What's Your Biggest AI Pet Peeve?

[Louis_Frolio]

Hey Team, in my last post I asked how much AI has actually changed your day to day, and the responses were fantastic. But let's talk about the other side for a minute.

I'll go first — I've started second-guessing almost everything I see on social media. Photos, reviews, even posts that sound like a real person sharing a real experience. There's always that little voice now asking, "wait, is this even real?" That kind of skepticism wasn't part of my life two years ago, and honestly? It's annoying.

I know I'm not alone here. Whether it's AI features shoved into products that were perfectly fine without them, confidently wrong answers you almost didn't catch, or just the flood of generic AI slop everywhere — there's a growing list of stuff that deserves some airtime.

So here's the ask: what's the one thing about AI that genuinely annoys you? Not a hot take, just the real everyday friction.

Bonus points if you love AI and it still bugs you.

Cheers, Lou.

[HimanshuVajani]

+1 to your pet peeve @Louis_Frolio and another one being the hallucinations! If I for a long context work, have to keeping verifying the output, its not really and AI!!

[Louis_Frolio]

So I gotta ask.  Can it be more work in some scenarios?

[HimanshuVajani]

Absolutely!

[HyunsooRyanLee]

AI has definitely made a lot of things more convenient, but I completely relate to the new kind of friction you're describing too.

For me personally, it's exactly what you mentioned — constantly filtering whether a video is AI-generated or not while I'm watching it. The quality has gotten so good that even after finishing a video, I find myself pausing and second-guessing. It used to be simple: "oh, it's a video!" Now there's always that extra mental step at the end.

And the same goes for photos too, of course. That cognitive overhead wasn't there before, and it's genuinely a bit exhausting. 😅

[Louis_Frolio]

I used to like watching silly tik tok videos but no more :(. I am a big foodie so I try to hang out with food themes, at least I know when someone is talking nonsense.  Many years as a professional chef has taught me a few things 🙂

[emma_s]

I love AI for helping me to structure my thoughts, but why does it have to put em dashes in everything? Where did it learn that we all write using these? Is there some sort of special cult that uses Em Dashes for all their writing, and that foundation models are trained on? And why does it feel the need to bold so many things??

[balajij8]

AI tools generate code & pipelines that work functionally but ignore efficiency, scalability & cloud implications. I have bumped into below

• Code generated by AI does a SQL cross join as its simple for most natural language queries that works but kills prod clusters
• Notebook suggestions that duplicate expensive transformations instead of caching
• Add more nodes as answer to performance questions without much awareness