I think fedi is the only place where there I see most anti "ai" sentiment, and i think it's a bubble.
In real life, most of the normies I meet use it to some degree, even my family tells me I'm one of the few people to not use any "ai".
I'm tired.
@sequentialsnep that was also, to an extent depending on family and such, the takes on masking or not during 2020-2022.
@sequentialsnep youtube comments are a raging fire of intense debate about whether it's ok to use or not, and there's a lot of hate on its use in the art world
Standard marketing campaign psychology: Make people think everybody uses it and the people that do use it will think and repeat that. It's a force multiplier.
This October survey indicates 67% of Americans refuse to use chatbots.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/01/ai-adoption-at-work-is-broad-but-shallow/5293545
In this one, 80% of occupations have some form of AI access but less than half use them. Even software doesn't make it past 70% (and frankly, I think they're highly over-represented in surveys)
Marketing campaigns to day are virtually all encompassing, highly sophisticated and utilizing an array of captured trusted information sources, and targeted across very finely divided demographics.
Sticking to you guns is never easy, but doing the right thing rarely is.
@DrGravitas will check out the article in a bit, just wanna mention I'm in Singapore, so may be quite different from other countries.
Very fair! But, the main point I wanted to make was about the nature of tech marketing; the articles were just to contrast it. I'm in a similar boat over here with "all" my coworkers using chatbots (but the company also forbids the use of it in building any software.)
@sequentialsnep Since all the artists are on bsky instead, there seems to be a group of bubbles there too, with the different kinds of art.
On facebook I've seen a few random stuff the algorithm has thrown at me (and it's very good at throwing mostly things at me that make me angry, usually), where there seems to be some pushback against it. So at least there's hope.
But my mum and her generation in general, they just make the fakest shit flower bouquets when wishing happy birthday to people all the time.