Fuck AI

Working so hard to find a problem for the solution they've invented.

That screenshot is such pyscho behavior. "Our algorithm will access any and all data it can on you to answer your question, whether you ask it to or not! Isn't that great??"

i love people describing use cases for ai because it’s always like "a good use case for ai is incredibly niche situation that will happen to you like maybe once a year if we’re generous where a problem presents itself that could be solved very easily without ai"

Good thing the person working the tire counter wouldn’t be able to recommend tires or be able to look up the trim on your vehicle

So the AI deeply violates your privacy, then guesses everything based on that. Omg fuck no. Keep that photo scanning AI as far from any of my devices as possible. Fuck google for even thinking this is ok. Holly shit.

Lol at the article, yes tyre shops are often extremely busy with very long lines and also the people in line would definitely not allow you the courtesy of taking 10 seconds to go check your number plate in the parking lot.

These AI use cases people demonstrate are so braindead.

I hate when restaurants go the other way, with menus on your phone through a QR code. Obviously much more convenient than having a physical menu, which is why so many restaurants in the past printed their menus on tiny phone-screen sized booklets.

That's... Not how getting tires works? You pull up to whatever garage you go to, ask to get your tires replaced, and it's done in a few minutes with literally no other input needed (if it goes smoothly anyway). Even if you're going to a weird corporate place they're going to check over your car instead of asking you anything.

Are there people out there that actually act like this?

The number of competent experts who are impressed by an LLM wielded in their qualified field is as vanishingly infinitesimal as legitimate and justifiable invocations of the term ‘AI’.

Those who have expressed the greatest enthusiasm for ‘AI’ are typically the farthest removed from actual, nuanced comprehension.

It’s a grift economy built on statistically luke-warm, vibe lobotomised corpses.

Wow the article, giving up that much info and privacy just for a stupid 5 second convenient. Tyre size is available on the sidewall, car number plate should be the thing you remember and commited to your memory or taken picture and then put it on "favorite", tyre brand and type should be recommended by the shop that sell them instead of Gemini. Billion dollar project for this dumbass tech and dumbass public is buying it. Next we throw away our critical thinking so billionaires can control us very easily.

And there is no cost at all, ever, for this "assistant" that has full access to every aspect of our life. Free and without consequences forever!

I've bought new tires from all sorts of places and people, and nobody ever asked for my license plate number. Is this an American thing?
In fact, these days, I simply order tires online and tell the company to deliver them to one of their many "partners," i.e. car repair shops. They notify me when the delivery is done, I leave the car there overnight and collect it the next morning. That's all there is to it.

Gronk, is this real?

He doesn't know his own licence plate?

Shit, I get pissed off when the menu is behind a QR code i have to scan.

Met a dude like this at an after party a while back.
As soon as me and my friends came there this random dude had something out for me, never met him before, and I couldn't handle how much he was staring at me so I sat down and started talking to him. I'm a very unagressive person and shy away from even heated discussions, just wanted to see what the deal was and see if just talking would help the mood soften. Almost immediately he brings up the, then very current, thing about the EU voting about banning the words sausage, burger, filé etc. for non-meat products and he's fully on the side of that being a good thing. I don't agree but also never go into full on debate mode so I try to talk with him in an "interested about your views" way, ask about his experiences around it etc.
And I learn real quick that he's the kind of person who tries to find every single clumsy word choice, small hole in an argument and then goes on a completely uncalled for rant and personal attack through that. But I've learned to just continue doing what I do, I want to discuss and talk and not act like I'm superior and go for personal attacks. Of course he can't stand someone not getting angry or trying to do the same things back so after a bit he whips out his phone and says "Ok, let's as ChatGPT about these things" and I have never felt so much like bursting out in demeaning laughter as I did then. He sits there and literally just reads the answers he's been given from the obviously very skewed towards his view questions he's written. I just look at him and let him continue for a bit then stood him and say that I'm very much not ok with this, if you're gonna start a debate over something you should do that based on your knowledge and experiences, at the very most bring up a Wikipedia article but not a fucming AI chat bot. His answer is literally "I'm a junior lab assistant and have tech skills, I know that these answers are 100% correct and based on all available information online".
I couldn't even respond to that so I just say I need to take a leak and ask where the toilets are and actually went and joined some other random people, who were very nice to talk to and even discuss and debate things with.
After about an hour and a half some of them needed to go home so we go into the room where he was sitting and he's having the same fucking debate with two other dudes who are sitting there just as bewildered and annoyed as I was, I sit down next to them and join another conversation and the AI bot dude stands up, looks at us 3 he talked with like he's disgusted by our existence and just leaves.
So fucking weird, I actually feel sorry for him more than I dislike him. I hope he manages to climb out of that hole.

Sorry for the wall of text and certainly some spelling errors, gonna have to come back and format and correct stuff later tonight.

Not knowing your own licence plate number is indicative of being out of touch. Normal people need to know it to operate many parking ticket machines, when paying their registration, car insurance, parking in hotel car parks.

I can imagine when you have assistants to do all this you might think it's a boon to have a digital assistant help you with basic world skills. Even just the arrogance of asking an LLM for tyre information instead of asking someone at the tyre shop.

Knowing gemini it told him the wrong size of tires and it hallucinated the options and the plates

Waiting for all the people who call Pizzacake's comics "strawmen" to flock to this post and do the same.

That blog post is pure hilarity.

I understand the point, but in a real situation in 2026, it's likely the restaurant has a qr code menu, and with respect, equally fuck that.

Someone check Seattle FB Marketplace to see if he's selling 4 wrong-size tires yet.