I already had enough reasons not to bother using it, he didn't need to give me another one!
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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"Microsoft CEO begs for us to use the software that he's been shoving down our throats for the last 10 years or so or else his corporation will lose money"
It’s getting more and more absurd.
“We can’t think of a good use for this parasite outside of our industry.”
For the vast majority of use-cases we've been presented with, the most useful thing you can do with AI is abandon it.
I am for AI but decentralized and owned by the people. Not monopolized and owned by the 1%
He has my permission to stop.
Brother, AI has proven multiple times to make you stupider. It's not a cognitive amplifier.
Buddy, I hope you will lose social permission to keep your head attached to your body. All your heads on spikes, is what I dream of.
LOL
Maybe we could start making more slop memes, to outbalance the possible usefulness of AI ?
AI is the new 3dTV
Hey, I like my 3D TV. Every once in a while I manage to find a pirated video that's in 3D and it's pretty neat. And unlike the current avalanche of generative/LLM bullshit, I can turn the 3D off, and when I do it works just fine as a perfectly ordinary TV, and in no way does it nag me incessantly to turn it back on.
Hey, don't be mean to 3DTV. At least there's an actual use case for it. Watching 3D TV or movies, which aren't actually that popular... Hmmm, I see your point but also counter with the 3D TVs are at least also regular TVs
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My sole use for AI has been troubleshooting computer issues. I will say that AI often does a better job than first line tech support when prompted correctly. That being said, I am a tech nerd who knows more than the average computer user that is not in the IT industry. There will always be a reason for human tech support tiers for people who cannot prompt AI correctly, but still need their stuff to work. I personally don't want AI invading my life any further.
That's exactly the reason why you get good results when prompting a chatbot. You have the knowledge to ask the right questions with the needed keywords and lingo. What's problematic is that Microslop and big tech in general are advertising AI as a generic tool for everyone and their grandmother. The result is garbage in, garbage out. It's not going to work as advertised.
Play with algorithms and datasets if you want, but make it efficient. We don't need thousands of data centers guzzling water and electricity and disturbing the peace just to generate wrong answers and slop. Work on the algorithms, don't just scale up the slop.
Microsoft angle is that they can run their AI on your documents and files (it’s all on OneDrive now remember?) and “know” about you and the world as a whole collectively at all times. The panopticon wet dream of advertisers and governments alike. Plus hardware will be too expensive for plebs and we’ll all have scaled back dumb terminal tablets that connect to Microsoft Azure Copilot Windows for $49.99/month
Citizen developers of the world, disband!!
The only thing I use AI for is a fancy choose your own adventure book.
Do they do different dialogue styles well? I could see using it for NPC chatter
Yeah there are plenty of sites that have pretrained characters chatbots, or you can instruct a generic LLM to talk like someone.
But that doesn't fix the problems of companies abusing resources to create and run these systems.