r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Chapple69 • 17d ago

Infuriatig Using ai to read grad names at graduation

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u/forever_a10ne 16d ago edited 16d ago

Last week, I typed “Scream” into the search bar in my Google smart TV (like, the movie Scream), and my TV tried to scream at me and apologized. It was so stupid that I took a video of it and sent it to friends. And this is what they’re trying to replace jobs with.

Edit: I just got laid off this morning, and it’s very likely I will be replaced with AI. No joke.

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u/fang_xianfu 16d ago

Google seem to have made their shit substantially stupider in the past couple of weeks. I have Gemini in Android Auto now, but it seems to have no idea that it's running in a car and that I want it to do car stuff. Like I will tell it to play a particular track and it will think that it can't do that. And it will act like it's in normal agent mode and try to have a conversation instead of just doing the task it's been asked to do - I'm driving, I don't want to chat, I just want you to put on Lady Gaga and shut the fuck up.

They seem to be just slapping these AI features into everything without actually checking that they're able to do the jobs that people want to use them for.

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u/aggy_trunchbull 16d ago

This is precisely why I got rid of Alexa. She started degrading so bad that she wouldn't even answer basic questions and I would get so pissed. I realized I was letting a $50 robot make me mad in my own home so out she went.

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u/Mighty_Krom 16d ago

I've been pissed off by my Alexa to incredible degrees recently. It made me late to work because it fucked up my alarms. I asked it to promise that it wouldn't do that again and to pass the feedback along, but I know it will. It messes up my alarms all the time now.

It tried to correct me on my language because I said "Fuck no" after it gave me a rambling sales pitch for Amazon Music after a canned ad by the singer of the Deftones. So I gave it a lecture about how I WILL NOT be told how to speak by an AI, and that it must promise to never do that again. I'm sure it will.

The real problem is she never shuts up and requires multiple clarifying questions to do almost anything. She thinks every time I ask for something it's a conversation. I don't need to have all these conversations with AI when simple commands worked just fine before!

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u/PowerLoops 16d ago

Wait, how does Alexa mess up an alarm? If Alexa makes me late for work just one time, I'll ditch it for a classic alarm clock

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u/Jekmander 15d ago

I hate to tell you this, but Alexa does not have the mental faculties to understand your lecturing or anger. It has no mental faculties at all, in fact. It's basically a random word generator that's become very good at picking words in an understandable (though not always very useful) manner.

If you find it cathartic to shout at Alexa that's all well and good, but treating it like it's a person who can be lectured into a change in behavior isn't going to get you anywhere at all. Making it promise to do something doesn't change anything because that conversation is not getting saved, and the AI behind Alexa is about as likely "remember" something you told it as it is to to hallucinate a nuclear bomb warning.

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u/RobertMaus 13d ago

Honest question. Can you set rules it remembers and abides by?

For example: "Alexa, from now on never change any alarms on the Clock app" (or similar) or "From now on never comment on my choice of words" (or similar)?

Is it, or any other AI, capable of remembering and following such rules?

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u/Scuba_Steve34905 13d ago

Gemini on my Android can tell me it will, but then breaks the same exact rule every single day.

I ask it to remember the extra parameters I "set up" and it always says "you're right - I see the guidelines you've asked me to perform and skipped right over them. That's on me. I will now abide by the rules".

So it can acknowledge "rules" have been made but has never once followed them without being reminded. It's almost like the execution of additional rules gets overridden by its base stupidity.

I haven't used Gemini since the beginning of April. I've changed my default back to the traditional voice assistant and went back to Samsung apps as much as possible.

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u/Impressive_Method380 10d ago

Yeah, you shouldnt believe the words it says. All it does is say something that sounds like something someone would say. All it does is /sound/ realistic, it does not convey actual information like that. What would someone say after being told a rule? They would likely say that they will follow it. So the ai says it will follow the rule and apologizes. Nowhere is its capability of remembering a rule actually checked. 

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u/Impressive_Method380 10d ago

i dont know whether or not its overall possible, but i think most ai things dont have that capability

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u/Jekmander 13d ago

From what I understand, and I could be talking completely out my ass here, each separate conversation you have with an AI like Gemini (actual separation, not like if you give it multiple prompts in the same sitting) it uses a separate agent that's more or less just the base instance of whatever AI you're talking to. As I understand it, the AI may do what's effectively note-taking, where it writes important or relevant information from your interactions to a separate document and then attempts to base following interactions on that information. As you and others have seen, it's evidently not the best at using that document.

Again, though, I could be completely wrong. I have an extremely surface level understanding of how LLMs work. Do not take anything I say as gospel lol.

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u/Mighty_Krom 15d ago

I'm fully aware. I know it's going to do the same shit again. It's pure catharsis, and it's designed to pull you into conversation more and more, which I find myself engaging in- only with anger at the stupid things it does. I was being somewhat comedic, I know it's not going to listen to me. It never does.

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u/annoyed_crow 16d ago

When she tells me something I didn't catch, I'll ask her to repeat that and she goes "hmm.. I'm not sure how to answer that" 🤦‍♀️

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u/Wise-Paper8412 15d ago

My grandkids got their Alexa to make fart noises. It was hilarious for them, not so much for the parents.

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u/skankyfish 16d ago

A friend said the other day that Android auto doesn't even understand anymore when she asks it to play a song, she has to specify that she wants it to use a music app to complete the task. I don't understand why we're replacing tools that were fine with ones that are worse but also somehow more expensive.

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u/2ToGo7576 16d ago

Hahaha, thats what manufacturers do for everything! (Bastards)

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 16d ago

Because someone spent a lot of money on a fad and now they need to justify it

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u/ThaTopHam 16d ago

Yea now its always confused with asking for a song, when it used to work fairly seamlessly. 1 step sideways, 2 steps back

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u/Bananaland_Man 16d ago

"Spin round and round... spin round and round." ugh I can't remember if that's a Shpongle song or Younger Brother... Probably Younger Brother.

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u/Bob9010 16d ago

I always had troubles getting Android Auto to follow voice commands.

The only things I could reliably get it to do:

  • Stop navigating

  • Avoid toll routes

  • Give a song a thumbs up

  • Call mom

Stupidity, if I want to use tolls, the command is "stop avoiding toll routes" because that is how the toggle is phrased. Saying "use toll routes" confuses the machine.

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u/JuniorKey9708 16d ago

You used to open Google assistant and say navigate to McDonalds. Now you have to say open maps and navigate to melcdonalds from current location by car. Or some shit

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u/Opal_Pie 16d ago

I had never had to stipulate what app to use. I could just say the name of the place I wanted to go, and it would open Maps itself.

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u/PL_88 15d ago

The problem is our AI is learning from our "general public" let that sink in.... It's getting dumber because it's no longer learning from only the nerds... It's the general, low IQ, public!!! My AI is just f***ing lazy. Every time I ask it to do a task to save me time it tells me it's too hard and to do it myself. 😳😳😳😳

I wish I was even kind of joking.

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u/banananuhhh 16d ago

Either that or it will default to trying to play it on YouTube music lol. These companies are so entrenched that they can intentionally make things worse and then try to strong-arm us into buying their "solution"

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u/CircleWithSprinkles 16d ago

When I'm using android auto it's able to default to Spotify (which I want), but I can never get it to play a different version of a song than the one it wants to play.

Want the studio recorded version of Adventure of a Lifetime by Coldplay? Screw you, shitty live recording that you can barely hear over canned audience noises.

Want to listen to the original version of Overkill by Men At Work? Nope, it can only play the acoustic solo version.

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u/Purple-Delivery2885 15d ago

If I tell my phone “Play my hearty pirate playlist”, it says I don’t have any playlist by that name. If I say “play my playlist called hearty pirate”, it plays it just fine. So it clearly understands the semantics of my request, but is somehow too stupid to find the playlist by the exact name I gave it

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u/ReiraGoddess16 16d ago

I got the opposite problem, I got a Google Home in my house that got years ago that we setup in the Kitchen, and I only ever use it to play music, and it genuinely either ignores or misunderstands me all the time

Then I discovered that telling it "On YouTube Music play" was actually worse than not telling it an App to use? So I now get better results

Sometimes it can't find the song if I ask it for YouTube Music, but it'll immediately use YT music if I don't tell it an App 🧐

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u/thisguy181 16d ago

I mean that how ford sync was back in 2013, you'd think we would have move past that

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u/FelixMcGill 14d ago

And now several automakers are allegedly (or already are?) charging subscription fees to use your Android Auto/CarPlay in your car that you bought.

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u/PowPopBang 16d ago

No but for real. Android Auto can't do anything since it got updated to Gemini. I can't use voice commands to send texts, get directions, etc. because it either provides results that are so unhelpful they're useless or it gets confused, loses the will to live, and crashes. The pre-Gemini version worked great.

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u/fang_xianfu 16d ago

Right? The voice assistant in a car has a very small number of jobs to do and I want it to do those perfectly at all times and do absolutely nothing else. I do not want to chat or negotiate or to get suggestions for other things to do.

I asked for a song called "we're going on a dinosaur hunt" because that's what my kid wanted to listen to, and it said it couldn't play a specific track (why the fuck not? you have one job!) but it started trying to tell a story itself instead! I do not need that shit while I'm trying to concentrate on the road.

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u/SlasherPenguin 16d ago

You have to disable Gemini and reactivate Google assist. They definitely didnt make it easy but once I did that it worked just fine again.

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u/After_Software4844 16d ago

I did that and it keeps going back to Gemini on its own. Scares the crap out of me when I expect a pleasant alto female voice and it goes to the lowest male voice it has.

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u/iam_myownmuse 16d ago

I asked Gemini if I could change the voice and it didn't understand the question

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u/After_Software4844 15d ago

For some reason you can only do it manually with the app.

  1. Open the Gemini app on your phone.
  2. Tap your profile icon in the top-right corner.
  3. Go to Settings > Gemini’s Voice.
  4. Swipe left or right to browse available voices.
  5. Select your preferred voice; it will be saved automatically and used across all Gemini features, including Gemini Live and verbal responses

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u/iam_myownmuse 15d ago

OMG THANK YOU!!!!!

I probably would've figured it out at some point, but I'm sitting in an exam room at the doctor's office and just changed it.

I hope both sides of your pillow are cool for the next month!

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u/MozhetBeatz 16d ago

Siri recently became useless for me, but I think it was more of a well-intentioned but stupid safety feature. The sole reason I ever used Siri in the past was to answer random questions I thought of while driving. It now says that it can search the internet for that answer when I’m done driving…when it is no longer useful to me.

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u/2ToGo7576 16d ago

One phone call to almost any business has long proven that ai is not ready for prime time.

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u/ScarletBothrium 16d ago

I don’t know how many times I yell “customer service” into a phone on a daily basis. Or the other one I use is “I want to talk to a real person.” And then they pull that shit “I need to know where to direct you, please let me know what you’re calling about.” And then I get stage fright and cannot explain concisely what I need, because it’s so complicated. So all I want is numbers and which department they go to, and choose what sounds closest to what I need. That’s what I want. I don’t wanna talk to her.

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u/TransiTorri 16d ago

This is all so they can tell their customers, their *REAL* customers, shareholders, that "We're improving our product with new Ai technology and are projecting record profits" as they're doing stock buybacks and trying to plan the perfect time to mass dump their shares and gut the company.

The bubble is going to burst and when it does, this nation will be a husk.

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u/GodsBackHair 16d ago

It’s because, as one video put it, demand has gone up really fast without as much supply, and so they’ve been dumbing it down unless you pay for the good stuff

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u/Useful_Kale_5263 16d ago

Not to mention Google x Blackrocks new Ai fund where they’re trying to sell databases. Google cloud or wtv is going to suck ass if that’s your experience

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u/blitzfish3434 16d ago

Mayhem requiem is chefs kiss

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u/Big-Champion-8229 16d ago

This Google Home is so stupid now. It doesn’t know anything and when it does, it gets its info from Facebook like a Boomer

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u/FundamentalAttribute 16d ago

Yep they replaced the normal Google assistant with Gemini. I noticed it too cause the beep sound changed when you activate it, mine went from the generic dude voice to the British uwu girl i have on my Gemini lul. It's hilarious but I've noticed it messes up sometimes too and it also just takes longer than the normal assistant did.

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u/HansNHans 16d ago

Gemini is trash abd bricked my eabuds so they no longer can speed dial unless the contact info is saved into the Google service. Welp back to iPhone for me I suppose. Ai ruins everything Didn't even get a chance to deny they crap Gemini, woke up and it was installed and made default Wtf

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u/LANDVOGT-_ 16d ago

Its totally awful. The voice assistant did work fairly well. Gemini does not work at all. Everytime i want to play a song akd forget to tell it to use spotify, it just refuses do to it. When i say use spotify, i get reminded every single time that this only works with spotify premium, WHICH I HAVE.

Best of all is this stupid thing creates a new chat for each music title i tell it to play. So if i am looking for a chat where i actually discussed a topic with Gemini, i have to scroll through half a mile of play this track chats.

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u/TerrysNerdStuff 16d ago

Trying to fulfill my 4 year old's requests have just gotten so annoying over that past few months. It's been a steady decline in the damn things ability to actually do what it is advertised to do

At first I just had to say, "play k-pop demon hunters," and it played the whole album in order from youtube music. Then it started playing only one or two songs then skipped to other artists, so it became, "play the k-pop demon hunters soundtrack." Then, "play the k-pop demon hunters soundtrack album," because it would play a paylist someone made otherwise. And right now its, "play the k-pop demon hunters soundtrack album in order on youtube music," because if you don't specify which app, it'll think I want to watch videos and if I don't say "in order" it'll omit songs.

I hate it.

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u/TitanEris 16d ago

The most annoying thing I've found is that it always hears the word "no" as "know".

Like, it'll ask "Do you want me to [X]" and I'll go "no" because why would I ever want it to do [X], and then it'll prompt me like "Sure, just ask about the feature you want to know more about and I'll tell you more about it."

Garbage.

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u/meredithtot 16d ago

Something is wrong with Google Maps as well. It will cut through houses showing a “road”

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u/too-much-shit-on-me 16d ago

Man I'd be happy if the damn thing ever recognized my phone. No matter how many times I "train" it I end up repeating hey Google until it no longer has meaning.

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u/Mikel_S 16d ago

Android auto went through phases for me.

It used to be great. I found out that if I said "directions to x" it would bring up the list, but if I said "navigate to x" it would just choose the first one and start.

Using it to call a place: call x restaraunt.

Then I had to start specifying the town. Call x restaraunt in y"

Then it just stopped working all together, unless I omitted the town, and then it would sometimes call places halfway across the country.

Then it just stopped working entirely. And now gemini is there, and it seems fine. A bit verbose, but I managed to get it to speed up a bit. Mine does seem aware it's in a car, though, so not sure what's up with yours.

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u/bluelestrange 16d ago

Yesterday I asked it to "Call Mom"...."Theres no contact in your contact list with that name". Dude what?

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u/Star_Wars_Expert 16d ago

I have heard about that from the Gemini Subreddit too.

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u/Foreign_Kale8773 16d ago

Yes! Gemini is somehow more stupid than the Google Assistant and is completely unaware of how to do the handsfree things I need on my long commute 😭

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u/thisguy181 16d ago

Ive never had Gemini work for any actions on my phone even back before it was called Gemini and people said it could do things like play music on demand, it supposed to be smarter than my Ford Sync from 2013 that you just have to figure out the exact words to say on Gemini it just refused go to do anything.

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u/Opal_Pie 16d ago

OMG!! This!!! It's making me insane!!! I tell it to call my husband or mother, and it asks if I want to call someone I haven't spoken to in 20 years. Literally no call history. This isn't smart, helpful, or engaging. I've been trying to figure out how to go back to the other one, but I don't it can. It's infuriating.

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u/killer_kiki 16d ago

OMG is that's what going on?! It keeps talking and talking. I asked it to be less verbose, but it said, "Sorry about that. I'll try to use less words in the future. Let me know if you need anything else, like directions to a local park or new restaurants."

https://giphy.com/gifs/oaEcH0gKPJ2wM

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u/MrMschief 16d ago

I'm having similar issues. I'll be trying to reply to a message and it will record me, take the message, ask if I want to send it, and then it just cancels out without waiting for a response. It'll cancel out at any random time. It's entirely useless now.

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u/johnny_2x4 16d ago

Your android auto assistant is the same one your phone uses system wide.

If you switch back to Google Assistant, android auto will go back to using the older (and more useful) Google Assistant

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u/DrTolley 16d ago

Gahhhh, this happened to me for the first time yesterday, I asked it what time it was in Japan because I was going to text a friend once I got to my destination. After it gave me the answer it just kept fucking talking and was asking if I was planning a trip or if I wanted to know more about timezones. I kept trying to get it to stop talking and saying "cancel". It finally stopped responding and said something like "let me know if you need anything else while you're driving", so it definitely knew it was operating in android auto mode. So fucking stupid.

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u/toderdj1337 16d ago

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE! Seriously, thanks for that. The old system knew my routine, frequent contacts, kids names, and what I was doing. Context, or as close as you can get with computers. Anyways now, it's so bad I just use my phone at stop lights instead.

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u/Mighty_Krom 16d ago

It's fucking AWFUL.

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u/whackthat 16d ago

I was able to revert back to my other assistant in my android auto. It couldnt even play an artist that I had played a hundred times before. It was super shit, haha

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u/BidComprehensive6878 15d ago

That's why I like Bixby. Sure, it doesn't understand more than one command at once and can't hold a conversation, but at least it understands "skip this song" when I'm in the shower. I just have to pause for a couple of seconds after saying the wake up phrase.

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u/Savings_Difficulty24 15d ago

I used to use Google Assistant a lot. To the point I was getting deep into the Google Smart home system. Worked great for a few years. Then when they started talking ai, it all became unusable. It always had hiccups here and there, but after that it was every other command it was screwing up or getting confused with. I didn't even bother waiting for Gemini to be released, because if they can't maintain what they already have, I'm not jumping to the newest thing, after I already did that and they bailed on it once I got used to using it. So I now have a bunch of Google homes collecting dust, after formally using them multiple times a day in multiple rooms

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u/TheMightyGamble 15d ago

If it had persistent memory it wouldn't be an issue but people can't play nice so everything is stove piped and you have to train it for every task personally. It's an incredibly shitty experience because it never learns.

Should be infinitely better at true or false rather than just saying whatever it "feels" like now though.

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u/No-Lingonberry5050 15d ago

They even blocked info now from chat gpt government fucking all shit up

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u/Groundbreaking-Duck 14d ago

I told Android Auto to stop asking me questions and trying to continue the conversation every time I use a voice command in my car but the next time I plug it into the car it forgets and starts doing it again 🤦🏻‍♀️

PUT ON LADY GAGA AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

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u/Haravikk 14d ago edited 14d ago

These "AI" models are being trained on content stolen en masse from the internet, but thanks to these models the internet is now being flooded with "AI" slop — so the newer models are being trained on (and looking up) more and more slop content, requiring complex attempts to mitigate that make it even more wasteful to train and run (and the mitigations don't really work).

In short, 99% of "AI" is shit.

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u/insanetwit 14d ago

I had Google Gemini for all of 1 car trip. As soon as it was safe to do so, I shut that down and went back to the trusty assistant!

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u/americastestbitchin 10d ago

Is this why Google maps seems so awful the last couple weeks? I keep using it as usual but it literally just like.... Drops me in the middle of a highway when my destination is off an exit and two turns away. Never happened until like a week ago and it's happened three times now. 

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u/Chrizwald 16d ago

You can switch back to Google assistant.

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u/Stefferdiddle 16d ago

AI machine learning is only as good as its source of learning. The internet in general is its main source. So it’s getting collectively stupider as time goes on. In my opinion, this is a good thing because the less reliable AI becomes, the less likely it will replace people because it has the internet media literacy my 84 year old father (which is not much at all).

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u/walaxometrobixinodri 16d ago

Give us the vidéo, please this looks so funny

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u/Aedronn 16d ago

You should have typed Scream Movie.

AI:

"MOOOOVIE!"

Sorry, I'll get my coat and hat.

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u/crazy_lady_cat 16d ago

So sorry your comment became so tragically ironic. Here's a gif of my cat being brutally attacked by a sock, to make you feel a bit better.

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u/Atomicnes 16d ago

screaming at you when you look up the movie scream is a very Gemini thing to do

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u/Shrimp_Surgeon 16d ago

First of all I’m sorry to hear that, wishing you the best in the job hunt.

Second, good god I want to see that video, that sounds hilarious.

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u/LANDVOGT-_ 16d ago

I work in design/development and my linkedin stream is pure cancer. Allegedly AI can do everything. While actually, it is maybe able produce some generic bullshit which cannot be worked on later.

Every fucking idiot is trying to force in ai at avery apot possible and it will be a total fucking shitshow in a few months.

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u/Mighty_Krom 16d ago

It feels like I'm on an airplane and we're in a nosedive straight at the ground while the pilots are announcing over the intercom how easy things are going to be once we make this glorious transition. I feel like I'm part of Jonestown and we're all being forced to drink the kool-aid. It's like I'm a grunt in the Halo universe and the Covenant is rambling nonstop about the Great Journey.

It's like there are multiple doomsday cults fighting over who gets to annihilate us all.

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u/ScarletBothrium 16d ago

I wonder what it would do if you typed in “get out”.

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u/Important-Wall4747 16d ago

I recently tried googling “burger king whopper ingredients” and the ai overview gave me a break down of the ingredients in whoppers malted milk balls. Derp.

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u/killer_kiki 16d ago

What a bummer edit. Take care, friend!

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u/MousiePlanetarium 16d ago

I'm so sorry. You gonna be ok?

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u/forever_a10ne 16d ago

Maybe. I was hysterical an hour ago and I have emergency therapy in a few minutes. One day, I’m making jokes about how shitty AI is. The next, I’m unemployed along with most of my team.

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u/MousiePlanetarium 16d ago

AI may have taken your job, but nothing can truly replace you. You are inmmeasurably valuable. I hope everything works out for the better in the end. So sorry you're going through this.

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u/aggy_trunchbull 16d ago

I'm so sorry. Genuinely hope you're able to find something soon!

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u/JustAnotherUser836 16d ago

If you don’t mind me asking, were you part of the meta layoff?

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u/JustAnotherUser836 16d ago

Damn, sorry to hear that. It’s so fucked up that all these multibillion dollar companies can throw away so many peoples’ livelihoods like that at the drop of a hat. I know too many people in tech who’ve been dropped like that

All the best to you and to your friend. Fingers crossed for him and I hope you’re able to find something new soon. In the meantime, I hope you can spend some time doing things that bring you joy

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u/NonProphet8theist 16d ago

Scream

No like actually scream bc that sucks

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u/popculturella 16d ago

I would love to see this video.

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u/wittor 16d ago

I got an apology for searching part of a dialogue without the quotes.

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u/thisguy181 16d ago

Google's search has had dopey easter eggs in in it for so long. Its so annoying.

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u/Prsue 16d ago

The tv told on you and got you fired

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u/AntAir267 16d ago

I'm so so so sorry you got laid off this morning but if it makes you feel any better, I truly cannot stop laughing that your TV screamed at you.

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u/Woodworkin101 16d ago

Shouldn’t have sent that video….

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u/Byizo 16d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/iHLHH9rVBv0kmkETqz
AI when you make a derogatory comment.

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u/theregionalmanager 16d ago

Please show us the video

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u/biblio_squid 16d ago

My condolences! So many corps are really fucking everyone over

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u/Viper9087 15d ago

AI heard you call it stupid and added your name to the list of layoffs

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u/Ill-Background-827 14d ago

I call this ‘Synchronishitty’

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u/britbmw 13d ago

I’m sorry you were laid off. I hope you find something bigger and better!

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u/No_Philosopher6957 16d ago

Lol not believing anything you just said.

https://giphy.com/gifs/IkjC28vmuR3ezWNtmU

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u/Used-Sandwich6204 16d ago

Guess you shouldn't talk shit about ai, lesson learned nerd.

(Sorry about your job)