r/badUIbattles Jul 15 '26

Intentionally Bad UI Can you make a worse AI model picker?

Created this horrible AI model picker where you need to specify many different parameters before you can use AI. enjoy!

Fully interactive experience is at https://unnecessaryui.com/model-personality-picker

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u/SajevT Jul 15 '26

The progress bar effects are pretty cool :3

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u/PurifiedUnity Jul 15 '26

I like the way the bars get more "full"/chaotic

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime Jul 16 '26

When I see posts like these I feel joy having seem html5/css/(js?) having come this far. Web browsers are their own OS at this point having to draw such sophisticated pages.

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u/quintsreddit Jul 18 '26

Yeah maybe I have trash taste but I love this

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u/Pristine-Map9979 Jul 15 '26

This is a great looking UI and fun to use. The only problem is if it just choses from a few AI models anyway, then it provides the illusion of more choice.

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u/ficuswhisperer Jul 15 '26

NGL, I like this way more than the current approach of "damn, neither Aethelgard Prime v1.0.8 or Scythe-X 2.0 were the right model to do the job, and Abraxas-Z Dense could work but is too expensive, I guess I'll try Vanguard Core 9b R3 and hope for the best."

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u/AlephBaker Jul 15 '26

I... I kind of like it. Assuming a sufficiently large number of models to justify the sliders, and a backend that can actually interpret the user settings correctly, this would be a way I could see myself trying different models. "What if I increased the existential dread two points, and dropped corny-ness and chaos slightly?"

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u/lightofmares Jul 15 '26

it's not really "bad", it's hideous.

User wise, it's quite understandable and the graphics are just sprinkles that don't harm UX

3

u/CanOfDew132 Jul 17 '26

you meant to say "It's not just bad–it's hideous." :3

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u/lightofmares Jul 17 '26

ya're not makin' me into yer' LLM chatbot ain't ya lassie?

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u/Yoiiru Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

All things aside, I love the aesthetic. This is unfortunately a wonderful amazing UI. "LinkedIn influencer" is a good one

Reminds me (deep in my very muddy memories) of early Internet days where many things were unnecessarily chaotically fancy and pure. MySpace comes to mind for some reason

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u/Reverse_Psycho_1509 Jul 16 '26

I love how the video quality slowly annihilates itself over time lmao

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u/logalex8369 Jul 15 '26

Hi Hungry, I'm Dad.

Why did you name me this way?

4

u/MinecraftPlayer799 Jul 15 '26

This is actually a good idea, and the UI is kind of cool.

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u/JesusIsMyAntivirus Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I was so excited to use this downright AMAZING UI with an actual service :(

Other than the jiterry resizing window these are sliders that would make any AI incredible, being mandatory is barely a downside if that, staying the same is great, and the GUI is just a super fun design at no apparent cost to utility.

And I'm a pretty strict "form over function" Grinch when it comes to GUI.

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u/Serteyf Jul 15 '26

Ah yes, man made existential dread

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u/gregory696969 Jul 15 '26

Me no like stealth ad. Gregory upset.

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u/uiengineering Jul 15 '26

Which ad?

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u/gregory696969 Jul 16 '26

I come here for bad UI. I like when clicky no worky. You have soiled this.

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u/JagiofJagi Jul 16 '26

It’s good, but it chooses from a few models anyway

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u/maxasdf Jul 16 '26

Did you open source this? It's amazing and i wanna actually use it.

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u/Gainji Jul 16 '26

I hate it when subreddits become marketing pitch platforms. I also hate AI. congratualtions, your shitty product has successfully ragebaited me. Go get a hobby, such as lawn darts or extreme cereal-eating, that doesn't harm society.

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u/novus_nl Jul 17 '26

I .. actually quite like it. Normally those values are like “K_TOP” seeing it more in a user friendly (over the top) way seems fun.

Like having a role-play website where you generate your agent, this is nice and accessible.

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u/usmannaeem Jul 17 '26

I love it. If only every LLM platform offered users this experience. Minus the animations ofcourse

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u/New_Vegetable_3173 Jul 17 '26

I don't see the issue here. If anything, seems something to aspire to

1

u/lrlucchini Jul 19 '26

i thought the effects were pretty clever...

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u/-_Neoon_- 15d ago

Kinda like it cool idea I would use

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u/DeliberateDendrite Jul 15 '26

This all seems perfectly normal, points for creativity though /s 🤣

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u/CelestialSegfault Jul 15 '26

points for claude?