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Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions (news.wsu.edu)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/fuck_ai

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/15345295

researchers conducted experimental surveys with more than 1,000 adults in the U.S. to evaluate the relationship between AI disclosure and consumer behavior

The findings consistently showed products described as using artificial intelligence were less popular

“When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions,”

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[–] atrielienz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nah. All these things have one thing in common. These companies are all selling a convenience. Doesn't matter what kind, what the problems are, or what that leads to in the end. What matters is they can sell consumers the convenience of a task or product. It's why plastic is so popular, why block chain and IoT, air travel, and AWS are so prevalent, and why large grocery chains took off and have kept on going.

Is it good for the environment? No. Is it good for the people who use the products or services? No, most of the time it's not. But it's convenient and coupled with the practice of keeping most regular humans so busy they don't have time for just about anything, it's a recipe that works. If it were about destroying the environment people would never have made any effort to clean it up anywhere in the world. It's unfortunate but true. The internet is just the same. It rose in popularity due not to how beneficial it was to the world for spreading knowledge. But because it was convenient. And until it became convenient to get and use, it wasn't popular nor was it particularly cost effective.

These companies will sell things at a loss repeatedly if they think they can hook people in the convenience of the thing and parlay that into better profits. And they're really good at it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah no for sure. That's what I mean. None of what we do has a point. They sell us convenience with no value to us in terms of what we get from it because they immediately take it away from us as work. Everything is a scam and the only thing we get out of it is greenhouse gasses. Our lives need to get a little less convenient and we need to grow our own food so we're no longer dependent on their chains of delivery for sustainance. We need communal self reliance to break free of their colonization of everyone by the multinational corporations, and to save the planet from annihilation. We must choose to do it for ourselves