I know something useful that can be done with AI in its current form. Toss it in the fucking garbage maybe.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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Did they ever have social permission in the first place?
I see...
Fuck you.
LOL
For the vast majority of use-cases we've been presented with, the most useful thing you can do with AI is abandon it.
Must do something useful? You're the one selling the damn thing. You can't build a Pinto and then tell people "we have to stop burning to death or we'll lose permission to keep production faulty cars."
There is something inherently wrong with your product, and you can't even fix it because you're too busy shoving it down everyone's throats.
It's like you're trying to bake cookies using pieces of every plagiarized baking recipe, whether or not they're related. Then, before you've actually tasted the cookies, you're telling everyone to reach into the oven and try using this "basic" cookie to modify and make their own cookies.
Except the cookies haven't even baked yet. And before you've ever tasted a single fully baked cookie, you're announcing modifications to your cookie dough recipe based on feedback from your previously undercooked, improperly made cookies.
Go back to small scale. Let people bake their own cookies at home, and report what they've discovered. Try upscaling those recipes, and see if you can make any parts more efficient.
And quit telling people to eat your tainted cookies that are poisoning everyone, and then telling them that if they don't start enjoying your cookies soon, then you're gonna have to shut down your factory.
Your cookie/Pinto/AI venture deserves to be shut down. Take the L, learn from it, and try again after you figure out how to get it right. Bake a better cookie instead of trying to make better consumers.
You don't have permission 🤷♀️
You should... ASK PEOPLE BEFORE ? 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
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"But we're rendering naked children as fast as we can"
So you admit it. You admit AI isn't useful.
Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
No
The only thing I use AI for right now is spouting nonsense at it for a joke. For example I would ask 'why didn't (insert well known figure here) buy me lunch?' Or 'I farted and they cleared out a 10 block radius and called in a chemical weapons cleanup crew, is this normal?'
Shit like that.
I like giving it impossible tasks, like spell OPERATION with only 4 letters, and arguing with it as it refuses to just admit that I'm wrong and have requested something impossible, or when it tries to cut corners. "No, I don't want an abbreviation, or a word that means the same thing, I want you to spell the full word OPERATION with only 4 letters. Why can't you get this right?"
The only thing I use AI for is a fancy choose your own adventure book.
Do they do different dialogue styles well? I could see using it for NPC chatter
Yeah there are plenty of sites that have pretrained characters chatbots, or you can instruct a generic LLM to talk like someone.
But that doesn't fix the problems of companies abusing resources to create and run these systems.