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Fuck AI

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I'm working for a relatively big company. Not long ago, our boss sent a mail around asking for feedback on "AI". I sent an answer saying the usual: you can't trust LLM on basic searches so it's useless if you have to double check, my short 2/3 bad experiences with it, and why I am concerned about water and energy usage as well as privacy problems with a nice link for each point of articles I found here (thank You people!).

But to be honest, I am still curious about this LLM thing and every once in a while try to give the thing a chance... but damn. This is really shit! Our work provides access to many different LLM models but I pretty much have had issues with all of them.

Copilot now hangs and crashes if I type more than 8 words in the prompt before sending the damn prompt. Once I manage to send the prompt and get a (relatively decent!) answer, the program crashes if I scroll too fast in the window. I mean... lmfao

In the beginning (months ago) Copilot was working in our environment but I anyway could not get what I wanted out of it, apparently my task required to much processing (making a powerpoint out of a big pdf).

With Claude V4, we are supposed to be able to upload files, but it works like one third of the time. Then I ask it some very simple thing like e.g. "how to write bold in markdown" and the thing gave me two blank responses and the thread was just fucked from here. Ok?

Previous version of Claude (V3.7 Sonnet) I was trying to get help on some basic scripts. First simple prompt, 10 words including "Hello" (Yeah I am the kind of person who writes "hello" to LLM, whatyougonnado?), answer goes full stroke with sentence parts, fucked up punctuation, repeats and ends up repeating the question. I found this one really funny.

I don't remember what exactly but I also had similar kind of troubles with gemini.

So yeah, just saying "ok, fuck ai", but to me this is genuinely shitty on top of all the other problems it includes. How can this be pushed so much in the corpo world? For real?

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[–] TheWonderfool@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, something is very wrong in your setup if you get those kind of errors... Let alone the fact that you get it from those kind of models (Claude 4, Gemini...?) I mean, this days even a model that runs on a raspberry pi is capable of coherent responses...

Not that I disagree that you cannot trust an LLM or that it has massive energy and water issues, but damn those problems in your company's infrastructure are really next level!

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well yeah obviously something is wrong with the setup but then I am wondering why the CFO and CEO are in the last global meetings saying stuff like "please really try to use AI in your workflow, it is really good". They use the same setup than me.

[–] TheWonderfool@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If it's anything like what I have seen in other realities (that I have experienced and that people around me have seen) it's all fear of missing out...

The CEO sees that it doesn't work or it doesn't help, but they keep hearing about this miraculous technology that will save lots of money, make everyone super productive and solve all the world issues, so they must be in on it or will be overrun by competitors. And when the results are not showing, it's easier to blame the ones under, than to admit you have been cheated... But maybe I'm simply too cynical.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Try making a PowerPoint or something that they would do.

It’s actually pretty useful at that kind of light weight work. I think that’s why bosses push for it so hard, because they see how much it saves them time. When it comes to hard problems and facts it’s much less useful. As in, useless.

[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago

it's being pushed this much because of shareholder value.

that's it. AI is being sold to shareholders by companies they are invested in (tech) to make them back their money and far more. the tech companies just needs a little help so everyone uses it before they monetize it.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hate it as a system admin. I have asked it for powershell commands and they don't even work. Come on Copilot?! your fucking fed the entirety of how many powershell resources and you cant even give me the correct command? I just give up and read the man page and find the right answer

once I decied to see if it could make an openscad of a soccer card (so I could print yellow and red cards for my local usl games.) It took about 5 or 6 different attempts for it to get it right and I still had to edit the code before it was actually right. 20 lines of openscad.. I could have done it myself with less time and effort for fs!

yeah, maybe for simple Q & A it might be fine, but for specific tasks that have specific requirements, I find that AI is bullshit time wasting

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think your IT setup is broken, in addition to AI being AI. The regular online services work as intended on a working internet browser. For me the text fields and scrolling work as on any other internet page and so do file uploads (up to a certain size).

Other than that, LLMs are kind of autocomplete on steroids (that's not the entire story), but they're supposed to pick up on your tone. If you write very casually, or input garbled sentences, it's going to pick up on that. This is to be expected.

But yeah, seems like you sent some honest feedback. I also occasionally try coding with AI and most of the time it's not really helping.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Big corporations are pushing for it like crazy, no matter the objective facts, because, either it's just shit and it will die out, in which case you may have lost some money, or otherwise it turns out to be the technological revolution it's promised to be and if you are not on board you are suddenly so far behind the competition that you are basically out. So yeah, I work for an industrial corporation, and we are all asked to use "AI" for everything we do, just because maybe it's going to be important. Apart for translation to different languages (which we can reasonably hope an LLM would be good at this), I have yet to find a use case that it would be actually helpful with.