cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26431087

Since I canceled Claude (US boycott) I’m really enjoying https://chat.mistral.ai/ It might be a few months behind quality wise, but it is really fast, which is great for quick searches and brainstorming. It even has a canvas feature now.

This really gives me hope! Great french AI Tool!

  • raincloud@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Y’all, what do you need an AI chatbot for anyway? European or not, those things have a huge power consumption, can’t tell hallucinations apart from reality, and steal labor from common folk to make it available for free to rich people.

    What’s the use case? If you need an expert to help you out, you can talk to them, comission art from them, research yourself…

    • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Y’all, what do you need an AI chatbot for anyway?

      Developing little one off scripts that I wouldn’t write otherwise. My home automation and the organisation of my media library has benefited greatly from that.

      I can definitely NOT pay a developer for that, hourly rates start at 150 to 170€ with a few hours minimum.

    • a887dcd7a@feddit.orgOPMEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Actually they are great for tedious tasks. For a CSV file I asked an AI to write down every hour of the day in steps of 15 minutes and provide a file to download.

      It took only 5 attempts until all hours were included 😂

    • Robust Mirror@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I use them to help me create incredibly niche Firefox addons that only I would ever care about (confirmed by the fact I’ve put them in the Firefox addons site and got no downloads at all in months/years) but are useful to me.

      Yeah I could learn to make them myself. But why. I don’t want to try to make big ones or make them regularly or anything. It would honestly be a waste of my time to learn. And I’m sure as hell not paying someone to make them.

      Also they can be good at finding stuff. I was trying to buy something that was sold out everywhere and had searched like the first 3 pages of google results and I decided to ask if it could find one in stock and it found this super small site for this small store that had 2 left in stock.

      • bremen15@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        this is fascinating to me. Can you please give me examples of what you do with those?

        • Robust Mirror@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Unfortunately if I give too much detail I risk doxxing myself (at the very least to those that know me) but it’s mostly stuff to modify how websites or the browser look or work.