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"people have turned against AI" is an ... interesting framing, when the same article says that they're using AI more than ever. I can't quite believe that the bosses of ~60% of workers are forcing them to use it.
Ummm...except, they are. On top of the fact that AI is being implemented internally, all across most businesses...everything you do as a consumer, is also being integrated with AI. We are all literally "being forced to use it". In most cases, you can't even opt-out.
Some companies literally have AI minimum use quotas and will fire you if you don't use genAI enough
My company just implemented AI directly into our payroll system. Now, instead of looking up our information using the old UI interface, we have an app that's basically just an AI chat bot that we have to ask for information. No more pages to look up...just, "how many vacation hours do I have left?", or "show me my pay stubs for (enter date range here)."
Technically, this makes everyone at our company a part of the statistical group that's "using AI more than ever before", and none of us had a choice in the matter.
Try to jailbreak it into giving you more time off.
I guess it's about AI being shaved down throat for financial reasons. I use AI as I perceive it as a tool among other tools, but I also I switched to Linux because I don't want AI to be shoved down my throat.
It's all seo and marketing.
If you want something connected to honesty you aren't going to find it within this system.
And also... I really don't believe that this Ai marketing and the bubble is actually being used to influence people to accept chatgpt or consumer grade ai product. That's just a front to cover for building ai surveillance data centers. And it's clearly working.
It's as if even the anti Ai side is just a distraction from the bigger issues which probably stem from the lack of honest humanity left within the entire structure we are forced to live within. There are more fundamental, and bigger, fish to fry. But everyone is terrified by the truth of what that would entail. It's like a pre built loop of consumerism and escapism people are trapped in because reality is actually chaos that most people are too scared to live within.