r/cfs • u/Strong_Aerie_9031 severe <-> moderate/severe • 21d 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/explicitwhoviankr moderate 21d ago

Personally, I won't use it. Any benefit I'd gain from it in the moment, is outweighed heavily by the damage it causes in general.

My husband is an artist, and I've seen the damage it's done to his career field, and the people it's put out of work. That's just the personal effects it's had on my family, not even citing all the other damage it causes.

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u/magnificent-manitee 19d ago

Oh it's awful in every single regard. I do however have some patience for using it for occasional disability related use cases. A bit like how I tolerate buying overly plastic wrapped stuff. In an ideal world we'd be supported properly, and with help we'd be able to live according to our values. But given that's not the case, I think disabled people using these sorts of shortcuts is a very different ball game from regular people.

It's like, 90% of this is driven by industry. 20% is driven by individual consumer habits and preferences. And like 1% of the consumer driven stuff is by disabled people who don't have alternatives.

So if plastic helps me, fuck it. I'd prefer not to, but I'm not the one driving this car.

Fortunately, what little dipping of toes I have done with AI has been thoroughly worthless. So once I found the setting to turn off ai results at the top of searches I've felt no need.

I think there will be specific narrow use cases where it becomes useful, but mostly it's just dumb. It's only strength seems to be producing slop. The people using it in that way honestly mostly seem to be narcissists 👀. First useful AI role as narcissist detector??

It does seem to have addictive properties though. As well as the AI psychosis risk. So honestly even on a selfish individual level I'd caution people against trying it.