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.
If AI is for anything it’s for DnD campaign art.
Make your NPCs and towns and monsters!
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.
Lol best me to it. For a lot of generic art, even more customized stuff, it works well.
I thought it was pretty fun to play around with making limericks and rap battles with friends, but I haven’t found a particularly usefull use case for LLMs.
I like asking ChatGPT for movie recommendations. Sometimes it makes some shit up but it usually comes through, I’ve already watched a few flicks I really like that I never would’ve heard of otherwise
I use it often for grammar and syntax checking
I agree, I don’t really use it but I do like some of the memes that came out of it, case in point:
It tends to make Lemmy people mad for some reason, but I find GitHub copilot to be helpful.
I got high and put in prompts to see what insane videos it would make. That was fun. I even made some YouTube videos from it. I also saw some cool & spooky short videos that are basically “liminal” since it’s such an inhuman construction.
But generally, no. It’s making the internet worse. And as a customer I definitely never want to deal with an AI instead of a human.
I think people were already making the internet worse. AI just helps them make it worse faster.
100%. I don’t need help finding what’s on your website. I can find that myself. If I’m contacting customer support it’s because my problem needs another brain on it, from the inside. Someone who can think and take action to help me. Might require creativity or flexibility. AI has never helped me solve anything.
Oh I hate those chat bots which just display a list of articles matching keywords in your question.
Ive found its made doing end-runs around enshitification easier.
For example Trying to find a front suspension top for a peugeot 206 gti with google means being recommended everything front suspension for the peugeot 207, 208, Vw Gti, Swift Gti… not to mention the websites “Best price on insert what you searched for here” only they sell nothing.
So I ask chat gpt for the part number and search that.
This is exactly the kind of thing that LLMs are good for. I also use them to get quick and concise answers about programming frameworks, instead of trying to triangulate the answer from various anecdotes on stackoverflow, or reading two hours of documentation.
But I figured this kind of thing doesn’t count as “slop.” OP was talking about the incoherent trash hallucinations, so I left that one out.
In the sense that a forum I am on has had a huge amount of fun doing very silly things with Godzilla, yes.
https://forums.mst3k.com/t/dall-e-fun-with-an-ai/24697/8237
It’s best to start at the bottom. We didn’t start out with Godzilla when the thread began and it also began in 2022.
8220 posts, the majority Godzilla-related. I haven’t done too many lately, but here’s a few recent ones:
Tits, on an egg-laying reptile?
I’m not completely sure this is a real photo
How dare you mock a widow in mourning!
You can whip up a whole album of aggressively mid music just cyberbullying the shit out of one person.
I use it all the time, to translate, explain, give guides, write code, do repetitive menial tasks, fix code, understand others code.
I get the hatred for it, but I use it almost every day.
I agree, but I’m the spirit of the question, do you work in a corporate environment?
Unfortunately. But I also use my corpo AI accounts for personal stuff too, because it’s immune to being used for training.
Don’t corpo accounts leave logs for auditing though? I wouldn’t like HR going over my personal notes I (accidentally) shared there.
Yeah, sure, but with like 2k employees, they will only look if there are issues with me. Having worked in the IT industry for a long time, I’ve only once or twice had to dig into shit like that for HR and it was only when the person did something bad.
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.
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.
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I just tried it and was pleasently surprised.
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.
I used it the other day to spit out a ~150 line python script. It worked flawlessly on the first try.
I don’t know python.
It might not work so flawlessly on the 2nd, 3rd, or 100th time though. I use ChatGPT semi-frequently for coding, while it generally does a surprisingly good job, I often find things it overlooks, and need to keep prompting it for further refinements, or just fix it myself.
Yeah I’ve had to go back and fix (re prompt) some things like this in the past.
The headline is that it helps me code things far faster than if I was doing it myself. And sometimes saves me 100% of the work.
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When it just came out I had AI write fanfiction that no sane person would write, and other silly things. I liked that. That and trail cam photos of the Duolingo mascot.
I think my complaints are more with how capitalism treats new technology, though-- and not just lost jobs and the tool on the climate. Greed and competition is making it worse and worse as a technology that AI itself, within a years span, has been enshittified. There are use cases that it can do a world of good, though, just like everything else bad people ruin.
