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I've found that AI has done literally nothing to improve my life in any way and has really just caused endless frustrations. From the enshitification of journalism to ruining pretty much all tech support and customer service, what is the point of this shit?

I work on the Salesforce platform and now I have their dumbass account managers harassing my team to buy into their stupid AI customer service agents. Really, the only AI highlight that I have seen is the guy that made the tool to spam job applications to combat worthless AI job recruiters and HR tools.

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[-] NaNin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

People I talk to find it useful for front-end development

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I'll use it to write scripts for repetitive tasks at my job. I never learned or know code so it's actually super helpful in that sense but that isn't really what OP is asking i don't think. I use AI by going on to their platform and initiating the interaction. I disable every form of AI I am capable of disabling/uninstalling. Every integrated sense of AI has been obnoxious.

[-] tee9000@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I use it to explain dumber questions i have about math and coding concepts.

I use it to write scripts.

I used it to interpret my rental lease and calculate penalties and see whats covered by my landlord vs myself.

[-] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Like any new tool it is being abused to hurt the working class by the wealthy. It does have useful aspects if used properly but it's pretty overshadowed by all the awful uses imo

[-] Sergebr@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 11 hours ago

Regardless of how useful some might find it, there isn’t a single use case that justifies the environmental cost (not to mention the societal cost). None. Stop using it. You were able to survive and function without it 2 years ago, and you still can.

[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

This is like saying you can't play video games because it costs electricity and you can go without. You can say it about literally everything that isn't strictly necessary to live. AI isn't just LLMs and only LLMs have a high environmental cost, and unless you are literally wasting the output like the big tech companies are, even that can be justified for the right reasons.

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Hey man, why are we using the internet, don't you see this is bad for the environment, while your at it. stop wearing clothes! Our ancestors were able to get by with just our body hair, we're ruining nature.

That's how I read the post above you.

[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yes, exactly. And I don't even disagree with making things better on the environment. It's why I dislike LLMs being pushed into random things that don't really need it. And if more efficient models exist, they should preferably be used.

But using AI to make your life a little better also brings positives that outweigh that cost. And it seems like as a society we have much bigger polluters to take care of that use orders more electricity and water, and we already struggle massively doing just that. So it really feels like misdirected anger towards the unfairness in society (which the societal cost they mentioned also seems to point to) than a real criticism of AI. And I can understand that anger, but not the mindset behind the conclusions derived from it.

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

Fully Agree.

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[-] lightsblinken@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

sounds like a frog in a saucepan.. sure is getting warmer!

[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

The earth has been warming for decades at this point, even before AI. We know what causes climate change and AI has so far been a footnote on a large list of unsolved problems. The moment that changes I'll be right there with you, but I'm far more interested in taking down the companies that are largely responsible for it. This logic follows that just living life as a human is unethical because you can't be environmentally neutral in today's society, and I reject that notion.

[-] lightsblinken@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

its the speed of the change innit. for example, the fact that google power requirements has increase 50% in the last year must have a tremendous impact.

[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

And Google as one of the largest companies in the world should be held fully responsible for that. But Google isn't everyone. Google also has a huge amount of computers under their name, but does that mean everyone with a computer should be held to the same standards because it's the same technology?

If sweeping conclusions are going to be made about the technology, it has to be looked at outside of the context of a specific company and how they implement and use AI. Otherwise, it should be specified that this is a criticism of specific companies and how they use AI, and I'd be totally there agreeing with you in the case of Google.

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

yeah, but it's all about how we use the technology. because we can absolutely find a solution to our climate problem by using what we have today. Tech is definitely a double edged sword and we're just using it wrong. all because of greed and corruption. And that's what we definitely need to solve, greed and corruption, and not go all Pol Pot on tech.

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[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

The applications of what you call ai are absolutely limitless. But to be clear what you're calling "AI" isn't AI in terms of what you might want it to be what you're referring to are large language models or LLM's. Which aren't ai, not yet.

It's short sighted statements like this that really get my blood boiling.

If humanity actually achieves artificial intelligence it'll be the equivalent of the printing press or agriculture. It'll be like inventing the superconductor or micro transistors all over again. Our world will completely change for the better.

If your interactions with these llms have been negative, I can only assume that you have a strong bias against this type of technology and have simply not used it in a way that's applicable for you.

I personally use llms pretty much daily in my life and they have been nothing but an excellent tool.

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[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Boilerplate code (the stuff you usually have to copy anyway from GitHub) and summarising long boring articles. That's the use case for me. Other than that I agree - and having done AI service agent coding myself for fun I can seriously say that I would not trust it to run a business service without a human in the loop

[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

Im suprisingly on board for ai art. It does allow you to create whatewer you want without having the technical ability to do so. ( For example of you want a sick wallpaper ) Ot significantly lowers the floor as far as creating anything art related goes.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world -2 points 6 hours ago

Yes. Ai art is great. It's a new medium and pretty much every argument against it was made against photography a century ago, and most of them against pre-mixed paints before that. Stop believing the haters who don;t know what it actually is.

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[-] drake@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 hours ago

Internet search, e.g. Google, is now functionally almost completely useless. I use ChatGPT basically as a Google replacement.

I will still search for stuff - I use Kagi - but give up after half a dozen results if none of them are relevant and go to ChatGPT instead. Often, ChatGPT is more helpful. But sometimes it just makes a bunch of nonsense up.

ChatGPT is great for when you need to find something where you kind of know at least the vague shape of what you’re expecting and you have enough expertise to filter out any of the lies it makes up.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 17 hours ago

I have a local instance of Stable Diffusion that I use to make art for MtG proxies. Prior to AI my art was limited to geometric designs and edits of existing pieces. Integrating AI into my work flow has expanded my abilities greatly, and my art experience means that I can do more with it than just prompt engineering.

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Good for rephrasing things when I'm having trouble.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 22 hours ago

Yes:

  • Demystifying obscure or non-existent documentation
  • Basic error checking my configs/code: input error, ask what the cause is, double check it's work. In hour 6 of late night homelab fixing this can save my life
  • I use it to create concepts of art I later commission. Most recently I used it to concept an entirely new avatar and I'm having a pro make it in their style for pay
  • DnD/Cyberpunk character art generation, this person does not exist website basically
  • duplicate checking / spot-the-diffetences, like pastebins "differences" feature because the MMO I play released prelim as well as full patch notes and I like to read the differences
[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

It's done a lot of bad/annoying things but I'd be lying if I said it hasn't enabled me to completely sidestep the enshittification of Google. You have to be smart about how you use it but at least you don't have to wade through all the SEO slop to find what you want.

And it's good for weird/niche questions. I used it the other day to find a list of meme songs that have very few/simple instruments so that I could find midi files for them that would translate well when going through Rust's in-game instruments. I seriously doubt I'd find a list like that on Google, even without the enshittification.

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I use chatgpt to make questions for me when my teachers refuse to give me anything to practice on before final exams. Even then, I'd take literally anything they'd give over whatever AI can generate

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

When the question is "does anyone actually like this thing" the answer is often "yeah, perverts."

[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 19 hours ago

I used to spend 1 month a year where all I did was write performance reports on people I supervise. Now I put the facts in let AI write the first draft, do some editing and I'm done in a week.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I think this speaks more to the usefulness of performance reports than the usefulness of GenAI

[-] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I use it for coding (rarely pure copy paste), explaining code, use/examples, finding tools to use. Better translation than Google translate for Japanese. Asking for things that search engines only gives generic results for.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It helps make simple code when Im feeling lazy at work and need to get something out the door.

In personal life, I run a local llm server with SillyTavern, and get into some kinky shit that often makes for an intense masturbation session. Sorry not sorry.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago

If AI is for anything it's for DnD campaign art.

Make your NPCs and towns and monsters!

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[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

It's great for parsing through the enshittified journalism. You know the classic recipe blog trope? If you ask chatgpt for a recipe, it just gives you one. Whether it's good or not is a different story, but chatgpt is leagues better at getting to the info you want than search has been for the last decade.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

It’s great for parsing through the enshittified journalism.

It's ironic that GenAI is great for solving a problem it caused. It's like hiring a gangster to take you through gangster-controlled territory.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I wouldn't say GenAI caused that problem, I'd say it was advertising practices and the structure of key words prioritizing responses in search engines.

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