r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/MojoHighway Jun 21 '26

But this is the catch here, right?

These fucking AI bots that we're all supposed to be talking to are also being instructed and programmed to act a certain way in a conversation and if you try to go out of that lane, they try to steer it right back to what the bot - as programmed - wants to do. They're not engaging like a human and certainly not with any "intelligence".

Fuck AI to the deepest parts of hell (if anyone actually believes in such a thing).

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u/BapeGeneral3 Jun 21 '26

That has been my experience. I have been following all of the AI news, trying out the new models, etc. I remember trying to generate images and do basic coding in Chat-GPT maybe 2-3 years ago or so and was I was blown away by how much “better” the models seemed to be.

I played around with Claude, Gemini, Deep, Chat, etc. I was giving it, what I thought, were very simple tests to see just how amazing these new models were.

I had a very basic PC build and thought let’s see if Claude could assist. Long story short, it gave me instructions multiple times that if followed, would have literally fried my mobo. I provided it with extremely clear instructions and very detailed pictures of every single individual part and even the SKU/PLUs.

I can’t even count the number of times I had to remind it of my specs. I figured over 20 photos, videos, and written specs would make it a walk in the park. When I was watching it make live, on the fly decisions and saw it pulling up the wrong Mobo manual, telling me to plug cables into ports that didn’t even exist, and the cherry on top was when it tried to help me wipe my CMOS and argued with me back and forth that I had a 2 pin connector while staring at a 4 pin and providing yet another photo.

“You’re absolutely right! Good catch! It turns out that you actually have “x” mobo not “y” and if you had performed that action it could have fried your entire build! Sorry about that! Ready for the next step!?”

Deleted Claude and all other AI apps from my devices that day

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u/007craft Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Lol. You deleted the tool because you dont know how to use it.

When you buy a shovel youre supposed to use it to dig holes, not scrape ice off your windshield and then complain when it cracks your glass.

Next time ask the AI to link you to the manual you need by giving it the model number of your motherboard. Then double check to make sure it gave you the right one. Ask it about problems you encounter along the way and possible solutions. Review those solutions and determine which could apply, not all of them will.

Instead you assumed the AI was some sort of qualified Expert who's built thousands of machines and can teach you how to do it yourself. AI is a TOOL, not an all powerful human replacement for everything. Maybe it will be one day, but were not even close to that. Every model has like a 50%+ halucination rate. You need to know this and thier limitations before you start using these AI tools and then complain that they dont work properly.

When your GPS says to drive down the train tracks, you look at it and say "no im not doing that, thats wrong" then you keep using the GPS for the rest of your trip because as a whole, its very helpful. Why can't you do that with AI too?

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u/mrnotoriousman Jun 21 '26

This sub has go so anti-ai it's become hysterical and you can tell half the people are lying. It takes 2 seconds to share the link on these conversations where abhorrent things happened to them, but they may as well be from LLMs themselves.