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What are some good uses for AI? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 week ago by Jaegeras@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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AI can't be all that bad. The problem I'm always seeing with AI is a double-edged sword. You have corporations shoving AI in just about everything, treating it like its a cure for cancer and that really rubs people the wrong way. Then, on a more of a society level, you've got people who use AI for an assortment of things like making art with AI and still accredit themselves as an artist to people who treat AI like a therapist when it is not advised to.

However, I've found some benefits with AI. For example, I'm chatting with ChatGPT on credit cards, because it is something I may lean towards getting into. It's helping me better understand than most people have tried explaining to me. Simply because it is giving me a more stream-lined response than people just beating the bush.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

For every small benefit, there are disastrous mistakes. We shouldn't discuss one without the other:

https://tech.co/news/list-ai-failures-mistakes-errors

March 2026

  • Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited

February 2026

  • Health advice given by AI chatbots is frequently wrong, says new study

January 2026

  • Study reveals that fixing AI mistakes takes up to 40% of the time that it saves

  • An AI tool used by ICE to identify applicants with previous law enforcement experience falsely flagged applicants with no such experience, leading to the placement of unqualified recruits in field offices.

December 2025

  • AI mistakes clarinet for gun at Florida school

November 2025

  • Google Antigravity deletes entire content of user’s computer drive

  • Report finds AI hallucinations in 490 court filings from the past six months

October 2025

  • Teenager handcuffed after AI mistakes Doritos packet for gun

  • Lawyer submits AI-assisted court filing with fake citations

  • Man follows ChatGPT advice over stopping eating salt, develops rare condition. The man was hospitalized, sectioned, and eventually treated for psychosis. He tried to escape the hospital within 24 hours of being admitted.

  • ChatGPT-5 jailbroken with 24 hours of release

July 2025

  • AI Coding app deletes entire company database

  • McDonald’s AI chatbot error exposes data of 64 million job applicants

  • AI program is tasked with running a small shop, goes insane, claims to be human

  • Apple Intelligence falsely presents BBC headline

... and it just keeps going.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So don't put AI in front of anything mission critical or without going through a review of a human.

[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So LLMs in agentic mode are a disaster waiting to happen.