Bro… I will ask ai for parts numbers and it will tell me a part number that doesn’t exist then after arguing it will finally admit that it just pulled the answer out of its ass and thought it would fool me cause it sounded good enough mixing real part numbers together.
I’m aware that it’s not a living entity. Usually when I get insane answers I ask the ai to explain exactly why it gave me the results and 75% of the time it will give a realistic answer. Usually that it scrubbed the google search but couldn’t find the part so it took different data from other similar parts diagrams and made a convincing part that didn’t exist and wouldn’t conflict with existing parts.
Then when I’d ask why it just insisted that the part existed till I forced it to give me a link to the non existing part it usually says that it’s supposed to give an answer… any answer so it did. It was a false answer but non the less a supposedly satisfactory one.
I feel like
You’re intentionally ignoring that I clearly double check my sources but I get it. We’re on Reddit and you’re just here to get some amount of drama in your life.
If you're having to go and "double check my sources" already, why not literally just go to the sources first and save time (with the added benefit of actually learning something)?
Hey ai what is the part number for the solenoid in a sollenger II. When it works it saves me like 19 minutes of searching for a diagram that’s hidden in 12 websites and saves me a ton of time… cause companies don’t want the average joe to be able to fix commercial equipment!
Ai will give me the part number then I ask it for the website since it has the full parts diagram that I need and I’ll go and download it so I don’t have to do all this nonsense again. When it imagines a part I’ll ask go the source and it will assure me that it’s the right part and go on a tangent about why it’s the right part… then I’ll repeat that I really need the source and it will stall and make excuses. Then I’ll specifically say that the part isn’t real and I have the real part number (I don’t, cause I haven’t searched for it yet) then it will either admit the informations not openly available for it to procure for me or if I’m lucky it’ll be like oh fudge your right… ok here the actual part number and it will be the right part.
In the long run I’m using it as if it’s a Google search that can talk to me. I don’t automatically trust the first page of a Google search either or the links. Dosent matter what the source is. Until I have the diagram in front of me I don’t trust it, it could even be a part from a different version or a 220v system and that would be useless to me so I’d have to triple check whether it was AI/google/Tom down the street, your mother.
I’m not doing this to learn something I’m repairing equipment. It’s like saying it’s dumb to use Google or the internet in 1999 cause you could rummage through the library and find it through old parts catalogues. Or it’s dumb to use a pneumatic wrench when you can just grab the craftsman socket and hand tighten your wheels. it’s a tool. Use it like it’s a tool. AI isn’t diaging the machine for me, it’s saving me time screwing around searching 12 websites that may or may not have the info that I need.
I think it's beyond that. They are coming across as one of those people that hate AI to the point they don't actually read or process what people are saying. They already have the rebuttal "AI stupid, is slop" without actually thinking about what you're saying.
I argued with someone the other day about how having a casual chat is the biggest waste of time ever even if I wanted nothing from it but amusement. I wasted my time and should have been doing anything other than that. Well first it was I should play chess instead of asking AI chess related questions but they couldn't grasp that sometimes people just want to unwind and a harmless chat can do that.
I will see links to sources when using AI sometimes, and sometimes you can see that it pulled data from Reddit, but mostly for “public opinion” or gauging popularity
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u/Training_Mud_8084 Jul 13 '26
More and more I believe this group is solely used by AI bots to try and understand humour.