I have tried Comet from Perplexity and I don’t get the hype.

Having used various AI tools for a while, I find them incredibly useful in my professional life. But packaging them into an environment that’s supposed to overhaul my own decisions in my digital life seems to be excessive, unnecessary, and harmful.

There is a popular children’s cartoon in Russia, from Soviet times. A boy gets transferred to a fairy tail land and wins himself two magical helpers that do everything for him. They make a lot of candies for him and then eat them. The kid was shocked: “So you’re going to even eat everything yourself?! - Yuuup!”

I feel it’s the same faulty system. I’d rather wish the generative toolkit being developed for the intended uses. Instead, it feels like the battles against unhelpful telephone bots that do everything except for answering your actual inquiry. But inside your own PC, for God’s sake! Just why?.. it bugs me why companies invest money in something that I really, really can’t understand the purpose of. My only guess it’s to scam general public and use their usage data for training the actual usable models - who knows what for, but my inner conspiracy theorist screams “military”.

Disclaimer: I’m a designer, not a tech specialist.