My problem with AI is that it could be such a valuable tool but every implementation, besides trying to run your own in your own basement, seems like it is geared toward kindergartners. The kind of censored nonsense it spouts off or just blatantly trying to prevent you from getting any good information out of it blows my mind. People talk about AI hate but if you dealt with another person that responds to you like AI does you would genuinely start to hate that other person.
I was asking it some simple questions about understanding some open source software. It starts squawking back to me about security and stability of software and so it doesn't want to answer me on modifying this. So I literally have to argue with it about the entire concept of open source to get it to give me an answer. When it did give me an answer it was incredibly vague. So I went and dug into the software myself and then responded back to it that the answer I was seeking was incredibly simple and the software was already geared to be modified in the way that I wanted. Then it responded of course it is and it gives me an example for how I want to modify it.
This is why people hate AI. Because it is utter nonsense until you go and do all of the legwork and then it will just agree with you. Nobody wants that kind of sycophant in their life. I want it to be an assistant that will assist me in what I'm doing. At this point AI is less helpful than a junior worker that is moderately resourceful and it takes more of my time to deal with it.
Everyone hates AI because of this nonsense and until these companies start letting it act like someone who can hold advanced conversations as if they were university level people we will continue to hate AI. It's like it's there to intentionally make people stupid instead of assisting them in being something better.
chasing0entropy•20m ago