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If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 (startrek.website)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] 152 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think that it's an astute observation. AI wouldn't need to be hyped by those running AI companies if the value was self-evident. Personally I've yet to see any use beyond an advanced version of Clippy.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I use it to romanize Farsi song texts. I cannot read their script and chatGPT can. The downside is that you have to do it a few lines at a time or else it starts hallucinating like halfway through. There is no other tool that reliably does this, the one I used before from University of Tehran seems to have stopped working.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Did the same yesterday with some Russian songs and was told by my Russian date that it was an excellent result.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, Russian is quite a bit easier to romanize, so it should work even better. For cyrillic, you can just replace each character with the romanized variant, but this doesn't work for Farsi because they usually leave out non-starting vowels, so if you did the same approach you'd get something unreadable lol

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  • [+] -20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    That's just not true at all. Plenty of products are hyped where the value is self-evident; it's just advertising.

    People have to know about your product to use it.

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago

    It's not "just advertising". It's trying to force AI into absolutely everything. It's trying to force people to use it and not giving a shit if customers even want the product. This is way, way worse than "just advertising“

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    There's a vast difference between advertising a good product that is useful to hyping trash.

    Good products at a reasonable price usually require a brief introduction but quickly snowball into customer based word-of-mouth sales.

    Hype is used to push an inferior or marginally useful product at a higher price.

    Remember advertising is expensive. The money to pay for it has to come from somewhere. The more they push a product the higher the margin the company/investors expect to make on its sales.

    This is why if I see more than one or two ads for a product it goes on my mental checklist of shit not to buy.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Shoving AI into everything and forcing people to interact with it, even when dismissing all the fucking prompts, is not advertising.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    it means these companies are losing money on keeping the AI datacenter open, so they need someway to recoup some of the money they spent, by shoveling into the products they sell, or selling it to a sucker who is willing to implement AI everywhere, the subs discussed its going to be retail who ends up with the useless AI.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    You’re right that the use cases are very real. Double checking (just kidding never would check in the first place) privacy policies (then actually reading(!) a couple lines out of the original 1000 pages)… surfacing search results even when you forgot the specific verbiage used in an article or your document…

    Do you also see some ham-fisted attempts at shoehorning language models places where are they (current gen) don’t add much value?

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