I know its a bit of a hot topic but I've always seen people (online anyways) are either a hard yes or absolutely no on using AI. There are many types of "AI" that have already been part of technology before this hype, I'm talking about LLMs specifically (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc...). When this bubble burst its absolutely not going anywhere. I'm wondering if there is case where you've personally used it and found it beneficial (not something you've read or seen somewhere). The ethics of essentially stealing vast amount of data for training without compensation or enshitification of products with "AI" is a whole other topic but there is absolutely no way that the use of the technology itself is not beneficial somehow. Like everything else divisive the truth is definitely somewhere in the middle. I've been using lumo from proton for the last three weeks and its not bad. I've personally found it useful in helping me troubleshoot issues, search or just use it to help with applying for jobs:
- its very good at looking past SEO slop plaguing the internet and it just gets me the information I need. I've tried alternative search engine (mojeek, startpage, searXNG, DDG, Qwant, etc...) Most of them unfortunately aren't very good or are just another way to use google or bing.
- I was having some wifi problem on a pc i was setting up and i couldn't figure out why. i told it exactly what was happening with my computer along with exact specs. It gave gave me some possible reasons and some steps to try and analyze my computer it was very very useful.
- I've been applying for so many jobs and it so exhausting to read hundreds of description see one tiny thing in the middle that disqualifies me so I pass it my resume with links and tell it to compare what i say on my resume and what the job is looking for to see if im a fit. When i find a good job i ask rewriting tips to better focus on what will stand out to a recruiter (or an application filtering system to be real).
I guess what I'm trying to say is it cant all be bad.
I've tried ChatGPT a few times to see if it's useful for me, and it's worked surprisingly well in most cases.
I made a website that needed two modal images, one on the top and one on the bottom. I wanted them to be enlarged when they were clicked on. I found a load of guides for getting one to work, but I couldn't get both to work. A few minutes with a prompt got it working. It didn't help me to learn JavaScript, but did give me working code that I needed quickly.
I've used it to fluff up some text. I'm not very good at making things sound good in text, so it helped a lot.
The latest one I've tried is getting camera settings for a dark gig setup. I was able to give it an old photo that was under exposed but gave an accurate impression of the room, and ask for recommended settings with the same lens, a new lens, and a flash. It gave me a selection of settings with and without the flash, including settings for rear curtain sync, so when it leaves a ghost trail behind the subject. It's nothing I couldn't figure out, but would have taken a bit more trial and error in the room. I probably wouldn't have thought of the ghost trails.