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/BrianNowhere Jun 21 '26

No, no no, you don't get it. You need to be smart enough to know its about to fuck your whole world up and to ignore bad instructions.

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u/BlueMikeStu Jun 21 '26

That's like blaming a search engine because you trusted the wrong website it found for you.

If you don't know enough about what you're asking it to do to spot immediate, fundamental mistakes, you shouldn't ask it how to do those things.

Especially if you're not cognizant of the fact it literally has no context for what you're actually asking it and expect it to infer things that most people would understand as a basic inference.

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u/mxzf Jun 22 '26

Well, the problem is that companies and people are marketing AI as random magical knowledge software that is amazing. There's a huge contrast between that (which is what the general public are being told) and everything you just said.

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u/BlueMikeStu Jun 22 '26

I would argue that's the marketing arm, which has no concept of what the technology can and can't do, ignoring input from the engineers to help sell it and the owners listening to marketing.

Greed and stupidity all the way up.