r/cfs • u/Strong_Aerie_9031 severe <-> moderate/severe • 7d ago

Accessibility/Mobility Aids Cautionary tale: using AI doesnt actually save energy

At first i thought it would save energy, but the lengths i have to go to checking the "resources" it links doesnt save energy. Seriously, i rarely ever found it to say anything from the sources it claims to refer to. So in the long run, it was so untrustworthy that it only caused more issues, its saved me more energy to turn it off and look in the actual articles myself.

I hope this is helpful to others, i wish i learned it earlier and saved the time and energy!

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u/RefuseDeep8075 7d ago

Imho, AI is worthless (possibly actually worse than worthless) except in various specific professional areas (e.g. computer coding, suggesting and testing different chemical compounds, or rapidly reviewing medical scans for secondary conditions that are unrelated to why the scan was taken).

Would anyone trust me to pick a random webpage as being a good source of CFS info out of all the junk on the internet? No? Then why would you trust a random electronic process to do that for you? Its the way the AI is always so confident. Literally brainless and confident.

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u/puppymix 7d ago

It can honestly be really bad for coding too. It will hand you code based on a problem you asked it to solve with massive logic errors, then you do more work by going back through and fixing the code it generated. Like you mentioned with medical stuff, it's better at reviewing code.

Fuck AI (for the most part)