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When someone is disappointed in something, the very worst way you can make progress in changing that person's mind is flatly telling them they're wrong.
You didn't change anything with your reaction here, I still live in the world with useless, annoying AI. Like most people. I won't now look at it and think "Hmn I should reconsider how I feel" As I try to refine my search results so it doesn't feed me complete garbage.
I'm absolutely sure it's helping some people in specific instances, but we're not at the point yet where it's helping people broadly, so I fucking DARE you to say any of this in a larger community where average people with non-coding jobs have to sift through AI bullshit all day.
I know it's going to help in the future with a lot of things, but it's also going to get worse before it gets better, and I'm not some lone voice, so you have to get over yourself here, you're not anywhere close to the majority of opinion here, even on the tech/singularity/cult forums there are plenty of people fed up with the current state of marketing and AI being shoved into everything. I stand by every last thing I said here. People in your position are deliberately not reading the negative things people feel about this tech in it's current state, but there are a LOT of people who share this feeling.
And you know what? You should embrace it.
Because if people didn't voice their discontent, it won't get better. The whinging pushback against criticism just boggles me, like people are so caught up in the cult that they can't see it as another product that has to be refined and shaped before people can use it and enjoy it in any capacity.
Several top links from "How do people feel about AI"
https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/artificial-intelligence/85-of-people-dont-like-ai-but-its-coming-anyway/
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/artificial-intelligence-consumer-sentiment/
https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2023/10/consumers-are-voicing-concerns-about-ai
https://hbr.org/2024/05/ais-trust-problem
And of course, THIS VERY ARTICLE: https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai