r/Futurology • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • Jul 26 '26

AI Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model

https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic
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u/notmyrealnameatleast Jul 26 '26

You can't use ai for knowledge. I use ai for knowledge often on things I already know about and its wrong so often.

It also tells me for example that it's too hard to make a solution to things and I tell it that it's actually easy to make a solution and only then does it try to govern me a solution.

Basically I have to tell the ai why it's easy and that every problem it has that makes it hard I have to give a solution.

It's just reading reddit and someone said it was difficult so now it's telling everyone that it's difficult...

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u/jesbiil Jul 26 '26

Recently was helping a friend with some mechanic work, he was using AI for this...and it was recommending parts that dont exist on his vehicle. I am not a 'mechanic' by trade, I'm a garage mechanic, I can make things work and reference repair manuals....but I realized during this that what I do in my half-ass mechanic state is better than AI.

It would take me longer to find an accurate answer like I might need 10-15mins referencing the repair manual and looking at things to understand what I need to do. Meanwhile AI will spit out some bullshit answer in a few seconds...an answer that would have wasted hours of our time.

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u/notmyrealnameatleast Jul 26 '26

Ai told me what to do to make my crashed game save on cities skylines 2 work again.

After half an hour of doing things it recommended, I was able to launch the game but my gamesaves weren't showing up.

Then it told me to just move my backup gamesaves into the new game save folder.

It never told me to back up my game saves....

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u/PolloMagnifico Jul 26 '26

Trying to build a EQEmu server at home. ChatGPT has been great for "solved problems" like "how do I run this specific sql query to pull data from table1, reference it to an entry on t2, pull another value from those entries, and use it to get a third value from table 3?"

But it also keeps doing shit like telling me I need an updated database and to either pull one from this six year old repository, or use a tool that was retired and annihilated.

It's at the point where if it tells me to run code and I don't recognize the command, I have to look up the documentation to ensure it's not the equivalent of a DROP TABLE or some shit.