I don’t know if it’s my age (hello fluctuating hormones caused by perimenopause!) but I have a bit less patience some days than others.
Something I get AI to help with is image creation. I have a look at various image sites to see if what I need exists already, if it doesn’t, I get some AI help (ChatGPT in this situation). It’s really good at it and saves me a huge amount of time. Today I needed a placeholder for a banner. A very specific banner size and layout and I used AI to help generate it. The first draft looked great but was totally the wrong size and that’s where things started to go wrong.
First it told me it would push the image through to ‘Work’ to do the resize …. but ‘Work’ couldn’t ‘find ‘see’ the image (I mean WTF?). It then made multiple versions that were again, the wrong size. Eventually I got the version sorted but found actually that it needed tweaking and then the whole rigmarole started again. After about 20 mins, I was totally exasperated.
I’d never get exasperated like that with a human, and wondered why I felt like that and found this interesting blog post ‘Why AI Makes Us So Angry‘ and I totally agree with it. A person would never go and do something, get your feedback, and go away, redo the thing and come back with exactly the same thing multiple times and with no reasoning or explanation or even acknowledgement that it just keeps doing the same thing. And no embarrassment!
Anyway, I know how to work around it – often starting a new chat fixes whatever is stuck and so that’s what I did in the end. And to ChatGPT… I’m sorry for grumbling at you. So when you take over the world… um… please remember I’m usually not like that!