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New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI (futurism.com)
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A new poll by the Pew Research Center has found that Americans are getting extremely fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives.

A whopping 53 percent of just over 5,000 US adults polled in June think that AI will "worsen people’s ability to think creatively." Fifty percent say AI will deteriorate our ability to form meaningful relationships, while only five percent believe the reverse.

While 29 percent of respondents said they believe AI will make people better problem-solvers, 38 percent said it could worsen our ability to solve problems.

The poll highlights a growing distrust and disillusionment with AI. Average Americans are concerned about how AI tools could stifle human creativity, as the industry continues to celebrate the automation of human labor as a cost-cutting measure.

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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Any day now the bubble will burst and we will move onto the next hype train.

Last time it was 'The Cloud', now it's 'AI', I wonder what useless ongoing payment bullshit they will try to sell us next.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Did the cloud bubble ever burst though?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It never burst explosively, just kinda slowly deflated into being normal and useful. AI won't do that; too much money (HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!!) has been pumped in too quickly for anything other than an explosively catastrophic collapse of the market. At this point, it's a game of Nuclear Chicken between VC firms and AI firms to see who blinks first and admits the whole thing is a loss. Don't worry, though, the greater US economy will likely crumble significantly too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The NFT bubble bursted explosively.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    True, but the asset damage was largely contained there as well, since nobody actually BOUGHT ANY., and it was all fake digital assets made of fake digital money. AI/LLMslop has LOADS of physical assets, and is burning so much REAL money that it's making heads spin, not to mention the fact it has bled VC firms everywhere almost dry. It's gonna be so, so much worse than NFTs.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It didn't 'burst' so much as deflate as businesses realised paying $200,000 upfront for their own servers instead of $20,000 every month was better in the long run

    The cloud still has a clear and defined use case for a lot of tangible things, but AI is just nebulous 'it will improve productivity' claims with no substance

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    businesses realised paying $200,000 upfront for their own servers instead of $20,000 every month was better in the long run

    Not even the long run. 11 months is when you'd pay $220,000 which is MORE than $200,000.

    So not even a year until you're losing money.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Metaverse and VR such a colossal failure it's not even remembered as bullshit they were trying to sell us.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have a soft spot for VR, it's awesome as something to mess around with for a couple hours here and there and for Flight Sim/Elite Dangerous it's unmatched, but it's an extremely expensive hobby at best and was never going to penetrate normal people's day-to-day lives

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I could see that. I have a few projects I'd love to explore in VR, but I'm glad giving Zuck access to our pupil dilation data never took off. I wonder if VR would be better off if oculus stayed independent. Sure it got a lot of funding and dev, but that happening under meta's control really lost its appeal-- for me anyways. I still hope open source projects like simulavr will take off one day.

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