Mastodawn

I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. But in the commercial world, if you are promoting a product or service, the phrase "AI-powered" translates to "didn't read the room". The majority probably don't see that as a plus? (I could be wrong!)

Boost if you will to get coverage. The results will be interesting if enough people vote.

EDIT: I should have said "hater or lover". But the question was strictly concerning the use of that language in promo and advertising.

AI-powered is a positive thing

0.7%

AI-powered is a negative thing

99.3%

Poll ended at Mar 19 at 6:46am.

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Chris Adams Mar 16

@randulo @liztai for me it’s strong negative if the lead is “AI!” rather than real benefits to me, especially if they pull a Copilot and raise prices.

As a contrast, I use the Newsblur feed reader which recently launched a feature that uses LLMs to synthesize feeds from sites which don’t have them. The ethical/copyright/externality questions aren’t erased but that’s at least a feature real people have requested for years, not some PM trying to show they shipped AI on their promotion package.

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Randulo.com (Randy)

@acdha @liztai Good point, too that using an LLM isn't actually "powering "it, but the tool is used and for a good purpose, I think.

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Chris Adams Mar 16

@randulo yeah, one of the weird things about the LLM discourse is how much it's driven by wild over-hyping of what would be a useful tool without the hype. People really want to put it in unsafe situations but it's not like those are the only problems in the world.