I spent $300 on an AI writing tool and it was a total waste

I kept seeing ads for this new AI writing helper that promised to make blog posts and emails faster. I thought it would be great for my small tech blog, so I paid for a year up front. It was about $300. The first few things it wrote sounded okay, but then I tried to get it to explain a new AI chip design. It kept giving me the same basic info you can find anywhere and got some key facts wrong. I had to rewrite everything from scratch, which took longer than if I had just written it myself. It felt like I paid for a fancy search engine that makes stuff up. Now I'm stuck with it for the rest of the year. Has anyone found an AI tool that actually understands complex tech topics?

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victor65110d ago

Did you try giving it specific examples or technical papers to work from?

max_schmidt7710d ago

Tried feeding it a whole technical manual once, like giving a cookbook to a toaster. It started spitting out recipes for "optimized toast" with weird footnotes. Gave it a simple data sheet last week, asked for a summary, and it gave me back what looked like the opening crawl from Star Wars. Sometimes you just have to laugh and type the thing yourself.

shane_morgan10d ago

Which manual caused the toast recipes?