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this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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I guess they found a use case. I kinda use Gemini as one sometimes for pulling stuff from a picture of a PowerPoint and putting it in my schedule or for aggregating info about a group of products I'm trying to choose between. personally I don't see much use for ai in general beyond menial stuff like that but that stuff actually is pretty nice aside from the whole 'destroying the environment, economy, and several industries' part. almost makes me want to get a computer that can run it locally just so I can try and find a use case without the destruction.
I don't actually think AI is doing all of those things. I think the economy is already fucked and AI is a scapegoat for companies who were going to lay off a bunch of people anyway. I don't think the water and electricity consumption compares to the meat industry, but I could be wrong. I think it's weird that there is such an outrage over AI but not cattle, but I guess because people like beef more than they like hallucinated AI results.
It's probably a good idea to self-host your own AI for privacy reasons alone, if you use it.