This feels like fake news, like the people asked leading questions. going by what I actually see, I see regular people using ai constantly at coffee shops and cafes all over the world. Non tech friends tell me all the things they are doing with ai from various learning things to planning parties to organizing meetings, designing business plans, etc

I see no evidence American’s don’t trust AI so I suspect loaded questions

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ElProlactin 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Large numbers of people don't trust social media but still use it. People complain about unhealthy food but eat it. People worry about microplastics but drink bottled water. And so on.

It's quite common in modern society that people use things they don't particularly like, for a variety of reasons. One is that the society is being structured so that it's difficult to avoid its most toxic parts.

As it relates to AI, it certainly doesn't help that everyone is being told they need to learn AI or risk being eliminated by it.

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ares623 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder if having the world's largest search engine putting it front and center for every search query and can't disable it has something to do with it. Or for the world's largest social media platforms put it front and center and you can't disable it. Or for every employer mandating its use. Surely the people just love it so much they can't help but gravitate to these tools.

	▲	jeroenhd 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Search engine slop is an annoyance at best, Copilot/Apple Intelligence being everywhere is worse, but I think what does it for many people is how proudly the tech industry is displaying "AI" that will replace people's jobs. Musk's robot factory workers, for instance, or anyone practicing any form of art or creativity for a living, are now under threat of being replaced by the (still mediocre) works of a machine that can work 24/7. You can't tell a farmhand to "use AI" to stay competitive in the workspace when an army of robots is taking over their work. Unlike advancements in agricultural tools and robotics, AI is now threatening jobs in just about any field. The tone-deafness with which this force of uncertainty is being presented probably doesn't help. People can tell AI marketing is directed at their employer, not at themselves.

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laboratoriosz an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, the worrying thing about using AI is how you regulate something you don't understand. I mean, the sequence of weights an AI has to give answers... they're not even very sure how a specific personality emerges with certain weights... so regulation seems a bit distant.

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darth_avocado an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> This feels like fake news, like the people asked leading questions. going by what I actually see

So your evidence of why this is fake news is a very small anecdotal sample size in presumably an urban area of people doing mundane things with ai? Why should that any more reliable source of information as opposed to my anecdotal observations of plenty of white collar workers having negative sentiments on ai because they think they’re being forced out of livelihoods? Why should I believe you’re not spreading “fake news” because you have vested interests in AI?

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Papazsazsa 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use the internet but I don't trust it.

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tempaccount5050 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you leave large metro areas you'll find people are absolutely rabidly against AI. Go to a little blue collar town and ask about it where there are no hip coffee shops for wfh techies.

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mbgerring 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have worked in software since 2007 and I have been unemployed for almost 6 months. Getting any new job will require me to use AI tools, even if I think they’re awful, harmful bullshit. I am one of the people you might see using AI, and I absolutely hate it.

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yadaeno 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://x.com/projomike/status/2055850621832446432

People use it; they also understand that the end goal of AI is to automate away the vast majority of white collar jobs and enrich the capital class.

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rsoto2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

how are you supposed to avoid it when it's baked into literally every product we already used the most i.e. browsers and search engines

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altmanaltman 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

verge is very anti-ai and they are biased against it. I like their content but a few of their writers truly see the devil in ai