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What is the legitimate use-case for generative AI? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I promise this question is asked in good faith. I do not currently see the point of generative AI and I want to understand why there's hype. There are ethical concerns but we'll ignore ethics for the question.

In creative works like writing or art, it feels soulless and poor quality. In programming at best it's a shortcut to avoid deeper learning, at worst it spits out garbage code that you spend more time debugging than if you had just written it by yourself.

When I see AI ads directed towards individuals the selling point is convenience. But I would feel robbed of the human experience using AI in place of human interaction.

So what's the point of it all?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

In the context of programming:

Good for boilerplate code and variables naming when what you want is for the model to regurgitate things it has seen before.
Short pieces of code where it's much faster to verify that the code is correct than to write the code yourself.
Sometimes, I know how to do something but I'll wait for Copilot to give me a suggestion, and if it looks like what I had in mind, it gives me extra confidence in the correctness of my solution. If it looks different, then it's a sign that I might want to rethink it.
It sometimes gives me suggestions for APIs that I'm not familiar with, prompting me to look them up and learn something new (assuming they exist).

There's also some very cool applications to game AI that I've seen, but this is still in the research realm and much more niche.