“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.
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
@bjn @mawhrin @baldur I've overheard kid telling his friend "ugh, let's not try this game, it has an AI-generated cover page". 😄
His friend was like "so what, what are you on about", so they tried the game anyway. Ten minutes later: "See? Told you it would be garbage. Always with these lazy, mass-producing game creators that won't even make their own cover page."
I suspect it's easy for teens to see through the hype because it isn't aimed at them. This is a grift aimed directly at investors, VCs and executives: at the millionaire and billionaire classes, basically. Those who don't use the service but who do reap the monetary rewards of it being done cheaply and badly are the people being grifted. The rest of us are just collateral damage.
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"...'Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI'..."
Duh.🙄
AI is the new crypto.
Everybody knows.
https://youtu.be/Gxd23UVID7k?si=ceYydTcuvec6KtNg
“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?
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.
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.
@baldur Today i received an email telling me:
Your Team has reached the limit of 10 free credits per month. <product name> AI credits will automatically renew on September 01, 2024.
I don't even have an active account for that product and i wouldn't even know where AI is used there in what context (and i don't care).
Not only they stamp every product with it they also threaten you with the degradation of the product if you don't cough up the buck for it.
So i fully agree with the headline.
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