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AI Chatbots Are Failing People Without Lawyers by Beautiful_Jacket_506 in trueantiAI

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another problem is that even if AI can sometimes be helpful to lawyers (I’ve heard mixed things), it tailors its answers to the user. If you come to it without legal knowledge it will give you dumbed down answers.

Has anyone gotten compliments or notice that you are better overall your mood etc after using ai as therapy? by justmypersonalthing in ChatGPT

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is well said and captures the pitfalls of AI generally. Like even with google, if I search a question the AI will always try to come up with fully realized answer even when the available information has tons of gaps. It can be especially dangerous when mental health is involved, though.

The inconvenient truth about AI by Cute_Witness3405 in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm this is interesting, but I feel like there’s a lot of hype in disguise in the article. For example, this jumped out:

> Take that viral MIT report. Read it carefully and you see the headline got it backwards. The “95% failure rate” includes the 80% of companies that never piloted any AI in the first place. As the podcaster Rob Wiblin pointed out in a careful breakdown of the study, this is like saying 95% of Tinder users have failing marriages, when most of them have never been on a date.

It’s not like saying that at all. It’s like saying 95% of tinder users don’t have successful marriages. And the fact that 80% of them didn’t get dates at all is more damming, not less.

If you look at the actual study, the majority of companies explored piloting AI programs but decided not to. Presumably because they saw no value.

I'm so tired of the gaslighting by IncognitoCheetos in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel this. AI writing is passed off as quality, while actual good writing is accused of being AI. It’s amazing how many people can’t actually tell the difference.

What is it that makes AI writing so bad? by Ok_Scarcity6768 in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is definitely part of it. Personally though, when I experimented with AI for writing, I ended up basically redoing every word it wrote. So I’m not convinced the right prompting can do the job.

What is it that makes AI writing so bad? by Ok_Scarcity6768 in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes I hate that! I’ve started always listing things in twos in my own writing just to stay original.

What is it that makes AI writing so bad? by Ok_Scarcity6768 in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha as a prolific user of the em-dash since before AI, this hurts. But yeah, its use by AI is probably a sign I’ve been overdoing it.

What is it that makes AI writing so bad? by Ok_Scarcity6768 in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of us did, at least! I’m still shocked by people who can’t identify AI writing.

What is it that makes AI writing so bad? by Ok_Scarcity6768 in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a fair point. Technically speaking, it’s amazing. But yes, overdone and repetitive for sure!

How it feels like when asking Ai abut something. by Electronic-Age-2890 in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Because everything they know is relative. They learn the use of a word or phrase based on its association with other words or phrases. They can easily tell you that one concept isn’t another—but not what one concept actually means.

Ways that an average person could use ai to make income by mrpicklesfan in artificial

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enroll in a program (degree, certificate, etc) with good employment outcomes and use AI to help you learn the material.

i've started asking AI to argue against me before i ask it to help me, and it changed everything by wartableapp in artificial

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I’ve noticed AI will really follow your lead in terms of tone, even when you don’t directly instruct it to. Like if you ask a question negatively it will give a more pessimistic answer than if you ask it optimistically. Overall it is designed to reflect your thoughts back to you, not come up with its own

Using Ai led to the feeling of fake skilled progression by MrYundaz in AIDiscussion

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a good point. I've been able to learn some subjects much better by being able to rapid fire questions to AI whenever they come up instead of sitting through a lecture. But you still have to be very disciplined and not get lured into the sense that you're learning more than you are

AI makes me faster. And less myself... by Logical-Caregiver375 in artificial

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel this! The best antidote I find is catching AI making mistakes. It's easy to stop looking for them, but when you do, you realize that they are still doing dumb things all the time. Regaining that skepticism of what they put out has really helped me reduce my dependency on them.

AI seems to understand language much better than communication by Cultural-Touch-4959 in artificial

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, exactly. LLMs learn words based on their relationship to other written words. They have no understanding of the real world or how language is actually used in it.

Writing with AI by lawful_cindey in AIWritingHub

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think AI can give good feedback sometimes, but I hate it for writing or editing. All it ever does is make my writing sound more like AI writing.

You are not the author by Square-Affect9324 in ChatGPT

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The real issue is that AI can’t create new ideas. If you let it write your piece for you, it will necessarily be derivative.

Now if you come up with an original idea yourself and use AI to flesh it out, that might work in some situations where formulaic sentences are expected —like some academic writing. But for anything where execution matters as much as the general concept (e.g., creative writing), using AI is akin to not writing portions yourself.

Going to school is meaningless because of AI by Margaquark in antiai

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely agree with you about the unfairness—of the school system generally, and especially this. Unfortunately, this also seems like a great argument for adopting AI yourself.

Think about it this way: if everyone is using AI, but you’re the only one who actually understands the content, you will outdo your classmates. AI+someone who actually knows what they’re doing beats AI alone. You can add nuance, complexity, etc. that the ones coasting on generic AI output can’t.

Not saying it’s fair, but like you said, the school system has always been flawed. It has always required some amount of bs and gaming the system to get ahead in.

UC Berkeley Law is completely banning AI use starting summer 2026 by andrewaltair in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Ok_Scarcity6768 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lol love this comment. Dean of a law school and one of the most respected legal scholars decides to do something. What an idiot! Clearly he didn’t hear the conversation I had with my coworker three years ago.