I’ll get this right out of the way first and foremost: if you absolutely need to use ai, run it locally. If you are gpu poor, find a service that hosts models on someone else’s machine, like silly tavern, kobold, lama, or things like artbot if you want to Vincent Van Techbro.

So I’ve been dabbling in farting around with this job stealing, planet vaporizing, technology for a year now and boy are these things nothing but hot air. I’ve tried all the frontier models for daily search engine stuff, questions, advice on stupid stuff like what games to play or what comics to read. Grok, (gag me) Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, it’s all the same and it’s all shit.

Just yesterday ChatGPT gave me all the wrong issues of spider-man to read and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back and pissed me right off. Grok is just unhinged and wants to erp with you especially if you are a minor, Gemini is SORT OF okay, but that’s because they enshittified google search to make way for it. Claude is the most quirk chungus of the models, you can tell it was programmed to talk like a redditor or a discord moderator and that’s apparently the trick to fooling vc dipshit this is AGI.

Anywho these things are not worth it, but apparently capitalism has decided we are eternally 2 years away from agi so it’s full steam ahead of data centers shoved into the orifice of every closed down strip mall in the decaying rustbelt.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
    33·
    13 days ago

    They’re toys with some specific productivity applications that are almost entirely unrelated to the chatbot elements. That’s it.

    A lot of people have been fooled into thinking these are good for looking up information because they don’t remember a time when internet search worked. They don’t remember the days when you could use the right keywords and synthax and other tricks to get the correct search results, they started using the search engines after SEO and enshitification made it almost unusable.

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      26·
      13 days ago

      the days when you could use the right keywords and synthax and other tricks to get the correct search results,

      Every time I remember that putting quotes around a search term actually used to do something, I fall to my knees and curse the sky like Charlton Heston in front of the statue of liberty.