Baldur BjarnasonAug 1, 2024

“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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Show threadmmalc

@baldur

“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."

Utter, utter bollocks.

Per reply to similar inanity:

I trust all those railing against “AI” (and evidently unaware of the range of meanings of the term) are going to decline drugs and medical diagnostics based on related technologies? And stop using GPS route-finding apps? And switch to using raw output from cellphone cameras?

Aug 1, 2024 at 1:46pmIvory for Mac
Show threadAndrew DrakeAug 1, 2024
@mmalc @baldur actually, I did switch to raw output from my phone camera (Pixel 7 Pro), because the artifacts from the "AI"-based scaling/interpolation were unbearable. They look fine on-device but as soon as you look at it on a larger screen or zoom in they jump out at you.
Show threadmmalcAug 1, 2024

@adrake

Akshully 🙄

Certainly there is merit in using RAW in some circumstances, I didn't assert otherwise.

Is everyone railing against AI going to switch to using all-RAW all the time?

I suspect that most people most of the time want to take a snap to share with friends as quickly as possible on other devices, not try to take a serious photo with the greatest post-processing fidelity.

Show threadAndrew DrakeAug 1, 2024
@mmalc sure, I don't really want to be dealing with RAWs either most of the time. But I used to have the option to have it both ways: a good-enough usable shot without weird artifacts and invented details. Now I have to choose between them because some product managers at Google wanted a promotion.
Show threadmmalcAug 1, 2024

@adrake

Again, you are not "everyone” and your situation doesn't negate my original point.

And not that it's relevant, but:

Worst case I suspect that many who do care about fidelity will be satisfied with setting preferences to take JPEG and RAW versions simultaneously so they can share the former immediately and work on the latter later. YMMV.

Show threadMelvin GundlachAug 2, 2024
@baldur @mmalc Neither navigational systems nor (most) cameras use gen AI which is what’s being talked about. And when drugs will be marketed as „created by AI“ they won’t be trusted by consumers, which is the point of the post.
Show threadmmalcAug 2, 2024

@melgu @baldur

What a truly bizarre attempt at gaslighting.

There is nothing in the original that specifies generative AI; quite the opposite, the assertion is made to be as broad as possible:

"Consumers have decided that "AI" in its entirety is bullshit. And, honestly, they’re right."

Show threadMelvin GundlachAug 2, 2024
@mmalc @baldur „Slop“ as a term was specifically coined for content generated by „AI“. And if, as the study shows, AI already has such a bad rep, that term is unnecessary. So, yes, we’re talking about Gen AI, since that’s what most of today’s AI is.
Show threadmmalcAug 2, 2024

@melgu @baldur

Again, ‘”AI" in its entirety’.

Moreover, Generative AI isn't “most of what today's AI is”.

Not worth talking to.