[anytime5704]

Crypto (currency) never served a real use case other than pump and dumps or dark web transactions.

GenAI is used by people for all sorts of purposes. Anecdotally, it has largely replaced my own usage of traditional search engines.

This strikes me as a false equivalence the same way comparisons to the dot com bubble do.

[rhdunn]

I'm using it primarily for code autocomplete, interactive story telling, and listening to online articles and stories.

I don't think the current generation of AI will go away -- there are too many use cases for it. I think it will take some time as people and companies experiment with it, find what works and what doesn't. Then, some use cases will disappear but others will remain -- like how autocorrect came from previous generation of AI tech.

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With the code autocomplete it works best when there is repetitive logic such as doing the same thing for each variable in a class.

With interactive story telling it can be good, but can often say things that don't make sense or not pick up on the subtext of what you are saying. It can still be entertaining. -- I still use other forms of entertainment.

On the TTS side, I've been using it for reading articles and stories for a long time. The current gen models are very good quality wise, but need work on accuracy and artefacts in generation.

[smt88]

I have found hallucinations to be bad enough that I can't use it as a search engine. Even Google's AI search is awful. How do you deal with its likelihood of being convincingly wrong, even if it's small?

[anytime5704]

There’s a time and a place for checking its work.

Depending on the search, I either don’t care, or I use something like perplexity, which includes its references.