“Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI”

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai

> When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions

Like I've been saying, we don't need the term "slop". Consumers have decided that "AI" in its entirety is bullshit. And, honestly, they’re right.

Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.

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This doesn’t come as a surprise to most, but it definitely is surprising to many managers and consultants, but generative models—what’s being marketed as ‘AI’—are contraindications of quality and value

That is, anything those models do well is likely bullshit, so doing it more and better will make the product worse

The tasks and features generative models excel at were almost always bad ideas to begin with, and anything labelled as “AI” will have more of it

(The are exceptions, but those mostly have to do with conversion tasks of some sort)
All of which is to say that whenever “AI” is mentioned as a feature, then it’s either going to be shoehorned or magnifying something bad. This makes it a fairly reliable indicator of a product being garbage
@baldur What makes me sad about this is surely there are program managers out there winging about "change aversion," or some other reason why it's the users who are wrong.