axiomatic13
Posts: 1,240 +1,902
I host all of my own LLMs. I do not trust the public/paid LLMs.
Are you actually using AI on your PC?
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I use AI for interactive roleplaying in various settings. I come up with a fantasy or sci-fi world and set up the key characters. My own character is usually based on myself, maybe with a few tweaks. From there, I just dive right into the world. And the immersion is way more intense than in any RPG. I started playing around January, and since then, I’ve pretty much abandoned regular video games. These text-based AI roleplays offer a much richer and deeper experience, and the plots can get even more twisted than in video games.
In practice, it feels like co-writing a book. You describe your actions, and the AI picks up on them and builds it out, sometimes throwing in its own twists. My favorite models are DeepSeek and Grok. DeepSeek is great at coming up with unexpected plot twists. But Grok seems to have absolutely no filters. It doesn't try to soften things, censor itself, or lecture you, and it can sometimes pull off some really dark or gritty stuff.
In practice, it feels like co-writing a book. You describe your actions, and the AI picks up on them and builds it out, sometimes throwing in its own twists. My favorite models are DeepSeek and Grok. DeepSeek is great at coming up with unexpected plot twists. But Grok seems to have absolutely no filters. It doesn't try to soften things, censor itself, or lecture you, and it can sometimes pull off some really dark or gritty stuff.
DirkMeister
Posts: 22 +28
I'm old school starting with Windows 3.1 back in 1993 and being blown out of mind when I upgraded to a new IBM desktop that came with Windows 95. To me AI has been helping for decades now in a sense when you search online using Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go etc. AI has been around for awhile, but today it just seems to be a crazy excuse to justify more surveillance, misinformation (due to politics etc.) Also the entire RAMaggedon situation and crazy data centers vying for land and hydro. It is what it is I guess, but honestly I hope the whole AI craze gets to it's boiling point soon. Then we can all finally come back to Earth and realize what we created. In a perfect world, lol. That being said, I do appreciate the good in general that AI has given human society, but it still scares me to sh!t.
MonicaPython2
Posts: 81 +26
In the first line it helps me with the text improvements.
Yes, I use AI all the time. In fact, I subscribe to ChatGPT and use it actively.
I use it for everything from distilling a 30-page article into something easier to digest, to asking basic questions about science, math, and technology, to analyzing market trends. It also helps me with my writing.
That said, while I do use AI to enhance my writing, I don’t simply take what it gives me and use it as-is. I treat it as a starting point, then revise, reshape, and make it my own.
I often have difficulty getting my ideas out of my head and into words, so I use AI to help with that process. I’ll give it a prompt, review the feedback it gives me, and then modify it as needed. Sometimes I’ll send it back and say that I don’t like the direction it took, or that I need it to sound more like something else. From there, I keep refining it until it reflects what I actually meant to say in my own voice.
I use it for everything from distilling a 30-page article into something easier to digest, to asking basic questions about science, math, and technology, to analyzing market trends. It also helps me with my writing.
That said, while I do use AI to enhance my writing, I don’t simply take what it gives me and use it as-is. I treat it as a starting point, then revise, reshape, and make it my own.
I often have difficulty getting my ideas out of my head and into words, so I use AI to help with that process. I’ll give it a prompt, review the feedback it gives me, and then modify it as needed. Sometimes I’ll send it back and say that I don’t like the direction it took, or that I need it to sound more like something else. From there, I keep refining it until it reflects what I actually meant to say in my own voice.
I cannot find a single use for running a local LLM. I can't even find a use for Grok, GPT, Claude and the others, let alone for a small model running locally. I've tried to have AnythingLLM parse data for me and that didn't work well, thus I can't imagine using these as serious tools.
I was thinking of creating a DM but I decided against it as it lacks the social element, which is what I love the most about the game. I have a great group and fantastic DM, and I live for our games, even though we only play a few hours a week on Sunday evening.
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texasrattler
Posts: 1,666 +828
Nope, not the built-in stuff. I actually use Googles AI mode. Used it to help setup a prebuilt pc. Like just the settings, I know basic stuff but cant always remember things, terrible memory. Use it for general stuff too. Ive used it for game settings and loadouts. Works rather well.
Overall, I like using AI for general things, as I believe thats its best use.
Overall, I like using AI for general things, as I believe thats its best use.
NumberNine
Posts: 2,181 +4,352
I routinely use algorithmic inferrence, but no one is using artificial intelligence because it doesn't exist yet. People love prematurely applying the term to what we have now though. LLMs should not be winning a turing test by anyone with decent pattern recognition. Cognative bias is running rampant.
gamerk2
Posts: 1,618 +2,051
At home, not at all. At work: Going through technical documentation and getting the info that I want, making simple programs, and fixing specific problems.
That being said, I've seen *many* cases where if you ask for something that can't be done, the AI will provide a "wrong" answer to try and keep you happy.
That being said, I've seen *many* cases where if you ask for something that can't be done, the AI will provide a "wrong" answer to try and keep you happy.
And humans dont?
yRaz
Posts: 9,414 +16,579
Most of the fun, atleast in my circles, comes from trying to troll the DM. I had a game where I was playing as a bard, seduced a dragon and made it join our party instead of the epic battle our DM had planned. He said I had to roll a 17 or higher and I rolled a nat 20. He just looked at it and said "god dammit".
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WhoCaresAnymore
Posts: 920 +1,468
Nope, and use tools to keep it off of my PC and phones. We all use it without knowing (search engines and other programs use it). But, we can control our exposure on our devices.
Honest Abe
Posts: 28 +24
I always have AI proof read and revise my work emails. It makes me sound way smarter, lol. I also use it daily for all sorts of random questions -- health, coding, nature, using and fixing tools and equipment, statistics, etc. I also have it consolidate long technical documents at work that I'm too lazy to read.
Overall, I do think it saves me time. Maybe makes me a bit lazier. But time is valuable, so I do find it useful.
Overall, I do think it saves me time. Maybe makes me a bit lazier. But time is valuable, so I do find it useful.
onebignerd
Posts: 158 +89
I use an organ atrophying inside the skull of most people called a brain!! It has remarkable learning capacity that gets stronger the more you use. it. Problem solving, reasoning, critical thinking and self education with books, Internet and curiosity. Remember curiosity from childhood?
Stop wasting time with chatbots and start thinking and learning with the powerful computer inside your head!!
Stop wasting time with chatbots and start thinking and learning with the powerful computer inside your head!!
Yes, I use AI quite a lot on my PC, but not really in the “AI PC” marketing sense. I don’t need it baked into every app or controlling Windows for me.
For me, it’s more like a technical assistant and writing helper. I use it for troubleshooting software issues, checking JavaScript code, understanding difficult concepts(I.e. Dynamic DNS)/filling gaps in my knowledge, understanding errors, comparing hardware/software options, and making sense of vague or badly written documentation. It’s also useful for drafting forum posts, emails, or turning messy notes into something readable.
I currently have a £20 ChatGPT subscription, a £20 Claude subscription, and a company Cursor account, which I use heavily for coding.
Work-wise, I use AI for coding, writing documentation, clarifying or rephrasing emails, automating tedious parts of my job, finding bugs in software I write(lol),creating web page prototypes for client feedback, working out Excel formulas and macros, troubleshooting network problems. There’s probably more that I can’t think of right now.
Where it helps most is when I already know roughly what I’m trying to do, but I’m tired, stuck, or need a second pair of eyes. It can suggest things to check, explain unfamiliar concepts, or help structure a problem before I go and test it myself.
I don’t really trust “agents” with broad control over my PC or personal data, and I’m not interested in AI features being forced into everything. But as a searchable, conversational assistant for technical problems, coding, writing, and general PC troubleshooting, it has genuinely become part of my workflow.
So for me: not hype, but also not magic. It’s a useful tool when kept in its place.
For me, it’s more like a technical assistant and writing helper. I use it for troubleshooting software issues, checking JavaScript code, understanding difficult concepts(I.e. Dynamic DNS)/filling gaps in my knowledge, understanding errors, comparing hardware/software options, and making sense of vague or badly written documentation. It’s also useful for drafting forum posts, emails, or turning messy notes into something readable.
I currently have a £20 ChatGPT subscription, a £20 Claude subscription, and a company Cursor account, which I use heavily for coding.
Work-wise, I use AI for coding, writing documentation, clarifying or rephrasing emails, automating tedious parts of my job, finding bugs in software I write(lol),creating web page prototypes for client feedback, working out Excel formulas and macros, troubleshooting network problems. There’s probably more that I can’t think of right now.
Where it helps most is when I already know roughly what I’m trying to do, but I’m tired, stuck, or need a second pair of eyes. It can suggest things to check, explain unfamiliar concepts, or help structure a problem before I go and test it myself.
I don’t really trust “agents” with broad control over my PC or personal data, and I’m not interested in AI features being forced into everything. But as a searchable, conversational assistant for technical problems, coding, writing, and general PC troubleshooting, it has genuinely become part of my workflow.
So for me: not hype, but also not magic. It’s a useful tool when kept in its place.
I've used Copilot for researching detailed comparisons of game controllers mostly (and a few other things). Nothing beyond that.
This is exactly how I see it as well. As an assistant and tool. Is it so hard to not bash AI at every opportunity? I use it for researching stuff, I don't use a search engine anymore at all, too much effort, AI can search better and more focused and I can fact check and check sources myself. I use it to create PowerShell scripts for certain things on my PC, for correcting texts of all kinds or translations, emails, etc. I wish it was more integrated into my PC but locally. Maybe Windows 12.
It's terrible and I wish it was gone. Here's hoping those ai companies crash soon.
ZedRM
Posts: 3,368 +2,309
AI does nothing for me. I don't run it. I don't allow it on my computer either.
Last Sunday the cleric (me) wasted his Fly spell (travel domain) on a failed rescue of a sheep, the barbarian kept falling off the ceiling because the guy has zero common sense and the bard forgot that he can sing (his one single ability).
The DM didn't understand why we were laughing so much until we explained how stupid we'd been. I laughed so much I was crying, it was absolutely brilliant. I absolutely love D&D, no better game exists.
