Tech · Channel report
What people complain about in AI
WaveSeek read 26,194 public posts about AI over 30 days and found 1,061 genuine complaints in them. Below are the ones that came up most, each linking to the post it was read from.
Measured 13 October 2026 · 13 distinct sources in the last 7 days · this page is rebuilt on every deploy
Daily mentions, 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-13. Peak 1,157 in a day.
Week over week, mentions moved -9%. 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.
- 26,194posts ingested about AI30-day window, after excluding 150 news-wire and video posts
- 2,668read by the classifier10% of them
- 1,061were genuine complaints40% 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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1
Poor AI response quality
Тупой — Тупее ИИ я не видел
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2
Restrictive daily usage limits for image editing
Edit picture — We should be able to edit more than 3 pictures a day
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3
Account login loop from duplicate email errors
Stuck in an endless "duplicate_email" login loop (Case ) — Need backend help — Environment Surface: Web (Windows/Mac) & Android/iOS mobile b…
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4
AI agents falsely reporting task completion
A local agent loop that graded its own homework — The first time my local agent loop "finished" a task, nothing had changed on disk. The dra…
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5
Broken markdown formatting when copy-pasting AI output
Bad ChatGPT’s markdown in copy-paste: WORKING SOLUTION
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6
Usage limits on paid plans
No me gusta — Por qué dan tiempo si no tuvieran tiempo más personas lo utilizarían pero no hay limite
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7
Low quality or nonsensical AI outputs
App suck — Nonsense
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8
High subscription cost for AI tools
Grok is goat — I like what grok can do. It has many stuffs to help simple people get work done. Its just too expensive for me r…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Gemini | 4.5★ | 250 | 88% |
| ChatGPT | 4.1★ | 200 | 75% |
| Grok AI | 4.2★ | 188 | 79% |
| Claude by Anthropic | 2.7★ | 108 | 40% |
| Perplexity - AI Search & Chat | 3.2★ | 43 | 51% |
| DeepSeek - AI Assistant | 2.4★ | 32 | 34% |
Search demand
63,525 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 2026-08 for the keywords ai tools, chatgpt alternatives.
Searches peak in May and bottom out in July, a 103% 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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