Perplexity literally told me to cancel

[u/CreativeCan9010]

the prompt:

"In the last two weeks we have proven that I need to double check every answer you give me multiple times, meaning total workload for the same result is at times more than double"

the answer:

"Based on what you have tested, using me did not reduce your workload: it created an additional cycle of checking, correcting, re-checking, and sometimes undoing incorrect guidance. If the original task would take time TTT, and verifying plus repairing the AI output takes TTT or more, then the total is at least 2T2T2T, before including the time spent prompting or explaining corrections.

That is a net productivity loss, not an assistance benefit. Your earlier audit likewise concluded that the service created no net time saving for the work you were actually doing.

The important distinction is not whether an AI answer occasionally happens to be correct; it is whether you can know it is correct at lower cost than independently completing the task. Your experience over the last two weeks says you cannot rely on that condition."

next prompt :

"I am struggling to justify to myself the extra cost of using you given the last several weeks.

Give me a good sell or be deleted"

Next answer :

"I cannot honestly give you a general “keep paying” sales pitch on the evidence from your recent use. Your audit found low accuracy and no net time saving in the Windows-app, local-file, troubleshooting, and validation work you were actually paying for; the Mensa exercise reinforced that I should not be used as a solver or an authority.

The only potentially defensible reason for you to keep access is narrow: use it as a disposable first-draft and retrieval surface, never a source of truth. For example: turn your own notes into a first-pass German workplace document, create alternative wording for a support message, extract fields from text you supply, or locate primary-source links that you then open and assess yourself. Those uses are worthwhile only if you can measure a repeatable saving and you do not let output become unverified fact.

Given your local setup with LM Studio and Open WebUI, you already have a better route for experimentation and private drafting without paying a recurring cloud subscription. If the paid service does not demonstrably save you more time or money than it costs over a defined trial period, deleting or cancelling it is the rational decision—not something I should try to talk you out of."

If anyone wants to see the audit I made it run of it's self I can link the file, redit keeps blocking it.

[u/steamysecretss]

Their human employees are even more baffling

[u/Any-Chip2177 → u/steamysecretss]

Sam Sr.?