AI can’t be all that bad. The problem I’m always seeing with AI is a double-edged sword. You have corporations shoving AI in just about everything, treating it like its a cure for cancer and that really rubs people the wrong way. Then, on a more of a society level, you’ve got people who use AI for an assortment of things like making art with AI and still accredit themselves as an artist to people who treat AI like a therapist when it is not advised to.
However, I’ve found some benefits with AI. For example, I’m chatting with ChatGPT on credit cards, because it is something I may lean towards getting into. It’s helping me better understand than most people have tried explaining to me. Simply because it is giving me a more stream-lined response than people just beating the bush.
For every small benefit, there are disastrous mistakes. We shouldn’t discuss one without the other:
https://tech.co/news/list-ai-failures-mistakes-errors
March 2026
- Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited
February 2026
- Health advice given by AI chatbots is frequently wrong, says new study
January 2026
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Study reveals that fixing AI mistakes takes up to 40% of the time that it saves
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An AI tool used by ICE to identify applicants with previous law enforcement experience falsely flagged applicants with no such experience, leading to the placement of unqualified recruits in field offices.
December 2025
- AI mistakes clarinet for gun at Florida school
November 2025
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Google Antigravity deletes entire content of user’s computer drive
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Report finds AI hallucinations in 490 court filings from the past six months
October 2025
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Teenager handcuffed after AI mistakes Doritos packet for gun
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Lawyer submits AI-assisted court filing with fake citations
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Man follows ChatGPT advice over stopping eating salt, develops rare condition. The man was hospitalized, sectioned, and eventually treated for psychosis. He tried to escape the hospital within 24 hours of being admitted.
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ChatGPT-5 jailbroken with 24 hours of release
July 2025
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AI Coding app deletes entire company database
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McDonald’s AI chatbot error exposes data of 64 million job applicants
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AI program is tasked with running a small shop, goes insane, claims to be human
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Apple Intelligence falsely presents BBC headline
… and it just keeps going.
And if ChatGPT made a mistake? How would you know before it’s to late ?
Because all other information on credit cards (or anything else) on the internet available to people eager to learn is 100% accurate, all the time?
I’ll take that over an information tool that lie 30% of the time
That is absolutely the worst excuse possible to shill for big tech that comes with no real guarantees about precision or accuracy.
While there are trustworthy human sources in the Internet, there are no trustworthy LLMs.
translation is pretty good.
they want to make ai npcs on games, which could be awesome if we can ever reduce the system requirements for running it.
I tried out a game/demo thing that was a tester for AI NPC dialogue. I asked an NPC to tell me about himself and he replied that he could not connect to server lol
If we’re strictly talking about LLMs: Certain accessibility services - MAYBE. Writing closed captions / transcription for the most part requires little “human” touch. If we ASSUME that AI will be able to it reliably one day - because it really can’t yet - that’s one thing that would benefit society.
Image descriptions is another thing I might see done by AI one day but that still requires an understanding of what’s actually important about the image.
I built a system that translates subtitles from English to my native language and it beats cheap-ass “official” translations 9/10
It even gets colloquial terms and phrases right, adapting to the correct song for example - something a human translator working for minimum pay usually won’t bother
I have a friend at work that does a lot of video. He films weddings, music videos etc. and is making a pilot for Netflix. He uses AI to go through all his footage and tag it according to content. E.g. if he needs a clip of birds, he can just search ‘birds’ and it will pull up all relevant footage. Incredibly useful.
I feel like this was a thing before it got put under the banner of AI
This could come in pretty handy for me. What’s he edit on that does this?
It’s a custom app he made using ai vision and xml files I guess. He uses DaVinci resolve though
Is the AI vision local?
Multimodal local models like qwen3.5 are pretty good
Basically you grab screenshots from the video at intervals and ask the model to tag / describe them.
I should probably learn how you link all this stuff up, probably not doing myself a lot of favours ignoring it.
A 20€ plan of Claude Code for a month will teach you all of it.
It’s pretty much just scripting ffmpeg and feeding the screenshots to a local model via an API (or use a CLIP model)
