Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread Feb 1st - Feb 28th 2026

[wibbleflea]

Google Gemini, 11th February. It was doing quite well till then, giving me exactly the pointers I was looking for. Oh well.

 

[Dotta]

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[iamshadow21]

Never use AI. It's a nonsense engine, and it's dangerous. It's telling people things that aren't just incorrect, but that are coercing them into acts of paranoia, self harm, suicide, and murder. It's generating CSAM and other sexual assault and harm material. It's accusing perfectly innocent people of crimes; a guy in Europe, it's telling everyone he murdered his children, something that never happened.

And people are relying on it like it's the word of God, rather than actually researching for themselves. It's giving frightening advice on mental health and medication and it's coaching children how to do dangerous things like light fires and use weapons.

It needs to go away until it's regulated and there are consequences for it giving out dangerous advice.

 

[MrsWatson]

My two experiences with AI.

1. I fancy myself a writer and belong to local writing groups. We generally receive a prompt to use for the exercise. I was having a difficult time with a prompt, so I stuck it into AI and asked AI to write a flash fiction piece, using the prompt. I thought it might kick start my imagination.

The result was absolute nonsense. Full of cliches, no plot, no character development. Just three paragraphs of sentences that didn't belong together and didn't tell any sort of story. It was laughably horrible.

2. My husband works for the largest cancer hospital trust here in the UK. He's a tech guy. He has a co-worker who is AI-crazy and wants to put it into all sort of uses at the hospital. One of those was the 24 hour care line. People with cancer or their loved ones can call at anytime for support, questions, do I need to see the doctor, are these side effects normal, etc. It was shot down, with my husband leading the pack. If you were suffering cancer, would you want AI to decide whether or not you talk to a real person? If you are feeling desperate because your partner of unmpteen years is suffering, do you want to talk to AI?

AI needs to do things like clean my house and order my groceries and do the back garden, not try to be a human.

 

[Chainspell]

A couple years ago when AI first started getting prevalent, I'd have students submit almost the exact same essay, with only minor composition/construction differences. The thesis would be the same, the evidence presented would be the same, the sources would be the same (even hallucinated ones!). Most of the time, they were just putting in the essay assignment instructions and taking whatever AI would spit out for them.

Students have gotten better about hiding AI use, but I did have one last year that submitted an essay about Revolutionary War hero Harry Truman. He admitted to using AI when I confronted him immediately, but I really wish I knew how that happened with the AI itself.