I’m using it extensively, for instance, I have to create contracts with businesses that I work with, and AI is really helpful, works within minutes, and I don’t have to get a lawyer involved (I have sufficient legal know how, to be able to check the texts). I ask Claude.AI many questions, which help me to find out about any kind of topic (eg I wanted to know more about mobile nuclear reactors and got a quick summary within seconds). Naturally, you should take nothing at face value, blindly believing AI won’t do you any good, AI does not replace your brain. I create marketing materials and personal profiles with the help of AI, and I’ve also improved my CV. I have even used it to write a message to a friend who lost their son to cancer, I truly was at a loss for words, but AI helped me to come up with some useful sentences (which I personalized). All in all, it is extremely useful, even to answer questions here on Lemmy.
We forget that it “knows” what it does by stealing every piece of text that can be found on the internet. No one will ever be credited or paid unless your AI service decides to (which: spoiler, they won’t). And the power consumption is outlandish. Like, literally climate-collapsing outlandish. But here we are.
That said, I don’t see a way of stopping it other than charging what it costs for it. It’s basically being subsidized right now and is “free” more or less. Plus there’s no option to stop hallucinations, they’re baked in, so it should never be used to decide anything (although it will).
That said, if you want it to write a smurf-themed baking book - or whatever - in seconds, it can do that pretty well. It’s pretty good at stepping through tech support-type questions. And it fills out forms in seconds.
But the outlandish crime and power-grabs (literally, even) to get it here or further make it so very fucked up.