Comment on Finally escaping Windows, ironically thanks to AI
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 6 days ago
Good for you. The only two times I decided to glance at the AI overview of a search cause I wasn't finding anything, it wasn't useful at all. So yeah, I'm gonna save the planet a little more.
Ooops@feddit.org 6 days ago
I still don’t understand where people are findign these useful AI answers. Every single time I try it seems AI is an acronym for artificial idiocy and I wouldn’t even trust it to tell me the time.
(In fact I just resently tried asking that stupid meta AI in sand-boxed Whatsapp (I still have to keep because of some stubborn examples of humanity) about the time in another time zone… It could tell my local time, in which time zone I was, what timezone I was asking about and what the difference between those zones was. Yet it could somehow not answer the question directly before being led there step by step. And then it still did the math wrong… 🤬)
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 5 days ago
I use LMMs daily, but I never even had the idea to use the stupid AI button in WhatsApp. And I had a buddy mentioning last week how hilarious bad the google search AI is.
You’re here in selfhosted. Do a minimum of research, fire up opencode and create an agents.md with something like „Never guess, if you don’t know something do an online search first!“. This will get rid of 99 percent of hallucinations. Then just use one of the free models opencode provides.
Ooops@feddit.org 5 days ago
No, thanks. My “research” is testing AI from time to time. And it is indeed artificial idiocy most of the time.
And when basically all answers I ever get from AI proponents is either “Those local models are just not powerful enough so it’s on you that you don’t get sane results” or “Those models just need some tuning so it’s on you for not running a local one you can optimise for your usecase” you start to realize there might be an entirely different problem…
I get perfectly good search results by avoiding AI, so there is really no need for me to tune anything but the settings on my searxng instance…
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 5 days ago
Gotcha! You do you.