Athlete Intelligence Feedback

Could Strava please use AI to write better default activity titles? It should be fairly easy for Strava to name my activities "[segment name] out and back" or "16×400m" or "[city name] tempo run". This would be a massive improvement over "Morning Run" and  a much better experience than the new prompt to name your activity.

While I understand jumping on the bandwagon with Artificial Idiocy and trying to integrate it into Strava, in it’s current form, it’s really doing nothing except getting in the way. Honestly the most useful part of it is getting a chuckle when I change the title of my activity and the content of the “AI” strokes my ego based on what it “thinks” I might want to hear. Honestly, I don’t want it and I don’t want my data being fed to it. Can we have a complete opt-out option, please?

The AI feedback feature is completely useless to me. It would be nice to allow users to turn it off. 

At least now in the beta stage you can do that with Say more/Give feedback/Leave the Beta. I hope this will still be possible after the general rollout.

Ah, great! I had no idea. Thanks.

Yep, the AI is utterly useless to me and I'm guessing most reasonably knowledgeable end-users. It tells me nothing I don't know and lots of stuff that is irrelevant or just flat wrong. Let's have a OFF button. I'm not anti-AI, but if this is state of the art,  I'm happy to wait for something remotely useful.

Leaving Beta would mean Strava will not get a feedback at all, thus possibly rolling out this AI nonsense w/o the option to disable it. 
Instead, on every my activity I diligently provide a feedback to the AI feature as “USELESS”. 
If all of us who are not happy about this feature will provide such a feedback we have more chances Strava will abandon the idea or at least make it optionally. 

I do that no helpful feedback thing too but sadly I can’t see any learning effect that I expect from an AI even in a beta stage. It’s still the same mix of stating the obvious, making incongruous comparisons and being wrong about zones and efforts (​@slogfester said as much) as it was at the launch. Therefore I’m not sure the feedback is taken into consideration at all especially because you can’t report specifically what was wrong or useless in the AI comment.

Hello ​@Majthree 

Thanks for posting about this. Your AI summary considers several factors, including aggregate data from past activities. Be sure to check out our Knowledge base article here

Please ensure this Opt Out feature is included in the final release. There’s absolutely no need for this sort of feature in Strava.

I 100% agree with what others are saying here, the current form of athlete intelligence isn't very useful and arguably makes the experience worse. Like @cshahmir suggested a much more useful way that LLMs could improve the Strava experience is through things like:

- Based on my history of Strava activity titles and the metadata for this activity, give it a name instead of Morning Run

- set up rules for editing activities: ex if I do a short run, a workout, then another short run (they all sync at once) id like to call the first one Warm Up and mute it in the feed, the second one should be labeled as a workout with the title set to what the workout was, the last one should be titled cool down and should be muted from the feed.

- Query my data in complex ways, ex: find my runs in this city, how far did in run in July 2018 vs July 2024, how many miles have I run/biked this year, how many days is my running streak of 5k/day, what's my longest run, what's my 50k PR

- find route suggestions: I'd like to do a run that's around 5 miles starting at Golden gate Park in San Francisco, show me popular routes in Seattle

The current athlete intelligence isn't very helpful. It tells me "great effort" on warm up runs, it feels very generic, and I've never had it say something I found useful. I'm aware that I can turn this feature off, but I'm posting this so that hopefully Strava can improve this feature and create something that athletes love.

Part of the problem is that while there's a “Give Feedback” option, there's just options "very helpful / somewhat helpful / unhelpful / offensive”, but no way to say something like, “It's useless to say whether the running pace is above or below the 30 days average - a tempo run will always be above and a recovery run will always be below, this variety is an essential part of the training! Instead, give me a comparison with matched runs (comparable distance, route and pace) and tell me if my HR gets lower or not. If this was a race, compare it to the previous ones and suggest what could have been done better - e.g. if I started too fast and faded, help me by suggesting the ideal starting pace.” In another words, the “athlete intelligence” is focusing on irrelevant aspects, while ignoring those that are actually meaningful.

And of course, someone else might have completely different reasons on why they don't find the AI blurb useful. And that's the point: If Strava only knows that it's considered unhelpful, but doesn't understand why, how can this ever be improved? So if the AI is supposed to bring some actual value, it's important to correctly understand where the value could be. 

Thanks for sharing this. I prefer to not see it for now, and come back to it once the AI shows me what I would set as standard prompt (as I always make a mental comparison of some facts that AI could help me so better, but not the current one)

I like the AI function - it gives some useful feedback. I recognize that this is still a work in progress. One major upgrade would be to start differentiating between road or trail rides. When I do a trail ride, it just tells me my average speed was slower than normal. That should be reasonably easy to configure. Thanks!

I like the AI function too, those that don’t can either opt out or scroll past. 
 

Are there plans to add other activities? I note that my emtb rides arent reported on currently. 

The new AI feature is a bit hit and miss. Fine for continuous running but struggles a lot with rep sessions. I think it would work a lot better if Strava duplicated manual splits from the Garmin log so that it could better understand the difference between rep and recovery. It seems to get confused when standard mile splits overlap the rep/recovery.