I'm in no way an AI hater.

[mistersql@mastodon.social]

@randulo Businesses have stakeholders, any of which can tank the company. Customers, investors, government, community. AI is for investors, it is the promise of replacing labor with capital and redirecting that income to investors. I don't think it will play out that way, but no one asked me. Customers we're not asked and that's my marketing exists, so the opinion of consumers won't matter, just change the consumers mind with ads.

[ephemeromorph@topspicy.social]

@randulo If I see any kind of 'AI' label on a product it puts me off using it. It might as well say 'contains unreviewed slop'. If pouring slop into your product doesn't diminish its quality, it was a lousy product anyway.

[liztai@hachyderm.io]

@randulo honestly there should be an option called "it depends". For apps like Confluence, Bear, Notion AI can be a game changer. For some not so much. If you need to synthesize large amounts of info, llms are the way to go, and a lot of the AI powered apps that I found useful are those whose function is to store a lot of data

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@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...

[chad@mstdn.ca]

@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.

[acdha@code4lib.social]

@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.

[liztai@hachyderm.io]

@nazokiyoubinbou is there any social media that is even remotely neutral about AI? Yes but it exists in China @randulo

[hostia@defcon.social]

@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.

[holzchopf@toot.community]

@randulo hey @tagirijus is this the bubble you're talking about?

[ralph@hear-me.social]

@zebulonmysterioso @randulo

What is the word that means [describe situation]? LLMs are useful as an interactive thesaurus.

[hopeless@mas.to]

@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.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

@jimbob Well, most marketspeak is either a lie or an exageration, right? But the use of the term shouldn't be considered a GoodThing in your ads.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

@jimbob To the person who replied Get a fucking grip, I say, that's not respectful disagreement.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

@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.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

@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.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

@nazokiyoubinbou

The general public think all chatbots are ChatGPT and have no notion of LLM or "AI", so yes.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

@acdha @liztai Good point, too that using an LLM isn't actually "powering "it, but the tool is used and for a good purpose, I think.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

@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.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

@androcat @zebulonmysterioso Sad, but also true.

[randulo@mastodon.social]

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.