Fuck AI

I ordered some well rated concert ear protection from the maker's website. The order waited weeks to ship after a label was printed and likely forgotten. I went to find a place to call or contact a human there, all they had was a self-described AI chat robot that just talked down to me condescendingly. It simply would not believe my experience.

I eventually got the ear protection but I won't be buying from them again. Can't even staff some folks to check email. I eventually found their PR email address but even that was outsourced to a PR firm that never got back to me. Utter shit, AI.

Alright I don’t like the direction of AI same as the next person, but this is a pretty fucking wild stance. There are multiple valid applications of AI that I’ve implemented myself: LTV estimation, document summary / search / categorization, fraud detection, clustering and scoring, video and audio recommendations... "Using AI” is not the problem, "AI charlatan-ing" is. Or in this guy’s case, "wholesale anti-AI stanning". Shoehorning AI into everything is admittedly a waste, but to write off the entirety of a very broad category (AI) is just silly.

I think this problem will get worse because many websites that's used for "your own research" will lose human traffic to watch ads and more bots just scraping their data, reducing motivation to keep the websites running. Most people just take the least resistant path so AI search will be the default soon I think

Yes, I hate this timeline

Using AI is telling people they shouldn't care about your IP because you clearly don't care about theirs when it passes through the AI lens.

The only time I disagree with this is when the business is substituting "AI" in for "machine learning". I've personally seen that work in applications where traditional methods don't work very well (vision guided industrial robot movement in this case).

i use AI every day in my daily work, it writes my emails, performance reviews, project updates etc.

.....and yeah, that checks out!

I used to work in a software architecture team that used AI to write retrospectives, and upcoming projects, and everything needed to have a positive spin, that sounds good but mean nothing.

Extra funny when I find out people use AI to summarize it. So the comical cycle of bullet points to text and back again is real.

I had enough working at the company when my team was working on the new "fantastic" platform, cut corners to reach the deadline on something that will not be used by anyone... and its being built for the explicit purpose of making a better development and working environment.

LLMs != AI
LLMs strict subset of AI

Pls be a bit more specific about what you hate about the wide field of AI. Otherwise it's almost like saying you hate computers, because they can run applications that you don't like.