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Has anyone else here not used "non-toy" AI? If so, why aren't you using AI? For me, it just kind of seems "internet-of-shit"-like, both in that it often seems like a gratuitous application of technology and that it seems to combine multiple of the internet's worst problems.
Sure enough, I eventually tried to make an account for Claude, because I thought it might help me procrastinate more effectively. Despite Anthropic giving lip-service to privacy, they not only require a unique phone number per account, but wouldn't accept my VoIP numbers. And I couldn't even get that far in the process, without allowing Google's third-party javascript! Why not just make people go through a dozen recaptchas, if it's actually about spam!? I then decided to see if I could make an OpenAI account, but the page kept giving errors, even with a bunch of third-party javascript allowed.
I was about to say that I've never used AI, but then I realized that would be a lie - I've used AI before to put together a long string of fluffy bullshit for work in order to save myself the aggravation of putting together said fluffy bullshit.
...and I will likely use it again this week to, yet again, put together a few paragraphs of fluffy bullshit to appease the MBA types in my office.
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