For the vast majority of use-cases we've been presented with, the most useful thing you can do with AI is abandon it.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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I bough a second hand laptop with windows 11 and it had Copilot pushing down my throat.
It's now running Fedora just fine. And if I want I can spin up a local AI when I decide that I need it.
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.
Maybe we could start making more slop memes, to outbalance the possible usefulness of AI ?
Maybe they should look into selling AI CP since it seems to be great at generating that shit
That might be the only off-ramp.
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I have a use for it. Put it in the recycle bin.
No
Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Funny seeing this post during a big Microsoft outage lmao