I ordered some well rated concert ear protection from the maker’s website. The order waited weeks to ship after a label was printed and likely forgotten. I went to find a place to call or contact a human there, all they had was a self-described AI chat robot that just talked down to me condescendingly. It simply would not believe my experience.
I eventually got the ear protection but I won’t be buying from them again. Can’t even staff some folks to check email. I eventually found their PR email address but even that was outsourced to a PR firm that never got back to me. Utter shit, AI.
That’s really good to know about these things. They’ve been on sale through Woot. I guess there’s a good reason for that.
Oh man, sad that’s the customer service cause I deeply love my loops. I was already carrying them with me everywhere I went so I grabbed a pill keychain thing and attached them to my keys so I’d never forget to grab them.
Yeah this happened back earlier this year. I had lost a pair from a purchase years ago and replaced them. Guessing they are laying off people/support contracts like so many stupid business owners. I was sure that my order would be stuck in limbo forever after the experience, but they eventually showed up. Never again.
That would’ve been such an easy disputed charge and get the plugs somewhere else. I’m not wasting a second on something like that, just telling my credit card company they didn’t uphold their end of the deal, and that’s that. I will lose hearing out of spite if this happened to me, because I’m an idiot.
I’ll waste a few moments. It becomes a puzzle. Assuming you managed to make it through the maze, you retrospectively analyze where would 99% of the country have dropped out of the flow and given up?
Then it’s an email to the attorney general if necessary! (I mean that’s been rare but when something is egregious)
🤓
I will lose hearing out of spite if this happened to me
Genuinely admire your self awareness
Absolutely. Cc dispute is an under-used method of recourse.
I’ve lost hearing for stupider reasons. Spite seems downright reasonable to me.
I’m glad you mentioned the company directly as I also want to steer clear of companies like this.
Wow, that’s extremely disappointing. I had a really positive experience with them a few years ago when I wanted to exchange what I got (it was too quiet for me), and they just sent me a free pair after I talked to an actual person on their chat thing. It’s good to know that’s not how they are anymore if I ever need to replace them.
Never thought about ear protection for concerts, sounds cool. I’ll have to look into other options though, if anyone has any recommendations, let me know
A number of companies make “tuned” ear plugs to allow some sound through with a desired frequency curve, but reduce SPL to safe levels. I’ve used Etymotic, which sound great but I personally like a little more reduction. Alpine which I thought had enough reduction but too much coloring, and I settled on Earpeace, for like $25 on-line. Silicone, re-usable and easy to clean and they come with three filters to swap in or out depending on your needs / tastes.
I use claude to ask it coding questions. I don’t use it to generate my code; I mostly use it to do a kind of automated code review to look for obvious pitfalls. It’s pretty neat for that
I don’t use any other AI-powered products. I don’t let it generate emails, I don’t let it analyze data. If your site comes with a built in LLM powered feature, I assume
- It sucks
- You are a con artist
AI is the new Crypto. If you are vaguely associated with it, I assume there’s something criminal going on
I mostly use it to do a kind of automated code review
Same here, especially when I’m working with plain JS. Just yesterday I was doing some benchmarking and it fixed a variable reference in my code unprompted by commenting the small fix as part of the answer when I asked it something else. I copy-pasted and it worked perfectly. It’s great for small scope stuff like that.
But then again, I had to turn off Codeium that same day when writing documentation because it kept giving me useless and distracting, paragraph-long suggestions restating the obvious. I know it’s not meant for that, but jeez, it reminded me so much of Bing’s awfully distracting autocomplete.
I’ve never felt this sort of technology before that, when it works, it feels like you’re gliding on ice, and when it doesn’t, it feels like ice skating on a dirt road.
I use AI to script code.
For my minecraft server.
I rely on expert humans to do tech work for my team and their tools.
I am not anti-AI per-say, I just know what works best and what leads to best results.
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Peoples are lazy when they using calculators!
I use AI as a tool. AI should be a tool to help with job, not to take jobs. Same as calculator. Yep people will be able to code faster with AIs help, so that might mean less demand, at least for IT. But u still gotta know what the exact prompt u need to ask
Sounds like Brian can’t figure out AI.
I don’t care if one loves or hates AI, this shit is funny.
Can no one take a joke anymore?
Did you forget a /s ?
Hes saying that the businesses he’s interacting with can’t.
Wrong /c/ my guy
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Using AI is telling people they shouldn’t care about your IP because you clearly don’t care about theirs when it passes through the AI lens.
Stop making using AI sound based
It’s completely clownshit to think that you’re going to be able to differentiate AI within 2 years. Maybe less than that. Veo2 is insane.
LLMs != AI
LLMs strict subset of AIPls be a bit more specific about what you hate about the wide field of AI. Otherwise it’s almost like saying you hate computers, because they can run applications that you don’t like.
If I ran a business I think the only thing I’d have “ai” do would be basic social media stuff because I don’t want to ever get into that kind of stuff though I think could make it in windows basic
Reply to questions with company phone number/email, post company pictures from certain folder every 5 hours or so, like a post from random local person, like a random post from a random person anywhere(extra funny if porn or horrible opinion)
You’re describing a predictable automation.
“AI” is not predictable.
That’s why I put quotation marks around it
i use AI every day in my daily work, it writes my emails, performance reviews, project updates etc.
…and yeah, that checks out!
You have standards?
I think this problem will get worse because many websites that’s used for “your own research” will lose human traffic to watch ads and more bots just scraping their data, reducing motivation to keep the websites running. Most people just take the least resistant path so AI search will be the default soon I think
Yes, I hate this timeline
Eventually they will pay AI companies to integrate advertisements into the llm’s outputs.
Omg I can see it happening. Instead of annoying intrusive ads, this new type will be so natural as if your close friend is suggesting it.
More dystopian future. Yes we need it /s
It’s so annoying because you’re correct. I’m finding it harder and harder to use a search engine for things. Hell, the web in general is becoming unusable. It’s all shit.
rant
here’s my pesonal gripe. Imagine looking for a solution to a problem and find a reddit thread in your search engine of choice. Wording in the description seems to match your exact issue and it’s one of the first results. You click on it and…
What i’d do to that smug fuck if I ever got my hands on him aside, me behind a VPN and deleted reddit account can’t find the answer. But i can go to chatgpt without logging in to answer my fucking queries and it does it with more efficiency than looking at random sites for things, which most of the time are just sloppy shitty mirrors of Stack Overflow or Quora that BLATANTLY copy content from those websites and just use slightly better SEO…
Also, reddit did this in because of the API shit they pulled. AND THEN THEY SOLD FUCKING ACCESS TO GOOGLE. So me, a fucking person (as far as I know anyway), isn’t privileged enough to view the fucking crumbs of information that google just fucking gobbles on a daily basis. Fuck that. This is a move that makes me feel less important than my fucking roomba.
I just feel so mad. I want the old web back. I just want my duckduckgo to work well.
Sorry for the rant.
I just feel so mad. I want the old web back. I just want my duckduckgo to work well.
Same here.
I have to disagree with that one but not completely. It really depends on what type of company I interact with . is that an independent small company or a big corp . also what type of AI (generate picture or generate summary etc…) And is the application fullfit or not . ex if you generate a logo or a picture in a small business is the style of the picture correct or is it the same as everyone , also did you check if the image was correct etc… But for big corps yeah they can go fuck themselves, they have the budget to pay artist
Meanwhile, Terence Tao: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zZr54G7ec7A
