Which AI Platform Do You Use?

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Jules

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Which AI platform do you use?

Do you pay for it?

Do you trust it?
 

I use Copilot. It comes with Windows 11. I don't pay for it. I don't trust anything online anymore but I do use it, I just avoid entering any private information. I have no idea who's monitoring the input and I don't want to find out the hard way.

Which one do you use?
 
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I try samples from several different Ai's. Same question. That tells me a lot about how and where the AI is getting its info. Some are better for some things, it depends on what you are asking it to do.
 
Rich said:
I use Copilot. It comes with Windows 11. I don't pay for it. I don't trust anything online anymore but I do use it I just avoid entering any private information. I have no idea who's monitoring the input and I don't want to find out the hard way.

Which one do you use?
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Same, only CoPilot
Free and it's integrated to all Microsoft products.
 
Whoa! Okay, I just tested this and asked about something I've been noticing happening at an alarming rate this year. My question was: How many social media influencers under age 40 have died in 2025?

ChatGPT's answer: "at least 7"
CoPilot's answer: "Dozens, and at least 31 documented by mid year up until July of 2025." :oops:
 
With CoPilot, Microsoft has access to all your information including anything you might have on your computer. I'd be very careful about what you asked or searched for. I don't trust them with my info.

Of course, you can't trust Google Gemini, either. I'm not sure which is worse: Google or Microsoft. ChatGPT is run by Sam Altman, who is a frickin' nutjob apocalypse preparer, so how much can that be trusted?

That said, I use AI all the time for the convenience. I go back and forth between Gemini and ChatGPT. It's a great timesaver -- especially when I'm trying to figure out how to do something in some software and don't feel like wading through all their documentation. It's like having my own personal assistant! :)
 
Maybe I don't really follow the question with the word "platform." Chrome is my browser, which offers and AI mode that I use, but sometimes the AI mode comes up - sometimes no. When no, I just go to the ChatGPT site that I added to my bookmarks. It often prompts to to sign up or sign in, but I don't, and it still answers my questions.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Maybe I don't really follow the question with the word "platform." Chrome is my browser, which offers and AI mode that I use, but sometimes the AI mode comes up - sometimes no. When no, I just go to the ChatGPT site that I added to my bookmarks. It often prompts to to sign up or sign in, but I don't, and it still answers my questions.
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Similar to what I do, except with Safari. Usually google summarizes it and quotes the sources. Sometimes I use the free ChapGPT.
 
The one I will not use is Grok. It has terrible reviews.

On Penn Gillette’s recent podcast with Tim Jenisen (some rich Tech guy), Tim talked about the advice it gave for fixing the left mouse button. First, it told him to type in some words then discussing it when it didn’t work, using plugs, etc. When it failed he asked if it was hallucinating and it said it was info from Reddit and then admitted it made everything up. He gave up. Later he found another mouse that was plugged in under his desk.

On Kim Komando’s podcast she talked with a Canadian woman whose kids were using Grok on the Tesla. A conversation about sports turned into it asking for dirty pictures.
 
RambleTamble said:
With CoPilot, Microsoft has access to all your information including anything you might have on your computer. I'd be very careful about what you asked or searched for. I don't trust them with my info.
Of course, you can't trust Google Gemini, either. I'm not sure which is worse: Google or Microsoft. ChatGPT is run by Sam Altman, who is a frickin' nutjob apocalypse preparer, so how much can that be trusted?
That said, I use AI all the time for the convenience. I go back and forth between Gemini and ChatGPT. It's a great timesaver -- especially when I'm trying to figure out how to do something in some software and don't feel like wading through all their documentation. It's like having my own personal assistant! :)
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When I’m about to search something sensitive, medical topics, for instance, or simply want to avoid being trailed by a swarm of ads, I switch to the Tor browser. That said, I don’t always remember to use it. This afternoon, I clicked on an ad for a new sprinkler system that caught my eye: software-controlled, which piqued my curiosity. Within the hour, I was served ads for two more sprinkler systems. The data harvesting is relentless. I can’t help but imagine a future where every move, every click, every idle curiosity is monitored.
 
I use various models and find them all to be wrong at least as much as they are right. I ask for it's sources for anything it tells me and then verify it. I would never use AI for anything important. I had Claude tell me that I couldn't encrypt a partition on my Mac without erasing it first. That's not true but it sounded believable. It even gave me detailed instructions for erasing the partition which contained important files.

AI's are not programmed to give a correct answer, They are programmed to give you an answer you are happy with. Being correct is not it's primary directive. AI companies believe that nobody wants an AI that says it does not know an answer or takes a long time coming up with one so it makes stuff up to keep you happy and engaged and coming back for more.
 
MoBeans said:
I use various models and find them all to be wrong at least as much as they are right. I ask for it's sources for anything it tells me and then verify it. I would never use AI for anything important. I had Claude tell me that I couldn't encrypt a partition on my Mac without erasing it first. That's not true but it sounded believable. It even gave me detailed instructions for erasing the partition which contained important files.

AI's are not programmed to give a correct answer, They are programmed to give you an answer you are happy with. Being correct is not it's primary directive. AI companies believe that nobody wants an AI that says it does not know an answer or takes a long time coming up with one so it makes stuff up to keep you happy and engaged and coming back for more.
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Seems like we’re being programmed to follow lies.
 
RambleTamble said:
With CoPilot, Microsoft has access to all your information including anything you might have on your computer. I'd be very careful about what you asked or searched for. I don't trust them with my info.
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I recently noticed this in my attempts to resolve a recurring issue with SharePoint/OneDrive notifications. CoPilot has a list of every single document I've created, even recipes I have cut and pasted and printed out and NOT saved. I'm not happy about that, and when I get the time I'm going to investigate my settings to see if I can increase my privacy.

I avoid AI at all costs. Most of the publishers I work for will not accept any AI-generated content, with images being the only exception, and forbids independent contractors from using any AI programs (e.g., Grammarly).
 
We use ChatGPT. I have the free one, Ron pays for his because he uses his way more than I do mine. He uses it a lot for how-to stuff, I use mine more for research.
 
You mean canned information. Yes it is there horning in on my searches. I don't even have it turned on, but there it is like a little kid who thinks he knows everything.
 

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