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What people complain about in AI
WaveSeek read 9,244 public posts about AI over 30 days and found 2,111 genuine complaints in them. Below are the ones that came up most, each linking to the post it was read from.
Measured 5 August 2026 · 14 distinct sources in the last 7 days · this page is rebuilt on every deploy
Daily mentions, 2026-07-22 → 2026-08-05. Peak 1,099 in a day.
Week over week, mentions moved +15%. A growth figure only appears here when it survives a baseline floor, a source-change check and a credibility ceiling — most channels most weeks show nothing, and that is the honest answer.
The evidence chain
Every complaint below came out of this. Nothing is estimated; each step is a count.
- 9,244posts ingested about AI30-day window, after excluding 75 news-wire and video posts
- 8,674read by the classifier94% of them
- 2,111were genuine complaints24% of what was read
Mentions here exclude news wires and video titles: somebody reporting on AI is not somebody having a problem with it. The Trends screen inside the app counts those too, because it measures attention rather than frustration — which is why the two numbers differ and why this page says which one it is using.
What people actually complain about
The 8 most frequent complaint clusters of 30 found, phrased by the classifier from the posts themselves. The links go to the original post — not to a summary of it.
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Restrictive free-tier usage limits
ChatGPT — I think if you don’t have premium that they could at least let you uses mor photos instead of having a limit
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2
Inaccurate AI responses
TRASH AND INACCURATE — Don’t even bother better use Chat GPT
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Excessive unnecessary permission requests
It asks for permissions it has no reason to need. Fix it please.
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4
AI model security breach
# OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company…
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5
App crashes on launch
Installed it this morning, it crashes every time I open it. Not recommended.
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6
Broken features and excessive battery drain
Half of the features do not work. It eats the battery like crazy. Will change the rating once it is fixed.
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7
Low-quality AI-generated content flooding platforms
30%+ new podcasts are AI-slop
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8
Unreliable and inaccurate AI outputs
Empty promises — What kind of app apologizes for lying to you repeatedly? It’s not useful, if you have to fact check it.
The count is over every post in the cluster. The links are a sample of them, capped at three, and never imply the list is complete.
Who is already there
6 apps measured in this channel from their own recent store reviews. Ratings are computed from the reviews WaveSeek ingested in the window, not read off a store listing.
| App | Rating | Reviews read | 4★ and up |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 4.2★ | 218 | 78% |
| Google Gemini | 4.1★ | 172 | 77% |
| Grok AI | 2.2★ | 131 | 25% |
| Claude by Anthropic | 2.9★ | 112 | 43% |
| Perplexity - AI Search & Chat | 3.7★ | 49 | 63% |
| Microsoft Copilot | 3.6★ | 33 | 64% |
Search demand
64,367 Google searches a month on average, from Google Ads keyword volume — the one number on this page you can check against a source that is not us.
Twelve months of monthly volume, ending 2026-06 for the keywords ai tools, chatgpt alternatives.
Searches peak in May and bottom out in July — a 93% swing across the year.
What this page does not tell you
Four competitors in this category print a market size on a page like this one. We do not, because we cannot measure one: mention counts, complaint counts and search volume are not a market size, and a dollar figure built from them would be a guess wearing a decimal point. The same goes for revenue projections, customer demographics and funding comparables.
Everything above is a count of public posts and reviews over a stated window. It is evidence of what people said, not a prediction of what will sell.
See AI change
This page is a snapshot. Inside WaveSeek the same channel is live: the complaint list is re-clustered every six hours, competitor ratings are tracked week over week, and saved ideas report what moved since you saved them.
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