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Everyone hates AI.
No they don’t? Like hundreds of millions of people use it every day ??
We just need to get around to recognizing it as a tool that has its good and bad uses. I really hate the bad parts of AI but don’t hate all AI.
It’s like every other technological innovation we’ve made. It’s not going to go “back in the box”. We need to figure out how to appropriately use it to make our lives better and mitigate the bad. Then again we still haven’t figured that out with cellphones.
We need to figure out how to appropriately use it to make our lives better and mitigate the bad.
Require AI companies to respect personal data rights and to not force it on everyone. We use AI in science and technology as a tool where the data used for training is comparable to the data used for models and humans verify the output, which is the appropriate way to use it to make our lives better and the process mitigates the bad.
It is the megacops that are choosing to use it in the worst fucking ways that is the problem.
Like hundreds of millions of people use it every day ??
[citation needed]
Based on February 2025 data from Semrush, ChatGPT ranks #8 in the world’s most visited websites.
According to Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s Chief Operating Officer, ChatGPT has 400 million weekly users. It plans to hit 1 billion users by the end of 2025.
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/chatgpt-users
This is taking into account just chatgpt by itself, not including the hundreds of millions of people who use the ai summary at the top of google who you don’t hear about, you just see your uncle or family member copying and pasting it into the family chat
then you’ve got articles like
I knew AI was coming for my job. I wasn’t prepared for it to come for my heart
So I asked ChatGPT about it. And this damn robot was kind, empathetic, understanding and gentle. It told me, in short, to acknowledge the massive love I had for her, to have some compassion for myself, to write her a letter. It sounds simple, I know, but I was gobsmacked.
I called Jeremy — another robot-avoider — and told him to go to it with a serious problem and tell me how it made him feel. Late that night he obliged, and tapped out a genuine expression of a painful situation he has been dealing with. Sitting at his desk in our Parramatta office, he found himself in tears. Something the robot said was so affecting, and it was so right. He sent it to his best friend and she cried too. Then he sent it to me.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-11/i-knew-ai-coming-my-job-prepared-come-for-my-heart/105243660
When average jane is using AI that’s when you know the tech has crossed over into the mainstream, they sure as hell weren’t using blockchain
The number, of course, is grossly inflated, since the statistical engines are now embedded in virtually everything, and it’s really difficult to even avoid them.
I.e. If you type something in google, and there’s an AI summary at the top, it 100% counts that as an ‘active use’.
The person in the article needs professional help, please don’t propagate anecdotal sob stories (that may or may not be false) on “Fuck AI”. “Fuck” in “Fuck AI” is not what you think it means.
It’s like saying “Everyone hates smoking”, which is broadly true, since it affects everyone, not just the smokers. And there’s definitely hundreds of millions of smokers who smoke every day.
Naw, y’all just live in a bubble and think Lemmy (and reddit) are representative of the average person in any way.
I think they mean those image generating AIs. We should have a specific name for them IMO, because AI is very useful in research, for example.
There are a lot of ppl who like them for generating their personal niche porn they can’t get otherwise. You won’t get many to openly admit it tho 😁
AI usage impairs cognition. Those people have been removed from the census.
