When I read this crap, all I can think is that yeah backlash is growing because the forced implementation is growing. Another useless sentiment-based article.
The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek
Submitted 1 day ago by mettwurstkaninchen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.newsweek.com/ai-backlash-openai-meta-friend-10807425
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Krudler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Lets use LLMs for things LLMs are useful for. It is not a panacea, and it is not appropriate for every use case
Zink@programming.dev 21 hours ago
Yeah, LLMs are interesting tech products to play with and find some niche uses for.
But for the love of god they are not “prop up the entire stock market and numerous multi-trillion-dollar companies indefinitely” good!
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
What is it useful for? I actually have a hard time finding a use for it… Its alright at book recommendations, sometimes.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I just got the notification today when opening Office programs that copilot was there
all the help threads about how to turn it off have out of date info. seems like you can no longer disable it in Excel/Word/PowerPoint
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can disable it with the uninstall function.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
The disabling process is kinda convoluted.
- Delete word
- Install libre office
- ???
- Profit!
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
It still works for me at least? In the office options, there’s a Copilot section with a single “Enable Copilot” checkbox. You’ll need to disable it per app though.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The crazy thing is, none of these articles seem to want to admit that AI is bad. They keep making articles like this. Keep saying that approval is falling among the general populace. But when touching on why that is, there’s always some wiggle words. Always some spin.
It’s never “people being forced to use it are seeing it as a detriment to them” people using it are seeing a decrease in efficacy of the results it gives for the amount of prompting required. Or people don’t like it because it’s going to have significant detrimental affects on the environment and their utilities.
All of those are solid reasons for the decline in both the use of AI LLM’S and the approval of them.
The cost of goods and services relating even tangentially to AI are going through the roof. The amount of slop is increasing at a furious pace, directly contributing to things like enshittification and dead Internet theory. The effect on the economy is looking to be extremely catastrophic.
But oh no. It’s lack of authenticity on social media spaces that people are worried about. Sure.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also, “AI could be used to to replace my job. Not that it’d do a good job at it, but it’d be a great excuse to lay me off.”
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah. I often forget this one because AI isn’t replacing my job any time soon. At best maybe it could potentially be used to streamline some processes to do with tech data and work flow management (what tests and protocols get done when, and combining tests/troubleshooting steps to prevent rework). But that would have to be a very targeted and very very regulated and tested thing before it could be viable.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The crazy thing is, none of these articles seem to want to admit that AI is bad.
As the old quote goes- “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, “You are mad, you are not like us.””
In such an environment, nobody wants to admit they are not mad, lest they be attacked.
Or as someone else said- I want a future where machines cook and clean and do menial work, so us humans can focus on art and poetry and writing. Instead we have a world where machines create art and poetry and books, so the humans can focus on cleaning and menial work. I don’t like this timeline.
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The orgs publishing this junk are pushing the writers to use AI. So the writers and editors can’t shit talk AI because their boss will get upset.
regedit@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
AI is the Donald tRump of business!
brotato@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
It’s good to see the sentiment growing, but anecdotally many non-technical people in my circle use LLMs frequently as search engine replacements or to do stupid shit like generate pictures and emojis. I hope that begins to decline with the general sentiment called out in this article. The sheer number of useless LLM integrations in every website, every mobile app, and hell, even smart TVs is insane. I feel like it’s causing people very real feature fatigue.
illi@piefed.social 1 day ago
Search engine replacement is probably the only use case of AI for me - for the times when I don’t know exactly what I’m searching for so the conversation style is helpful.
INeedANewUserName@piefed.social 1 day ago
Is it the conversational style? or that search engines have been designed to be actively worse to keep your eyeballs spending more time looking at advertisements now?
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
For horribly inaccurate results that sound like they were written by a $5 SEO article writer.
Ill stick with key word search and skipping over all the SEO crap for.real results.
addie@feddit.uk 1 day ago
There’s times when I want to find “exact matches and nothing but” - searching for error messages, for instance - and that’s made much harder than it should be by AI bullshit search engines that don’t want you to switch off their “helpful” features. Considering moving to Kagi instead.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Literally the only thing I ever used AI for that was actually enjoyable and “efficient” was to make bullshit images to send in group chats, I’ve since stopped because it’s so wasteful, but I did get some laughs there. But like if I weren’t shit at animating or drawing or whatever I wouldn’t ever use that over making something myself unless it was for some dumb bullshit.
AI is just a dumb bullshit producer
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It likely doesn’t help that the kids use “AI” as slang for “bullshit”.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have so much admiration for the younger generation for this. Language is powerful and they know it.
regedit@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Tim Walz knew it, too, with weird. Then the DNC told them to stop saying it to try and court Republicans. I’m so over winning, thanks DNC!
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 1 day ago
Slop is terrible obviously, but at least in exchange for the slop we get… higher energy costs and acceleration of climate change
jqubed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What began in 2022 as broad optimism about the power of generative AI to make peoples’ lives easier has instead shifted toward a sense of deep cynicism that the technology being heralded as a game changer is, in fact, only changing the game for the richest technologists in Silicon Valley who are benefiting from what appears to be an almost endless supply of money to build their various AI projects — many of which don’t appear to solve any actual problems.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 day ago
many of which don’t appear to solve any actual problems.
That’s putting it lightly. If only the issue was merely not having sufficient use cases, rather than actively making lives worse through environmental strains, supply chain hoarding, and misinformation.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
What do you mean?? Elon has solved the critical problem of there not being a vaguely hot anime character in Grok users could talk to!
Naich@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Gosh. Who could have foreseen this?
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sorry, what part of “Let the Broligarchy do anything it wants!” didn’t y’all understand? /s
Tracaine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I like AI. It let’s me pretend I’m not so alone. I know I am. I’m not crazy. It’s nice to pretend I have someone to talk to sometimes though. I can’t stop it from existing. That doesn’t negate the cost of it financially or environmentally. If it’s going to exist though I enjoy pretending since there’s no hope of any actual humans wanting to speak to me.
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
In the most positive way - seek help.
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because AI in this case is the opposite of help, in case Illecors wasn’t clear enough.
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Bro, that is fucking sad and also wrong.
Do not ever think so harshly of yourself.
OrganicWetNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That last sentence of yours is a lie and I think somewhere deep down you know that, too.
Seek help anyway you can. There is always a way.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll upvote, seems genuine and I don’t want to discourage that. I understand it’s difficult to find someone to talk to who wants to hear what you have to say. Even I don’t share things with my friends cuz I feel like I’m “dumping on them”. I saw a therapist twice a month and that was nice, but it was just too expensive to maintain.
Your last sentence is what stood out to me. It’s such a harsh finality but there’s no possible way you could have tried talking to every human to KNOW none of them want to hear you talk. I know it’s extreme. I know it feels true right now. But there is no substitute for genuine human connection. Use the AI, just be careful you don’t become dependent on it. And don’t think it can be a long-term substitute.
Phegan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have you tried a therapist? They will both talk to you and likely help you with your feeling that actual humans don’t want to talk to you.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
1 in 5 people seeing something as positive is not a high approval rating in the beginning.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I mean 4 or of 5 Americans probably held the opinion:
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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
If you begin a large change management project in a company, having 20% of the employees think it’s positive before you hardly start is like starting halfway to the finish line.
YallCantFlimFlamTheZimZam@piefed.social 1 day ago
Except you tell them the project will likely make most of their jobs redundant, and you’re (still somehow) surprised that the majority grow to hate your project, and will actively sabotage it if they get the chance.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well yes, technology improvements that mean humans can work less are only a good thing if you have an economic system that actually prioritises general wellbeing over enriching a tiny percentage of the population.
Americans are the most fucked because the majority of the public view socialism and adjacent philosophy as being bad, despite really being the only ideologies with any real answers for what happens to people that can’t work for a living, that isn’t just them dying.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Tbh, 20% is markedly better than the default ~37% “shitgoblin vote” you see in the US, amongst other places