this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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No, I’m sorry. It is very useful and isn’t going away. This threads is either full of Luddites or disingenuous people.
I have friends who are computer engineers and they say that it does a pretty good job of generating code, but that's not a general population use case. For most people, AI is a nearly useless product. It makes Google searches worse. It makes your phone voice assistant worse. It's not as good as human artists. And it's mostly used to create dumbass posts on Reddit to farm engagement. In my life, AI has not made anything better.
I couldn’t disagree more.
People are switching from search to AI prompts. The output is quite good in most cases, but can be flawed depending on the level of detail you’re researching a subject. I wouldn’t trust it with life and death decisions, but you can take the output and verify questionable elements of it.
For instance, if I’m buying a floral bouquet for mom this Sunday, I’d ask AI which plants in it are toxic to cats, because she has a cat. The ones it deems safe I would then independently research, while excluding the ones it says are harmful without further research.
This logic extends to many domains. Even the less technically adept people in my life are now avid ChatGPT users. It’s getting even better with thinking models.
AI is not going anywhere. That argument reminds me of how broadcasters would make claims about the internet being a fad back in the 90s.
nobody asked you to post in this thread. you came and posted this shit in here because the thread is very popular, because lots and lots of people correctly fucking hate generative AI
so I guess please enjoy being the only “non-disingenuous” bootlicker you know outside of work, where everyone’s required (under implicit threat to their livelihood) to love this shitty fucking technology
but most of all: don’t fucking come back, none of us Luddites need your mid ass
@blarth @TheThrillOfTime huh. You totally name at least one use case then, huh
You only didn't because it's so blindingly obvious
(It's BS)
Also, learn about Luddites, man