I'd like to see the data for that 49% of adults. It feels high and I wouldn't put it past some companies to report mandatory AI bots as increased use by customers. I know Amazon requires it to do returns now, and I've had more than one site bring up the chat bot if you wanted access to content.
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I'm a dev at work with 1 dev Jr dev under me.
We are in desperate need of another jr dev. But my work rather spend tokens.
So I setup agentic workflows which works 90% of the time. The 10% requires a me, a senior developer to babysit the workflow. My hourly cost are significantly higher.
After calculating the token usage and my hourly rate there are still some savings using the agentic workflows. But not much.
But we end up sacrificing is a pool of junior developers that I can train to be a senior. If I ever leave the company the entire company is screwed.
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I'm sure that the majority of smokers do not believe that tobacco production or consumption is a benefit to society.
49%
This is going to be worse than leaded gas
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I still have my suspicions about how that 49% is being measured, because if it counts any 'use' then technically using most search engines is using an LLM regardless of wether you want to or not, a lot of people are now also forced by their employers regardless of wether they want to or not.
If anything... 49% sounds low, considering how many of these shit-tier chat bots are becoming required. Nobody is choosing to use them, given the choice, and the companies that force it are all losing market share because of it.
Of course chatbot use is rising when every shitty website replaced their support pages with one. What else can I do but use the stupid chatbot?
100% of Americans (rounded to the nearest 1%) participate in capitalism. How many of those actually support the system?
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I use ai chatbots like I used to use Google.
Google sucks now so AI chatbots tend to give direct answers at the moment. I know it’s a limited time before enshitification kicks in.
Have you googled anything lately? Sometimes you have to just AI because Google is retarded.
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I don't pay for any, but I use AI. That doesn't mean that I don't think it is destructive to society. I would rather it fail and go away, but that doesn't seem likely.
If you would know the iq of those 16%, it would scare you. :)
I use chatbots to make up strange stories about my former boss, who is incompetent, and share them with my former colleague. That's pretty much the only thing I've ever used an LLM for, yet I'm counted in this statistic
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