Ask HN: Does anyone use "AI" features in consumer products?

1 andy99 3 7/7/2025, 8:37:24 PM

Chat assistants like GPT, code assistants, all seem to have good PMF and are broadly used. G-suite otoh has been nagging me to death to try some AI things that I don't want, I assume MS Office is the same, we've all seen "Summarize with AI" type buttons everywhere. My guess is that PMs really want people to use these and nobody wants them or they wouldn't be pushed so hard. But has anyone actually used them for anything? Are there any actually good AI features?

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timbaboon · 17m ago

I was included in Strava’s beta testing for their AI offering (Athlete Intelligence). It was useful in no way at all, and the prod version out now is no better. Disabled that.

My bank also started offering a chatbot through WhatsApp to let you query transactions etc, but it hallucinated stuff so I’ve stopped that too.

JohnFen · 17m ago

I don't. I've played with them a bit, but haven't found them to be useful enough to continue with. Now, I'm basically jaded and take the overt presence of "AI" in a thing as a sign that the thing itself is substandard.

pvg · 21m ago

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Ask HN: Does anyone use "AI" features in consumer products?

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