tante

"I find it really weird that – just because AI is magic and all – we allow huge corporations to release something that is so obviously not up to standard that they have to remind you about it with every use. How is that acceptable? Why do we accept that with AI companies and not anywhere else?"

(Original title: That asterisk …)

https://tante.cc/2025/03/21/that-asterisk/

That asterisk ...

So whenever you use some AI chatbot (regardless of the maker), it’s there. That motherfucking asterisk. Like look: Quote: “Gemini can make mistakes […] so double-check it.” I have a question (well multiple ones but let’s start with my biggest one): Why do we accept that? Say I order groceries from my supermarket. Some fruits, […]

Smashing Frames
Mar 21, 2025 at 10:20pmWeb
Show threadFabian TranschelMar 21, 2025

@tante I have the theory that IT enshittification is so ingrained now that the average user just sighs and thinks that the standard is a) bound to drop and b) the best it'll ever be.

Now, not only is this coincidentally the *converse* of the AI grifter's "the models are the worst they'll ever be", it's also, in every instance, obviously false:

Of course Google maps was better before the color change.

Of course Acrobat worked better a decade ago.

Of course LLMs are grifting utter nonsense.

Show threadFabian TranschelMar 21, 2025
@tante The (sarcastically speaking) funny thing is that so many details could be better if just anyone cared enough while all the major structural challenges (energy and water usage, confabulations, bias in any flavour you'd like, copyright, ...) are not just unsolved, but likely intractable.
Show threadLars RosenquistMar 23, 2025
@ftranschel @tante it’s worse. I’ve seen gamers actually demanding things like paid expansions and microtransactions “to keep a game alive”. It’s insane how people have been programmed. A product can be just “done”.