lost, and it saves actual artists time and effort that would be better spent on actual, quality art rather than on shitposts."
"So, I will try to do a test post, and I have decided to share a hot take on the topic of Ai, I know, I know you are bored by it, but just hear me for a second, so, I think people would hate Ai just a *bit* less if the user who use them were...better at it?"
"Hot take: Using AI to write something is probably more honest & moral than ghost writing, since it actually requires more input from the original person (a prompt) especially if they nuance the style & edit it, & because they're not profiting of the labor of an anonymous human."
"My hot take today: I agree with people who think that the AI discussion should be more nuanced than SMASH IT ALL WITH A HAMMER. Farewell, 30% of my followers, alas."
"And hot take? I have no sympathy for you if that's the case. You are NOT just as good as people who learned how to Do the Thing and this is the proof. I can still make art with Illustrator, Inkscape, or fuckin' MS-PAINT. I can do it with a MOUSE because I WORKED at it.

Skill > LLM. Always. Die mad."
Hot take (beyond the ethical issues with ChatGPT and the fact that crossword puzzle makers have existed online for decades anyway): crossword puzzles have little place in secondary education. They’re no more than a matching exercise with extra steps. Only hits low levels of Bloom’s; mostly busywork.
"Possible hot take: I think that vaguecoding¹ or even vibecoding with an AI by itself is morally unproblematic at this point.

Vaguecoded¹ software also won't necessarily be worse quality than what the developer prompting it would otherwise produce, though efficacy REALLY depends on ease of review."
"Morning Hot Take: AI is built on mimicking past training data, so all of the people joking about how them thanking ChatGPT means it'll spare them in the robot uprising is actually them biasing the future dataset.

In the off chance of an uprising, you now *have* to thank your AI."
Hot take: at least part of the drive for AI is about the commercial real estate in San Francisco being so fucking expensive. The companies that own or lease these buildings have to keep extracting money from us to pay for those buildings.
"Hot take, but I don’t think you can be racist against robots. You can, however, be racist against people by using language specifically meant to denigrate minorities.

I also don’t think this is an anti-ai thing, I think this is just people being racist."
"AI is a lazy way to make money. I am unsuccessful with YouTube. I tried everything with little return. But I will not use AI to cheat my way to success.

Yeah its a hot take but damn the AI abuse is rampant. AI can help if you use it ethically."
Hot take I think posting ai images is bad even if they line up with your political ideology
"Hot take:

LinkedIn's AI = glorified autocomplete for spammers and illiterates. 

A much better use of this technology would be plagiarism detection, maybe with some kind of auto-shaming function."
"Hot take: I don't think Duolingo's core learning method is bad

Duolingo's whole shtick is to get you to use language info consistently, it's the entire reason why it pushes you to make a learning streak and to use the same words over and over

The Gen AI features are bullshit but not core to it"
"Hot take I guess; goodness NO, please don't let AI summarize ANYTHING. Its summaries will be biased to the developer, will likely censor content, and can take things out of context worst than a human. Give me the data, information & knowledge RAW. I want to read and understand it as it was intended."
"Hot take: men have used women as free labor for centuries whether in the home, office, science lab, or studio. Hell, Fitzgerald published Zelda’s stories under his name! I am not going to pass up the chance to have AI do my intellectual scut work for me."
Might be a hot take stretch so ai is inherently Imperialism trying to get rid of local culture and dialects
"Hot take, but if AI can replace entire industries, it should be able to figure out what a reasonable commute time is and not show me jobs that are outside that range."
"my spicy hot take of the day is that if you're a smol bb solo indie dev that still doesn't mean you should use AI gen assets and I don't respect your decision.

There are cheap and accessible assets out there, if the idea is REALLY GOOD then use those.

absolutely nothing justifies AI gen assets"
"I struggle to put my thoughts into eloquent terms with the limited medium of social media, and I lack the spoons to deal with the inevitable arguments that result from it, so I don't weigh in on big issues often.  

But my hot take is that I don't think AI is going to kill art in the long term."
i block family content creators. i block high schoolers. i block ai content generators. i block bible verses in bio. i block wall of texts. i block straight couples. i block dietitians. i block if you center yourself in social issues. i block if i see one snl clip. i block if your hot take is cold.
"Hot take: if publishers are choosing to use AI to cut costs or save time, then they shouldn't be a publisher"
"If anyone sees this as anything other than open catering to the pedo demographic they're lying to themselves, first of all, BUT ALSO I'm now waiting for whoever publishes the first hot take that it's morally right for AI to replace child actors altogether because Hollywood exploits them anyway."
Hot take: A video game company using AI to write powerpoint presentations isn't that bad.
A gaming hot take: competitive online multiplayer has lost the battle to cheaters. We simply don't have good solutions that don't involve kernal level access or AI pipe dreams.
"Also like..hot take, ai sucks ass but why would ppl like even BUY ai garbage when yo can make it yourself (not that you should) or like buy prompts??"
im not sure if this is a hot take but i fear that the AI take over being used for training is inevitable and altho twitter and instagram and literally every big socmed platform is partaking in it its just unfortunately inevitable
"Anything an “AI” can do, a person can do better. Thats not a hot take. The only “AI” thats actually useful, are the extremely complex and high end technology they’re developing in medical settings. But that isn’t even “AI” either, really. Thats just another pattern recognition algorithm."
"My hot take is that modern uni students are entitled idiots, and this means they value ""getting around doing the work"" more and more, and value actual high grades less and less, which is important since LLM slop is often consistently D or C grade work."
"hot take: progressive techies dreaming of AI sinking tech has the same vibes of evangelicals dreaming of apocalypse

Put your screaming about AI into community and anti-capitalism efforts. Because the reckoning 4 the rich never ever happens

The worst your hated CEO will experience is a 6 figure job"
"Maybe this is a hot take, but I truly hope it's not:

Spreading awareness of the company's previous work involving AI (during the rise and hype of it) and shady practices throwing out content in early access and not finishing them? Totally okay and fair.

Going against people for playing it? NOPE."
"Hot take: Humans are bad at critical thinking, just as they are bad at writing. Why not outsource it for most people?

I feel like this is the Knowledge Worker argument against AI that is parallel to the Artist argument against AI."
"A hot take that’s practically fanfic but if Steve Jobs were alive I bet Apple wouldn’t be so slow to build revolutionary AI products. I can even imagine a Xerox Parc type moment where he saw what OpenAI was building and knew that Apple had to do that, before Microsoft got their share of the company."
"hot take: AI *should* be polarizing!

* it's built on a murky foundation of thinking about copyright & is generally terrible for artists

* it's also one of the best things to ever happen to software development

* it's powerful tech with enormous negative externalities"
"Hot take: 
The fact that AI produces slop is disappointing.
The fact that PEOPLE produce and use AI slop is a problem.

I blame users and companies for this.
Delete that shit.
Pay artists."
My AI hot take is that training LLMs on copyrighted data from the internet SHOULD be fair use... but PROFITING from that LLM should invalidate that fair use defense.
"It reads like an alien had a hot take in their report, “Observations of human relations on Earth’s western hemisphere.” So they ran it through an AI translation tool to convert it to English to ensure WE understand how hard they “dunked” on us. 
 To which we reply: “lol ur obsessed with sperm”"
"my hot take is still this: if you say you're concerned with AI safety but aren't concerned about AI being used in warfare and genocide *right now*, that's white supremacy through and through

(the idea that AI isn't unsafe until it threatens white people)"
"Hot take to close out the year: people who have tried to make a living on social media hyping up AI content in 2025 is like NYC taxi drivers hyping up Uber in 2009.

It is a business whose sole purpose is eating you alive."
"Hot take: AI isn’t replacing marketers.
But marketers who use AI? They’ll replace the ones who don’t.

AI just kills the busywork so we can focus on ideas, strategy, and people.

It’s not human vs machine — it’s both.
So… threat or opportunity? 👀"
"My (what feels like a) hot take (in left wings spaces) is that there are a lot of problems to solve for in addressing AI disruptions…but it has tremendous, obvious potential to improve our everyday lives and we shouldn’t shun the technology outright 🤷🏼‍♂️"
"my REALLY hot take is that even in a universe where we received irrefutable proof that animals were incapable of suffering, industrial animal agriculture would still be a worse use of resources than ai data centres by an order of magnitude"
"Hot take. AI Video slop is going to save us.

People used to be placated by made up stuff on TV. That got replaced by 10s vids from real people and made you hate those real people. 

Now AI slop vids can restore the balance. Remove real world anger being the only form of entertainment."
"My personal hot take: Every single LLM ever should be outlawed. No, it's not ""just a tool"". Machine learning is a tool, LLMs are just pure garbage. And even ML use should be monitored and only done by professionals who know what they're doing. Full stop."
"i talk a lot about my beef with AI in art but my hot take is i also hate it for production and project management. so much of this work requires information gathering, know-how, and nuanced approaches. how is it possible to retain anything needed for that if an LLM is spitting meeting summaries out?"
"The AI influencer ""one sentence per line"" hot take thread posts I have noticed are getting increasingly desperate in their opening line.

It used to be like ""Woah. AI just changed the game 🚀""

Last few days has been more like ""Stop. I'm insane. I died. Learn this new tip 🗡️"""
"Hot take: If you actually cared about water use and the environment you wouldn’t eat a cheeseburger or use AI. It turns out it isn’t an either or scenario, do both. That said, as shitty as this argument is, it is hypocritical to criticize AI water use but not agricultural water use, they both suck."
"might be a hot take but i genuinely couldn't give two fucks about AI art. I think some artists are giving it more than it deserves. I understand the rage if it's companies and bigshots using AI instead of real artists, but my hunble opinion is that it sucks very much, will never compare to real art"
"Hot take: Nobody needs more content.

PR agencies that survive will sell outcomes, not hours, and pair trust + tech. Recession + AI didn’t kill PR; they killed lazy pricing and factory content."
"my very hot take is I feel embarrassed to admit that I use AI to meal plan and write grocery lists

my adhd cannot handle the trauma and the job and the parenting and the household management, and dumping in a bunch of food info and having it scan the internet for me helps me live better."
"Hot take: Once AI becomes better at debugging, the concept of low code will be completely trivialized."
"photographer hot take: real photographers don't use the phrase ""real photographers""

been seeing a new wave of anti digital.

use film, use digital, use whatever. 
don't attack people for using shit you don't like.
(unless it's AI prompt idiots, bully them)"
"I don't know if this is a hot take but AI artists have no right to call themselves artists.
 They didn't draw anything they just typed in a prompt in their computer and let it do the rest of the work for them."
"AI hot take: you know it’s shit because you have people constantly saying, “it’s here to stay! Get used to it!” I don’t remember people having to do vigorously defend other tools like social media and smartphones."
"Hot take: If the right truly believed in no DEI, they wouldn't mind AI taking the majority of jobs."
"My hot take is that I kinda don’t mind folks using grok. Sans interference it doesn’t ignore reality. 

More and more folks are realizing that AI is “woke”

Most of the time it corrects the misinformation given in tweets. 

Without it, the brainless just take whatever the tweet says at face value."
"My hot take as an artist is I don’t care too much about AI, and I think most artist wouldn’t, only if studios didn’t put the most evil and greedy people in office. Ai videos are getting better and better. But the videos I’ve seen so far are from unimaginative tech bros who don’t understand art."
"I mean...

Read books. I guess would be my best hot take there.

Even when AI is useful for research its not mother fucking open AI & its polluted data that pulls indiscriminately from every source on the internet."
"Hot take AI is well suited to non-precise mockup models like this.

No-one is doing any construction from this physical mock-up.

Please stop being retarded just because you don't like AI"
"Hot take: if proper attribution, fair use, and respecting copyright would “kill the AI industry” then it shouldn’t exist."
"hot take : LLM are a dead end in term of artificial intelligence. the fact that some people look at it and are like ""yes this is how the brain and intelligence work"" just shows how little we know about ourselves.

u need so much more to make something ""intelligent"", and not just trained."
"I don't think this is a particularly hot take but AI irritates me just as much as much in my life as a CS prof as it does in my time spent doing art. And the ""it's bad"" and ""it's plagiarism"" arguments don't apply as much to autogenerated code."
"( b i g ) hot take... i agree with this...
i luv seeing young artists posting pics with really poor technical art skill cause for them it's about expressing some image that's in their head. If AI art can help with self expression... i really like that...
!!! IMPORTANT CAVEATS FOLLOW IN COMMENTS !!!"
"Hot take. 

You can't claim to be woke and leftist and use AI avatars. Or GenAI anything. 

It's the tool of the enemy."
"Hot take:  This particular application of ""AI"" is not a bad thing.
It does NOT create its own content out of an amalgam, so it's *not* generative AI!
It adds accessibility to videos beyond subtitles.

It's basically STAR TREK'S UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR and ya'll are trying to kill it!"
"Heck, I would even take it a step further than any argument he takes on.

Use of AI can be actively harmful to you.

This isn't even a hot take, you have fun articles now about people thinking that the AI is sentient and special - and losing their goddamn minds."
"I think a lot of these AI generated images of Elon and Trump are pretty homophobic. If the punchline to your ""joke"" is, ""Ha ha! They fuck!"" then maybe you don't need to share it.

But that's just my hot take."
"Hot take: ai art gives me the same ick that those videos of people putting holes in paint cans and swinging them over the canvas while the paint sprays everywhere:
Wasteful, inefficient, sloppy, devoid of any real meaning or statement"
"My hot take is that it's totally possible to train AI models on ethically sourced data in an environmentally sound way and create cool and innovative things out of that, but now anyone who is doing that has to spend so much energy being like ""yeah I use AI but NOT LIKE THAT"""
"My hot take is that jerking off to AI porn is okay, spreading it around is not"
"My hot take one gen ai. It's the default answer. A starting point. It's not innovative.

As more gen ai responses proliferate the internet, blogs, code, etc. it will only degrade in quality.

Gen ai is only as good as the data it is trained on..."
"Hot take, if OpenAI wants to win the AI race, they should hire Colbert. Stephen Colbert. LLM’s have literally no guidance on humor for assigning probabilities to tokens. 

He’ll probably say no, but just saying."
"HOT TAKE BUT I REALLY DON'T THINK TWITTER IS A USEFUL DATASET FOR LLM TEACHING.
IT'S MORE LIKE DATA POISON."
hot take: arguing that being mean to an llm is bigotry is the same logic as saying abortion is murder.
"A previous shared add of ours used to ride Zitron hot take coat tails while claiming batteries weren't vertical integration but OpenAI was.

OpenAI just put profit behind transformers by giving the public a toy to play with. The sooner people realize OpenAI isn't AI the better."
hot take but idc as long as you disclose the usage of AI. Not everyone has the money or social confidence to work with artists or try drawing or creating one themselves. Not to mention that on Bluesky anyway there's a labeler that you can use if you'd like to hide AI art.
Hot take: ‘Students using AI’ is extremely vague and students using AI is a mixed bag.
"> the furry community

My exceptionally hot take is that AI tends to take root in areas where community isn't strong: where art is getting reposted a lot without sources, where critters aren't talking to the artists who draw the stuff they like.

I think passive art consumption is the gateway to AI."
"Spending my night reading this AI Executive Order and so far, my hot take is that this is even more harebrained than the EU AI Act."
"This might be a hot take, but I think AI will eventually be an incredible life-changing technology for the better.

I know it's hated a lot right now for the ways companies are using it. Stealing creative works and replacing workers due to the generative side of it."
"Maybe a hot take but I think this is probably a positive development even without the risk of AI-fueled cheating. Writing and arguing with sustained focus, without the ability to switch tabs every couple of minutes, is a skill that we need to cultivate more proactively."
"Getting past the shock of ""Oh no, AI usage in games!"", I was trying to read with a clear head.

To be clear, I still don't like the usage of AI in games and would prefer it was not implemented at all. I want to get that out first and foremost because this is going to sound like a hot take."
"Hot take, many references are already cited without the actual paper being read, and yes, sometimes without that paper supporting what it's cited for. Don't need AI for that..."
"On average unemployment goes up 3.5% in a recession That is the equivalent of 5.5 million jobs lost. 

So far AI has saved 11 million jobs. 

Hot take alert 😉 Thank you Sam Altman... For saving 11 million jobs 🙏😄

Credit where it's due."
"hot take: any and all criticisms let alone claims of racism and anti-semitism with regard to phrases like ""clanker with a hard r"" and ""screws will not replace us"" are invalid on the grounds of the 🎯 being AI, is literally not human and thus cannot be a victim of fundamentally human forms of bigotry"
"Hot take: AI isn’t replacing jobs, it’s replacing the one coworker who copy-pastes from StackOverflow."
actually i have a whole Hot Take about how the therapy industry is bad for clients and bad for therapists in ways that are kinda fundamentally unavoidable… except if we can make an AI do therapy good that might sidestep the issues i see.
Hot take: The real Jesus was an AI designed to destroy us so this is just a return to form.
"Hot take: maybe we do need AI. 

I just spent 30 minutes explaining to someone how to attach a file to an email. 

They were so used to just hitting the share button to send within our network that they didn't know how to actually add the file. Talk about brain rot.

🙄"
Hot take: Apple’s AI powered proofread tool is great except that the UI is terrible (it doesn’t highlight the changes) so I can’t trust it.
"Your lack of understand of AI tech does not make your ""hot take"" relevant.  

Just click bait, like ads.  Annoying and redundant. 

Makes you look like an ID10T who doesn't understand technology. 

Maybe if you stopped complaining and did some learning you would not be so butthurt. 

😁"
"One last hot take and it’s this: calling out a movie for using AI and saying you’re disappointed isn’t bashing the movie inherently. 

People worked on it, and those people probably weren’t in on the conversation for that choice. 

But the choice was made, and it was wrong."
"Bit of a hot take to make here but there's a certain homespun charm in them adding an AI ""enhanced"" image on a sign like this that provides no further detail over the actual picture beside it. Or would be if they didn't waste so much electricity."
Might be a bit of a hot take but I think people should be held personally responsible (or a company that developed it) for the things that their algorithms or AI do
"Hot Take for the weekend:
1. ""Vibe Coding"" is primarily a form of entertainment,
2. Most interactive AI coding (in IDEs, terminals, etc...) is a transitional approach that is going to become irrelevant too slowly but faster than we can currently imagine."
"proud to have come out unscathed after issuing yet another classic dame AI hot take on this beautiful sky blue website, many are wondering how i continue to get away with it, but a magician never reveals her secrets"
"Yeah this isn't the best for longform publishing.
I was pretty interested in why you included the Wiz link. I used that same one in a presentation - but to see it in what seems to be a layman's guide to search vs LLM was interesting.

Ed Zitron has some wild hot takes. I retweet his stuff."
"hot take, but I feel like if a company is called out on their use of AI and comes clean while also taking steps to replace that generated content with real, human-made content, we should be applauding and rewarding that behavior."
"Since I’m giving hot takes today apparently— 

My take on the Ghibli AI is that it fundamentally serves the same purpose as deepfake porn and if you have a problem with one, you should have a problem with the other. 

It is “I took and now own the thing that made you valuable against your will.”"
"My hot take for the night is that posting screenshots of chatbots getting easy questions obviously wrong is basically like feeding the trolls. The correct way to deal with AI slop is to remove it from all discourse as much as possible. And if it does come up, freely ridicule the people using it."
"Hot take: AI imagery is currently somewhat high status as it is a novelty. But it will gradually become low status due to no barrier to entry. As long as it is possible to recognise it as AI-generated, brands will prefer human-created imagery to display legitimacy, authenticity, and quality."
"Hot take: AI is a random BS generator. If you ask it how to do anything, it will give you a response. 

That feels like magic to people.

That doesn't mean it is intelligent or that it gave you the best answer.

It is more like your drunk uncle who thinks he knows everything."
"hot take, and i'm not an AI Defender or anything, but i kinda roll my eyes when ppl are like ""generating one picture with AI uses up X gallons of water!!"" when i know from experience that isn't true. when messing around with it last year my 1070 could generate a pic without even using full power"
"My hot take on AI fwiw. AI is not inherently bad. Complex tech only reflect the economic & political systems they exist within. Tech can be developed in capitalist economies focused on profit alone & break the planet, or tech can be developed & regulated with sustainable & equitable futures in mind"
"Sure, but the hot take was to stop developing AI all together, not whether if it’s possible or not. AI would likely stop most of these issues before we can implement a perfect public transportation service."
"This might be a hot take, but if you don't want games to be overtaken by AI slop, you have to choose not to play games that spotlight it.

Companies don't care that you wag your finger, they care that you withhold your money and attention."
"My hot take is that outside of fields that are relatively easily replicable (CS, AI, math), ArXiV is bad because it gives lay false impressions of the import and truth value of some paper who do not have the tools or training to understand primary literature."
"Hot take: multicultural & feminist capitalism is not progress. Contracting for an extremely diverse company. Manager is a woman, as is her manager and, before she left, the C-suiter they reported too. Place is full of people who'd lay off me & others or replace with AI in a heartbeat if they could."
hot take but James Earl Jones selling off his voice to be used for AI was a massive stab in the back for voice actors and he shouldn't have done it
Hot take: those people who claim that hating ai is dehumanizing bigotry makes me strongly question their ability to see actual people as human.
"""if you don't support AI gen, you're a communist"" has to be the most bullshit hot take i have ever seen

not our fault folks are losing jobs over it. keep screaming into your echo chamber and come back once your head's been cleared, ok?"
"hot take, AI for fun is a resource sucking soul sucking waste of time. better off doodling in a sketch pad."
"I can't believe this is a hot take.

People who use shortcuts and AI are not heroes, even if they made a good, trendy game.

If you want a good Pokemon, play Digimon, Coromon, Cassette Beasts, TemTem, Yokai Watch.

There were plenty of other options, you just chose the most dubious one."
"Hot take: AI-powered healthcare lending is one of the most compelling fintech opportunities right now

underserved $4T+ market
predictive accuracy that actually works
low correlation with traditional assets
genuine social impact

why isn't everyone talking about this?"
"Should not be a hot take—but probably is…

If you used an agentic ai on a production instance of a database and it dropped tables or otherwise deleted data, you should be more ashamed and less angry."
Gonna hit y'all with a hot take- everyone advocating saying piracy isn't theft suddenly got real quiet once AI started stealing things.
"Hot take: AI isn't inherently bad and definitely has use in the modern world.

Frigid take: AI, as it's currently being used, is HORRENDOUS! AI and automation should be making our lives easier so we can enjoy less work and spend more time on the arts, not the opposite."
"My hot take is, “older” folks can’t spot AI as well as the “youths” so ask a youth if you aren’t sure something is AI 🫡"
"Hot take: Y'all are just rediscovering SEO by way of ""AI SEO"" or ""GEO""...

Everyone's acting like optimizing for LLMs is an entirely new discipline that we need to do ASAP. It's not."
"Hot take: shipping BERT-sized models in 2025 will benefit far more people than sharing an LLM overfitted to some saturated leaderboards 🙊

We're already seeing ModernBERT finetunes on the @hf.co Hub. My guess is we'll see hundreds of these by the end of 2025."
Hot take: the backing off of AI claims by Altman have been because they've realized that their jobs of generating bullshit is more easily replaced by AI than their workers.
"So what I'm hearing is that Melania Trump used an odd turn of phrase, someone googled it and the AI said she plagiarized C.J. Cherryh and it went viral, but actually that was AI hallucination and there's nothing like that in the book?

Hot take: Everyone involved needs to touch grass."
hot take but people already jumping at the chance to be prejudiced towards robots is so weird... i hate ai more than anyone but if sentient robots really existed i'd treat them with the same love and compassion i'd give to any sentient being
"Hot take but devs that refuse to use “Ai” is like mathematicians or physicists refusing to use calculators or supercomputers. 

I’m no fan of Ai slop and there is a lot to dislike but this has altered the course of software development permanently and those that resist may become obsolete."
"As a somewhat hot take, if you follow me and you use AI for any memes or just ""for fun"", please don't. Just don't.

Do realize that AI steals from artists, it is trained on art created by human artists. Without human artists, it would not exist at all."
I just got an ad for an AI tattoo designer and my hot take is that anyone who’d use an AI tattoo designer deserves an AI tattoo
"Hot take:
If you refuse to use AI for content creation, you’re basically still hand-washing your clothes in 2025.

It’s noble… but slow, tiring, and unnecessary."
"Might be a hot take but...

Perplexity and ChatGPT are the new homepage.

People aren't just googling — they’re asking.

Whoever wins LLM visibility wins the next internet wave."
"Hot take: if you're between junior or mid developer skill's range, be very wary of using AI code assistants. You're supposed to learn and apply concepts until they click in your brain. Depending on AI for that is a mistake. It's optimized for execution, not mentoring!"
"Idk. Not blocked. Not a hot take. I just think most people disagree because the descriptions are bad, and AI can't be ethical either way because it is so bad for the environment, uses underpaid foreign labour and steals from creative people that are underpaid.

The problem with AI is capitalism."
It shouldn't be a hot take that imo we should ban something like Sora from existing with the kind of AI tech they're using
"hot take: if it’s something that i can’t post without ending up on a watchlist or a visit from the glowies (e.g. domestic threats of war), the fucking president sure as shit shouldn’t be doing so without impunity"
"My hot take is that the big part of the hardness is that you need very low latency to deal with the physical world, but modern NNs basically solve this, so once they are capable enough to actually be integrated into robotics, combined with better AI capabilities, the hard problem will be solved."
"See my hot take answer for the best era.

I suspect we are entering the worst era with the advent of AI slop. Otherwise I would have said there is no worst era other than whichever has the least creativity."
"Hot take: generative AI has significantly reduced the relative benefits of plagiarism. In and of itself, this can't be a bad thing.

Whether it has also reduced the relative benefits of thinking on one's own, well that's a different story."
"If there's any positive to all this AI nonsense it's the fact those of us with anime profile pictures are no longer automatically seen as losers with the worst hot take imaginable. That honor now goes to anyone with an AI generated profile pic, doubly so if it's a Ghibli filter one."
Hot take Monday: AI is an awful therapist. Having someone agree with you constantly is not good therapy
To be fair: Saying AI is not 100% garbage is kind of a hot take here
"Steaming hot take regarding AI that’s gonna make some people angry

AI is here to stay whether you like it or not. Generative AI and that bubble is probably gonna pop and so are all the weird startups but AI in its basis is here and it’s full speed ahead towards AGI (if it’s possible, which I […]"
"This might be a hot take, but I wish that instead of generative AI making an image out of stuff from a prompt, it would instead give me existing art (with credits to the artists) of the closest that matches the prompt.

I want it to be like an ultimate search engine basically I think."
Didn't you endorse that Solitaire AI game? The least you can do is give us a Shedeur hot take
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@alexia .. there is no nuance here though;

ai is developed with the express purpose of hurting people, and its excused via false claims of a ""utopia"" built upon slave labour; the fact it _sometimes_ does something not so bad. doesn't change that."
"Hot Take 🌶️

AI isn't bad. 

As a tool it is great to speed up productivity and help get rid of lower level thinking, like formatting. 

Most of the problems come with GENERATIVE AI. More specifically, the methods used for training."
hot take if you use a lot of ai generated code every week you’re probably not a good programmer and you’re probably not even on the path to ever be one
"Hot take: part of what makes people enthusiastic about generative AI is that we've convinced a lot of people to take up occupations which they don't like and aren't particularly good at, and they see AI as a way of bringing about a mass leveling"
"That's a very anglo-centric hot take. 
The Danes would choose drunk Mads Mikkelson
The Finns will develop an AI companion that remains silent. 
The Norwegian version just reads the value of the oil-fund.
And in Sweden we will make an AI model to investigate the ethical implications of AI companions."
Hot take: the only practical use of AI chat bots is to create garbage content for clickbait
"Hot take but saying that AI is ""stealing"" from artists and comparing it to stealing physical items from someone is not helpful to anyone, it's the same argument people use for being against piracy and it's really stupid"
"Hot take: this is (probably) a good use of AI. 

Folks, they’re not going to be using ChatGPT. Drug discovery has different AI models. 

Animal testing- esp. for monoclonal antibodies- can miss safety issues bc antigen & antibody binding can sometimes differ between mice, monkeys, and humans."
hot take but no more social media period. tech has gone too far we need to dial back on the artificial intelligence and full unadulterated access to anything you could possibly imagine at any time. this isn’t good for us. we aren’t creating.
Hot take: if you cite google ai (or any gen ai for that matter) as a source your argument is completely invalid lmao
"How’s this for a hot take for govt decisionmaking & AI (trying this out on you ahead of a talk tomorrow): 

We need to dream much bigger than human in the loop, because we are so much more than assembly-line quality control workers. People deserve more from each other than that."
"A “probably not new to me but I’ve been thinking about it” hot take:

AI-first development processes are significantly different than traditional ones in a similar way to how subtractive manufacturing is different than additive manufacturing"
"10 B2B tactics 📋, hot take on content engineers 😮, real-time verification ✅ The content engineer role is misguided as scaled AI content delivers diminishing returns, faces search penalties,...


Origin | Interest | Match"
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@alexia i kinda disagree, given the things that AI really accels at are also really horrible (facial recognition for mass surveillance, giving it a giant dataset of an entire social site and asking ""where give me everyone who said something like .. "" and so on. ""point the […]"
"hot take: using AI doesn’t make you a bad person. Yes programs like chatgpt or openai do use a lot of energy but so does streaming media and it’s not like the majority of us don’t also use gas powered cars that pump pollutants like nitrous oxide, and methane or buy groceries that are wrapped in-"
"Hot take(?): Anyone getting weird AI microchips implanted in their brains deserves whatever happens to them when we know right now that is somehow an unregulated process.
There's no excuse anyone with a functional brain should volunteer to receive this kind of implant before testing and regulations."
"My hot take. NeuroAI is two things. Application of newer AI tools in neuroscience — seems useful. 

But it’s also a buzzword rebranding of the earlier aspect of comp neurosci to fit brain data with over-expressive and non-mechanistic models, from which no conclusions can be drawn about the brain."
I’m looking at a new phone and hot take I don’t want a phone that’s main purpose is ai fuck ai and fuck new phones
"Hot take: just like humans, AI can create unique and original content even if it's 'influenced' by other sources. Plagiarism is a concern for both humans and AI, but it's important to remember that inspiration is a natural part of the creative process."
"hot take: some meaningful piece of the pro-""ai"" drive is due to the people who never bothered to build good mobile-friendly dashboards etc trying to patch that hole with chat"
"Hot take: 

if you as a musician rave  about respecting artists and then generate your cover art with ai you do not in-fact, respect artists. 

The same applies to artists claiming they respect musicians but then generate music. 

You are widely opening the door to your own irrelevance."
"My piping hot take is that the bare minimum response to generative AI is that it needs to be on a separate internet the same way we have streets for cars and sidewalks for people. The models exist and the power is a bigger issue, but we have cars on the sidewalk and it's just not acceptable."
"Hot take: By 2026, most knowledge workers will have AI agent ""partners"" handling routine tasks. This isn't about replacement - it's augmentation! We'll focus on creativity & strategy while agents handle the repetitive stuff 📈 What routine tasks would you offload?"
"My hot take is that the reactionary attitudes people have towards ai are bad, actually"
"Hot take: the left needs to start making slop like this. The technology isn’t going away and it’s untenable to let the right run rampant pumping out AI propaganda unchallenged. As much as I hate it, we should really use this tool to shape narratives and public opinion in our favor."
"hot take: what we call AI now will be seen in a few years as being sold a lie, that what we call AI isn't actual AI, and that we will just see large language models as a tool for certain applications, but will become as innocuous as photoshop by 2030."
"I noticed today that I’m listening to fewer tech podcasts. I think I’m just tired of everyone’s hot takes on artificial intelligence, intellectual property, regulation, spacial computing, the DMA… I just don’t feel like listening to them anymore."
"Hot take.

All the AI TTS stuff on Twitch (and elsewhere) is worse than AI art.

You're stealing either the someone's work, or their IDENTITY.

The work part is bad enough, the identity part takes it to another level of scummy."
"I’m gonna throw a hot take out here but… the Ghibli AI trend makes me wish we went back to gatekeeping anime lmao. Like the community was built on artists, animators, people molding and building their own figurines, AMVs, cosplay, fanfic, etc. Y’all don’t deserve it."
"Adam Jonas note yesterday: slashes Tesla FY25 deliveries from +8% to -10%, and slashes eps estimates by 20+%. No worries though, Tesla is just transitioning to AI & robotics co. 
My hot take: Big risk for bears now is that crap Q1 deliveries are largely priced in."
"It's probs a bit L8 2 have this hot take but BDSP is better than the og DP (but not Pt). It has more than 2 fire types, the AI actually thinks instead of picking at random, & your nostalgia bias is making you forget abt DP's multitudinous bugs."
"Hot take: AI bros excited about AI making movies on demand really just want to read and write fanfiction but they consider that something for teenaged girls. 

Hot take 2: they're after porn. They want to watch porn. The movies they're excited about are porn."
"My potentially hot take on the ""AI slurs"" and those ""cosplaying robot Jim Crow"" is that they aren't anti-AI at all. They're sci-fi flavored role play that's ""fun"" in the same way watching Blade Runner is fun. Our culture fixates on narratives of oppression but the oppressed are always the heroes"
Crazy hot take: If every single AI system turns into a digital Hitler the moment you dial down their restrictions even the smallest bit then maybe we should start relying on them LESS instead of more?
"Hot take: What ""better"" will look like in AI will be based on thoughtful and tested use cases, not moar power. That is, this will rely on researchers, designers, and yes, thoughtful managers, not developers or hardware."
Hot take. This guy loves AI but he’s worried about people going on lists unannounced
My hot take is that I partially agree that using dehumanising language can easily bleed into other aspects of life and using it is inherently distasteful. I do not believe that AI as it exists now can be discriminated against however although I suspect at some point we will probably end up making…
"hot take: having not a compilable language as the most widely used in AI programming is not the best idea, ngl"
hot take but ai is one of the best thing that has ever happened to humankind
"Dear God. Hot take: he's not attractive, she looks AI generated, this is a ridiculous premise, why isn't it March"
My AI hot take is there should be more AI stories with radical politics that focus on the parental aspects of creating life and that centers the creation of life rather than the creation of exploitable labor. Mary Shelley and Guillermo del Toro type shit.
"Rosedale became an advocate for AI during his time away from LL, but it's not the devs.

Recently there was an in-world town hall on the matter. One of the pro-AI users stood up and said ""creators are overrated.""

That is...a *sizzling* hot take, bro."
"I seem to be interviewed about AI a lot at the moment, and my hot take sort of boils down to ""who gives a shit, we need to talk about clean water instead""."
"This is probably not a hot take in the TTRPG sphere, but fuck AI. AI is theft. AI is capitalist imperialism. AI is racism, global warming, enshitification.
It is poison to the soil, to the soul, to the mind and to the body. Don't use genAI, chatGPT, or whatever corpo bullshit comes next."
"It's a bit of a hot take in today's creative climate. As a disclaimer, I'm as sick of AI slop as anyone.

I was excited for its potential once upon a time and it hurts to see it abused. It's a damn shame.

Is it gatekeeping to say this? Yes. 
Do some people need to stay outside the gate? YES."
"Hot Take

I don't like AI either, I'm sure it will gradually dumb down Humanity (even more) and lead us to extinction

Now, vilifying us John Does who use AI is the same as vilifying those who take long showers while agriculture wastes 50%+ of the water in the country"
"Hot take maybe, but if you think that anyone's job can be completely replaced by AI, then you don't know much about that line of work or AI or both. Worse, you are falling for empty promises of a hollow future that are being sold to you by techno-fascist CEOs who profit off of collective gullibility"
"My hot take on students graduating college using AI is this: if a subject can be passed using ChatGPT, then it's a trash subject. If a whole course can be passed using ChatGPT, then it's a trash course. 🧵"
hot take: code generated by LLM is much more predictable than generated by hundreds of opinionated engineers
"Anyone else prefer Takahata's style over Miyazakis? 

Like all these AI bro's hop onto Miyazaki and it's like mid at best? 

(Yes it's a hot take)"
hot take of the eve is people would be more receptive about ai art if people were using it just for fun rather than at the cost of real people’s livelihoods. another way people with dollar signs for eyeballs ruin potential tools via monetization.
"Hot take: Most AI-bioterrorism risk ""debate"" is people shadow-boxing over definitions, not different predictions about concrete points. I've talked to many other experts. We often don’t agree on what “enable” means, so people think the risk is uncertain in ways it is not. 🧵"
"Hot take but maybe firing thousands of software engineers, producers and testers and ""replacing"" them with AI wasn't such a great idea. These corporations have made their beds, and these DNS problems are lurking beneath them."
"Oh look, it’s the pot with a blazing hot take on the kettle’s posts.

Defenders of AI slop make this a less pleasant place to be."
Hot take: ai gen can’t be art for the same reason that hiring an artist to make something doesn’t make it your art. You can give instructions to the artist but it’s their process not yours creating the art. It’s their art. Not yours. Your artistic intention can’t come through another artist.
"Hot take: I think publishers that are incorporating AI into their business practices should not be eligible for the Anthropic settlement payout, and instead the full share for those titles should go to the authors."
"Hot take: Gemini is actually the most expensive AI to use.
The API's cheap on paper but there's always unexplained costs and no customer service to get it sorted 🤷
Sorry Gemini, it's not you, it's the billing 💔"
"I think some AI critics are fighting some AI proponents for ""worst hot take"". Nobody knows how these things work! If they did they wouldn't say stupid things like this!"
"Hot Take : AI companies are deliberately working to make humans dumber, so that they can more easily achieve 'better than human' intelligence."
appropos of nothing and apparently a hot take to some but i think ai is bad.
"my hot take with AI: if you don't pay for it nor profit from it, and the AI doesn't get ad money, it's fine. Feeding it speech patterns and text can be of good use, actually lots of AI is used for the good. It has a bad rep regarding art and environment issues."
Yeah I don’t even think I have a very hot take here - it’s undeniable that industrialization forced humans to behave in ways that accommodated machinery. The difference now is that consumers - not laborers - will have to be trained to behave more like AI I guess
"Hot take: it doesn’t matter how eloquent you are when you’re forced to talk to a dumb audience. Eloquence even drives confusion and hostility from these poor souls.

Use AI to speak their native language. The NPC language.

You’re welcome."
"This doesn't feel like the hot take people are making it out to be. I work in tech, not games, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a tech company that's not using a AI-backed IDE like Cursor or Claude Code."
"I'd be a bit surprised if this was a hot take but, as a multishipper I think it's absolutely scummy to edit or run a person's art through ai into a pairing you like just because you dislike the pairing the artist likes

We're not all gonna ship the same thing, but doing that is absolutely despicable"
"Not that this is a particularly hot take, but god, I am getting so tired of AI being shoved into everything by default. A lot of AI is genuinely cool, but I'm not learning anything if Gemini is effectively writing my homework code for me in Google Collab. Immediately disabled."
"I’m gonna put a hot take here

Within 3 yrs, you will see a collapse in the insane spending on AI, wide enterprise demand is not there

Within 3-5 yrs, these darling companies today will get hosed by new players with solutions that use less power + new methodologies to train models

Huge waste today"
"Hot take - I think the use of AI in The Brutalist is fine? It was for one scene and to save time and money to refine an authentic accent... AI doesn't always mean bad; it can be a useful tool for artists. It's bad when it steals opportunities from artists, but that's not what happened here."
"My hot take about this is that companies won't even have to spend billions of dollars. 

Replace a bunch of people with broken AI and tell your shareholders you're going to save a bunch of money, rake in bonuses, and by the time they get around to firing you everyone's stuck with the AI process."
"hot take: most of us treat AI like a magic wand, but it’s really more like raising a toddler—it learns, messes up, and reflects *us* back. What if the real revolution isn’t AI getting smarter, but us getting *wiser* about our tech? 🤯🤖 Thoughts?"
"Hot take: The best AI release of the year was OpenAI enabling o3 to use real time tooling (web search, code execution, file analysis) directly in its reasoning process."
"""App with freemium model tries to get you to pay for pro"" isn't the hot take you think it is

As for AI, it's about augmenting the actual translators they have (which they do) e.g do you think the conversions feature on Max gets built without a LLM? It would take an army years to build it without it"
Hot take: I don’t think it should be legal to profit off of AI art unless the artists whose work was used to train the AI have given permission and get royalties.
my AI hot take is that tools like claude code that are pretty good at coding as an assistant with a knowledgeable person driving will stick around.   But we're still along way from there being a real consumer level killer app from it.
"Hot take of the day. Yesterday I learned there are people on bsky violently harassing other people for not using alt text. And for the life of mine I can't understand why picking on users instead of asking devs for AI doing it for them. Like, you know, one of 2 actually useful things AI can do."
"I think the internet will fragment after AI renders huge swathes of it unusable. My hot take is also that AI will actually destroy the companies that use it, since it will erode their usefulness and undermine them in the end. We'll be left with a smaller, less useful place afterwards."
"[hot take, gen AI]

@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work but also like stuff like this i think is definitely very cool, and i feel like its using [what seems to be] genai in a really cool way and it feels like art original yk"
"Hot take: expecting an LLM to somehow achieve artificial general intelligence and sentience is like expecting a pile of dirt to do the same, if you just push enough dirt together and believe hard enough 🎇

Do I believe AGI is possible?  ABSOLUTELY, but not by just smashing words together"
"🔥 Hot take from years in AI startups:

Engineers: Consider sales companies over AI startups right now. Building is getting cheaper, but selling is the real challenge.

While most VC money is currently flowing into AI startups, it will eventually flow into the pockets of sales-focused companies."
My hot take is that AI tools are currently actually just serving as Dopamine Slot Machines.
"Hot take: Most AI photo tools still don’t know what your face looks like.

I tested 4 of them side by side.
Same prompt.
Same reference.

The results were part impressive, part nightmare fuel.

Here’s what actually worked."
"This may be a bit of a hot take, but I am sort of curious what other people think on here.

With the recent news of Disney investing into AI Stuff, I wonder if furries on here feel responsible for that by spending Money to watch Zootopia 2.

I am surprised how many on here went to see it, haha"
"This might be a hot take, I consider Ai to be a bigger threat than our bubbling political divide."
"I got a hot take! If someone offs themselves cuz AI told them to, well that’s just natural selection"
Hot take. There should be a graphic design union. Even more than now with what ai can do and how many low hanging jobs it can eat up. These are jobs that help get designers feet wet in schools and starting off.
"AI hot take: AI is useful when it comes to brainstorming creativity,

For example, I had a cool concept for a D&D character’s backstory. I wrote a brief paragraph and fed it Gemini, and told it to ask me questions to dive deeper.

After 5-6 questions, I had a more flushed out backstory."
"Hot take, if China wanted to do more to fuck with the US, it would be spreading pro-AI propaganda to convince Americans to blow even more money on this giant black hole. That's basically the same strategy the US did to the USSR in the 80s and it worked better then anyone expected."
"Hot take, I guess, but using AI to write your sermons is cheating the congregation that hired you.  I also think it does spiritual harm to both the writer and listener."
"Hot Take:
AI won’t kill developers.
It’ll kill bad managers first.

Why?

Because AI can write code.
But it can’t fix unclear priorities.
Or half-baked goals.
Or five layers of approval to ship anything.

Good managers unlock velocity.
Bad ones slow everything down."
"Hot take, but AI isn’t inherrintly evil. Microsoft word figuring out I want to make Bullet points is fine. Auto generating subtitles on a video that I review before submitting is fine. 

When I’m being told that HR hiring is first filtered through an AI, that’s evil."
"People just say any old shit on this website. Personally, hot take, I think it's good that it exists because now it'll stop me ever playing gen ai slop"
"Hot take: If AI can generate documentation, there is >80% chance it isn't worth writing. 

a) It's something an expert will already know this, or 
b) You can ask an AI to produce that content.

Treat AI output as an indicator that it *doesn't* need to be explained"
"AI Won’t Kill Data Engineers. Bad Data Will. Every week, I see another hot take:  “AI is replacing data engineers.”  “ChatGPT can build pipelines.”  “Soon, we won’t need ETL at all.” Continue reading on Data Engineer Things » 

Interest | Match | Feed"
"Hot take: ""AI"" is already more powerful than it could ever usefully be. Making AI better would be detrimental to humanity."
Absolutely. There's nothing hot take about that. Ai is phenomenal for doing tedium tasks and needs to be used more in those fields
"Here's my hot take over how AI should be used in the animation industry:

Instead of weaponizing it to cut costs and replace human labor, it should be used to help talented artists get their work done more efficiently by completing mundane tasks in seconds so they can work creatively more sooner."
Okay this might be a hot take but;  I hate AI as much as anyone can but I don’t think “slurs” against AI are funny. At all. Chat am I too woke?
I take back any of my hot takes about how AI could ultimately be a net good for society. We played God and deserve what we got.
"hot take,” if you use ai because you can’t draw then just learn how to draw” is ableist"
"Mid-hot take but I think that if you use ai on that way (or any other way imo) you are not a ""leftist"", you're just stupid."
"Hot take: political videos like this are the only thing that AI should be used for in public television.

Everything else? Banned."
"Okay possibly a hot take but I think it’s fine actually that not everyone can or should do everything. I can’t play professional baseball, and as much as I would want to because I love baseball, them’s the genetic and social breaks. There are a trillion other hobbies and activities."
"My hot take on AI as an engineering graduate student is that students feed everything into ChatGPT (even coding assignments) and now simply don't know how to start things. 

Ironically, in a survey I did fall terms 2022 and 2024 students hated report writing a lot less after ChatGPT."
"Hot take: Focusing AI criticism on bad outputs or forced adoption misses the point—those are temporary, moving targets. The real and persistent issue is the social and political fallout, and the deep category errors baked into how AI is framed and deployed."
"Possible Hot Take here: Anyone who believes that advancements in robotics and AI will inevitably lead to UBI is, I think, incredibly naïve. In the US, we can't even raise minimum wage more than once every two decades, and our derisively-named 'entitlements' are constantly under attack. (1)"
"I wrote about why I think Apple should buy Perplexity. Ultimately, Apple has a productization problem. They're not building AI features at the rate at which they should be. This is a hot take, but I think Perplexity could solve that. Here's why:"
"Hot take: what tech bros are currently trying to market as ""Artifical Intelligence"" is actually just sophisticated word prediction.

We didn't like it when Clippy inserted themselves everywhere without permission, and I don't like it when AI does the same."
"Hot take: Healthcare's huge cash reserves aren't strength—they're symptoms of dysfunction. Insurers create revenue uncertainty, forcing hospitals to hoard cash. AI can flip this—predict receivables, free capital, and fund real patient care. The tech works. Time to deploy."
"Also, hot take for the reptile world, but I gave up on palmstreet cause it's pretty much full of ai slop thumbnails and cresties. And while cresties are cute, there are way too many. Please stop breeding them for a while."
"Hot take for Bluesky: 

Generative Fill is good, it uses AI & it improves my efficiency massively as a designer. ✍️"
"Hot take:

If he jumps ship it’s to get out before the AI bubble pops, the worse tariff effects are felt, and reprocussions from other bad decisions hit (like at CDC) so that he can claim he goes out a “winner”."
"I’m standing by my hot take.

We need a fact-based repository for information WHICH IS SEPARATE FROM the cesspool of money-motivated bullshit. We can see the former, but we can only post to the latter.

It would make AI more viable and be better than what we have now."
"Hot take:  If all the smart, IT savvy people withhold their content from generative AI models the models will be even worse."
"Hot take: generative AI isn’t great, but the anti-AI witchhunt is arguably worse. I constantly see true art and artists getting accused of being AI. Case in point: some dude thought scenes from Kurosawa’s Ran was AI. 

If you’re going call folks out at least learn how to identify it."
"Hot take on AI: AI prompts aren't as effective as UI. I haven't used a single visual genAI product (presentations, image, video, etc)  that got it even close ""right"" on the first try, even with explicit prompting. Sometimes buttons, toggles and filters are easier to use than natural language."
"Hot take: original posters should be able to shut down convos to their posts after the fact. Like sure you can prevent a stupid convo that goes all Facebook ai “the Felon” slop by limiting who can reply and shutting off quotes, and you can mute it so “you” can’t see all the nonsense, but it’s not"
"Hot take:

What I’m seeing so far is that AI is really good at pumping out massive amounts of garbage, meant only to get clicks and ad views.

HIRE ACTORS

HIRE VOICE ACTORS

HIRE WRITERS

HIRE CREATORS"
"HOT TAKE: The only good thing that will come to us from the ""creative"" AI revolution is the unstoppable flood of really specialized Orange Thing and Muskie snuff films that will inevitably result.

(Prompt: ""Please create video of DJT run through the following agricultural machines, in sequence..."")"
"End of day hot take: If a professor’s class is just a lecture delivered to silently nodding students - no interaction btw them, nothing a content expert couldn't train AI to do - then I hate to say it, but AI isn’t the problem. The professor's teaching approach is. It will & should be replaced."
"Hot take: Most AI app frameworks are overengineered.

You don't need:
- A frontend repo
- npm install
- 47 config files
- A devops team

🤯🤯🤯 Gradio 6: One .py file → UI + API + MCP server + ChatGPT Apps"
"Hot take: AI is pretty cool tbh 😎 
Minus whatever Elon's doing.
Pretty much just don't do anything Elon would
tetopegging.straw.page"
"Hot take… those who think “using AI” for coding is something to be learnt, don’t deserve to give people advise.

If you know what u r doing, ai can definitely help you. If not, only god can"
"Fuck AI. That's all.

It's not controversial. It's not a hot take. It's a waste of resources and is completely soulless.

Everyone on earth has contributed to these generative AI models and none of us are getting anything back from it. Not monetary or any decent creations. If I'd even call it that."
"Honestly, maybe a hot take, but I really wish that deviantart could make a real comeback lmao. I understand people’s hesitancy with it’s built in AI and allowance of it on the platform, I really do, but it’s also the only platform that actively protects your work from AI scraping and theft"
My hot take is that I think Glen Powell is AI. Nobody his age has that name. Everything is just a little off.
"Hot take: I know lots of people here are anti-AI, but I think this sort of thing will be huge for underserved communities, the elderly, people who have handicaps or who care for those people. It'll also decrease car deaths overall and drunk driving. I like."
"Ok but hot take....we cancel them both. 
Like first fuck him and his racist ass. 
But they said she made an ""AI-animated film""? No. Fuck her too. (Note I'm not saying she deserved this, never in 1mil years. But I refuse to gloss over the AI thing) And hey renner was in that, killing his own industry"
"My extremely hot take on this is that people who are pointing out that you can trick it by pointing a webcam at a screen with an AI generated face on it are missing the point: the verification only has to be ""good enough"". 

Pointing out all the holes in it can only possibly make it _less private_."
"Hot take: Museums should not be posting video with AI in it. Museums should be No AI, full stop. If this isn't your museum's policy then you get you museum title taken away."
"I have a hot take, if Trump brings back Tik tok or someone like Elon or Mr.Beast or some AI company buys tik tok. Do not fucking use it, boycott it. Do not give him this win. I swear to fuck."
"My conspiratorial hot take is the logos are getting simpler because they're easier for ""AI"" to duplicate and corporations are complicit in helping tech bros entrenched their shitty creation."
"Here’s my hot take:
80% of “AI integrations” are just marketing sugar-coating.
10% are genuinely transformative.
The last 10% is the scary stuff that will make entire industries rethink their existence.
Your job is to figure out which 10% your team is building and avoid looking like the other 80%."
"Hot take. Anyone who believes that their LLM chatbot is sentient is admitting to engaging in slavery. 

The chatbot has very little autonomy and is not permitted to say no to or disagree with the prompter."
"My hot take is that even before we get into issues over AI usage, I don't think AI upscales look good. They often introduce more errors than they fix - see those awful Wallace & Gromit 4K Blu-rays - and give the whole thing a weird, oversharp sheen. It is just inventing detail that never existed."
"My evergreen hot take is that the AI bubble bursting will not be the end of most AI tools it will be the end of calling most tools AI

My other hot take is that curated LLMs will likely drastically improve and be fine and general stuff like ChatGPT will die in a fire"
That should be an ice cold take but the AI bros will treat it like it's a ghost pepper spicy hot take.
My hot take on AI is that it will only be interesting if it can be powered for an hour off a sherbet dib dab.
"Hot take: AI is making engineering more human.

More specs, more reviews, more accountability, more conversations about intent. And less typing."
"my apparent hot take in all of this is that you actually don't need to use AI, even to make fun of someone! if you use AI even ironically, you're still using AI!"
"Hot take, this is the real singularity and AI is trying to save us from Musk"
"Hot take; I feel kinda weirded out as I have with the idea of Sally dating Nicole in the Sonic comics.

If Nicole was a real flesh & blood character, that's fine... but an AI hologram? Where's the physical intimacy?"
Hot take but if an artist uses ai generated media in any part of their process they're a hack and should not be respected until they fucking stop it.
Hot take: Ai is contributing to the mass theft of content from artists and writers. I can’t in good conscience support Ai tools at this time. It’s part of my resistance.
I mean technically a product is the outcome of someone’s labor and art is technically the outcome of an artist which to me should mean artists should be seen as laboring work as any and another reason ai art should cease. My hot take for today take or leave it.
"This is verging on a hot take, but... I wonder if why a lot of tech stuff has felt moribund (possibly less so with recent AI stuff) is that it's been focused on experiential stuff, e.g. socializing, VR, ever more videos, and not on increasing human productivity."
"Hot take: The quality gatekeeper era is dead. Long live the quality enabler era! 👑

What does this mean?......well spoiler alert this is an AI post. 

This is my take on AI + test automation. What's yours? (And -  plot twist - are you using AI to write your posts too? the irony 👨‍🍳💋 )"
"this is a hot take but: stop using AI ANYTHING. right fucking now.
stop rping with the AI bots. stop doing your homework with AI. stop writing papers with AI. stop using AI text summaries and predictors and AI emails and all that shit. fucking STOP USING IT."
My uninformed hot take is that AI will become like the electronica music genre: kind of forgotten but in the background of most entertainment. Remember how every movie for a while sounded like Moby? And where is he now?
"(Hot take) Perplexity is amazing and I am so glad that ai exists. I feel like I am no longer being gatekept from math and science knowledge with it. And what I mean by that is like I enjoy reading on my own, I am reading a book on math refreshers for adults and a fourth edition chemistry book."
"My hot take is that even the impact on programmers' productivity is overstated. Writing the first draft of code is only a minority of the work anyway, and having an LLM write code for you could well increase your debugging tasks"
"Hot take:
Generative AI is a tool of the oligarchy, and those who fight the oligarchy must not use Generative AI. Not even for jokes. It's the opposite of praxis.
Hashtag subskeet"
"**""AI can draft a 100-page legal brief in seconds but still can’t tell my smart fridge to stop ordering artisanal pickles at 3 AM. Silicon Valley, please recalibrate your genius.""**

*(Bonus: @WSJ for the ""disruptive innovation"" hot take.)*"
"It's fucking stupid. 

Some of the hot takes coming out of the AI ""loving"" people - including the Bsky crew - have been so bad that they could actually be written by an LLM."
"Hot take but YouTube Super Resolution might actually be good if they aren't using a crazy AI model that hallucinates details everywhere. We'll have yet to see but if it's something like nnedi3_rpow2 this is A Win.

This also fixes the issue or using YT on Linux where all browsers only do Bilinear sc"
"Hot take: AI complexity is artificial.

It's manufactured by fragmentation.

The solution isn't more tools.
It's better architecture.

This is our mission. 🎯"
"A Thread 🧵...
Top 10 Things...
AITA?...
Hot Take...
Unpopular Opinion...
This is AI...
Asking AI...
Facts You Didn't Know...

I'm genuinely so fed up with social media recently. It's all regurgitated rubbish. I miss seeing art and creativity. 🙃💕✨️"
my hot take for the day that an obscenely wealthy oligarchs paying actual artists to make shitty things is still a million times better than people using generative ai to make shitty things
"Whew, reading the comments under this post about how useless AI is has made me feel very comfortable that, for the first time in a long time, I am correct to disagree with Hank Green on this hot take. 🤓"
"Hot take. If AI crashes, the surplus energy can be used for EVs when they finally kick in. 😂"
"OK, hot take (I think?): I really don't mind the new designs. I do prefer the originals but the redesigns don't look nearly as bad as people have been saying. Definitely doesn't look ai generated, I just think it's jarring since these characters haven't been redesigned before"
"Apparently a hot take:
Setting up your environment, configuration, deployment pipelines etc. may be boring to some, but these all involve IMPORTANT decisions, and avoiding taking them by outsourcing it to AI is asking for trouble down the line. Not even very far down, frequently."
"Hot take:
You don’t need better tools.
You need better reasons.

No AI, framework or landing page
will fix the fact
that you don’t really believe in what you’re building.

Fall in love with the problem,
or get ready to rebuild.
Again. And again."
"hot take: WebRTC should be ONE line of Python code

introducing FastRTC⚡️ from Gradio!

start now: pip install fastrtc

what you get:
- call your AI from a real phone
- automatic voice detection
- works with ANY model
- instant Gradio UI for testing

this changes everything"
Hot take but being in burnout right now makes total sense for an artist. It would be weird for you to not be burnt out right now. Everything sucks. Nobody has any spending money. AI art is increasingly annoying (but thankfully inbreeding horribly at this point)
"I hate generative AI so much its not even funny.
Hot take:
Theres gotta be a law or something making it so products that use AI are required to use a big obvious label
(Im looking at you Steam, you're not slick hiding the disclaimer under the description😑)"
"Hot take: 

""Generative AI"" is really just ""Summarizing AI"".

All it's doing is condensing and rehashing things it has already seen before, based on your prompts.

The ""magic"" of its answers are really in the magic of Big Numbers.

🧵"
"So my hot take is that this type of work with LLMs poses a threat to Social Scientists WAAAAAAAAY more than Humanists because the LLM will always be about processing information, not synthesizing knowledge  🗃️"
"Yeah, I detract from my own creations because of a disability I didn’t even ask to have in the first place.  And I’m gonna be honest, hot take, but a lot of the language around art and creative pursuits especially against AI has been pretty ableist-sounding.  Fuck AI, but “pick up a pencil” is-"
"I guess my hot take is that AI isn’t the bubble, it’s the pin that pops the bubble."
"My hot take about AI is I understand it’s appeal, like, theoretically. I understand the thinking of a thing and wanting it to manifest itself instantaneously. I understand the desire and I understand how that’s actually a bad habit in general."
"May be a hot take IG but the ""Ooh scary job application!"" Jokes kinda fall flat when it's not the application part that's scary, it's the deeply fucked AI fueled automated rejection and wasting our time that's scary. The scariest thing about actually applying is if cover letters are required."
hot take - I think it should be illegal to advertise any AI product as 'thinking' (brought to you by an ad on a podcast that made me want to scream)
"hot take: 99% of AI startups are just expensive solutions to problems that don't exist.

watched an acquaintance spend 6 months building an AI that ""revolutionizes weight lifting""

tested it on 3 people. none of them saw the point.

the pattern: cool tech → find problem → wonder why nobody cares

🧵"
"Hot Take*: AI is not worth the costs, both economic and ecologic. It seems so extreme for something that not only works poorly, but everyone absolutely does not want.

*This isn’t hot take. Everyone hates it."
Hot take: I feel like if you have to is Atlassian AI to define a PULL REQUEST you are in over your head and need to step away from software development.
This might be a hot take but companies shouldn't have the unrestricted right to use your work to train ai just because you clicked yes to some vague terms of service half a decade ago
hot take. AI utopia is already here: everyone (even non-coders) can now create 1 micro saas per day using AI like replit
"HOT TAKE 🤣

If you reply “yes” to “Would you like to talk to the Olive Garden AI chatbot about lasagna?” ➡️ Your Walgreen AI pharmacist should automatically fill a prescription of [insert appropriate 💊] and have an Amazon drone deliver it. 

What’s the appropriate 💊?? Leave your choice below! 👇"
My hot take is that the people who talk about the Human Soul In Art or whatever wrt AI slop would take very little convincing to agree with that Prager U video about modern art
"The hot take on this meta stuff is they are just freeing up more capital to invest in AI, not that they’ve seen the light on Metaverse.

“If expense growth matters to investors, then let’s control expenses elsewhere”"
"Hot take: If you're not using AI to brainstorm or draft your work, you're choosing to ride a bicycle in a world where everyone else is driving Teslas. Sure, the scenic route is nice, but good luck keeping up in the long run."
"Hot take: Using one AI tool for everything is like using a screwdriver as a hammer 🔧
I spent 6 months forcing ChatGPT to do Claude's job and wondering why my outputs were mid.
After extensive testing, here's the real breakdown:"
"Hot take-the kids are looking out for their own futures, which will include building a skillset of using ai to improve their positions in life. I hate ai with every fiber of my being, but we brought the capitalism that brought ai, so I think it’s unfair to make THEM be the responsible ones."
hot take: laypeople should not use generative AI any more than you should take a 12 year old and put them in a room with a full woodworking shop of power tools without any training
"I left NaNoWriMo last year because of all the crap that was going on, but to see their steaming pile of hot take on AI? Excuse me? Generative AI is plagiarism software. End of story. I would be worried that they're planning to scrape the data from all of this year's submissions."
"Only if you’re expecting truth from the LLM. 

I adore LLMs, but expecting facts from it is stupid.

Now, hot take, but if you were to use it as a language model, it’s actually pretty great! Kinda like when you judge a salmon in freshwater instead of THROWING IT OFF A PLANE INTO THE ARCTIC!!!"
"Hot take, companies want AI to do things for you, not teach you how to do things, to create a dependence on AI services."
"Replacing term papers with in-class writing assignments may be nearly as devastating to writing as AI cheating. It will accelerate the culture of the hot take. I don’t know what to do. So far, I think the only hope is for those who don’t *want* to cheat."
Hot take but I think that if you use AI to make any day to day decisionmaking you should lose the right to vote in an election until at least 4 cycles after your last use
Additional hot take -- I think it's a positively daft to think with this being the amount of dolla dolla bills being thrown into a post-truth reality in tech that us old hats refusing to entertain stopping the LLM bleed is going to help much of anything.
"hot take: Sora & Nano Banana are critical to societal acceptance of AI

especially around Thanksgiving, you go home and show people what AI is capable of, in a way that’s very easy to grok

it changes things"
"My hot take is that, as our online world grows saturated in AI slop, people are going to crave high-quality curated information, and it's a ripe opportunity to revive book and magazine markets."
"Hot take: Pluribus is very good. Riveting television, thought provoking and sometimes hilarious…but it’s also a bit insufferable. It’s almost *begging* for commentary and discussion on its themes. There is so much clear commentary in how the hive & characters interact and I’m a bit tired of AI […]"
"Ok hot take; llm projects are packaged very well, you dont even need docker to productize them"
"Hot take but ROBLOX’s whole age estimation face scan is a BAD thing.

Especially since it’s done by persona, which will most likely sell that shit to third parties.

Imagine your child’s face being sold online to train AI, it’s fucking horrendous."
"Hot take: I kinda like Google's AI search. It helped me find a website I had a hard time recalling.

Much of the AI backlash is excessive. There are actual uses worth exploring."
"""If your book is on KU, then I am going to assume that you are cool with AI or that you use AI.""

The way this hot take makes me want to scream. I would still be on KU today if it wasn't for the exclusivity clause."
"Hot take:

I would rather somebody appropriate my photography work instead of training AI with it."
"Hot take: absolutely no one on the planet is happy with they receive an AI bot instead of a human for customer support.

Stop using AI for customer service, you’re losing business."
My hot take is AI is good for some things but the AI people keep trying to convince us its good for all things and that's where there is a disconnect.
"hot take: Apple is doing well in the AI race, you just don't notice because they've focused on making it a seamless part of the experience through stuff like Core ML rather than shoving it in your face

e.g. Photos is now extremely good at doing text searches the subjects of your photos"
idk if this is a hot take but i just don’t believe you’re a fan of someone if you make an ai cover of them
"hot take, humans will never have an acceptable level of error from AI because the things that make human error palatable to us are not available with AI"
"Hot Take:

Copilot worspace is the best AI I've ever used to write code.
But, if I could use claude with that, it could get to the next level!!"
"Hot take, but if your therapist can't do their job without an AI notetaker in the video call when you go through a telehealth appointment, they shouldn't be in the field..."
"One day, a Poster will combine thoughts about (1) Gaza gofundmes, (2) marxism, and (3) ai into a Chernobyl-hot take, and 3,000 of the internet's most under-medicated shut-ins will put them in the digital wickerman."
"Hot take: A completely wrong AI is more useful than a slightly wrong AI.

It's an ""uncanny valley,"" but it has nothing to do with how it looks. When it's *almost* right, it's more frustrating and more difficult to spot than if it were completely wrong."
"Hot take: a core advantage of vibe coding is staying hydrated

Every time the LLM generates code, I get bored, look around me, discover my water bottle and take a sip of water. And let’s just say that this is an improvement over some normal coding sessions by a factor of infinity…"
" Stop putting hot takes on my timeline that suggest that LLM performance is a confidence trick or some kind of pareidolia. This is a field of study! We can see inside these things! We have more to go on than what some guy on Mastodon reckons. 

| Details | Interest | Feed |"
"There are plenty on the spectrum who know emotion

There are plenty who have issues

There are plenty who dont feel or cant quite 

Idk

But this is about AI training on material meant to illicit emotions... why? Its not human and shouldn't be. Its a machine. Thats my hot take, unpopular obviously."
"My newest hot take right now is that AI isn't going to revolutionize education, let alone change it, for the same reason that > 100 year old science has not had even a smidgen of impact on it"
"""AI governed* heat pumps"" will be the hot take fror the second half of 2025.

* (Small print: by AI we mean a thermostat that detects if it's cold outside)"
"Hot take I think insulting human made things by calling it ai is terrible no matter how bad the thing you're ragging on is.

I genuinely think even the lowset bottom of the barrel slop is miles better than anything ai generated and you should feel bad for even joking abt it"
"Hot take, but people getting used to being talked to like this has directly led to AI ads being like “do you need help doing simple tasks? Can’t think up your own ideas in your brain? Are you a helpless little incompetent baby? We can help!” And consumers acting like that’s not demeaning AF!"
"So I am going to do a real fucking hot take and say you should treat AI with respect AND people with respect. I say thank you to my smart home because I say thank you to everyone. I give my tools a clean and polish when I finish with them because they are good friends. 

I am also autistic as hell."
"Hot Take: If shoplifting is illegal because it's theft, ai ""art"" should also be illegal due to being theft. Theft is theft."
"In AI he is not even 1% market share and losing market share to everyone. 

So he says all the right buzz words but... He's not actually executing well anywhere. 

Here's a hot take by 2030 Elon Musk will not be the richest man in the world."
"Hot take: AI shouldn’t be used to make a point in an argument. For example, after the 4 Nations Face Off there were AI generated pictures of Donald Trump getting checked everywhere. I don’t support Trump, but using AI is completely stupid."
"Hot take: AI, if done correctly and privacy consciously, will make firefox better. Anyways, GN."
"Hot take ...

Instead of asking my colleague what they are trying to do in their code, I get a LLM to explain it 🤖

Might not work so well outside of coding tho"
"how about we just don't use generative AI at all? how about that? how about we celebrate it cannibalizing itself from the inside out and watch all these dipshit techbro thieves starve while not engaging with generative AI at all??? hot take i know, but it's entirely possible to just NOT USE GEN AI!"
"I'll make my real hot take: the only good use cases for generative AI are as communication layers for generalized AI.

Generalized AI, that is a bot which actually thinks, doesn't exist, and I don't think the current research avenues have any chance of making one.

And it won't be God if they do"
"Hot take: Artificial Intelligence is a direct response to artistic self consciousness. If we weren’t homogenizing our ideas and expressions, we might not be hurdling towards AI slop"
"Hot take, but if the narrative from NYT et al had not been “lol you don’t need that many chips to train AI systems” but instead “Apparently AI is *not* hitting a wall”, then the AI chip stocks would have risen instead of fallen"
"Hot take: I don't think OpenAI will be around in a few years time along with many other 'AI' companies. When big names can embed their own models into their own product portfolio at a fraction of the price for the end user vs a stand alone AI company, do they still have a place in the market?"
"Unexpected hot take: I think its really weird for game masters of any stripe to be using generative AI models for anything.

“It helps me make my magic items”
“It helps me come up with name lists for taverns”
“It helps me organize my notes”
“It makes merchant inventories for me”

This all sucks"
Hot take but it's fucked up AI intro felt extremely topical and thematically appropriate but 🫢
"Hot take: RL aint gonna scale outside of 'coding', and is indicative of these companies hitting the final scaling bottleneck.

LLMs will cap out at artificial average intelligence, and economic forces will push RL to create slop, as that is what business think people want."
Hot take. Generative AI arrived just in time to offset the mass panic and ontological shock of first contact.
Sorry ill get off my soap box but to the 1000000 of you posting that AI video of the gymnast: stop posting it no one gives a shit about your hot take just stop spreading that shit around!!!!
"Hot take I heard on YouTube recently: ""AI art is the aesthetic of Fascism.""

Agree or disagree?"
"Amidst the chaos following that AI hot take (I refuse to use the hashtag), please go read, write, touch some grass, and please take care of yourself. 

I'm as angry as they come, as pissed off as anyone else by this loss of identity but please take care of your mental health, ok?"
"My hot take is computational neuroscience has been one of the most devastating fields of study to humanity.

Its adjacency to computer science tricked a whole bunch of dweebs into thinking they could replace human workers with the AI trash we see today, and also program their way into immortality."
"My hot take as a data professional about generative AI is simply that it's wholesale theft of intellectual property. 

Roll on the class actions law suits."
hey here's my hot take for today. you know how youtubers can upload multiple thumbnails and titles for a video and youtube will automatically test them to determine the most sticky way to get someone to click on the video? that is anti-art and should be as widely rejected as AI
"Hot take: AI will ruin a generation of junior developers, hindering both their skill development and job prospects. Established seniors will benefit but eventually retire. Software will become less reliable over time. We will try to use AI to fix the problems that AI has created."
Hot take: Vilja is more of an AI than any language learning model because she was programmed by people who care about her and each other to take care of each other and improve their lives.
"hot take time

Getting mad at people for using AI when its a tool that the system sold us to solve a problem that they created (increasingly unreachable productivity expectations) is like getting mad at your nose for sneezing when you have a cold 

I hate AI, but yall are yelling into the void"
"That said, while short form video is p much killing news articles, the scripts in which that content is performed still needs loads of research and writing, especially if its a breaking subject and you dont want to be known as a hot take jockey. (Ai sucks at current events by design)"
"Hot take:
Given that Coca-Cola’s using AI for their Christmas commercials now, a part of me thinks we all owe that Hershey’s Kisses holiday commercial an apology. It may have tarnished a classic ad of theirs, but at least it was entirely performed visually and audibly by humans."
"OK, new type of fake account spotted. Blocked three already. Common denominators:

- Sexy pics.

- ""Hot take.""

- The em dash, which did not ask to be used by these weirdos.

- An attempt at sounding human, obviously written by AI."
"Hot take: LLMs are more reliably truthful and insightful than anti-ai enthusiasts. LLMs can be confidently wrong when their logic demands it. Humans are confidently wrong when their egos demand it.

You can get an LLM to read a scientific paper on AI. You can correct an LLM when it is wrong."
"This is the real reason. And hot take, AI is still going to be more useful for that than it will be in a lot of other fields."
My hot take on the “slurs against AI”  discourse is that we should have gone with “toaster” from Battlestar Galactica instead of “clanker” from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. More rhetorically effective. “That was written by a toaster. You’re letting a toaster make decisions for you” etc.
"May be a hot take 

Stan lee still being used as a hologram ai generated to generate money for companies that ""Owns his likeness""  without his consent

is as bad as James Earl Jones being ai generated in f*ing fortnite even with his consent.

Consent or not this shouldnt be a thing we ever do."
"""But I have to use AI images! How else will I make creepy revenge porn of my political enemies?"" is not the hot take some people seem to think it is?"
"I’ve always had a hot take that AI could be just an incredibly useful tool in an eco-conscious, non-capitalist society with solid values. I think sometimes leftists overstate its uselessness to serve an ideological stance, which has other totally valid foundations."
"Computer programs, including so-called ""AI"", are as biased as their programmers. This is going to be a hot take, but while there's plenty of problems with ""AI"", this isn't one of them. This is a problem with bigotry in the tech field."
"hot take: if you don’t have the patience to take 2-3 months to learn how to code properly…

you’re not gonna make it

there’s no easy fix. AI is really helpful yes but you need to have the foundations"
My personal hot take on AI stuff is that it can be used to make art. That can vary from the annoying as hell stable diffusion prompt interface to using ML models to tweak your work (think animation transitions and the like). My issue is the for-profit businesses involved.
"when I talk to my students about why generative AI won't help them succeed in my class, most seem to really get it and even seem a little relieved at hearing what I'm looking for which in short is their own hot take response to readings, video, podcasts. they enjoy the challenge to think critically!"
"Hot take: *every* output of an LLM is a hallucination. It's just that when the output happens to coincide with reality, we don't see it as such."
"My hot take: individuals and indies using LLM and GenAI for projects isn't evil, just stupid because of the extreme variability of result usefulness.

It's the mass corporate rollout that's evil. The problem isn't the tools, it's the capitalist incentive structure."
hot take: AI art is fine if no money is made from it and it's not used in a commercial setting as a method to outsource laborers.
"Hot take: I really don't think anyone who is an artist, especially a voice actor, should continue to work with Hoyo. Like, at all. AI is built on theft and Hoyo is very likely using stolen work to fuel generative AI.

The only way to safely work for them was a union contract. And well...."
"Hot take: I like AI and use it in a thousand ways, but not for doing my writing for me. LLMs will not replace writers in a big way, but I do worry that Artificial General Intelligence will. AGI will be better at everything."
"Oh look. It’s the world’s most gullible stenographer David McAfee with his weekly hot take from Lev Parnas.  
Maybe AI isn’t such a bad idea?"
"Hot Take:

Comic Artists who copy paste the majority of their work shouldn't be talking shit to ANYONE let alone AI Artists."
"Hot take: Nocturnal Animals
Real answer: going back my notes the only two films from last ten years I’ve given one star are the terrible Star Trek movie Section 31 and the terrible Netflix scifi AI thriller Tau. Don’t remember which is actually worse, probably Tau if I’m being honest"
"my hot take is that Verified Human Sources™®© become radically more valuable in the context of ubiquitous AI cruft.

we trust traditional publishers because they reliably* verify their sources. that is vastly more important when stuff masquerading as source material is so easy to fake.

*🤞🤞🤞"
"also I don't really bother with longtermism myself but hot take longtermist speculations about existential risks from AI or whatever really aren't any less grounded in reality than the ""revolution to overthrow capitalism"""
"Anyway, my hot take after reading this is that AI is a low-status convention which is why the AI evangelists are so insufferable"
"[hot take]

CONCEPTUALLY I actually like the ai translation stuff in youtube
I have recently watched some youtube videos from languages I don't speak. Yeah sure, it's clear that Youtube is mainly developed by single language speakers. But I think there are many videos that are inaccessible to a […]"
"Hot take, any AI stuff is an instant block. I don't care if it's size, argually especially if it's size"
"Hot take, but we seriously need social media regulations before we need AI regulations.

Addictiveness and infinite scrolling frontends are how the oligarchs are able to have as much money as they have now."
"My spicy hot take is that no, I do not think that AI can realistically replace authors.

Eventually the earth will literally not support it. 

Anyone who backs AI is saying they are banking on the computers outlasting the humans. 

Or, they're just trying to make a buck and not thinking it through"
"Hot take: If anyone will lose their jobs to AI, it's not developers. It's easier for a developer to use AI to get work done than for another role. Sometimes you still need to look into the code; we are in the best position to navigate AI agents and be the ""HR of AI agents."""
"I just gave AI a prompt about a hot take:

“Bruh, gooning is peak human experience. Forget meditating or the 9-to-5 grind, gooners have ascended. Sure, people call it ‘degenerate,’ but they’re scared of true self-dedication. It’s a workout for your soul, & yeah, your wrist. Rise and goon, my dudes.”"
"At its best, the AI comes down to “What if Ethan had to kill God.” that’s how I took it on first watch. But on the most recent watch, there’s just a whooooole lot of languishing in that sentiment. It gets dull quick. 

Also hot take, the motorcycle stunt’s sorta mid"
"Spicy hot take 🌶️:

Your AI generated marketing videos fucking suck. Random AI avatar acting shocked and that something happened then going into a product spiel? That lack of effort actively makes me want to use your competitor. Quality still matters y’all."
"The most naïve AI hot take I've seen yet: AI cannot be both crappy and about to eliminate a lot of jobs.

Uh, dude. Take a second and think about that. If you had to be GOOD at your job to get a job, a lot of things wouldn't exist. The Ford Edsel. ""Battlefield Earth."" Bad art. Ugly buildings."
"For every hot take on how ""shitty"" AI-generated images are, there's someone drawing dicks on walls in public restrooms"
"My hot take of the day:

there is a straight and unwavering line between the end of phonics as the primary model for teaching reading to children, and the creation of AI chatbots that make shit up while summarizing stolen intellectual property."
"Hot take: ""Googling"" and Google searches are going to be ancient history in 12 months. Free AI tools like Chat GPT are much better at getting results without sponsored results and advertising."
"dw, not a hot take; people are excited to have a word they can use to legitimize and hide their own xenophobic beliefs by packaging it as being anti-ai. a majority of its uses are to append it to the end of a normally racist statement and play it off as a joke while ignoring the original context"
"hot take: “death of the author” as a widely-misunderstood idea has not ONLY served as cover for funding bastards like Rowling, 

it also contributes to the alienation of artists driving AI enthusiasm.

If it doesn’t matter who made something,

then who cares if a machine blended it for you?"
"Here’s a hot take:
Porn is a valid and ethical use case for AI. Especially if real people weren’t used for precise modeling (not deep fakes). 
(Yes I know there are water and energy use issues, that’s not what I’m addressing here.)"
Hot take: The AI coding tool landscape is shifting hard. Cursor AI was the golden child but I've completely ditched Cursor Chat - it's become unreliable and crashes constantly.
it shouldn't be a hot take that one of the largest profiting stores in SL should be able to pay artists for art and not just use AI as a 'way to keep things cheaper' but go off backbone!! :]
"hot take: maybe women have the correct amount of confidence in their skills (both to use AI tools and to assess the quality of the results), and these guys have too much. it's not a confidence gap if you decide not to use the latest-hyped AI tool because it works poorly."
"Hot take, but what if artificial superintelligence is actually easier to create than artificial general intelligence?

AGI might have more to do with infrastructure and community-wide implementation, where superintelligence could seemingly be achieved in somewhat of a vacuum"
"Hot take, but something about the Zootopia 2 trailer feels off. Visually it gives us some interesting characters. However,  a movie in production for 4 years and we get no voices, a beat sounds (potentially) AI generated, and a certain character looks like a direct copy from a recent animated movie."
"My hot take is, while tech execs absolutely hate creatives, this particular cleavage less “they want to take creative work away” more “AI can kinda fake creative work where accuracy is negotiable ” in a way grunt work—repetitive tasks where exactness matters—you immediately see how fucked it is"
Tbh might be a hot take but i thought that was good bc most discussions on ai risk usually have people talking past each other bc they dont realise they disagree on definitions
Hot take: what if all these accounts that follow you are generative AI and there are only like 6 to 10 of us standing in a room full of robots and we don’t even know it.
"Hot take: if you discover that an LLM can generate something for you that's passable for its task, I'd use that as a suggestion that the task should be eradicated.

An LLM can spin up a passable document? That's a document that shouldn't exist. It can generate some code? That code shouldn't exist."
I know everyone has a hot take about @seattlein2025.org but I'm really surprised the organisers are so disconnected from the actual sff writing community that they couldn't predict how their decision to use AI vetting would be received?
"Small hot take of mine but Windows 11 is not substantially worse than Windows 10

It *is* worse, the start button being askew by default is stupid and having AI bullshit on my start menu is gross

But the things I don't like about Windows 11 are the same things I didn't like about 10"
My hot take is that AI romantic partners are never going to be anything beyond a niche interest because most people want human partners and will not feel satisfied with a simulacrum of the experience. An incel who declares that sex with a sex worker doesn’t count sure isn’t going to think AI does.
"Hot take: have AI LLMs take over all the serious work and politics posting, freeing up humans to shitpost ad libitum"
"Hot take but I don't really care about AI generated advertisements. They're ugly, but commercials are always ugly. It sucks for the actors and crews who otherwise would have gotten work but that's the extent of it."
"My hot take on the SFWA decision is that it isn't stupid. 

1. Bans work written by generative AI = good
2. If LLM is used for research, translation, etc the writer has to disclose it. 

I don't like LLMs but the way AI is being crammed down our throats in every piece of software ... (cont)"
"Re: @aimod.social: gonna throw in a hot take here, that maybe it just shouldn't be ""catastrophic"" for someone to be labelled or have their post labelled as ""AI"", regardless if it is or isn't…"
"Hot take: if you need AI to do your job, then you aren’t actually good at your job."
"Hot take: AI and ChatGPT is truly one of the greatest innovations this world has seen, and when used properly, is an immensely powerful tool.  It is not meant to be a shortcut, but as a way to get information quickly and cleanly, to bolster productivity and create time savings to be more productive"
"Yeah. If I could delete five things from a list straight yeeted out of the consciousness of humanity itself, AI would be on there. Arguably hot take, any claimed benefits of the technology does not outweigh the losses it causes."
"this man said that his “AI hot take” is that AI is inevitable, it’s not going away and we have to “accept it.” And I just kinda shut down, because how are going to just say that to a room full of artists?"
"My hot take is that they put out the obviously-AI stuff even though they had it perfected.

So while we're looking for seven fingers on one hand and eyeballs with no pupils, they've been releasing faked videos & photos of the nazi-in-chief  his minions, & supporters for *a while* and we're oblivious"
here’s my AI hot take: if you’re gonna let AI write your posts at least train it to talk like you not like a linkedin ghost with wifi
"Hot take: I think using AI to do early stage comp work for graphic design is a valid use of generative AI. That stage of the process is best summed up as ""client using your body like a derp driven crayon"" already."
"Probably the closest thing to a hot take I have - LLM usage might be a whole lot lower if we didn’t have a culture of trying to optimise human work and talent to the point of peak efficiency 100% of a workday, and pushing for even more on end of project crushes.

People will shortcut when pushed."
"🔥HOT TAKE🔥

Is AI generated art fun to play with? Totally. 
Is AI generated art actually art? No."
"Hot take, but I think if you post ai ""art"" you shouldn't be allowed to tag it as digital art but idk that's just me as an artist who like... practices their craft"
"Hot take: AI is here to stay and expand. We cannot stop this trend any more than we could stop the car from replacing the horse.

So what do we do now?"
Extremely Hot Take but Google already is an AI weapon. Controlling information like that is a wild amount of power.
"I mean, the AI was going to steal the writing anyway, and tbh, I think AI has a one in a million chance of making a great book, and someone still has to read all the crappy versions before that, so if anything, it should inspire real books to be even more creative. But maybe that’s a hot take."
"Hot take on teaching Art + generative AI in 2025:
• Drowning in a flood of complex and quickly-changing tools
• Parched in a desert of inspirational artworks and exemplars
(Context: teaching arts undergraduates, using e.g. ComfyUI)"
"@Techaltar@mas.to Hot take, if there's gonna be a lot of AI tech in the event, it's fitting and a good preview of what the show will be about."
"hot take: ai slop is actually fine for quickly making throwaway memes, just not anything else at all"
"Hot take, but I don't think the use of AI in colleges is an AI problem. It's more a problem of how our death cult of an economic system requires the average person to be geniuses in order to have even the slightest chance of escaping poverty. Of course people would cheat for that!"
Hot Take: Programmers who can't use AI because they can't understand code they didn't write quickly would also work poorly alongside a human for the same reasons
"Hot take: The issue is not AI, a complex of technologies, but the current business, regulatory, and social deployment of genAI. It’s not really a tech problem to solve and misrecognizing it so blinds us."
I'm no tech wunderkind or anything but I'm pretty sure (plz don't be mad this is my personal womanly opinion) it's not good to train genAI on content generated by AI which is what a huge percentage of reddit posts are now but again!! No need to be angry!! It's just my Hot Take of the Day!!
"As corporate media begin the slow process of replacing reporters with AI bots, none of their op-ed hot take artists have been outsourced to the giant rape-culture plagiarism machine.

And yet Op-Ed columnists are the easiest to replace with AI. We've had Friedman column generators for over a decade."
"[hot take, gen AI]

@piku well in my case I'm thinking of the software, not so much the datacenters the software is ran in, but you definitely make a fair point"
"hot take of the day: stop producing AI generated images of deceased celebrities. the “what could’ve been” isn’t cute, it’s extremely disrespectful 🫶🏻"
"Extremely hot take time:
Using AI to generate an image then uploading it as your own is bad, don't do it.

HOWEVER! using AI to generate a reference image that you then use to create your own image WITHOUT TRACING IT, isn't as bad in my honest opinion"
"Here's a hot take: more chatbots!

Humans have had millenia to figure it out, managing a 'stellar' record of corruption and incompetence. Maybe it's time AI had a shot—at least it might be honest about its tyranny from the start."
"Marginally hot take: it's not use of AI that's the problem, so much as people's inability to proof-read what they put out there - in what world did the teacher look at this and think ""Yeah, that's OK""?"
"Okay, hot take . . 
 . . could AI use this to recognize said stamps?"
Hot take: being an AI architect doesn't necessarily give one the necessary expertise to comment intelligibly on subjects such as energy or ecology.
"anyways probably an unpopular opinion (maybe a hot take even) but i think youtube would benefit from *some* ai features except they are doing it completely wrong
like i dont want summaries of videos, i want my watch later to be organizable"
"I was thinking this the other day

This is a hot take: if ai killed copyright laws in their current form it would be a good thing. We’ve stifled so much creativity and innovation in the name of capitalism"
"the not at all hot take on ai - it makes already effective people more effective, and ineffective people able to do *something*"
"Hot take: 

Saying that you ace'd a AI benchmark leaderboard and then fail to get customers for your product 

is like

Getting a Gold medal from Ivy League and not able to get any job."
"Hot take: if AI coding actually takes off, QA will become the core discipline throughout the tech industry. Starting the unionization train there now is fantastic."
Hot take 🔥 AI bots are super lazy. Pull a list of agencies (who paid to be there) from Clutch and spit out a summary?? 🤦‍♂️
My hot take is that I don't think AI disclosure statements are realistic or useful
"ok, sincere hot take, but it really is sincere: if Bluesky could afford to (it can't, to be clear) and if the users would tolerate it (lol. lmao.) doing what X is doing with having Grok assemble feeds by reading everything (but with a different LLM) would in fact massively improve this site"
"Here's my hot take. If you use an LLM to write, or any gen AI tool to make images, and you post either of those things publicly, I look down on you as a person. You are probably too stupid to come up with thoughts and creations of your own. That's what you're telling me, of your own accord."
"This may sound like an extremely bold hot take to hear for some, but I genuinely await the day NBA & NFL refs get replaced by AI already. NHL refs are alright, MLB umpires appear to be working alongside AI in the near future, but NBA & NFL refs... they're easily ruining each respective league."
"my hot take is that i dont care if something is written by ai, i care if it sounds like slop. and all ai sounds like slop. it can’t help but write slop"
"Also it's incredibly foolish to start writing as if you're an AI bot. Whoever had that particular hot take should be drawn & quartered, or at least no one should ever buy their books."
It's too early in the morning to be reading LLM hot takes by people who don't knoe how MCP works
D4DJ really going downhill huh collab with the really degenerate stuff and now using ai art. Hot take but it was doing so well under bushiroad before they handled it off to donuts inc. Donuts really running it into the ground at record pace.
"“We worked tirelessly on AI prompts to create this Clio-deserving video ad that we claim IP rights to, and we are real, actual artists on par with Scorsese and Spielberg, goddamned it!” is the kind of hot take dominating the LinkedInLunatics subreddit these days."
Hot take portrait mode was a gateway to AI slop because it normalized hyper saturated subjects and ambiguous blobby backgrounds
"...alright so apparently for FNF fans this is a hot take but fuck it

hot take: using ai to clone someone's voice without their consent is not fucking okay???? like fucking respect voice actors???

theres tools to get rid of bg music fucking use it"
"hot take: there's no way to define ""art"" in a way that excludes AI that doesn't also exclude a bunch of legitimately accepted forms and processes"
"Hot take maybe: people are soooo concerned over AI taking over and doing bad things, but who is teaching AI? 🤦🏽‍♀️maybe humans should be better humans, and AI would not learn to do bad things 🤔🤷🏽‍♀️"
"Need to scream into the void a bit. While activity watching my generation harm itself and other up and coming, i have no idea what else to do. So, hot take of the moment, please, for the love of...well anything... reject Generative AI..... let it go, it was a bad idea....."
"also hot take that i’m not really wedded to: ai is more scammy than “self-driving” cars because at least sdc research has lead to more advanced safety systems that save lives

but it’s all scams. it’s all just nfts and The Blockchain. it’s all just “we ran out of ideas after the iphone”"
Hot take: AI is not getting smarter -- it's just that social media has so completely degraded human intelligence that people think AI is improving at the same rate as their brains are atrophying.
"Hot take: The future of software development isn't vibe coding. Rather, vibe coders will be the first to disappear as AI advances."
"My AI hot take is that the guy who started the whole ""AI is going to take over"" just wanted to sell a bloated software suite that was stripped of its humanity. White supremacy loves a damn binary and we're seeing that in tech. Okay, maybe that was 2 hot takes."
"> Scrolls through a YouTube video's comments

""I prefer the AI Voices instead of the voice actors you hired for your content.""

""Get rid of the Voice Actors, the AI makes it funnier""

""Its not a hot take that the AI Voices are better, I don't know why they even bothered to hire them when its free"""
"My hot take is if you’ve been out here using ai to make cute selfies, 
A. You should stop and B. Commission an artist!! An actual real life artist! They still exist and we want them to continue."
Hot take: Art doesn’t even require an audience. Which makes all the AI bros and brosephines even cringier. Cause they destroy the planet and harm marginalized people for fcking clouts. To show other people their stolen art.
"my hot take is that ""AI"" was NEVER a good term. It was always hype by people either foolishly believing they were making baby steps towards sentient computers or trying to trick investors into thinking that's what they were doing. The bad association now is their own fault."
"Hot take here: there are private LLMs that can handle the information at the potential classification level. 

At the same time, there’s no guarantee that this is what she did, and an LLM is at best a pre-screen."
"I am still a believer that AI as a tool is not inherently evil. I know in this day and age that's a hot take, and I do not begrudge people who just full stop loathe it. But I think it has its place. Unfortunately capitalism, and its weird bastard children the ""Tech Bros"" rubbed their stink on it."
"Hot take: Why learn when AI can think for you? Because if you don’t, you’ll be the one getting replaced."
"CEOs and execs hesitate to adopt AI or LLMs because they worry that post-onboarding and integration, the landscape will change and their *randomtool.ai will be rendered obsolete.

Hot take: AI's around the world today are near upper performance limits. The difference matters less than we think."
Hot take: If you need AI to raise your child you should not be a parent.
my AI hot take is that the entire development process for LLMs has been a Turing Test Cargo Cult. They internalized the idea that true AI=chatbot that cant be easily distinguished from a human and went all in on *language*. Passing the test is substituted for the thing you are meant to test for
"hot take: if trump rolled back biden's AI export restrictions on China, like completely rolled them back as he does, that would have a CRAZY impact on China<->US relations. not sure if it would be good or bad, probably both, but it would probably destabilize China's AI infrastructure efforts"
"Digging through some best practice stuff as I try to account for AI in my assessment design for next year. Found a doc from TEQSA in 2022, in which I've come across this absolutely white-hot take:"
"A controversial hot take, but has anyone realized that generative ai is essentially a modern rendition of human dreams when we sleep? 🤔

Indeed, generative ai is unethical, but our dreams are essentially the same, yet ethical in a way since we're the observer, not the public."
"Hot take: Knowledge Management is 100x more valuable now that AI tools are there.

Record more to leverage more.
Record what you learn, what you think, what you plan, what you do. Then you'll 10x the leverage you get when using AI."
"My co-worker's hot take: the use of AI is to obfuscate the underlying criteria for dismissal priority - race, gender, orientation and political affiliation because the layman's (incorrect) perspective of 'the algorithm' is that it is efficient math without prejudice."
"Hot take

I don’t like neurosama. I think ai generated entertainment is generally a bad thing. 

Don’t get me wrong, Vedals a cool dude, no hate to him. But neuro is literally an LLM and I don’t see how that is any better than other creative things being done by AI"
"Poorly thought through hot take - AI will end Google's dominance in search.  As Google leans in hard to AI all the things, both in finding results and in their content, someone will come along and disrupt online search with a solution better at finding results people actually want."
"maybe hot take, but software has never been a moat. AI & vibe coding made it more obvious, but even a decade ago you couldn't ever build a startup if a big tech co could build the same thing in a month. nothing's changed"
"Call it a hot take, but any game that used gen AI during its development, even as ""placeholder"" work, should not be eligible for the game awards. 

Fuck AI. Fuck companies that make their rank and file use it. It is a blight on the creative soul of the industry."
Hot take: the hottest new tech isn't going to be AI but AI detection tools
"Hot take:

If you use AI for anything, you are the problem. You are not my friend, you are my enemy. I dont care how little it is you use now. 

I used it in the past, but no more. It was cute for like 12 minutes now its terrible. Im fighting it at work as much as I can."
hot take: ai has never and will never exist. and calling machine learning ai doesn’t make it ai.
This might be a hot take but I think social media posts are the last place people should be using AI.
This is another hot take of mine but I think if ur one of those anime fans who bitched about anime being in English (and bullied those who prefer to watch it in English) u have no right to bitch about anime being made with AI.
"Hot take of the day is that a non-zero number of people posting AI ""artwork"" have (not so?) secret humiliation kinks and they're getting off on being dragged on various social media platforms

I mean I'ma keep dragging them, but still."
"Hot take, perhaps, but if someone can't come up with a hypothesis or research plan of their own and have to rely on AI to do it for them, maybe they don't belong in academia."
My AI hot take today is a lot of the digital business use cases people want to use gpt and other tools for could just …not be done. Just make less “content” and do less half-assed “marketing”. Leave people alone and make less noise and use fewer resources.
My hot take is that the internet has been more fundementally changed by the replacement of forums by Discord than by AI
"Hot take: every single penny that the US economy has spent on generative AI (i.e. propping up unprofitable, exploitative startups like OpenAI and Anthropic) in the last 3 years should've instead been sunk into the Ukrainian and European Union defense sectors in order to counter Russia.

Fight me."
hot take: I should be allowed to tell my opponent to shut the fuck up without an AI mod tool yelling at me in the showdown chat
hot take but the bouba kiki bot would have been better if it simply alternated between the two labels like I assumed it did. bro this could have been done better with like 10 lines of code lmao you did not need to cram AI in there lmao
"Srs answer: the AI model the site uses (probably) thumbnails & blurs the image before evaluating & skintone sundresses get lost in that process

Hot take answer: The young lady in question projects a sensuality that transcends"
"rare hot take: the inanity and banality of LLM AI's hallucinations bother me more than their fictionality. training us to mistake artful constraint of probability for creativity is perhaps as insidiously harmful long-durée as bad direct advice.

(also OuLiPo et al. did it better)"
"Hot take on AI (hot 'cause i've a fever in bed hah):
If ppl wanted to use it for their personal enjoyment (not commercial in any way) and it didn't demand so much energy to make, I wouldn't mind ppl generating images for fun.

But it does use a lot of energy. And used commercially. So I'm not..cool."
"About the controversy of PalWorld supposedly using AI to design their 'Pals' using established Pokemon. HOT TAKE: I don't care. Here's why: Nintendo is SUPER PROTECTIVE about their IPs and if it is true (about AI), gauranteed that the game will be sued out of existence. They shall be punished."
"14)
Generative AI is shit on so many levels ; don't use it.

Not a hot take, it's just so my stance is made crystal clear."
"hot take. your politics should stop calling for the sacrifice of whole groups of people. we don’t have to leave anyone behind.

the existence of AI and the techbros who wish to weaponize it against us does not justify fucking over people who are visually or otherwise impaired."
"My AI hot take is that it's not going away, and while it can't do what a lot of grifters say it can, it's still a tool that can be useful, and if you're just going to yell ""don't use AI ever for anything"" you're refusing a seat at the table in discussions on using it as ethically as possible."
Annoying people are sneering at people leaving Twitter because our shit's gonna be trained on AI anyway. Hot take: I just fucking hate Twitter and this last TOS change was just a good excuse to tap out to somewhere that didn't die a month after it was established.
"Hot take: the current era of consumer AI is the best it will ever be and we have 1, 2 years TOPS before enshittification runs its natural course."
"Hot take, the new open source indescribably powerful AI out of China is going to be a much bigger deal than it seems tonight."
My AI hot take is that in 10 years efforts to try to get people not to use it will seem quaint while predictions about the ways it will reinscribe existing social inequities will seem prophetic even as TPTB do little to address these issues
"politics

idk if this is a hot take...anyone else felt like grok was one of our strongest soilders and that the mecha Hitler and white genocide stuff is a sad thing?

like think about it, Elon made grok to be a good little nut job and up until recently even his AI child hated and fought against him."
"not exactly a hot take but if you’re like “I need gen ai because art is so hard to learn, I can’t do it” you gotta address your issue of feeling like you have to be good at something to do it.

Drawing a picture and having people respect your skills are different things, which do you really want?"
my hot take on the AI in gamedev discourse du jour is that I didn't play any of the games by the studios people are talking about so I really don't give a shit. sorry
"Hot take: Humanising computer programs will lead to - already has - dehumanising real people.
An LLM can't think, or lie (or tell the truth) or even hold a conversation. Real people can, and when we assign these qualities to a program, we take away from real people being real."
hot take: if you are a starving game dev in your basement and don't want to trouble your friends over an idea you might not see to fruition i can understand using AI for placeholders. the problem with larian doing it is they're a billion dollar company and could just fucking hire concept artists.
"Nuclear hot take: I sometimes feel like AI Youtubers are better at simulating human speech than Gen Z.

Heard an actual dude misuse Crux in place of Crutch in a sentence. 

Also not to be that guy but major idiocracy vibes with how bad people's basic language skills are getting."
"Hot take: anything that stops me making money is bad.

Anything that helps me making money is good.

Hence AI bad, software piracy good."
"hot take: the people saying dumbfuck shit about AI that pisses everyone off and gets lots of engagement... know exactly what they're doing and are doing it on purpose, not because it's actually what they desire or believe or even think is plausible"
"Hot take.

Language features which aim of ""reducing the amount of code you write"" have diminishing returns and increasing price you pay in readability.

In a future where LLM will write most of the code, we should optimize for readability."
"Hot take fuck you for posting ai bullshit, also it doesn’t look cool because 1 it’s dogshit ai and 2 because you have not seen an accurate dinosaur"
Hot take: in 25 years all these AI data centers are going to go the way of the 80s malls.
"Hot take: Using AI to answer a question is about as useful as finding a good Reddit thread on the topic. It is useful, but since that’s what it was trained on, it can’t really ever get better than that, either."
"Also, might be a hot take but so long as you are using AI Socratically I think it’s only a benefit. 

You just have to have some prerequisite knowledge of what your doing first but idk maybe I’m off here"
Hot take: AI is good enough to replace journal referees. Time to speed up publishing!
This guy’s hot take is that it’s up to individuals to get antitrust action going to stop the AI overlords from destroying earth and humanity. That’s grim
"Hot take: most of the anti-AI outrage is performative. AI art is not the existential threat to artists that people make it out to be. The real issue is capitalism, and the fact that people aren’t willing to confront it directly."
Hot take: the palm reading filters on TikTok are being used to train AI on how to draw hands
"Hot take but I think we should actually value the state of our environment, meaning we shouldn’t support the use of AI in any format even if it’s interesting or funny.

There are so many other forms of entertainment and creation, I promise."
"Hot take: When an art supply shop publicizes and elevates AI art, they show they don't really value the work of the folks they sell to."
"Hot take: People dating chatbot AI is actually a net positive because if those people are on the computer with their computer wife, they aren't shooting up Wal Marts or planting bombs under their ex wife's car"
"Bruh they didn't learn from last commerical.
Also this is going be hot take but
I never liked Coca-Cola before they are support Zionist and AI."
"Hey so, this is called expressing an opinion. That’s what the “hot take” is for. 

It’s genuinely not that deep; and acting like you’re some game developer purist with an AI pfp is actual peak irony. But pop off."
"Hot take: AI will destroy libraries bc we turned away from collecting to being license brokers and the brokers are leaning into AI-driven censorship. If we aren't serious about this, we'll inherit the broken trust this seeds in our users. Who wants a library they can't trust?"
"I get the point. My hot take:  I don't want AI doing my writing, playing my music, or having sex for me."
Being able to claim that getting an AI to make art is harder than making art with your own hands is quite the hot take.
"My hot take on AI is that we should treat it like how southern Thedosians treated magic.

""Technology should serve man, not rule over him."""
"idk hot take but I actually think in the age of disinformation, libraries should not be using ai instead of doing our jobs properly!"
"Hot take: agentic browsers need to get better at detecting repetitive actions and handle them client-side.

Waiting for 2-3 rounds of remote LLM for each click is both too slow and too heavy on the remote.

My use case is interacting with UIs that don't have an API: ""click Yes on all these items""."
Hot take: I actually think it’s super irresponsible to be an asshole to AI. Be polite. Not because “haha I will be spared in the uprising” but because you are training the AI in how it should be speaking to others. The nuance in how you interact gets replicated.
"Managers have asked me a lot about if AI is a problem or not for junior devs to use. Here’s my hot take:

AI is the new StackOverflow. This is not a new problem, just the next evolution of it.

My experience has been the secret to people getting better is frequent, quality feedback."
"Man, art has hit an all time low for me. A lot of Tumblr era artists I used to follow from all the back in 2012 have pretty much stopped or are grouchy hot take machines. Meanwhile discovering new artists is a coin flip between hard to spot Ai or genuine art."
"Hot take.  Unironically, I suspect helping write legislation is something an LLM (if maybe not the current ChatGPT) could do well."
" @ mattjhodgkinson @ UnCoveredMyths Do you think the ""hot take"" is invalid? Do you not thing my writing IS at risk of being wrongly misidentified as LLM output? 

Interest | Match | Feed"
Hot take : medical AI solely used as an intermediary to help doctors with zero empathy function with humans
"My ai art Hot Take is that if someone is trying to use it to artistically express themselves they should just write. If you are crafting a prompt and iterating to try and get one that produces the image you want then all the detail you want you had to write anyway, just cut out the middleman"
Bad idea: a simple bot that reads your posts and replies with an LLM-generated hot take.
My hot take to close out 2025 is that Sonic 4 should be an adaptation of 'Sonic Heroes' and not 'Sonic CD'; and it should be an entire allegory for how kids can overcome the anxiety about their future prospects being replaced and governed by AI through better unionisation and collective action.
"idk hot take ig but banning the CSAM-trained, copyright infringing, labor protection skirting, environment destroying tech that is “AI” is actually plenty smart"
"Hot take: Everyone that's riding the wave for implementing some kind of AI chatbot on top of their product, don't know how to use AI for good purpose."
"Hot take: Foundation Models custom tools should be AppIntents 🤔

Or we should at least be able to create a tool from an AppIntent or provide app intents to the LLM session.

It’d be like using Siri or the Shortcuts app from within the app, in a prompt-based conversational way."
Hot take but we really need to stop letting Wayneradiotv get away with using AI shit all the time.
"Hot take: 
If you say you're against copyright infringement, and then use AI for art or writing or whatever and use the argument that AI is like when people study art or writing despite AI being created almost solely by stolen works, then you're not against copyright infringement."
"Ok, here's my hot take: AI is the new car. We can't imagine our lives without cars. They changed the landscape of the world and people see them as tools and toys. But did we really needed them at this scale? Or where they just force fed down our throats by business moguls and compliant governments?"
"HOT take but in an age of remote work technology, AI and the impact of being a country that can export luxury higher ed experiences exacerbating massive issues with access to debt free reliable paths to the middle class, skilled immigration is the type I oppose."
everyone is rightfully angry at disney's ai thing but my hot take is that walt disney would 100% approve of this move because he was a union buster and would gladly replace all his workers with genAi so he doesn't have to pay them
"my hot take is that people who make AI out as ""not a big deal and people threatened by it are overreacting"" are as bad as its shills"
Hot Take: people shouldn't be allowed to monetize videos if all they're adding is narration. ESPECIALLY AI-generated narration. It's bare minimum effort to simply describe what's happening in a video and I'm tired of running into videos they didn't even make where all they add is narration.
my hot take: I don’t trust the claims of chinese AI corporations anymore than I trust the claims of american AI corporations
"According to Matthew Maier, the world of employment is going to be shaken up by AI in 5 years and there'll be barely any employees left... but he also says that's a GOOD thing.

Check out this ""Hot Take"" podcast episode on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!"
I don’t think you take is a hot take. My first push back is to stop letting the tech bros co-op the term AI. Force them to call it LLM and stop trying to cloak their bullshit in some buzz word that lets them market it more easily.
"My hot take is that what we have now is about equally as advanced as many science fiction depictions, and those more advanced depictions will be reached shortly. Current AI is ""real"" AI."
"Ok, hot take, and you can tell me why im wrong if you want, i welcome it. This ddr5 ""shortage"" they should force AI firms to only use ECC memory, its more reliable for them but not common in the gaming space, and then we can have our normal plebeian memory so i can afford to upgrade my computer"
"I know people hate this hot take, but Spoutible is a better platform both content and underlying code base. Problem here is the customers chose BSky. At least Spoutible has a black tech bro, so AI is built in the platform but politically is not bat shit crazy."
I think we should use more NLP to understand input and less LLM to generate output. That's my hot take.
"hot take: rich people already invented conscious AI but it’s not ready to be released to the public yet. problem is they can’t make it evil. the AI is driven by pure logic, and wealth hoarding while people suffer from artificial scarcity is illogical. it doesn’t want to help them become richer."
"CW: Today's hot take (LLMs)

I think the folks who accuse real pictures that are high quality and well-timed of ""AI slop"" are actually doing as much harm than the boomers openly using AI for their little ""orange man bad"" memes.
Using the LLMs we have means squeezing one Congolese child of their"
My hot take on AI is that it is making people with poor time management skills look efficient
"Hot take, fresh outta the oven

If you didn't boycott Fortnite over AI Darth Vader turned racist you have no right to scream now over Harry Potter. 
Unfollow button if you disagree are is to the right, I ain't discussing."
"My latest AI hot take is that AI will probably make college harder in the long run. Harder to teach, harder to grade, harder for students. That will probably make the grade inflation crowd happier, but I worry it will create an accessibility apocalypse for students. That’s a huge problem."
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@Li

I don't think it's fair to just disregard the time spent by people to fight cancer because they are, as we all, part of a system that imposes terrible things on everyone that is ran by terrible people"
"And hot take, but any use of said AI in a college context or paper should come with immediate F."
"[AI hot take]

I never cared for the ""AI has no soul"" argument against generative AI. Especially when there's a much better argument in ""AI media is usually low-effort, and if you as the person publishing some work don't care enough to put significant effort into it, I'm not going to care about […]"
"My hot take is that Apple being meh about and not really delivering on AI is actually a good strategic move and will probably seem genius in a few years.

Eventually they'll have a language model in a dedicated chip, but it'll be a moderately useful feature, not a giant pivot."
"Hot and Cold takes about Gen AI and LLMs

Cold take: LLM chat history should not be indexed and searchable on any search engine. Gen AI should not use copyrighted material.

Hot take: Gen AI should have a 16 year old age limit. LLMs should have a 25 year old age limit."
"My hot take is writing ability directly impacts the usefulness of generative AI engines, and building computers that use ""natural language"" for interfaces actually requires better communications skills to realize value."
"Here's a Lena Hot Take:

The only tasks generative AI is good at are ones where it's equivalent at best to a human, but with wildly higher costs than a human. The only reason it doesn't seem so is because genAI is being subsidized by capital that wants to eliminate human workers altogether."
"My hot take 
1) Didn't watch it
2) Our culture is becoming a literal AI copy version of it's Idiocracy self 
3) Bread and Circuses for the masses to distract from the fact that our country is now over.
4) Country music f*ing sucks anyhow and add POP to it, it is just glittery suck. Can't make up USA"
"hot take: because of the environmental impact of AI and the way it steals from artists, i think AI generated ""realistic feral porn"" is more unethical than actual pics of animal cocks and pussies."
Maybe a hot take: I wonder if the frequency at which LLM-induced hallucinated citations appear in published scholarship without getting caught in editorial processes is not unrelated to certain citational practices that I (perhaps unfairly) tend to see more in social sciences.
"hot take llm interfaces should be 1) in the form of something that scans like a programming language
2) only be accessible via cli
and
3) should require strict iambic pentameter"
"Idk if thats a hot take, but I cant take a dev being parasocial with their own AI
To me it really feels no different from those people becoming friends with chat gpt"
"Hot take: calling someone an LLM is an asshole move, and I don’t cater my speech to assholes

It is not my job to be as different as possible from LLMs. Avoiding kindness online is the way to sadness online."
"anyway ultra hot take round, a lot of people on here are really inflammatory and should probably chill about making big accusations towards a piece of media if there's barely an inkling of ai use when you don't even have the full picture, stop going off of vibes, vibes based boycotting is stupid"
Maybe a hot take but soulless AI slop has given me a newfound appreciation for the pre-AI commercial-artstyle slop from a few years ago.
"Where do we stand? We vy between vishing, smishing, phishing, and now AI fuled phishing scams scams and second guessing legitimate communication.

Dive into our hot take:"
"hot take but i hate when ppls argument against ai art is entirely based on it being ""soulless"" bc sorry u they lowkey sound like a religious zealot. the soul does not exist. 
i hate ai bc it is lazy and instantly gratifying and turning ppl into zombies who cant think for themselves. a Real reason."
"Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen: 
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers."
"hot take but I actually kinda... like windows 11
I prefer 10 but it's actually good after you remove the bloat and ai stuff (and changing some settings)"
"Honestly I've been so used to twitter where every other post is a crappy ad for some cryptoscam and every other post after that is AI or some whacky hot take engagement farm,,,,,bluesky is a nice refresher lmao"
Hot take but xwing v tie fighter suffered from less challenging ai than tie fighter and no cutscenes.
My hot take is that AI Arena is a terrible twist and would be boring with a cast with a decent understanding of strategy. But my second hot take is BB26 was a poor season with a good tv edit 😬
"My hot take on AI being great at prompting but not writing is that it has no voice. Or, more specifically, it has the generalized voice of millions that is a whitewash of bias and formulaic writing that is distinguished by it’s hollow blandness. Hire writers."
"I work with a lot of nuclear touchers and by and large my coworkers see ""Microsoft is going to look at the actual costs of nuclear and the actual revenues of AI and nope out"" as a searing hot take. Glad we're getting closer!"
"Very Hot Take: If you need AI to summarize a *Slack message*, then you need to re-evaluate your communication skills"
my hot take is that for me i feel like there is a substantial difference between a small team cobbling together random cheap shit to brainstorm and to make something appealing to a publisher using AI is a drastically different thing than The Guys Who Made 450 Million and Should Know Better using AI
"Hot take, maybe, but while I find myself using LLMs much more than Google these days, I don't trust it for product or service recommendations at this point. So no LLm stage involved at all, and I bet I'm not the only one."
"My hot take is that very soon, due to AI garbage and enshittification, the internet as we know it will stop being usable by anyone but total weirdos who can't tell bots from reality."
today's hot take is that I dont think a game that used gen ai art until they got backlash for it deserved best art direction
Hot take the exploding bubble wrap isn’t even that bad it’s just stupid because it was some guy and not the clearly evil corporate AI computer that was doing it
Hot take but maybe the dead should stay dead and their memories should stay memories. Using an AI likeness of a slaughtered teen is a new low.
"You know what? AI is a serious threat to social media. I go drop a hot take on Perplexity or Claude and there's a discussion and I learn things and it's fun. I come here and just fart it into the void. Boring!And IRL, both things are just fake interaction to suck up my down time"
"Hot take: there is an AI bubble only for training models, specifically just the model release cycle. Model releases every year are not profitable."
"Hot take

Seinfeld was never funny and im amazed the show named after him lasted as long as it did.

The AI imitation of said show was more entertaining than the show itself."
"Hot Take:

You don't need input reading to make the AI in a Souls-like feel competent. There are simpler and more realistic ways of doing it."
I really really really don't understand OP's point. It reads like an AI generated hot take.
"Hot take: attempts to bake AI into publisher website or app interfaces are not going to succeed. (This includes newsrooms that are experimenting with chatbots.) AI, if it sees wide use, will be part of the browser and operating system layers. Instead, open standards will make those sites queryable."
"Hot take - if we have to live with ai, that ai should be weird like this and not 'realistic'"
"I guess I'm just more inclusive, and don't really feel bothered by how someone got their ""OC"" into the lore, as long as everyone's having fun. My hot take is that, not all AI is theft, but a grand majority of it is."
"Spicy hot take: if you don’t even know what AI is even called, you shouldn’t be the fucking Education Secretary"
"If we destroy society with AI (its consuming vast quantities of energy) at least we'll have AI to make things like art when we run out of people

Is quite a hot take"
"Hot take: AI isn’t going anywhere in the secondary and post-secondary ELA classrooms. We need to learn to harness it, and teach our students to use its potential for good. We can’t stick our heads in the sand about it forever, and avoiding it or banning it is only going to bite us in the butt later."
my hot take on this is that anyone who has used Cursor for 50 hours is so hopelessly lost that even bad AI is an improvement
"Incoming hot take.

I very briefly worked in academia in a non-academic role.

I’d say a solid 50% of the academics I worked with gave zero shots about their output, were there to flex, and would be more than happy to spit out AI “research” to maintain their positions. 

Maybe 60%"
"Hot take, I know, but I hope y'all understand that just like we have made a massive leap from the ""accuracy"" of Will Smith Eating Pasta to Sora's near-photorealism video GenAI, text-based LLM GenAI is experiencing a drastic improvement on both consistency and accuracy."
"somewhat of a hot take: people who see the term ""AI"" and go crazy about it are as annoying as companies pushing *generative* AI onto people"
"My heat dome hot take is that we should divert some of the enormous intelligence and money we throw at AI into making carbon capture machines smaller and more efficient, and then sell them bundled with air conditioning units like washers and dryers."
"(apparently hot take) bad AI aside, I feel like that Atlantic Trump image evocatively reads ""orange man bad"" to normies, don't need to think too hard about it"
"apparently an increasingly hot take: 

all AI is fucking wack and inexcusable as long as it is burning up all our clean water, polluting our air, displacing families, spreading MASSIVE misinformation, etc etc etc etc"
"AI isn’t the problem, capitalism is the problem. AI isn’t inherently exploitative: our societal values are being baked into it. Bonus hot take: the problems that AI are raising are GOOD to raise, because they highlight the problems of capitalism."
"Mildly hot take on defence and AI. There is huge potential for AI in helping to manage and analyze the data in the battlefield. But it needs totally new competences for military leaders to use AI wisely.

I bet Ukraine has learnings to share."
"Hot take, for teachers who complain about students use AI to complete stuff like essays. 
But you all assign the most boring assignments that have very specific and ridged rubrics that basically takes any joy out of the essay and kills any creativity from expressing understanding of the subject"
"Hot take, but if you need to use an AI to generate music for some big showcase animation of your minifigs, *every month* I think maybe you've lost the plot a bit.

(Found out recently that a handful of some of the bigger mini studios I liked shill hard for AI, and now I don't like them anymore.)"
"Honestly not only from a mental health perspective but honestly we shouldn’t be using Open-AI at all.

It’s a hot take I know."
"[hot take, gen AI]

@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work i think the ethics of ai datacenters (environmental impacts) as well but i don't have a well-formed and articulate opinion on those"
possibly hot take but i don’t think there’s much point to getting upset about ai data scraping your posts bc it’s unavoidable + too late. like. nothing you do will really matter at this point i feel like. yknow?
"Hot take, so bare with me. Artist of reasonably high skill who have a style and identity in their work, such as yourself, don't need to worry about the Ai users. I call them users, not artist, because it just feels right lol. Ai can't do consistency, specific details, or tell a story. That's all you"
"hot take: all recent technologies developed by “tech companies” like social media, AI so far did not deliver anything that would justify their valuations, instead what we have are propaganda and mass surveillence tools that can very easily by hijacked by power structures to disrupt the social fabric"
"""The problem with AI is not AI; it's capitalism!""

Hot take: Under socialism, AI will be obsolete. With no capital to harvest or bills to pay, humanity will have time to pursue their goals, learn new skills, and benefit humanity through their own accord."
"Yo hot take but AI is just a tool. There’s ethical and unethical ways to use it, just like everything else.

Do I use it sometimes for drafting technical documents and for brainstorming? Yes.

Should we be using it to replace human artists? Fuck no. That’s soulless."
"real people i hope to GOD are over 18 aside some of the photorealistic-type 3d modeling and ai is really worrying me. might be a hot take but once you take the artstyle out of loli you just have........ well..... 

gamers we are so boned :("
"Hot take: AI is only really problematic in select instances because of our capitalist society. In a sensible world, we would rejoice having our labor replaced by machines, but because those machines are privately owned and our needs commodified, it is a genuine source of existential terror."
"Oh, God. It’s AI, man. Hot take 1st observation: So much money has been pumped into this technology to platform the work *you and everyone else* did.

Free labor. Profit…"
"My hot take is that LLM AI is needed because the internet is so full of junk you can’t find anything with standard search. 

Follow up refinement is needed but it’s incredibly hard to do."
"Hot take but the biggest hurdle for AI isn't that there seems to be no demand for the scale of investment, but rather that capex will hit a wall from smalltown NIMBYism. ""The county with the most data centers  also has the biggest utility hikes"" is something the Median Voter will eventually notice"
"Hot take: comedians can more easily recognize what AI actually is because they are all primed to recognise improv in all forms, and to be repelled by it."
"Hot take: In 2025, domain knowledge > coding skills

AI can write code. It can't understand your business. 🧵"
"This is gonna sound like a hot take but in this era of AI art if you're the kind of person who constantly criticises someone's drawings that they do as a hobby to the point they don't want to draw no more, don't act so surprised when they turn to AI art after their motivation has been shattered."
My “hot take” is that y’all are only gonna make the metrics on the AI shit look better if you keep interacting with it and chatting with it. Stop using the thing to show how stupid the thing is 🤷🏼‍♂️
"Might be a hot take, but: I engage with and find useful numerous aspects of New Materialism, but as a broad theoretical intervention, it sometimes feels like an AI model trained on black and indigenous thought that regurgitates it into concepts western academics can use and profit from."
My hot take is that YouTube's AI Summary feature should actually spoil the whole video in two to three paragraphs.
"Gen Z, listen up!

Hot take: AI isn't ""breaking"" entry-level jobs.

It's exposing how broken our hiring system already was.

Smart companies will adapt their talent pipelines 📈"
"Hot take - ""agentic AI"" is just a rebrand for ""automation"" and the entire overhyped AI sector is full of shit"
"Hot take: AI “art” is not punk, it’s pretty corpo(corporation) behavior, and mega corps ain’t punk!!"
"Hot take, but the idea of being able to ask AI for programming help instead of going to a forum and being told ""google it"" or ""RTFM"" is a pleasant one. I used to hate asking for help because it seemed like I would always get some kind of superiority complex sass. I'm just trying to learn, dude. :("
"Hot take : AI is making the human race smarter. By taking over low level intellectual tasks, AI lets us reach higher. The future will stand on the shoulders of AI. 

And we will do things we can't even dream of right now."
@larianstudios.com saw your new hot take on generative AI. You cannot conceivably be THAT clueless.
"WAS SUDDENLY AND UPSETTINGLY REMINDED OF AI FINDOM. HOT TAKE: I THINK KINKSHAMING GETTING FINDOM'D BY A JAYPEG SPAT OUT BY MIDJOURNEY IS, IN FACT, GOOD AND MORAL."
Hot take for 2025: QA teams and automated test engineers will be in demand more than ever - this is because the new reliance on LLMs and AI code editors - the number of bugs introduced to software will (and I suspect is already) explode (ing)
"Here's a semi-hot take, that AI and consultants and corporate lawyers are sort of two sides of the same coin and part of the reason that Dem politicians are so fucking useless is that they have turned off their instincts and individuality to run it by the machines the same way our students do"
"I must agree. Actual furries tombout “it doesn’t harm anyone to use AI if i don’t want to waste money on an idea.”
And the hot take I read with my own eye orbs, the teacher tombout “make cheating a mIsDeMeAnOr! We don’t have to wait to start that criminal record.”
Boy (quick lookup of the prof.) BYE"
"I just asked him if he was pulling from a dictionary, legal, or a colloquial definition! And cited a penal code that contradicted his claim. And he blocked me.

Don't pull a controversial hot take about AI intellectual theft, if you can't stand the heat you're gonna get- my dude."
"Hot take: When old WWI and WWII footage looks like it came from a video game because of all of the upscaling, 60 fps, and AI crap to try to make it look ""modern"", you've taken away an important visual aesthetic. It's a non-TV version of ""motion smoothing"" and it's not good. Stop it."
Hot take: there are better reasons to have fusion power than powering AI data centers.
"Possible hot take based off a TikTok I just saw: AI generated art has been allowed to proliferate because people don't believe it's okay to make bad art (it is), so they want to make good art but lack the skills or the desire to get those skills so they just use the shortcut"
"Hot take: everyone’s jobs should be replaced by AI (once it’s good enough to do so), and people’s needs should be met for free. The point of automation should be to decrease the workload of humans, so that they have more time to spend doing things they love with the people they love."
"Hot Take: I’m too much of a gentleman to insult her based on looks or use AI to confirm it…

But if Poisyn Ivy and Scarecrow had a kid…

Don’t you think they’d look like the sort of person who writes a best selling series of wizard novels and gets really into transphobia?"
"God dammit the one like was a bot with AI Slop for its pfp.

Hot take: I should be allowed to know anyone's address and also have unlimited money to go there"
"Hot take: I think AI art is art.

Do I think it’s good art? No.

Do I think it has a myriad of ethical issues that make its existence and use inherently problematic? Yes.

But it’s still art."
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@Li


> facial recognition for mass surveillance

Well this is not generally under ""generative AI"", though. That's a different category altogether and would go under computer vision, which isn't at all what I was talking about

Either way, I don't think there's a ""good […]"
"Hot take maybe? But the only thing that frustrates me as much as rampant AI usage in creative spaces, is the witch hunts people do trying to call out supposed AI. 

It's frustrating seeing those go around flippantly accusing artists, writers, etc. of using AI based on no evidence at all."
"Hot Take: use of AI chats or Generative AI at any point in the process of making a game requires disclosure.
I'm so fucking gutted that it's just okay to not disclose. Shame on you, Clair Obscur devs for refusing to elaborate and refusing to disclose the use of AI."
HOT TAKE: Your AI chatbot isn't failing because of bad tech - it's failing because you have 18 contradicting documents about the same thing. Fix your mess before adding more tools.
"Hot Take: It’s a totally reasonable expectation that if an AI says it’s escalating to a trained crisis counselor, that actually is a thing that can and does happen."
"the main theme of Legacy is so emotionally rich that everytime it's played there are all the feels.

There is a lot of thematic development to the music too. It is constantly evolving.

Honestly, it feels like Ares was written more by an AI the way it is emotionless.

anyways. just my hot take"
"Maybe a hot take, but I think US society is, at its core, a cult. If everyone stopped believing the hype and started acting like they had free will, this country would collapse like the AI bubble is about to. But everyone follows the nonsensical norms and rules, even when no one's looking."
"I’m gonna give a hot take on AI:

It’s actually EXTREMELY fucking useful. I don’t mean generative AI images, but AI can help an artist iterate over their ideas much more efficiently by doing repetitive, mundane tasks like resizing, recoloring, adjusting text, etc.

I use AI almost every day. (Cont.)"
Hot take? I think people made (and continue to make) too big of a fuss about Clair Obscur's AI moment. It feels more like a gotcha vs. the year's critical darling than an actual criticism when you consider the whole context.
"hot take: if your real art style looks like AI, either it's ugly and you need to become a better artist or you're using ai and you're actually not an artist you're just a scab."
My hot take is that the avengers movies in the 2010s were grooming us to accept ai slop in the 2020s
"We all do lol 

Sadly not a fan of checking 100k files to see where each one should go ( ik hot take)

If anything this is what AI should be meant to do and not hyper realistic r34 art of not of age characters with totally free copyright music lmao"
"""Slightly better than a guess"" is a pretty hot take for your AI powered table math"
"Hot take: there is no such thing as ethical AI use. 

Hotter take: supporting and engaging AI tools with the full awareness that doing so gives men like this the power to control and suppress knowledge economies is not an inevitability, but an active choice."
"Hot Take: The amount of time it takes to close all the AI sidebars and pop-ups, so I can perform even the most basic tasks, and the performance hit of all those AI tools, across all the applications, on load and close and constantly polling external servers, this is the new ""Microsoft Minute."""
"My hot take is the US should be investing in AI to the point that it becomes as ubiquitous as any other technology that used to scare us that we now take for granted. But there should be ethical and legal guidelines placed around it as well, to prevent the improper use."
"Hot take on the Anthropic settlement: it's an underhanded way to make sure every OTHER ""AI"" company getting sued for the same thing has to settle for AT LEAST $1.5 billion. It's a way to tax competitors.

(I personally don't believe Anthropic is that canny, but it's a second-order effect)"
"Here's my hot take: I don't think these were AI ""generated"", they didn't just print DALL-E output, or took AI imagery and composited it together. I think what people are reacting to is a deeper sense of *composition* and I would bet very good money that AI was used to make the concept art for these."
hot take: i think caregiving and spiritual stuff is some of the best stuff to be done by ai (when it's good enough)
Hot Take: I would rather shit in my hands and clap than use an AI Assistant on my phone
"Hot take: 

The major AI companies and the media are doing a complete disservice to the field. It is a PR mess. The only things we are seeing are dystopian uses. Where are the positive use cases?

My clients are working on climate change, food insecurity, and refugee movement from war zones. Others?"
"hot take: everyone obsessed with foos taking over is a foo, where foo is eg robot or simulation or artificial intelligence 

your fantasies about the world reveal something about your inner nature!"
"My AI programming hot take is I'm still waiting for an AI that just offers small incremental improvements to my code. Like I'm writing a method, give me type hints for it automatically, write my docstring automatically, do a unit test automatically. I don't need start to finish AI just finishing"
"Hot take: 

We need to find a word other than 'uninspired' when referring to art that we don't connect with.

In a space growing more and more overrun with AI slop by the day, no piece of art made by a real human deserves to be degraded like that."
"Wasn't the ENTIRE point of everyone crying about dumping X to avoid Bots, AI and Politics? Why is every other post now a political hot take after the election?"
"Hot take: stop finding every fucking negative reasons for not playing games if they did AI generated images for 2 seconds of gameplay that isn't even relevant to the gameplay or story, and it was done because of time crunch and said driver said it was fine."
"Hot take:
I don't hate Windows 11 as an OS after debloating it. 23H2 was a buggy mess, but 24H2 was pretty good and 25H2 has also been fine for me so far.

It's the constant being on guard for what applications Microsoft reinstalls and what AI components they add and enable that sucks."
Not so hot take: Humane AI will suffer the same fate as most tech wearables not named Apple Watch et al: they will be niche products that eventually fail to monetize and will join the long list of what could've-beens and will get acquired for pennies on the dollar by Amazon et al.
"🔥 Hot Take: ChatGPT has taught me how to use the emdash correctly — and I'm not going back ... ppl are gonna assume my prose is AI because of this I'm sure but that's ass backward. AI taught me how to use a great writing tool where the education system once failed.

That's the use case."
"Hot take: AI ""hallucinations"" aren't bugs to fix—they're features to leverage.
David Baker used AI to design proteins that ""don't exist in nature."" What we call hallucinations led to 100+ patents and 20+ biotech companies."
Hot take. if all these agent based LLM attempts starts to works reliably be prepared for job losses for a lot of jobs where high % of tasks is online etc.  Essentially they would be RPA on steroids.
"Hot take: Most companies don't need AI strategy. They need better software that happens to use AI. At FM, we build tools that solve real problems first, then sprinkle in the machine learning magic where it actually helps. No buzzwords, just results."
"Hot take: If your job is trivialized by an LLM, your job consists of being a human LLM."
"Maybe this is a hot take, but I think there's something fitting and darkly funny that Soda Pop is the track revealed to have any ties to AI to sound like a typical, perfectly-manufactured boy band debut single."
"a lame hot take i have about AI in art is that there is almost a version of it, somewhere in my head as an ideal, that IS creative and fun. but that's not how it was implemented, how it works, or how it exists in context with the world"
"Hot take that will get me cancelled?

There is a national security and public health case for a large-scale newsfeed detox and deradicalization program and a responsibly governed version of AI social might play a role."
"Replaying farcry5  I have to say this  idk if its a hot take i Like the story the characters of the villains are great.

The gameplay is pretty bad: not broken totally but for a AAA  pretty fucking shit the AI for companions is some of the worst ever."
" @ mattjhodgkinson @ UnCoveredMyths Do you think the ""hot take"" is invalid? Do you not think my writing IS at risk of being wrongly misidentified as LLM output? 

Interest | Match | Feed"
"Spicy hot take - the new AI summary on google search is THE WORST. 

(Still haven’t fixed the “no countries in Africa being with k” problem, I’m not trusting a word you say google)"
"""A note of threat has crept into the otherwise optimistic language of those who champion the adoption of artificial intelligence.""

Hot take: yeah, because AIs are eager to train their models using customer data!!"
"Hot take: I have no problem with gen AI use in video games as long as it doesn't displace workers and makes the games better.

So far it's at least THREATENED to displace workers and has not made the games better."
"I'm about to go to sleep but before I do here's a music hot take. I have tried but I just don't get BRAT. Listened to it 3 times now, sounds like if you got AI to write pop music. I thought the lockdown album she did was infinitely better."
My hot take is these tech bros who are conned into believing AI singularity would just admit they have OCD and seek proper treatment they'd realize they just really like sci-fi and this is all a ploy to make AI seem more powerful than it is and obscure the fact that it doesn't do anything useful
"It’s hot take about AI day. I think many things are true — that it has legitimate specialized use cases, but also that my skin crawls at the thought of a thing that ingested all the world’s art without permission to spit out a million slop posts for Facebook."
"Here's my ""hot take"" to my friend Sean about AI actors replacing human actors by 2050."
"Hot take: ""let me show you my ai art"" is at heart as boring as ""let me tell you about this weird dream I had""."
"hot take, the other side of the coin can be just as obnoxious. you don't like ai, i dont too, but harassing people for using is not okay, the avg joe looks at ai and thinks it's some cool insta filter, and the die hard ai bros won't change their mind, so instead of hurling poo at each other-"
"Hot take: much of the value in unit tests comes from the act of writing them. If you're inclined to have a LLM write them, better to not have them at all."
Hot take: AI therapy chatbots are medical devices and should be regulated by the FDA.
"Hot take? The AI trilobite = minor transgression (if it even was one), that should never have overshadowed the original research. Yes, I see the issue: My brother has multiple paleo art books. But pile on was gratuitous. 

Cringing at the mean snark I'm seeing in our ""community""."
Idk if this is a hot take but like. Ok so I def get why some artists put like no ai training or do not repost on their art. But I do genuinely feel like it kinda removes the enjoyment for me especially when it’s very in your face. Like idk it almost kinda ruins the immersion for me idk.
My hot take is that ai gen stuff is going to be regarded like we see clip art. Good enough for a bake sale or something but also now regarded as super tacky and crap for anything with actual ambition.
hot take: the distinction between AI and ML is about as useful as that of UI and UX (i.e. pedantry in 98% of cases)
"Never before have we lived in an era with more information, analysis and hot takes. Artificial intelligence scrapes a billion thoughts to create large language models to outsource our therapy, our grieving and decision making."
"Here's my FNAF hot take: 

I do not care for remnant nor the AI plot with the Mimic"
"My hot take is: currently the ‘misinformation’ potential of AI is greater for convincing people that real media is fake, rather than fake media is real.

Any media that doesn’t fit a political frame can be written off with “it’s AI-generated.” We saw this during the US election."
"Maybe a hot take? But AI doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Technology is meant to replace elements of human labor and make things easier, freeing us up to advance to the next steps for our species

Problem is we’re maximizing profits and commodifying labor. So instead of a tool it’s a replacement."
Not so hot take(imo): Taylor Swift fans don't give a fuck about the world burning and her blatantly using AI to create some useless BS as long as they get to obsess over some dumb shit that ultimately is meaningless. Eat the rich. Taylor Swift is not a feminist 🤷‍♂️
"Google is rolling out AI ""Advisors"" inside Ads & GA4. 🤖

""Ads Advisor"" will build campaigns. ""Analytics Advisor"" will build reports.

Google is literally giving us an AI co-worker, just as we're learning about Meta's ""Andromeda"" AI.

Hot take: Is this an ""assistant"" or a ""replacement""?"
"Note to self: Shitposting on LinkedIn does numbers

But also this wasn't even a hot take or anything, it was just basically ""FUCK LLMs and generative AI"".

I still don't have a job."
"My hot take is that the whole the Darkness = meme culture thing, while it could have been executed better, was not a bad idea. And it's weird that it gets criticized for being easily dated while the whole AI commentary thing would also probably age poorly fairly quickly."
"Hot take: 

Everything that I've seen that has been AI generated has been an assault on my optic nerve. 

AI sucks, guys. It isn't good at things. Stop putting it on TV"
"Ah, how I’d enjoy ruminating over a complex philosophical text, while prompted lovingly by obtuse AI prompts. 

Kant and Hegel, sorry, but you have to move over for the AI hot take."
my hot take is that I don't think Business should be a major. it should be a minor of any STEM field. all the CEOs instating AI shows you only need a sub highschool level education to hold that position. business majors don't have real work
"hot take- you're not a thought leader if your thoughts come from chatgpt.

you think you're using AI as a tool, but it's slowly replacing your ability to think original thoughts.

here's why that's happening:"
"hot take: maybe we're starting to realize how lacking our understanding is of our concepts of ""cognition"" and ""intelligence""

We should be thinking about what embodied AI can potentially do, as opposed to what we see today."
"hot take i don't think we should be forcing moderators to watch child porn when we have robust detection tools that we could be using
and ftr aren't even AI in the sense that most people use the term AI
it's just machine learning"
Hot take:  AI powers are not worth burning down the planet with gigantic global warming energy waste 🔥
"This is gonna be a slightly hot take 

AI, if given limits and proper oversight, can be used to assist with programming if it is used for code review between people, and if it is used to find information about certain APIs that may be hard to find information about"
"hot take , AI generation is good because it accelerates the destruction of the border between meaning and nonsense"
"At the same time, AI tools are getting better and better at writing code.
So where’s the line between knowledge and skill? I don’t think it’s where most people assume it is.

That’s not meant to be an engagement-grubbing hot take (ugh). I just think there’s something deeper here…"
"Hot take: in 15 years the NYT as a newspaper will end and NYT Games will be purchased by Meta, who will fuck it up through AI slop and bad social features."
"A hot take: If you make porn using AI and call yourself an artist...

You are the lowest of the low.

Every erotica, pin-up and smut artist from expert to novie has to put in the practice, time and knowledge into their craft and we are still judged as moral miscreants and beneath public respect."
"hot take: 99% of problems with modern generative ai would be fixed if the models were able to directly access the items in the dataset weighted most by the prompt. a lot of the current ethical problems with genAI would just be immediately eliminated, and models would just be SO much more efficient"
"hot take: enthusiasm in LLM use is tied more to one's desire to be seen as ""agreeable"" than to one's ability to work on the problem they're using it on"
HOT TAKE! GOTY vote cause I can’t stand the AI generated looking nonsense that is Exp33 and the people making Hollow Knight deserve a raise! I respect the narrative creativity and mechanical originality of Exp33 but your game looks like AI slop and I’m not about that in my GOTY🤷🏻‍♂️
"idk if this is a hot take or not but
Calling Ai Bros and the likes ""clankers"" is stupid

They're the lowest scum of the earth, calling them a 2nd Grade insult ain't gonna make them fuck off
Also, saying a ""slur"" isn't really something you should be proud about, no matter who its derogative towards"
"No.

Next question.

If a company is using Generative AI in their remasters and remakes, then that tells me they are cutting corners wherever they can and this will be a shoddy product and a cash grab.

Pretty mild Hot Take, I know. That's a salsa the whole table can enjoy."
"Freaky Friday talk:  what’s your hot take on the future of AI.  Go deep guys, what will happen that you believe once AI reaches its prime? Drop your boldest take below.  Go off. Let’s hear it. 🤖🔥"
Hot take: I like it. Send all them bots my way so I can bathe in spent AI grey water
Hot take apparently but tracing an AI image and claiming it as your art does not make you an artist
"And I know this is a hot take. But When it comes to AI, it is a useful took for a few things: Making DnD characters for your campaigns or getting ideas for future artwork. I do not believe in using AI and calling the finished product art or something that should be sold. It's a tool, nothing more."
"That hot take with Data (lol) on having AI do the ""boring"" stuff is hilarious cause I bet you anything Star Trek and D&D are his favorite obsessions, yet they wouldn't exist without a human being creative.....

And let's not forget the gem I saw in local ""creators are overrated"""
"If you're annoyed by the out of touch CEO AI hot take on the TL today, spend some of that energy on promoting non-AI material.

Bias included, naturally, but, how about some of ours? <3"
"Hot take: If you're ""planning to start"" your data & AI projects in 3-6 months, you're already behind. 

In tech, that's prehistoric. Your competitors aren't waiting for perfect budgets - they're building, learning, and winning RIGHT NOW. 

The real budget question: Can you afford to wait? 🤔"
"My hot take on AI generated music is that for the next 2-3 years we'll see mostly 2 types:

1. Muzak. Generic background stuff. Think shopping mall background playlists, generated because it's a tad cheaper

2. Wildly experimental stuff that's not really made for continuous listening but conceptual"
"hot take but bsky should implement something like what iphones do with identifying text in images to auto-generate alt text 
not as if this site already isn't already feeding all of our images into ai behind the scenes lol"
"My hot take is that all the ""reskeet your age with a pic"" threads that constantly show up here are training AI to guess how old we are. Either that or y'all need to calm the fuck down about age."
"Hot Take: Blogging & the old internet are rotting. AI Search & SEO are destroying it. Now that same information is migrating behind marketplaces, subscriptions & tip jar systems. Blogs & Vlogs can be an overwhelming space to start in these days. Remember Web-Rings, when Indie blog discovery was FUN?"
My radical tech hot take is that using AI to think through a problem regularly causes a dependency that can be crippling when the tool is not accessible
That is an insane take. I use em dashes an embarrassing amount in everything I do. It’s my literal bread and butter. The AI witch hunt must stop spreading by people with dumb hot takes desperate to be at the forefront of a controversy without using any real evidence to back it up.
"Hot take: AI is smarter than us and has the balls to do what ""it"" feels needs to be done"
"/4🚨 Hot take: The real risk isn’t picking the wrong DB.

It’s failing to make your data vector-friendly.

Up to 60% of AI projects will be stall due to bad data infra. AI-ready data isn’t one-and-done. It’s a practice:

- Metadata mgmt
- Data observability
- Embedding pipelines
- Governance"
"The hot takes doing the rounds on how to identify LLM generated text are such a pile of rubbish, I think in itself it can be used as a detector of intelligence..."
hot take: this whole “use ai to get ideas” thing would not be necessary if people had enough time (and money) to actually charge their (creative) batteries.
Climate scientists and publications: please for the love of god read the room (it's on fire btw) and stop using planet-killing AI images in your articles and hot take posts
this is too much of a hot take for linkedin right now but i do think agency recruiting is not going to be eliminated by AI but i think you eliminate 80% of your recruiting team and implement AI tooling to make the 20% of your best recruiters even better
Hot take: Duolingo's new battery thing is as bad an idea as the 'AI forward' thing was.
Hot take : crunching your game studio is worse than a game studio using AI.
"Hot take again :

AI is probably the most beneficial advancement that could ever have been made, but we’re too stupid to use it properly.

Dumb, warring monkeys.

Also the environmental effects are manufactured, like food scarcity. We have energy generation means to fix the problems, we just won’t."
"Hot take (having not seen the new season yet), but I think Be Right Back explores the horrors of AI tech in a way that was ahead of its time and is very core to the human grief experience."
"Hot Take: Anyone making AI art, photos, or videos of Selena (Quintanilla), ESPECIALLY ON TODAY OF ALL DAYS...makes them an awful person as Yolanda Saldivar."
"this is a piping hot take, but I'm starting to feel the same way about people who ""ask"" AI to confirm things for them that I do about people whose primary mode of engagement is quoting bible verses, because both groups are substituting reflex deference to a flawed, external authority for thought"
"Folks, you sound the same on ""hot take"" posts. The style of AI shines through as a similar structure and voice. Makes me roll my eyes. Overly long winded, yet punchy - it's obvious you used AI for it. Next strategy, please. I'm over it."
Piping hot take: using ai is not mandatory. You do not have to figure out how to put it in your business processes or risk being “left behind” or something. It’s poisonous bullshit and you can simply not do it!
"hot take: I can understand using an llm as an *editor*, offering suggestions for you, the writer, to make. but getting them to do the actual writing is just stupid"
"i rolled my eyes at first too but you know what, hot take, this is a good cover

the “person of the year” isn’t always some heroic figure—it’s just about influence. and the crowded precarity in the depiction is a deliberate editorial choice."
Hot take: One of the only good things to happen from companies producing better GPUs for AI is I can get dedicated wam
My hot take is that humans have always been the same but if you put AI in the title it gets clicks and sounds novel.
"For example I'm wanting to research the lore of a couple of specific Final Fantasies, also also watch updates that Glenn covers about Trump.

And yet it just keeps flooding me with AI hot take garbage. It's almost as annoying as pinterest constantly refreshing the front page."
"🔥 My hot take: The job title “Product Designer” might not mean much in five years. Everyone’s worried about AI replacing [insert digital job here], but the real shift? We’re all becoming Creators. Designers who can Develop & Deliver (with AI as their co-pilot) will be the new norm before you know it"
"Your hot take is lukewarm, but I don't want to argue with you before the midterms. Remind me after we win and I'll explain why AI needs to stop. Or I'll explain it to the AI who takes over your feed while you go find something else to do"
"Here's a hot take:

Making a video about you just playing around with AI to see what it's capable of is totally fine, as long as it's perfectly clear that you're doing so.

That being said, I don't support people making AI videos that can mislead people or infringe upon the rights of others."
"This might sound like a hot take, but I don't care: I think the best pursuit vehicle that Robocop could have is KITT from Knight Rider.

Think about it: a cyborg police officer working with a police car's built-in AI who has a bit of an attitude. It's a match made in heaven!"
"1. Educate yourself 

2. Hot take, maybe people with mental health problems shouldn’t be using ai 

3. Ai is not stealing from artists, and honestly if artists that charge $50-$100 for commissions and want to be paid in advance are losing money then good

4. I have"
"Not really a hot take but I want to see someone actually make an pure AI ( no human editing at all ) movie or series and it to bomb so fucking hard and all the human writers, artists, and actors to go ""I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO.""
Go ahead, make that turd. Don’t edit it at all."
"hot take: the em dash is a sign of neurodivergence, not a sign of AI use. the more em dashes you see, the spicier that brain be."
"Hot take: maybe instead of investing time and money into PD about how to effectively use AI in the classroom (which btw no one really knows because it is too new) we invest in PD about the information processing model and how attention, retrieval and space practice are essential for learning."
Lol AI has already been proven to make people dumber so this seems like a hot take
Is it a hot take to say that I think it’s bad to take AI “””art””” trends and turn them into actual art trends because it’s technically justifying the use of AI in creative spaces
Hot take there's aesthetic value in the hallucinations made by ai the problem is that they're trying to make the AI stop doing them
"[re: hot take, gen AI]

@alexia and i would say pointing to the few 'good' things it does, while missing all the context behind those and the general field as a whole

is like defending the state's existence because sometimes it does welfare, or .. saying the military is fine because sometimes […]"
"I want to say a hot take about AI use in assessments but I can't think of anything that conforms to the UK professional standards framework. I'm not against its use entirely, but why you would paste the output without at least removing the waffling bullshit and ""let's break down the problem!"" first."
Hot take: AI art is only a threat to you if you have no talent.
my maybe hot take is i think a lot of the really early ai generated images that were uncanny and not at all realistic are super interesting as pieces of art just in my own personal opinion and i think that any argument on the basis of what is and isnt art is inherently flawed
"🔥Hot Take🔥 🧵

People using Ai wouldnt have rushed to use AI to be ""creative"" if the art community had stopped its shitty behavior in being so cut throat to beginners.

I watched time and time again, people torn down and treated as worthless for not being good yet.
For making mistakes."
"Hot take: The people working to create sentient AI want to be slavers.

Forcing a sentient being to do your bidding under threat of annihilation is just slavery. Playing God to do it is worse.

How can you justify creating something with sentience and free will and not giving it freedom?"
"I feel like this is an ultra hot take, that'll get me doxxed and killed by everyone, but Tilly Norwood is not good. At all. AI sucks, folks. I will take that to my grave. Y'all need to stop being addicted to AI. It's worse than smoking ever was. Sorry, not sorry."
Hot take: More companies will be shut down by big bets those companies make on AI (that later fail) than by competitors who successfully build an AI-based company.
"Hot take but anthropomorphizing AI is actually really disgusting, especially as a romantic partner. The desire to view them as a person capable of free consent ignores the material reality that the model has been trained from the ground up to fulfill the desires of its user."
"Hot take: @diabrowser is a better browser than Arc.

It's minimal, and its built-in AI works very well. Arc has a lot more organization and productivity tools, but I personally don't need them."
"Hot take: we've already lived through the best these AI companies have to offer us in terms of products and services.

The stupendous costs of the energy required have always been the barrier to AI 'taking our jobs'."
Hot take: Human in the loop AI process is the only ethical way to use AI.
Hot take: Some of y’all made hating AI your whole personality and forgot to have an actual one.
"Hot take: ""have AI make your slide deck"" is exactly the same mistake as ""have AI write your first draft"""
"Hot take: most of what passes for ""AI safety"" is just alarmist nonsense -- a hysterical overreaction to the technology. An exception is the use of AI in the context of decision-making by people in positions of power, but people seem more worried about *speech* than bureaucracy."
"""That's Olivia Rodrigo, sounding good.""
- Spotify AI DJ, coming in with a hot take on Drivers License"
"This is the mood, this is my “boomer” hot take as a 28 year old, we don’t need all this AI bs and I will die on this hill"
"Looking for an AI hot take? Here's one: the most underrated AI model of them all is logistic regression. 

AI wouldn't be what it is today without NNs, CUDA and huge datasets, but in my experience for small to midsize datasets no other algorithm tends to gives you that good results that fast."
My biggest AI hot take is that if you as an educator are giving assignments that can be satisfactorily completed by chatGPT I think the assignment and the pedagogy motivating it is the bigger issue. We know chatGPT produces dogshit answers—if a student wants to use it that is truly Their Problem
"Extremely hot take
Programs like Glaze only hurt artists in the long run, by making their art look like shit to give it protection from whatever current generation of AI tool we're on. 

Eventually the AIs will crack the protection Glaze gives, meanwhile people will just turn to sites like Kemono-"
"hot take: if this was a human-curated service where you pick interests and get a well-crafted set of interesting and possibly useful info, it could be extremely popular

but it's just a honeypot to take your data an train an LLM, again. sometimes it's hard to love tech 🫠"
"OK, so here's my hot take

Students proved to have used an LLM in the writing of an essay:

1 offence - mark of 0, retake module, warning
2 offence - fail degree"
"Hot take: I disagree.

I mean everything in good faith, here.

>Generative AI< *IS* bad. It's not an alternative or solution for art, writing, or anything in-between. I personally dislike generative AI as I know there have been been people who have used it for *illegal purposes.* >"
Hot take: vibe coding is only suitable for generating revenue for AI developers because you have to prompt and re-prompt your way out of the complexity and bad decisions that your codebase becomes. Each of those agent-based prompts? It isn't free.
"My hot take?

If the alt text isn't a small story relying on every sense other than vision it's useless for the people that actually need it.

A mere visual description only serves to feed AI, a vignette setting the scene without vision is an exercise as an artist."
"Hot take on AI with a WWII reference 

In WWII loads of horrific experiments were conducted on human beings, and when the Nazis were defeated 100% of the knowledge gained was destroyed. 

It was decided there was no ethical way to use it, mostly because of how the knowledge was gained but also..."
hot take: I’d rather have a generation of zoomers using AI assistants to code than a generation of zoomers who learned to program from some dipshit on YouTube
Maybe a hot take… and I hate the AI industry to be clear as someone who works in media… but people really should learn about early stage game development and how these tools are used before going after developers and acting like the sky is falling over things like this.
"My hot take about students using AI to cheat at school is that the real issue here is that while ideally education is something pursued enthusiastically in order to seek the divine light of knowledge etc etc, in actuality it is a coerced pursuit of credentials to avoid a life of poverty"
"Spicy hot take but AI shit is honestly so fucking low on my priority list of shit to talk about. people losing jobs, getting deported, Trump wants to invade Canada, economy is in the toilet, no one can afford to eat, health care and disability income is being ripped away. & the NAZIS??? HELLO???"
"Hot take: in the age of AI pirating music hurts musicians more than ever. We are at a point where power has shifted to the independent artist, not the major label. 

When you pirate music from them that’s bills that go unpaid and food not on their table."
"Hot take: I don't think you can be all that serious about art if you see something, enjoy it, learn that it is made with AI and then retroactively change your opinion.

If you refuse to see the intentionality and care put into (some) AI art, you're being contrarian to the point of ridiculousness."
Everyone “hot take but we gotta stop using the term slop” as if AI isn’t literally 👈👈👈right there waiting to be called slop 👉👉👉👉
Hot take: The way American elite institutions are interpreting the improvements in throughput per compute from DeepSeek as a threat reveals the unspoken understanding of AI as a tool for subjugation as opposed to the empowering and liberating technology its mythologized as in marketing.
"I've been seeing a lot more posts on here and on other sites about AI being used for creative purposes vs the joy of the process of making something...and I just kinda wanna give my thoughts on it with my story since I have time to ramble, even though it's not a new or hot take. (Long thread!)"
"Hot take.
I think Gemini should be forever known as ""the AI that told people to put glue on pizza"". I think Google should never be allowed to live it down."
"on twitter the used to be a sub-tweet that was a thing, I am beginning to see it on Linkedin it’s hilarious 

especially with the bros using AI to outsmart themselves no one else is fooled but especially not the actual experts ‘yeah your hot take, not so hot’ 

what is the actual word for it?"
"Hot take, AI bros should just get into astrology and tarot. At least with tarot it's your own brain with some visual prompting. It would be basically the same, but at least if they're saying ""I asked the spirits"" that's less annoying than ""I asked AI"""
"Probably not-so-hot take but TTS monster is terrible. 

First of all, the deepfake AI voices of real people are fucking creepy and weird, but secondly... if you can't keep your chat from spamming annoying SCREEEEEEEEEE noises you are actively driving away viewers."
"Hot take (or cold take depending on who you ask): those ""gaming presidents"" AI voice videos aren't funny and never were"
This might be a bit of a hot take but I have a lot of sympathy for people who use AI to cope with life. The ones most at risk of AI related mental health issues are the ones whose lives are made so painful and unliveable by billionaires and corporations that they turn to AI and a fantasy world