I have a lot of issues with AI in general, but frankly the biggest, most immediate one is that I reeeally hate when tech pretends to be human. Like search engines giving me a seventh grader’s essay before the actual one-word answer I was looking for. Or the uncanny valley voice at the drive-thru speaker saying “great choice!” to everything I order. Or the AI on shopping websites saying “I’d recommend this model…” Etc etc.
There’s just something so strange and uncomfortable to me about a thing that we all know is not a person pretending to be one; feels like someone telling a lie directly to my face, and I know they’re lying, and they know they’re lying, but I’m supposed to… appreciate it? For some reason?
But a lot of people I know actually prefer it. They’ll ask ChatGPT something—even something that has a simple, definitive answer that doesn’t really need further explanation—rather than just looking it up on a search engine. I’m just curious what the difference in psychology is between us. And I’m wondering if maybe it’s actually just a me problem; I mean, I hated Jeeves too, and he seemed pretty well-liked back in the day.
I just found out gemini has a thing called personal context. it claims it has been around since 2025 but it mentions a memory change in march of this year. I think the change may be better than it mentions. it also seems to call it saved info. Anyway it allows you to set global instructions it should use for your query. Here is mine: “Please keep things discrete and don’t worry about flattery. Use context to see if I’m discussing something I ask about a lot like a video game or various media, but don’t connect everything; just use context to flesh out if I don’t give you enough context in my query.”
Chat gpt has this as well. I find the issue is AI is constantly ‘forgetting’ or ignoring commands so it’s not consistent.
yeah we shall see how long it lasts but I can look in a configuration area that lists my globals.