Mastodawn

It's clearly going to take the tech industry a while to understand that the "AI" brand is well and truly toxic

If you have a software or feature, sell it on what it does for people. If it's actually useful, then calling it "AI" will just make people assume it's yet another money-grabbing con.

Especially if you aren't using an LLM or diffusion model and instead are just using a non-generative ML model. Why willingly adopt all that negative baggage when you don't have to?

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Stefan Bohacek Mar 31

@baldur

"It's clearly going to take the tech industry a while"

It really shouldn't, though. We have plenty of studies and other evidence.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-generative-ai/#consumer-sentiment

I wonder if this is denial, or maybe they just don't care?

On generative AI and LLMs | Stefan Bohacek

Generative AI is anti-worker, anti-environment, and doesn't even work all that well.

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Ben Ramsey Mar 31

@stefan @baldur It seems to me that by-and-large, our peers in the industry have embraced and adopted AI use as part of their daily work. I think we might be in a fairly loud echo chamber on the Fediverse.

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Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

@ramsey @stefan @baldur LinkedIn is very AI bullish to the point I can’t read more than a couple dozen posts before I nope out. That said, I assume there’s lots of folks there hiding distrust of AI because they know they’ll be judged negatively for it.