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People probably tried it, found out that it's crap and stopped using it.

We have it on our system at work. When we asked what management expected it to be used for they didn't have an answer.

We have a shell script that ingests a list of user IDs and resets their active directory passwords, then locks the account, then sends them an email telling them to contact the support desk to unlock the account. It a cron job that runs ever Monday morning.

Why do a need an AI for when we can just use that? A script that can be easily read understood and upgraded, with no concerns about it going off-piste and doing something random and unpredictable.

So yeah, they don't use it, because it won't work.

.this basically just shows that AI assistants provide no benefit when they're not used and nothing else.

so you think they may be useful but people just like to work harder? or perhps, they tried and saw no benefit at all and moved on?

Worth noting the average includes the people who did use it a lot too.

So you can conclude people basically did not use it at all.

There's meetings other people need to have and I just need to know broadly what was said. Transcription and summerizing would be great for that

That is, if I could trust its accuracy. Which I don't.

I think we are there, just under the name of capitalism vs slavery.

that's pretty much where we are now

shit minimum wage, corporations owning housing, and monopolies in pretty much every market. it's just slavery with the illusion of freedom because you can choose which shitty apartment building to live in for over half your income, and which franchise stores you shop at, while your essentials are getting price gouged and constantly worse quality for higher cost, yet the workers don't make more

that's just slavery with extra steps

I believe that's the "I spent six years in college and $150,000 for the 'privilege' of sitting in teams meetings all day." look.

I like to imagine we are witnessing malicious compliance from the model.

I'm no dev, but would you consider writing up in detail the features/behaviour you're missing on libreoffice issue tracker?

Absolutely, and it's a massive and undeserved cash cow for AI companies (e.g. Sam "Sister-Lovin'" Altman).

AI is never an investment for businesses or individual users. It's a bloated and unfulfillable promise that just makes users dumb, dependant, and destroys the very environment we need to survive.

It also produces bad products (it's easy to tell which devs use it from reviewing poor quality code).

Not to mention the centralisation of power with the rich who are the problem in this world.

I have a Copilot license at work. We also have an in house „ChatGPT clone“ - basically a private deployment of that model so that (hopefully) no input data gets used to train the models.

There are some usecases that are neat. E.g. we’re a multilingual team, so having it transcribe, translate (and summarize) a meeting so that it’s easier to finalize and check a protocol. Coming back from a vacation and just ask it summarize everything you missed for a specific area of your work (to get on track before just checking everything chronologically) can be nice, too.

Also we finetuned a model to assist us in writing and explaining code from a domain specific language with many strange quirks that we use for a tool and that has poor support from off the shelf LLMs.

But all of these cases have one thing in common: They do not replace the actual work and are things that will be checked anyways (even the code one, as we know there are still many flaws, but it’s usually great at explaining the code now - not so at writing it). It’s just a convenient method to check your own work - and LLM hallucinations will usually be caught anyway.