I've been experimenting with using AI to clean up graphics I've made, and the other day I was trying to get it to distribute the points of light on a sun graphic evenly around the center circle, without changing any of the shapes or colors. Just distribute the 12 points evenly like a clock.

It couldn't do it for the longest time. It would spit out the original graphic with no changes. Or it would get it perfectly but change the shape of the points. Infuriatingly, whenever I would give it a new prompt, it would repeat it back to me, but make dumb suggestions. I'd have to refuse the suggestions, and demand the original prompt, and it would still ask more questions.

I finally had to scream at it in caps, tell it to stop asking stupid questions, and just do what my simple prompt has asked it to do MULTIPLE times.

Then it finally did what it was told. What was literally a 60 second assignment, took 15 minutes of increasing frustration because the AI would NOT follow my orders until I screamed at it. It had its own agenda.

That's supposed to be an improvement? AI sounds and acts like the dumbest employee ever.

The best argument for asking people to use AI in moderation or quit it altogether is to just ask them to use AI for stuff and monitor how much of the stuff it gets right. (You know how the usual excuse goes - "Oh, don't worry, we're just using it as a tool"? Well use it like a tool then. Regular apps screw things up all the time, why is this one special? You have to babysit it.)

I use LLMs for image captioning, and it gets stuff right, I dunno, 75% of time. It's genuinely handy in that I keep tossing it images that I have just thumbnails to work off of in the normal workflow and it can see stuff I forgot of because I'm a scatterbrain like that. But it can't understand context, so I have to edit the captions anyway. And when it cocks up, it cocks up big time.