What do you think about the notion that “AI is unreliable”?

After a recent comment someone made on reddit in response to me I have been thinking about this and I did notice there seem to be a big push against AI for it being unreliable or notions along that line but I feel like this is an overblown “issue”.

While I will say, AI should be used very carefully when strict accuracy and precision is critical, I fail to see why this seem to be such a big issue when dealing with more general requests.

Besides my personal usage, we also use AI where I work and while we do have the policy to always verify information (especially critical ones), in my experience if you properly engineer your prompts, it is incredibly accurate so I am just not understanding why a lot of people look at AI as if it is just throwing out garbage. Could this just be a general emotional reaction related to the pushback against AI?

I’ll also make the disclaimer here that I am not an AI apologist at all, I do recognise the dangers and impact of AI but at the end of the day it’s just a tool. Like when Google first came out, people also didn’t know how to google things and had to learn