I'm in no way an AI hater.
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@randulo Well, I'll tell you one thing, posting this on Mastodon is going to give you pretty overwhelming votes on the negative side. It would be interesting to see a more general populace vote, but my suspicion is that negative would still win by majority. My bet is still by quite a lot.
As far as I can tell, those at the top are just wildly disconnected in every single possible way to literally everything below them. Including the systems they're actually forcing all this into...
Some, I suspect, don't even know what their own business actually is or does...
As a side note, it has struck me on more than one occasion that if there is any position in a business that could be replaced by a LLM without causing massive problems, it's the way overpaid jobs of those at the top...
@nazokiyoubinbou is there any social media that is even remotely neutral about AI? Yes but it exists in China
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I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. But in the commercial world, if you are promoting a product or service, the phrase "AI-powered" translates to "didn't read the room". The majority probably don't see that as a plus? (I could be wrong!)
Boost if you will to get coverage. The results will be interesting if enough people vote.
@randulo "AI-powered" is neither a positive nor a negative thing; it's an empty placeholder for signalling "we're not behind the times". If this was meant to inform a consumer about the actual technology being used, they wouldn't be using such a broad concept (which would be equivalent to calling Tokyo "Asia"). AI has been used for a long time in a variety of cases under different names, but nobody was hearing about it. Now that LLMs have become all the rage and are talked about everywhere as "AI", companies are taking this as an opportunity to show relevancy. The sentiment being elicited depends on the individual's relation to the concept of "being/staying ahead" or immortality projects in general. However, it's not the same as the question of using AI (again, mostly LLMs or VLMs). Since I'm not aware about your goal with this survey, I can't really comment on what question would be more suitable to receive more accurate results, but I'm afraid that the range of interpretation for your current one is too broad to get a representative answer.
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I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. But in the commercial world, if you are promoting a product or service, the phrase "AI-powered" translates to "didn't read the room". The majority probably don't see that as a plus? (I could be wrong!)
Boost if you will to get coverage. The results will be interesting if enough people vote.
@randulo hey @tagirijus is this the bubble you're talking about?
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@randulo But what are these very good use cases?
What is the word that means [describe situation]? LLMs are useful as an interactive thesaurus.
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@randulo But what are these very good use cases?
@zebulonmysterioso @randulo If you write code, fact is today's coding AIs are great. If you explained what you can do with them in 2026 to someone to 2016, they would just laugh in disbelief.
If you don't write code, well, naturally this is hard to feel. But that's why there are two different camps about it.
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@jimbob Well, most marketspeak is either a lie or an exageration, right? But the use of the term shouldn't be considered a GoodThing
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@jimbob To the person who replied Get a fucking grip, I say, that's not respectful disagreement.
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@randulo "AI-powered" is neither a positive nor a negative thing; it's an empty placeholder for signalling "we're not behind the times". If this was meant to inform a consumer about the actual technology being used, they wouldn't be using such a broad concept (which would be equivalent to calling Tokyo "Asia"). AI has been used for a long time in a variety of cases under different names, but nobody was hearing about it. Now that LLMs have become all the rage and are talked about everywhere as "AI", companies are taking this as an opportunity to show relevancy. The sentiment being elicited depends on the individual's relation to the concept of "being/staying ahead" or immortality projects in general. However, it's not the same as the question of using AI (again, mostly LLMs or VLMs). Since I'm not aware about your goal with this survey, I can't really comment on what question would be more suitable to receive more accurate results, but I'm afraid that the range of interpretation for your current one is too broad to get a representative answer.
@hostia I agree, as someone else posts, the term is bogus to begin with, as if blockchain-powered meant something, even then the blockchain may have been used in the profuct.
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@randulo AI dates back to Clippy.
Gen-AI is what I think you're talking about.
Gen-AI powered is a problem.
Gen-AI assisted is different.
@chad I protest the use of the I in AI, as it is not intelligent in any definition I know of. But here, it's just another adjective, and I think a mistake to "brag" about it.
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@randulo Well, I'll tell you one thing, posting this on Mastodon is going to give you pretty overwhelming votes on the negative side. It would be interesting to see a more general populace vote, but my suspicion is that negative would still win by majority. My bet is still by quite a lot.
As far as I can tell, those at the top are just wildly disconnected in every single possible way to literally everything below them. Including the systems they're actually forcing all this into...
Some, I suspect, don't even know what their own business actually is or does...
As a side note, it has struck me on more than one occasion that if there is any position in a business that could be replaced by a LLM without causing massive problems, it's the way overpaid jobs of those at the top...
The general public think all chatbots are ChatGPT and have no notion of LLM or "AI", so yes.
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@randulo @liztai for me it’s strong negative if the lead is “AI!” rather than real benefits to me, especially if they pull a Copilot and raise prices.
As a contrast, I use the Newsblur feed reader which recently launched a feature that uses LLMs to synthesize feeds from sites which don’t have them. The ethical/copyright/externality questions aren’t erased but that’s at least a feature real people have requested for years, not some PM trying to show they shipped AI on their promotion package.
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@randulo But what are these very good use cases?
@zebulonmysterioso One is what Google translate has been doing forever (before we were saturated with AI and LLM terms).
I have been collaborating with a Brazilian musician for several years. We share no language. We comminicate via Gmail, which automatically translates the messages, passing them betwen English and Brazilian Portugese.
Asking for explanations of some things is also a good use. Of course you have to check for accuracy.
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"Firing some people in order to increase investor dividends"
@androcat @zebulonmysterioso Sad, but also true.
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I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. But in the commercial world, if you are promoting a product or service, the phrase "AI-powered" translates to "didn't read the room". The majority probably don't see that as a plus? (I could be wrong!)
Boost if you will to get coverage. The results will be interesting if enough people vote.
Funny thing, no average non-technical person probably even heard of AJAX and CSS, but these revolutionized the web, tho not always for the best.
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@randulo hey @tagirijus is this the bubble you're talking about?
@holzchopf @tagirijus In the sense that it will eventually disappear as did "with Blockchain", one could probably say "bubble", if that's what you mean?
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@randulo Well, I'll tell you one thing, posting this on Mastodon is going to give you pretty overwhelming votes on the negative side. It would be interesting to see a more general populace vote, but my suspicion is that negative would still win by majority. My bet is still by quite a lot.
As far as I can tell, those at the top are just wildly disconnected in every single possible way to literally everything below them. Including the systems they're actually forcing all this into...
Some, I suspect, don't even know what their own business actually is or does...
As a side note, it has struck me on more than one occasion that if there is any position in a business that could be replaced by a LLM without causing massive problems, it's the way overpaid jobs of those at the top...
@nazokiyoubinbou Yes, I realize that. My question isn't "do you hate (or like) AI", but what do you think of the use of "AI-powered" as a flex, a quality? I think you're right, that investors will be impressed, but that a lot of potential users will dislike it, even if the product is just what they need. (The "powered" claim is meaningless, regardless.
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I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. But in the commercial world, if you are promoting a product or service, the phrase "AI-powered" translates to "didn't read the room". The majority probably don't see that as a plus? (I could be wrong!)
Boost if you will to get coverage. The results will be interesting if enough people vote.
In the 50s through 70s they used to put the word "Sugar" in front of the names of breakfast cereals (to which a huge amount of crystalline sugar had been added) and it really helped them sell better. Until people finally realized how undesirable that really was and it started having the opposite effect.
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In the 50s through 70s they used to put the word "Sugar" in front of the names of breakfast cereals (to which a huge amount of crystalline sugar had been added) and it really helped them sell better. Until people finally realized how undesirable that really was and it started having the opposite effect.
@pieist I think I do recall that! Sugar Snaps! No, SMACKS!
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@nazokiyoubinbou Yes, I realize that. My question isn't "do you hate (or like) AI", but what do you think of the use of "AI-powered" as a flex, a quality? I think you're right, that investors will be impressed, but that a lot of potential users will dislike it, even if the product is just what they need. (The "powered" claim is meaningless, regardless.
@randulo All I can tell you for sure is the general attitude I've seen here on Mastodon is very close to 100% that that particular flex is negative with lots of memes of people turning away or etc in response when they see that.
How well that reflects the world as a whole I can't say because every day when I log on about half of my feed consists of people saying over and over "I hate 'AI' and everyone who has ever used it!" (to such an extent that some of the hate has gone beyond reasoning even.) So, in other words, there is definitely a bias here that doesn't necessarily match the world as a whole, thus making it hard to really judge the overall feelings.
That said, everything I've seen does seem to support the idea that even the average person sees the flex as a negative.
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@randulo All I can tell you for sure is the general attitude I've seen here on Mastodon is very close to 100% that that particular flex is negative with lots of memes of people turning away or etc in response when they see that.
How well that reflects the world as a whole I can't say because every day when I log on about half of my feed consists of people saying over and over "I hate 'AI' and everyone who has ever used it!" (to such an extent that some of the hate has gone beyond reasoning even.) So, in other words, there is definitely a bias here that doesn't necessarily match the world as a whole, thus making it hard to really judge the overall feelings.
That said, everything I've seen does seem to support the idea that even the average person sees the flex as a negative.
@nazokiyoubinbou Yes, Mastodon is a guaranteed anti-AI audience except for programmers who love using the tech but don't try to talk it up. AS I said, it's a technology and I neither hate or love it. The current implimentations like Gemini can do impressive things but are they worthy of attention? Not always. For example, it ingested a short story of mine and generated a two-person podcast discussing it. It sounded very much like two real people discussing the story. I didn't post that anywhere
