What are some good uses for AI? (piefed.social)

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AI can't be all that bad. The problem I'm always seeing with AI is a double-edged sword. You have corporations shoving AI in just about everything, treating it like its a cure for cancer and that really rubs people the wrong way. Then, on a more of a society level, you've got people who use AI for an assortment of things like making art with AI and still accredit themselves as an artist to people who treat AI like a therapist when it is not advised to.

However, I've found some benefits with AI. For example, I'm chatting with ChatGPT on credit cards, because it is something I may lean towards getting into. It's helping me better understand than most people have tried explaining to me. Simply because it is giving me a more stream-lined response than people just beating the bush.

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[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

For every small benefit, there are disastrous mistakes. We shouldn't discuss one without the other:

https://tech.co/news/list-ai-failures-mistakes-errors

March 2026

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited

February 2026

Health advice given by AI chatbots is frequently wrong, says new study

January 2026

Study reveals that fixing AI mistakes takes up to 40% of the time that it saves
An AI tool used by ICE to identify applicants with previous law enforcement experience falsely flagged applicants with no such experience, leading to the placement of unqualified recruits in field offices.

December 2025

AI mistakes clarinet for gun at Florida school

November 2025

Google Antigravity deletes entire content of user’s computer drive
Report finds AI hallucinations in 490 court filings from the past six months

October 2025

Teenager handcuffed after AI mistakes Doritos packet for gun
Lawyer submits AI-assisted court filing with fake citations
Man follows ChatGPT advice over stopping eating salt, develops rare condition. The man was hospitalized, sectioned, and eventually treated for psychosis. He tried to escape the hospital within 24 hours of being admitted.
ChatGPT-5 jailbroken with 24 hours of release

July 2025

AI Coding app deletes entire company database
McDonald’s AI chatbot error exposes data of 64 million job applicants
AI program is tasked with running a small shop, goes insane, claims to be human
Apple Intelligence falsely presents BBC headline

... and it just keeps going.

this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026

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