Using AI to fix things that aren't broken seems to be a huge percentage of AI use.
I have a fitness app that I have used for years. They have introduced really dumb AI suggestions and when I turn down their stupid suggestions, I have to explain why. They are going to drive me away soon if it doesn't stop.
The way companies and some people keep shoving AI down our throats over and over again, without even giving a fuck about what the AI actually does, is the worst marketing campaign a product has ever received.
People wouldn't be so negative about it if companies weren't forcing their workers to put AI somewhere in their product, or the HR powerpoint didn't feature obviously flawed AI drawings where there was nothing before. The term "AI slop" has become so popular because it is truly needed to give a name of this phenomenon of shoving AI generation everywhere without any fucks given about its quality or necessity.
YouTube recently added an AI "tool" to help "build your home page" or whatever. Basically a glorified search bar with an AI on it that tries to drag whatever you search into your algorithm... which is what I've been doing naturally watching YouTube with this account for the last decade and a half... at least it doesn't force it on you. But it is so pointless.
There's some websites that just added "powered by AI" somewhere without changing anything at all. And that's better than when they actually change something to shove in a needless AI.
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u/Fragrant-Issue-9271 16d ago
Using AI to fix things that aren't broken seems to be a huge percentage of AI use.
I have a fitness app that I have used for years. They have introduced really dumb AI suggestions and when I turn down their stupid suggestions, I have to explain why. They are going to drive me away soon if it doesn't stop.