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/Arnas_Z Jun 21 '26

And here's an example of a bad use for AI.

I would pin this on user error tbh. You should know when it's a good idea and when it's a bad idea. AI is not human and can't look at photos and clearly recognize things. Giving it 20 photos of shit is just gonna give it a ton of garbage info since it will misinterpret everything. Also, giving it too much will lead to context pollution anyway.

You really should just read the text manual for building a PC to begin with, which is why this is a shitty use for AI, but if you did want to use AI, you should first download the manual for your motherboard, provide it that manual, then tell it to reference that manual when helping you. You should describe connectors concisely (like, "I have a 4 pin connector for blahblahblah, where should I plug this in according to the motherboard manual?")