I started using chatbots yesterday and it surprised me how complete and articulate answers are. Main topics would be apparel, sewing, cooking, finance, ETFs, taxes, house maintenance, retirement.
Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction? Because I remember a south park episode where randy marsh ignores his wife to interact exclusively with a bot. A parody of course but we have already plenty of AI porn and AI short stories for gullible people… and it works because they don’t stop watching (and sometimes believe it to be real).
I was always kind of an anti AI guy due to privacy, to avoid LLMs monetizing my questions and because I didn’t want to be a moron who has nothing better to do than to watch AI slop, but this is a tool so pervasive and practical I’m only isolating myself if I opt out of it. Thoughts?
Are there any questions you won’t ask a bot so the company behind it doesn’t monetize your input?
I don’t use one at all. I was kinda the opposite of you. I started out thinking AI seemed pretty cool, and i tried using a local model for a little bit, but aside from asking it some simple questions i couldn’t get into the habit of using it. To me it still seems faster to just search the internet myself, plus you already have to factcheck what an AI tells you anyway, so may as well look it up myself. Over the years seeing the mess that it is causing i’ve grown to hate the technology, and i hope people are right about this “bubble” existing, cause i can’t wait for it to pop.