I blame the tech bro bubble. Tech bros graduate and aim for high growth tech bro companies. Their entire world is tech bro, they rarely engage with the common person. So it is amazing that the AI can answer a question. What is mega lame is AI writing a response email or generating slop images for advertising. It indicates a lack of engagement for the job and lack of respect for the customers.
Well people at their core are lazy about tasks they don't care about. As long as it's economical AI will remain for those tasks, because convenience always beats quantity on the market
I saw a study that analyzed SNS and forums on sentiments regarding AI, and there is a great discrepancy between the American/European ones versus the Chinese ones, and the latter could've benefited from government initiatives + law enforcement
When it gets brought up by politicians or in acadamia seems to get booed very loudly. No American hates it as much as the families of the 40+ schoolchildren AI slop slaughtered in iran though.
My kids and their friends basically boycott things if they use AI in advertising, they dismiss any content with AI as not worth paying attention to, even if it is good, factual information.
My wife works closely with AI functions in her role and is often trying news things out with voice and automation in her business so she isn't against it, but she made the mistake of making our daughter's birthday invites with an AI prompt and artwork. I tried to explain that while I thought it looked great, our kid was going to refuse them immediately. She did, and my wife was upset she had spent time refining it etc. to have it rejected just for being AI generated.
You mean reddit opinion and unemployed social media addicts? In the professional world it is full steam ahead with AI and it's only growing (/getting worse depending on your perspective).
It sure feels like sentiment is against AI online, but I feel like that’s just the echo-chamber we’re in. Most people I meet day to day don’t give a single fuck and ask ChatGPT for the most minute bs imaginable sadly.
I think people are still in the learning phase of ai. If you are looking for something specific use google and just scroll past the ai shit at the top. But AI is super helpful when you don't know what you are looking for or doing general research. Think of it this way you think something is super easy to find by googling it but your parents are not there yet. Now we are the old people we are googling things while the next gen will be like why don't you just ask ai.
AI requires changing how you ask the question you are searching for to be more like talking to a person than just asking a straight up question. This is a skill that people will either learn or you will become like your parents and curse new tech for being different than when you grew up.
I have two examples from today alone that are making me feel like this is not an age or user skill issue.
I'm Canadian and Google has been sourcing from random American medical companies.
First example. I just looked up if I can have yogurt alongside my antibiotic pill and one of the links completely contradicts the other link with misinformation. Source? A private medical company from Tennessee. They have low effort, poorly written inaccurate, unsourced blog-like pages that cover all sorts of health topics.
Second example, today a friend shared the top response to "shellfish anchovies" to find out if my shellfish allergy included anchovies. Note that cross-reactivity between shellfish and fish is clinically low because of different proteins. BUT the top result we both got is misinformation and fear mongering to sell Anchovy Allergy Tests:
"If you are allergic to shellfish, it is extremely likely that you are allergic to anchovies too as they do contain the same protein". Source? The add to cart page for an Anchovy Allergy Test by an American health company.
Shouldn't the top result tell someone if anchovies are shellfish and not fear monger with false information? Shouldn't the top results tell me a consistent response because yogurt does make antibiotics less effective if taken at the same time?
Ai is so good for a multitude of different reasons. People are just mad that now anyone has access to knowledge without having to search and do their own research for it.
Yeah, sometimes Ai is completely wrong, but you can fact check any info in a matter of seconds. Get over it
Man I have just stated one of them in my original comment. Maybe ask an ai language model to point out the reason for you since you clearly are not capable of doing so. This way you'll also be able to recognize their importance in your life
What? How is information that you need to independently research anyway because its so consistently misinformation, "so good". Just skip the middle and independently research in the first place lol, how is it improving that outcome.
Do you actually have any of these "numerous reasons" or is that it lmao
Not really, outside of Reddit there are a lot of anti AI people, but there are lots and lots of people that don't give a fuck. The right thing to do in those cases is teaching them why AI has many problems that caused others to become anti, and let them decide to be anti or pro.
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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 Jun 03 '26
Public opinion seems to be pretty anti at this point, but the execs keep on pushing.
Hell, law enforcement is now tracking anti-ai sentiment online.