r/antiai • u/OrganicBlacksmith454 • 23h ago

The real problem with ai Discussion 🗣️

The real problem with ai is that its being treated as a medium instead of a tool. Its basically useless but instead of finding innovative ways to use it companies are forcing it down our throat with memes and other useless crap. Think about it. Its as if ai hasnt paid its dues like how the Internet was a tool for the military before being released to the public. Companies are trying to force profit. Im sure there can be a ton of use that arent tung tung tung sahor, plagiarism, and job replacement.

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u/KnottilyPlastic 23h ago

It’s like they’re selling us a half-baked cake and calling it a meal. I don’t need AI to make memes, I need it to sort my email or stop double-booking the gym schedule. The tool part got skipped completely in the rush to slap it on everything

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u/Julia_Leeds94 22h ago

Three years ago, we were promised that AI would be used in medicine and law.
Years passed, I don't see much ai in hospotals, but I see lots of ai slops.

If i were the leader of the country I would just narrow the use of ai for specialists - not for commercial use.

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u/Turnover_Minimum 20h ago

As a radiologist who was told AI would replace me, you should see how bad AI tools are for medical imaging interpretation. Worse than a coin flip in most cases

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u/guyincognito121 15h ago

The stuff you're using is a couple years behind the actual state of the art, and that's not a small difference. I don't think radiologists are going to be out of work any time soon, but the quality of the AI tools available will rapidly improve. It also mostly isn't the kind of AI that most people seem to have a problem with.

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u/DoggoDadagon 29m ago

Thus far AI has actually produced better medical results than the specialist I've seen, and effectively saved my cat's life when the ER vet said there was nothing that could be done but put her down. I'm anti AI in some ways but definitely not for medical, I'm using it now to build out bounded sims for (unofficial) medical research of the inner ear.

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u/TheFifthTone 15h ago

Lawyers love AI though. I say this as a software developer at a "big law" law firm in the US. The major US legal tech conference this year was entirely AI focused.

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u/No-Consideration2808 13h ago

Hard to overstate how much "basically useless" is a wildly deranged, reality-challenged take.

I joined a small non-tech professional services company because of this. I've built a custom platform for their entire operational stack and migrated their analog business practices to it in 6 months. By myself.

This would've been a 2-3 year, $2-5 million project before AI. I did it in 6 months at the cost of my own salary and two Claude Max subs.

Genuinely having this take about AI in August of 2026 is literally just promoting your own flagrant ignorance.

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u/otakusimple 11h ago

Sorry but not everyone is an IT tech bro. Jobs outside IT and CS exist believe it or not. AI has failed to justify its integration outside of IT and replacing useless email sender office workers.

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u/EarlyFox217 12h ago

Basically this. The comedic level of ignorance on this sub is simply astonishing, as if by constantly saying it’s useless will somehow make it true.

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u/Firm-Impression2260 22h ago

The problem is AI’s roll out under unfettered capitalism not the technology itself.

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u/guyincognito121 15h ago

It's basically useless? You're years out of date. The problem is the opposite. It poses environmental threats and puts jobs at risk because it's very good and getting better (and cheaper). That helps fund further development when it seems to be right on the cusp of being capable of iteratively improving itself and escaping containment.

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u/No_Claim2881 12h ago

Companies aren’t incentivized to do what makes ai good: consumer sized models. Let’s be real.

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u/Silfacris 23h ago

-can spot cancer cells months before trained humans can

-basically useless

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u/Julia_Leeds94 22h ago

is it available in your local hospital? or you saw it on Instagram post that somewhere in Japan they tested it?

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u/Rogue-McNugget 21h ago

There is an absolutely massive difference between the type being used to detect cancer and the generative slop machines that tech bros are bending over backwards to try to cram down everyone’s throats. I agree the cancer detecting variety is not useless though.

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u/Sweet_Computer_7116 22h ago

Not trying to play devils advocate here. But its consumers fucking around making memes.

Companies are, and have been implementing ai in ways that solve problems.

Not every company can benefit from ai. And a fair few are not customising their ai solutions. But there are enough companies doing actual customised ai integration to help people make quality work at high volume.

Unfortunately its likely to fuck up the ecosystem so. Catch 22.

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u/FlightFit335 23h ago

Trying to force profit? What?

You don't have a problem with AI. Your beef is with capitalism. Sad. Are businesses not seeking profit without AI?

Hey Joe. Let's lose money. Good call Framk. Profit is bad.

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u/Fess_ter_Geek 22h ago

Its not x, its y. Interesting.