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 threadmmalcAug 1, 2024

@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?

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 threadmmalc

@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."

Aug 2, 2024 at 1:07amIvory for Mac
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.