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.
It helps when writing a lot of boilerplate or if I’m being lazy and want to solve something. However I do not need AI in everything I use. It seems everyone wants AI in their product whilst it’s doing the same thing everyone else is doing.
It can be such a different experience editing/touching something up rather than having to create it wholesale where it can often take on a life of its own and takes so much more time
Its great for documentation like APIs and it really makes a difference
Generative AI has been an absolute game changer in my retouching work. Slightly worrying that it’ll put me out of work sometime in the future, but for now it’s saving me loads of time, handling the boring stuff so I can concentrate on the stuff it can’t do.
I have horrible spelling and sometimes write in an archaic register. I also often write in a way that sounds rather aggressive which is not my intention most of the time. Ai helps me rewrite that shit and makes me more sensitive to tone in written text.
Of course just like normal spell check and auto completion feature one still needs to read it a final time.
ChatGPT has mostly replaced tradsearch for me, at least when I’m looking for something that can’t be accurately described in 2-3 words
I like it for more obscure things where the context is needed to filter out results because the words themselves get too many hits.
But I’ve also had issues with accuracy, like asking for help with syntax for an obscure scripting language application (think like lua where a specific context added an API and wanting information about that API).
It seemed like it knew what it was talking about, but turns out none of the syntax it gave were real argument names, they couldn’t be split up into seperate lines like it claimed, and the way scope worked was off. Though it was enough to get me to a decent place where correcting everything didn’t take very long.
Edit: I also like to use it to fact check comments before I post them. You can just copy paste the comment and ask it to comment on the accuracy to add a quick but basic peer review.
If AI is for anything it’s for DnD campaign art.
Make your NPCs and towns and monsters!
It’s also pretty great at giving stars to home brew monsters, or making variations of regular monsters.
Lol best me to it. For a lot of generic art, even more customized stuff, it works well.
Or helping to come up with some plot hooks in a pinch.
Same. When I’ve got a session coming upjwithjless than ideal prep time, I’ve used chat get to help figure out some story beats. Or reframe a movie plot into DnD terms. But more often than not I use the Story Engine Deck to help with writers block. I’d rather support a small company with a useful product than help Sam Altman boil the oceans.
You might not know this but there are many out there who hunger for the slop.
i use it to summarize text sometimes, does it count?
If you specifically mean LLM/GenAI:
- Some of my friends enjoy fucking around with those character AIs. I never got the appeal, even as an RP nerd, RPing is a social activity to me, and computers aren’t people
- I have seen funny memes be made with Image Generators – And tbqh as long as you’re not pretending that being an AI prompter makes you an “artist”, by all means go crazy with generating AI images for your furry porn/DnD campaign/whatever
- https://goblin.tools/ is a cool little thing for people as intensely autistic as I am, and it runs off AI stuff.
- Voice Recognition/Dictation technology powered by AI is a lot better than its pre-AI sibling. I’ve been giving it a shot lately. It helps my arthritis-ridden hands.
If you mean anything that utilizes machine learning (“AI” is a buzzword), then “AI” technology has been used to help scientists and doctors do their jobs better since the mid 90s
Thanks for the goblin tools link, that site looks really helpful for breaking down big tasks into small steps!
Goblin.tools was pretty neat
So I’m really bad about remembering to add comments to my code, but since I started using githubs ai code assistant thing in vs code, it will make contextual suggestions when you comment out a line. I’ve even gone back to stuff I made ages ago, and used it to figure out what the hell I was thinking when I wrote it back then 😆
It’s actually really helpful.
I feel like once the tech adoption curve settles down, it will be most useful in cases like that: contextual analysis
I’ve enjoyed some of the absurd things out can come up with. Surreal videos and memes (every president as a bodybuilder wrestler). However it’s never been useful and the cost isn’t worth the benefit, to me.
There’d been a few cases where it was helpful. But yeah, I mostly agree
Garbage in; garbage out. Using AI tools is a skillset. I’ve had great use with LLMs and generative AI both, you just have to use the tools to their strengths.
LLMs are language models. People run into issues when they try to use them for things not language related. Conversely, it’s wonderful for other tasks. I use it to tone check things I’m unsure about. Or feed it ideas and let it run with them in ways I don’t think to. It doesn’t come up with too much groundbreaking or new on its own, but I think of it as kinda a “shuffle” button, taking what I have already largely put together, and messing around with it til it becomes something new.
Generative AI isn’t going to make you the next mona Lisa, but it can make some pretty good art. It, once again, requires a human to work with it, though. You can’t just tell it to spit out an image and expect 100% quality, 100% of the time. Instead, it’s useful to get a basic idea of what you want in place, then take it to another proper photo editor, or inpainting, or some other kind of post processing to refine it. I have some degree of aphantasia - I have a hard time forming and holding detailed mental images. This kind of AI approaches art in a way that finally kinda makes sense for my brain, so it’s frustrating seeing it shot down by people who don’t actually understand it.
I think no one likes any new fad that’s shoved down their throats. AI doesn’t belong in everything. We already have a million chocolate chip cookie recipes, and chatgpt doesn’t have taste buds. Stop using this stuff for tasks it wasn’t meant for (unless it’s a novelty “because we could” kind of way) and it becomes a lot more palatable.
I use silly tavern for character conversations, pretty fun. I have SD forge for Pomy diffusion, and use Suno and Udio. Almost all of that goes to DND, the rest for personal recreation. Google and openai all fail to meet my use cases and if I cuss they get mad so fuck em. I never use those for making money or any other personal progression, that would be wrong.
I use perplexity.ai more than google now. I still don’t love it and it’s more of a testament to how far google has fallen than the usefulness of AI, but I do find myself using it to get a start on basic searches. It is, dare I say, good at calorie counting and language learning things. Helps calculate calorie to gram ratios and the math is usually correct. It also helps me with German, since it’s good at finding patterns and how German people typically say what I am trying to say, instead of just running it through a translator which may or not have the correct context.
I do miss the days where I could ask AI to talk like Obama while he’s taking a shit during an earthquake. ChatGPT would let you go off the rails when it first came out. That was a lot of fun and I laughed pretty hard at the stupid scenarios I could come up with. I’m probably the reason the guardrails got added.
i switched to kagi a year ago as i usually need to go through search result. i was astonished at just how dogpoop google search is compared to it.
youtube was even worse, i had to go through 10 unrelated videos to find one slightly relevant one. kagi is usually dont have the latest results but is on point on relevancy.
youtube was even worse, i had to go through 10 unrelated videos to find one slightly relevant one.
Last month I typed letter for letter the title of a video I saw on there in YouTube search and it tried so hard to push some other barely related videos, I couldn’t believe it. I ended up typing the url manually like some internet cave man
wow, i mean its a free service but the amount of money they make from selling our data they should atleast try to not make us severely hate their product
IMO YouTube and social media are both things that would be better as public services than for profit ventures. The things they need to do to make money either make the product shitty (holy shit @ some of the things I’ve heard from people who don’t block ads) or are outright bad for society (misinformation and all).
not happening. bigtech will kill any such attempt by throwing a few millions at senators. these products make close to 100 billions in profit a year. aipac just showed us how wretched our political system is when they get to do a genocide with our money and then get standing ovation from us, and and all that with a lobbying budget of just 300 million
Yeah, this current system looks pretty fucking captured to me.
Some things look like signs that things might not be that bad, like the Google ruling is a step in the right direction. But on the other hand, IMO it wasn’t enough of a step and there was a ruling against MS 20 years ago that looked really good until it was just dropped entirely (though apparently the experience did still affect Gates when he was embarrassed about having to explain his position and realizing that most people didn’t agree with it).
Today’s billionaires don’t seem to have that humility anymore, at least not the more prominent ones. Just like the right wing politicians. And all of it enabled by the billionaire-owned media.
well said, totally agree. the depressing thing is that i don’t see this changing in anytime soon or way ahead in future. with ai powered drones working class will have no means to challenge the oligarchy unless they end up fighting and killing each other.
The things that make us hate it is how they make so much money.
I looked at kagi but I don’t want to pay for it because I’m a cheap bastard.
haha, no shame in that, i was myself hesitant but one day just gave in anger after getting just ad infested garbage from google for work related topic
Searx uses different search engines to get the best results. There are many public instances or if you can self host, you can run it privately.
yeah i have wanted to try it. will likely do once the kagi subscription is near the renewal.
It also helps me with German, since it’s good at finding patterns and how German people typically say
Depending on your first language I can offer you my assistance as a native german :)
If you want to, pm me or send a message to my email: [email protected]I am moving to Germany next year. Even though I was born there and my mother taught me some, and I learned it in high school, and I also studied in college in the USA, I cannot speak it worth shit. I’m hoping I pick up some more when I move, but if not maybe my kids can teach me.
I find that I’m just trying to pick up things through osmosis. I watch German youtubers and try to watch a German movie or two every now and then. And then sometimes when I’m talking I try to directly translate what I’m saying in my head, and assuming I know the words, I usually fuck up the order, article, or tense.
I say all that to say that my current workflow is already overwhelming and I’m on a bit of a time crunch. I do really need to surround myself with native speakers and listen to them more. I will reach out. Thanks!
If you want more recommendation for german yt content, what are some general interests if you?
For example comedic story telling, memes, game/talk shows, technical etc.?Edit:
And then sometimes when I’m talking I try to directly translate what I’m saying in my head, and assuming I know the words, I usually fuck up the order, article, or tense.
We have two foreign colleagues at work. One being from Syria and one from Russia. Both at the time of starting broke relatively broken German but thwy improved soo much since I met them. One of them did go to a german language school. And even after 6 years some errors are made. Nothing to worry about if you can get the idea across.
I just tried it and was pleasently surprised.
