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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Do techbros that complain on the Fediverse about people hating on AI realize it isn't just here that hates AI? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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Everyone pretty much hates it, its just here is one of the few places online where money and stupidity can't be waved around frantically to hide that.

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[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago

I dislike the implementation of a lot of AI.

I pretty much only come across them when I need support for something, and I'm good at searching the sites for info before I go to the support. This means that the AI only gives me answers that I've already seen and that doesn't work - they always waste my time.

I am also a frequent visitor of subreddits like r/askphysics, and the amount of nonsense that comes up because the AI that people asked doesn't understand what it is saying isn't helping with my perception either. I much prefer using a search engine instead, because they don't hallucinate answers and I can validate the content of the page based on a lot of leads that you don't get if an AI copies the answer and rephrases it.

There are a lot of places where AI can be a very good tool to implement, but those are not LLM related. It can for instance be used for getting CNC machines to better correct for thermal expansion in different parts of the machine, based on the temperature and humidity of the environment, runtime, and other info like that, so more accurate machining can be achieved.

I really don't need AI in my coffee machine or toaster though. I strongly suspect that those are just data harvesters.