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.
I still have to read the comments on this post, but I thought of making one. I mostly agree actually. I only used AI chatbots a handful of times, but it gets old really quickly for me, specially because it treats you like you’re incapable of making a mistake, the user has to be right and must be treated as absolute royalty. It’s not like it can’t be useful, it can, it has helped me in some situations, but others it just shat the bed.
I haven’t tested any of these western AIs tho, I only used DeepSeek and Kimi, so I can’t compare them to that, but still. With the exception of Gemini, because Google just forces it whenever you search something. This one has been useful in one single thing, aggregating a bunch of sources neatly in some cases so I don’t have to keep scrolling until I find what I want, but it also just misses spectacularly and invents things regularly. Also out of all of these, Kimi has been the one that’s consistently better than the others in my experience.