(Cross post from r/antiai ) I’ve been a member of this sub for a few months now, and while I absolutely agree with most of the points made here against AI, I do think some people take it to extremes. I don’t think there’s anything necessarily wrong with the technology itself, just moreso the way it’s being pushed and marketed. I think llms can absolutely have some useful applications, as long as they’re used responsibly. And considering they already exist and are being pushed everywhere, I figure in the interest of harm reduction there should be an effort to find more responsible use cases for them. My attempt to use ai responsibly involves an app I’ve been working on. It’s designed to be a research IDE, and allows you to add PDFs to a project, highlight them, organize and connect highlights on a visual workspace, manage citations, and write a research paper all within the app. It also has some llm features. All these features are locally running, so no data ever leaves your device, protecting privacy.…