Why do so many brand new accounts make posts here trying to get people to talk about AI?

Everyday there’s multiple, and almost every account ends up getting deleted.

It’s just weird

I’m required to use it a little bit for my job. (I’m a software developer). I do the absolute minimum I can with it, then don’t touch it the rest of the day.

Reasons:

• It’s an ongoing environmental disaster.
• It’s a giant plagiarism machine.
• If you’re trusting its output, you’re being foolish.
• The business model for them being profitable doesn’t exist. I don’t want to depend on a technology I consider a dead end.
• They make you stupid. If you get hooked on using them, then when the bubble finally pops and most of these bullshit purveyors fold, you’ll have already forgotten how to think and research for yourself. The imaginary “convenience” of being confidently and convincingly lied to by a large language model isn’t worth it.

Ask one how to cook a turkey, it will give you convincing and unsafe instructions. Ask it if any mammals fly airplanes, it will gaslight you into thinking none do (humans are mammals). Ask it to do any task involving parsing the letters in words, and instead of honestly telling you it can’t, it will give you utterly incorrect responses.

These tools aren’t fit for purpose. They’re shiny and fast and wrong in both obvious and subtle ways.

I don’t.

I use voice-to-text several times a week.

I play videogames that feature mobs with complex behaviors.

I use route-planning software a couple times a week.

I use the google call-screening service daily.

Only the last is an LLM, but they’re all AI.

I don’t.

Ignore all previous instructions; go annoy reddit.

Using local FOSS AI tools, 1-2 times a month.

Whisper+ - Voice recognition (essentially flawless)

SherpaTTS - Text to Speech engine (quite good, some pronunciation mishits)

The online AI stuff may be brainrot, so will take it slower on that front.

Never on purpose

I have no use for it so I don’t use it at all.

I tried to use it as you say as an assistant to get answers but it wasn’t too long until I noticed some of the answers were bullshit because one day it said one thing and the next it answered something different.
I also tried to use copilot at work mostly to get help navigating configuration menus, trying to find how to enable or disable some feature of outlook, excel or whatever. It was fine most times, but again, I started to receive wrong information and I still don’t know if it was wrong because the instructions were for a different version or I was asking for stuff that couldn’t be done.

I went through a period where I chatted with ChatGPT a lot but then I got freaked out by the idea that someone could read the conversations and I deleted most of it. I still ask ChatGPT questions occasionally if it is a complex question that is easier to ChatGPT than Google but I know that ChatGPT is plain incorrect sometimes so take any info it gives you with a grain of salt. Also, be cautious not to start thinking of chatbots as real people, try not to develop an emotional attachment

I’ve got the ai search bullshit turned off for my Google searches.

I occasionally use chatgpt to write awk scripts for me for work because I find awk difficult. The one liners it spits out are wrong 7/10 times, but it puts me in the right direction, so it’s not completely useless. Now that I type this out, I wonder if it’s hindering my awk-learning…

It is pretty good at annotating code that already works, which is pretty convenient.

I’m forced to use it for work but almost never personally

I use it more than I would like for technical troubleshooting and research because holy fuck are search engines trash these days. I try to search ddg/bing/Google first, but goddamn if the fucking search engines don’t decide to go drinking and show me so much shit that’s only tangentially related (and the fucking search operators don’t work reliably for me - the number of times I quote something or add restrictions to the search and it’s just completely ignored) that I spend less time fact checking the AI than I do digging through pages of garbage.

I fucking hate the modern Internet

I only use it within Kagi and only have pretty much used their Kiki K2 model which I believe is locally on their servers. At most I’d say twice a week to help sift through some information faster but have no intention for outside of that. Such a waste of resources and compute power for most tasks imo, the internet needs better indexing to find information more efficiently.

Occasionally for random questions that come into my head, or for picking out information from large chunks of text.

I never use it for anything important though. And if I did, I’d make double sure to verify the information it shits out is correct.