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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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[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Just today I needed a pdf with filler english text, not lorem. ChatGPT was perfect for that. Other times when I'm writing something I use it to check grammar. It's way better at it than grammarly imo, and faster and makes the decisions for me BUT PROOF-READ IT. if you really fuck the tenses up it won't know how to correct it, it'll make things up. Besides these: text manipulation. I could learn vim, write a script, or I could just copy "remove the special characters" enter -> done.

I use perplexity for syntax. I don't code with it, but it's the perfect one stop shop for "how does this work in this lang again" when coding. For advanced/new/unpopular APIs it's back to the olds school docs, but you could try to give it the link so it parses it for you, it's usually wonky tho.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

The winter storm was set to arrive while I’m traveling, and I needed to drip our faucets to avoid our pipes bursting. I didn’t want to waste water from a dripping faucet for more than a week, so I asked duckduckgo AI to calculate how much water will 1 drop a second accumulate and if it will overflow on a standard baththub with the drain closed. I can do the math myself, but it’s easier for AI to do it.

[-] red_concrete@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

My understanding is that it will eventually used to improve autocorrect, when they get it working properly.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I know they are being used to, and are decently good for, extracting a single infornation from a big document (like a datasheet). Considering you can easily confirm the information is correct, it's quite a nice use case

[-] GuyFi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

I have personally found it fantastic as a programming aid, and as a writing aid to write song lyrics. The art it creates lacks soul and any sense of being actually good but it's great as a "oh I could do this cool thing" inspiration machine

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wish I could have an AI in my head that would do all the talking for me because socializing is so exhausting

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Other people would then have AIs in their heads to deal with the responses.

A perfect world, where nothing is actually being said, but goddamn do we sound smart saying it

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[-] happydoors@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I use it in a lot of tiny ways for photo-editing, Adobe has a lot of integration and 70% of it is junk right now but things like increasing sharpness, cleaning noise, and heal-brush are great with AI generation now.

[-] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

My last three usages of it:

  1. A translation
  2. Looking up what actors from Mars Attacks had shared work on another movie. I recognized that Pierce Brosnan and John Doe Baker had done Goldeneye and wondered if there were more.
  3. Name suggestions for a black and white cat - I got some funny suggestions like Oreo and a kick-ass suggestion for Domino
[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

I hate questions like this due to 1 major issue.

A generative ai with "error free" Output, is very differently useful than one that isn't.

Imagine an ai that would answer any questions objectively and unbiased, would that threaten job? Yeah. Would it be an huge improvement for human kind? Yeah.

Now imagine the same ai with a 10% bs rate, like how would you trust anything from it?

Currently generative ai is very very flawed. That is what we can evaluate and it is obvious. It is mostly useless as it produces mostly slop and consumes far more energy and water than you would expect.

A "better" one would be differently useful but just like killing half of the worlds population would help against climate change, the cost of getting there might not be what we want it to be, and it might not be worth it.

Current market practice, cost and results, lead me to say, it is effectively useless and probably a net negative for human kind. There is no legitimate usage as any usage legitimizes the market practice and cost given the results.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Documentation work, synthesis, sentiment analysis

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Learning languages is a great use case. I'm learning Mandarin right now, and being able to chat with a bot is really great practice for me. Another use case I've found handy is using it as a sounding board. The output it produces can stimulate new ideas in my own head, and it makes it a good exploration tool that let me pull on different threads of thought.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Making dynamic templates.

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Never used it until recently. Now I use it to vent because I'm a crazy person.

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