this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
119 points (94.1% liked)
Technology
86957 readers
2692 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I actually really like the technology that has been collectively lumped together as "AI". I think it's fairly useful now, and suspect we're at the beginning of the curve for this technology, and it will only continue to improve, even as it becomes more efficient. I understand this is a wildly unpopular stance in these parts, judging by the avalanche of downvotes I get for having this opinion.
What I don't like is feeding tons of information about myself to a giant tech company. I run a local LLM on my phone and another on my (fairly decent) computer, and sometimes I use duckduckgo's front end, which anonymizes prompts.
As for agents, it's pretty much as you say. I just am not ready to have an LLM take action without my direct supervision, because I'm confident that between flaws in the LLM and flaws in how I give it direction, something will go sideways.
Yeah "AI" stuff gets a lot of hate around here but I think it works pretty well as a tool for things like information gathering and analysis. Wouldn't trust it to go off taking actions by itself either though.