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Personally I've found that ai is fantastic at pulling files off my phone cause I'm a lazy shit... Iv trained it so that when I tell it "do the thing" it pulls all the pictures off my phone and backs them up.
It's fun, whimsical, and while I could do it a host of other ways. This is just more fun.
Which is honestly kinda what I see as one of the better use cases for local models. Sure you could do the same thing with a script, or by hand.
But it's not as /fun/ as having a little robot butler that slings one liners from various cartoons that you don't have to prepick as it enacts your will.
...so your good use case for AI is running a task apps have been able to do automatically for 20 years...?
It's like buying a robot butler to manually turn off the lights
Yes we did that with smart bulbs. We aren’t against the robot butler.
That's what I'm saying. The butler is overkill for a solved problem
Just have the ai make the script. It’s going to go off the rails one day and you’ll regret that whimsy.