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1. This annoys me because it's less accurate than old Google, and I miss being able to Google things and find the answers.

2. I hope it has been? Given the rest of Google, I wonder if it's been enshittified too.

3. I refuse to use any sort of genealogy thing in case antisemitism makes a comeback for real, or they start to deny coverage to people based on family medical history.

4. I do use this a bit because I'm too lazy to turn it off and I'm a terrible phone typer. It's about 50-50 what I want to say.

5. Is this AI? I feel like it's not.

6. Your kids use them? Mine refuse. Alas. I find it useful. I don't think it's AI, though.

7. My students don't use them and don't learn from them. I use them, but that's because I learned the rules first.

Two issues, for me, make it not even worth trying to find use cases. First is the "blockchain" problem where "powered by AI" gets added to any tech, when what they mean at best is an algorithm and at worse is a layer of bloatware, as with Google, that make things less effective. The other is that the environmental cost of this technology makes it impossible to justify for anything other than the supposed medical use (which I think is overstated, but I'm not a medical professional). There are things that I'd like it to do that it theoretically could do, like sorting my photos and tagging them, but the energy cost alone, let alone the privacy concerns and intellectual property, make it unethical from the get-go.