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Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

but it’s still utterly useless.

this is purely false. There are so many applications that bring value and if you can't admit that then you are biased in some way/shape/form.

As a sw dev, I use AI to speed up menial tasks or help me find different perspectives on certain things, shit it's even helpful for debugging tricky things. You don't need to be a coder to find value in AI though, things like auto-generated transcripts has been so fucking amazing, especially for podcasting in my case.

I could go on and on. To say it is UTTERLY USELESS is disingenuous at best.

The MOST impressive thing I’ve seen AI do is make really, really convincing furry porn babes. The things are good at mixing features in images. Sometimes.

You are quite literally telling on yourself here, you seem to have a limited view of AI application and are judging the entire technology/concept based on that narrow set of use-cases (which appear to be, from your comment, chat bots, porn generators, future weather predictors, not exactly the pinnacle of AI application).

I’m so over AI, please someone notify me when it’s really useful and can take over the menial, tedious tasks

Here you go again! You seem to be equating value to the ability for the tech to function without supervision or assistance. Does AI only provide value to you if it can do those things completely autonomously? What if working with the AI is faster than not using it at all? Is it still useless to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When someone is disappointed in something, the very worst way you can make progress in changing that person's mind is flatly telling them they're wrong.

You didn't change anything with your reaction here, I still live in the world with useless, annoying AI. Like most people. I won't now look at it and think "Hmn I should reconsider how I feel" As I try to refine my search results so it doesn't feed me complete garbage.

I'm absolutely sure it's helping some people in specific instances, but we're not at the point yet where it's helping people broadly, so I fucking DARE you to say any of this in a larger community where average people with non-coding jobs have to sift through AI bullshit all day.

I know it's going to help in the future with a lot of things, but it's also going to get worse before it gets better, and I'm not some lone voice, so you have to get over yourself here, you're not anywhere close to the majority of opinion here, even on the tech/singularity/cult forums there are plenty of people fed up with the current state of marketing and AI being shoved into everything. I stand by every last thing I said here. People in your position are deliberately not reading the negative things people feel about this tech in it's current state, but there are a LOT of people who share this feeling.

And you know what? You should embrace it.

Because if people didn't voice their discontent, it won't get better. The whinging pushback against criticism just boggles me, like people are so caught up in the cult that they can't see it as another product that has to be refined and shaped before people can use it and enjoy it in any capacity.

Several top links from "How do people feel about AI"

https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/artificial-intelligence/85-of-people-dont-like-ai-but-its-coming-anyway/

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/artificial-intelligence-consumer-sentiment/

https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2023/10/consumers-are-voicing-concerns-about-ai

https://hbr.org/2024/05/ais-trust-problem

And of course, THIS VERY ARTICLE: https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai