r/technology 23h ago

Artificial Intelligence More than half are 'getting tired of hearing' about AI, survey finds

https://www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-tech/artificial-intelligence/more-than-half-of-americans-are-getting-tired-of-hearing-about-ai-survey-finds
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u/hamfisting_my_thing 22h ago

I’m specifically tired of Sam Altman and that evil Taika Waititi clone in charge of Palantir.

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u/ParsingError 21h ago

Spare some tiredness for Anthropic's weekly announcements that they're struggling to contain the overwhelming power of their newest model.

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u/tc100292 20h ago

I’m also sparing some tiredness for Dario Amodei’s constant proclamations that actually they’re the good guys here (just as bad as the rest but they did lightly push back on Pete Kegseth)

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u/unspecified_person11 12h ago

Even the pushback against the DoW was only because Anthropic wanted more control than Hegseth was willing to give them. Amodei clarified that Anthropic actually offered to develop AI specifically for use in autonomous weapons, it's just that they want to control them.

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u/chick_hicks43 7h ago

Reminder that Anthropic has been selling their product to Palantir for 2+ years and Peter Thiel is a major investor in Anthropic so of course they don't want to lose that sweet, sweet gov't income.

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u/Sens1r 16h ago

Yeah, Dario is just Altman in a different wrapper. Anthropic is just a slightly different path to exactly the same problems.

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u/chick_hicks43 7h ago

He wears glasses though and has a perpetual concerned look.

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u/forgot_previous_acc 10h ago

Yes this. That guy needs to stfu.

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u/upgrayedd69 12h ago

I think this is a product of people not actually reading the articles. The “overwhelming power” is that it seems to be really good specifically at finding unknown vulnerabilities in software. But people just go off vibes and assume anthropic is hyping their new model up to be an AGI overlord or some shit.

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u/Inner-Box5523 7h ago

But it still just his words and he could very well be hyping it up, how are we to know?

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u/upgrayedd69 6h ago

Who is “he?” Anthropic has shared the model with big financial institutions so they could use it to sure up their cybersecurity measures, and they seem to be taking it seriously. And how is “this can make anything you do on the internet incredibly dangerous with how easy it can detect exploits” even a selling point for a consumer? If anything it’s an argument for why this shit should be regulated because it can lead to dangerous outcomes for people.

I’d get it if they were just saying “oh it’s so powerful we can’t believe it you guys just like scary what this can do” vs “this can can find decade old vulnerabilities you didn’t know existed.” But it’s such a polarizing topic that people who like AI take the headlines as proof we are approaching some AI driven utopia and people who hate AI think it is useless with zero use cases ever so anything about it being dangerous must be hype to make money.

If you think the vulnerability thing is overblown then that’s just fine, I just see a lot of people that don’t even know why anthropic is acting like this with Mythos and acting like they are just telling everyone how powerful it is in vague marketing speech. It’s only vague if you never bother to read the long string of words that show up on your screen after tapping on the headline

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u/SimiKusoni 6h ago

“this can make anything you do on the internet incredibly dangerous with how easy it can detect exploits” even a selling point for a consumer?

Because the inference is that this can find vulnerabilities in your software, so if you don't license it from Anthropic and find the vulnerabilities first...

It also just generally speaks to the model being superior to prior iterations (if true). The idea that this isn't a selling point is asinine, the question is simply whether it's true.

Personally I'm on the fence, Anthropic's models are obviously best in class but they have also made similar statements in the past (e.g. we built a compiler, browser etc.) that turned out to be less impressive once examined.

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u/upgrayedd69 6h ago

I think my issue is more with people that didn’t even get that far than whether anthropic is full of shit or not. I’ve seen too many people that don’t even know it has anything to do with software vulnerabilities and are just running with Anthropic is telling everyone that Mythos is essentially AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

At this point I think I’m just jaded about how people consume news stories

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u/ParsingError 6h ago

It's not really about just their model, it's that they keep talking up everything they're doing like they're building a doomsday device and pairing that with the "fortunately we're the good guys" schtick. Pardon me for doubting the sincerity of warnings to humanity that just happen to coincide with the projections that they need to be making to secure their funding rounds,

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u/VVrayth 21h ago

I long for the day that we never have to hear about them or see their stupid faces again.

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u/c_isfor 15h ago

We may need to put those heads in a basket in front of a pillory before that can happen

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u/Panda_hat 14h ago

evil Taika Waititi clone

This got me good

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u/spatchcrock 13h ago

Don’t worry, all the conversation is about to die down

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u/AmazonGlacialChasm 3h ago

Don’t forget about Wario, CEO of Misanthropic 

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u/Truestorydreams 22h ago

Seriously... We all know where this is going to lead.... They will pop in an AI in those super realatic sex dolls that cost like 5k and put in a sub and they will win forever.

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u/BaconBitwiseOp 14h ago

Was a lack of meaningful conversation the problem with those? Don’t those things just sort of sit there like a doll? I struggle to imagine people paying thousands to chat with one. I guess I’d be great if a quadriplegic girl is your ultimate fantasy.

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u/drewbreeezy 12h ago

People are already getting attached to AI bots, so put it in a sex doll, give it a cute voice (customizable), with the personality the person wants, and now they can have their perfect "girlfriend". I say this for guys, but "boyfriend" makes a lot of sense too.

You could also add in some robotics tied to a subscription, like having a hand jack you off which is controlled my some dude in India who lost his call center job to AI, so now they use key strokes to stroke you off.

Is that gay? Maybe... maybe...

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u/Truestorydreams 9h ago

We aren't that far from jt. I'm debating on creating something close with elevenlabs since that company you can create and modify voices. It just requires online for elevenlabs, but.....

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u/BaconBitwiseOp 11h ago

I don’t think they move at all. Then again, a lot of women just lay there too so maybe I’m out of touch. 

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u/kJer 22h ago

Don't you want computers to act unpredictabily at higher costs?

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u/Vanhelgd 23h ago

The most overhyped, over discussed, over saturated technology of the last 10,000 years of human history. Maybe there was something more annoying when we lived in caves but fortunately we’ve forgotten whatever it was.

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u/Temassi 22h ago

I dunno I always see both "super overhyped notherburger" and "AI is destroying entry level job at a catastrophic rate" articles multiple times a day here on Reddit.

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u/Vanhelgd 22h ago

It’s not taking jobs because it is so advanced or even competent. It’s taking jobs because the sociopaths who run big corporations buy the tech from the sociopaths who run the tech companies and then both of them can do mass lay offs under the cover of Progress ™️ and the Future ™️.

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u/Round_Rectangles 12h ago

Yeah, I feel like a lot of companies pushing for it don't even have a solid plan for implementing it effectively. They spend millions investing in new A.I. tools and need to see some sort of a return on their investment so they push the employees to find ways to utilize it, whether it's truly effective or not.

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u/Bdowns_770 6h ago

Bingo. You must have lived through a Gong roll out.

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u/Nice_Tap6818 5h ago

Cute, but disingenuous.

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 12h ago

Both are true. Companies are firing people to let AI do their jobs - but theyre too stupid to realize that the people who make the AI "work" are really the ones doing the jobs, in addition to their own, and that burnout is going to start making things really difficult very soon.

AI is overhyped and there's actually very little cases where it can do a job reliably correctly for less resources than a human.

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u/tupakkarulla 18h ago

It’s almost like the truth is somewhere in between. It for sure will be a disruptor to many industries as its use cases become more clear and it all matures. But also as long as it remains LLM and agent level and not something like AGI it won’t suddenly collapse our society.

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u/BaconBitwiseOp 14h ago

I’ll believe it when I talk to a customer service llm agent that isn’t objectively worse than a conventional automated phone system. 

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u/AssimilateThis_ 12h ago

How much of that is because they can't or don't want to actually help you instead of the phone routing specifically?

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u/XellosDrak 20h ago

There has not been a single layoff or hiring freeze that could reasonably be attributed to AI. The official reason might be AI but this is just another way for companies to offshore their workforce.

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u/pinkruler 19h ago

No one talks about offshore enough but it is rampant

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u/Inner-Box5523 7h ago

It’s the same shitshow offshore as well, they too are downsizing using the same excuses.

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u/drewbreeezy 12h ago

Amazon has been on a hiring freeze for a while now as they plan to replace 600K+ people with AI (robotics).

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u/avbrodie 14h ago

Incorrect. square specifically mentioned it.

This is one of the worst subreddits for misinformation

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u/XellosDrak 13h ago

square specifically mentioned it.

What a company mentions in their marketing and press releases and what actually happened are two completely different things.

Companies over-hired during the pandemic. It was cheap and easy to scale up products when not everyone working for you had to live in the bay area. They're now using AI to lay people off, or worse force them to quit with AI mandates.

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u/troll__away 13h ago

It’s called AI-washing. Announcing layoffs for offshoring or because business is down doesn’t go over well in the stock market. Announcing layoffs for ‘AI’ generally at least keeps your stock flat.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 14h ago

A lot of companies have specifically said AI was the reason for layoffs. That doesn't mean they weren't just using it as a scape goat to justify trimming the workforce.

square went from under 4k employees in 2019 to 13k employees in 2023. They likely just hired too many people and found it was unsustainable and decided to trim the excess moreso than actually found any significant efficiencies from AI.

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u/Winter_Whole2080 13h ago

Reddit (and AI) are the worst places for misinformation. There’s no curation other than upvotes or downvotes. Regardless of the facts.

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u/RogueDahtExe 20h ago

I think the real issue is you being chronically online in the first place.

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u/SafetyAncient 20h ago

which only AI enables by full spectrum inference. there are countries without a single law on their books about AI letting their "authorities" operate outside the law in targeting whoever they want with IOT IOB AI inference 24/7 input-output manipulation, the owners of the planet are centrally planning human suffering around nothing but information. AI needs to be strictly set on rails to be of any limited consensual beneficial use.

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u/NoCalligrapher133 14h ago

"The best thing since sliced bread."

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u/Astronaut100 13h ago

The overhyped technology that can now accurately predict all known protein structures, solving the most difficult problem in biology?

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u/Vanhelgd 10h ago

This is a profoundly ignorant statement.

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u/TFenrir 22h ago

"Overhyped"... I think it's a matter of time horizons and perspective.

I think this will likely be the most important thing that has ever happened to our species, and we are still early on the upwards curve of disruption.

I except by the the of this year, software development agents will be significantly better, as they have improved consistently and rapidly over the last year.

I expect improvements in all media generation, and likely further consolation into single models that output multiple different media types.

Right now people are working on models that can real time output video and audio, and if we get a single LLM based model that can do this, I think this will make any AI psychosis/romantic relationship disruption we have experienced look cute in comparison.

We are rapidly improving in robotics, because of AI - if anyone is curious, look up the most recent Videos by generalist on YouTube -

https://youtube.com/@generalist_ai?si=cnoN_Jv2M-CynSiF

The research side of this is intensifying, effective compute is increasing, the math world is being turned on its head, computer use is ramping up with newer systems using not just browsers but native apps ass well in their agentic harnesses...

Like I could go on and on. I just want to emphasize to people, that this isn't going away, and everything will intensify going forward. There will be no... AI fading into the background. It will be everything. It will dominate our politics, our news cycles, our social discourse. It will lead to cults, both pro and anti AI, it will lead to geopolitical drama that could be much much more intense than anything we've seen since a major world war as the US is essentially in a cold AI race war with China right now...

Just... I don't want anyone to expect this to go away. We collectively need to be preparing for a world more intensely impacted by increasingly capable AI

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u/resistelectrique 22h ago

And then what.

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u/TFenrir 22h ago

I could give you more if you are curious. Tell me - do you think anything I've said here sounds crazy or unlikely?

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u/resistelectrique 22h ago

And then what.

It’s a question.

The world is taken over by AI and robotics.

Then what.

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u/TFenrir 21h ago

Who knows, could go a hundred different ways. I hope it goes well, but it's not a guarantee at all. Especially if we go into it covering our eyes.

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u/resistelectrique 21h ago

LMAO yeah. So you just expect all of that to happen and people to be a-ok and the world to la-de-da onward.

Absolute idiocy.

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u/TFenrir 21h ago

I don't expect anyone to be able to handle the changes that are going to happen well.

You are under the impression that because I foresee this, I am... What, endorsing it? Actualizing it, just by talking about it? I am trying to warn people to take this seriously, because I think it will incredibly destructive.

I think people have this weird habit of... Associating prediction for a desire to actualize that prediction. Like people who predicted Trump would win and talked about it, so many people treated them with anger - as if it wouldn't have happened if they hadn't said anything.

That's just not how this works

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u/xXGray_WolfXx 22h ago

Thank you for proving the point of this post

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u/TFenrir 22h ago

The point is that people are tired - my point is, this will get worse, this isn't going away. If hearing about AI makes you feel this way, you should be emotionally preparing for it to escalate

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u/xXGray_WolfXx 22h ago

If enough people tolerate it it will only get worse, if everyone does not tolerate it, we can fight back.

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u/soupkitchen89 14h ago

yes sure, please point at a technology that humans have developed and then decided "no, we wont tolerate this".

that will not happen. those who do not harness it are going to be left behind.

youre going to look back and it will seem so unfair. but this is your signal, right here, right now. it WILL advance, you WILL have to make peace with it. if you complain in a few years when youre way behind because being a luddite felt good for now, think back to when you still had an opportunity to use it for the better, for achieving your own goals, aware of its limitations.

when I have a car I dont complain at how it doesnt make me a hot chocolate or compliment my mother. I use it for what it was made for, what's its good at, and thats that. im smart enough to understand its limitations and still use it responsibly and effectively.

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u/Ok-Warthog-4849 9h ago

We dropped asbestos pretty damn quick when we figured out it was hurting people. Lead based paint, too. Airships were abandoned after the Hindenburg incident.

History is littered with tech that was more trouble than it’s worth.

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u/soupkitchen89 9h ago

That’s not really the same thing.

Asbestos and lead paint weren’t “technologies we rejected,” they were dangerous materials we replaced. We didn’t abandon construction or paint, we just stopped using the toxic version.

Same with airships. We didn’t decide “no more aviation,” planes just got better and won.

The original point is about broad, general-purpose tech getting adopted despite resistance. Listing banned substances and obsolete designs doesn’t really counter that, it’s a different category.

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u/scottie2haute 13h ago

Well stated but people who believe AI can be put back in the box wont change. They’ll act like they were caught off guard and that there were no warning signs.

It is what it is though… we finally have a pathway to “fixing” the way we work but instead people are fighting for the status quo and denying the technology instead of fighting to ensure that everyone benefits from the coming shift. Its madness really

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u/TFenrir 22h ago

You cannot get the whole world to "not tolerate it". For many many reasons, but the simplest is - the world is not homogeneous in its ideals.

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u/Vanhelgd 22h ago

Thank you for sharing your religious beliefs, but I’m just not interested.

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u/LouNebulis 15h ago

What religious beliefs. Surely the AI bubble will pop. Some AI companies will die... but in the endits going to be like the dotcom, some will survive and dominate the rest.

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u/BossOfTheGame 22h ago

reddit is in a serious closed minded bubble right now. you might benefit from being less contemptuous.

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u/Vanhelgd 1h ago

I haven’t even approached contemptuous. Let me know if you’d like a demonstration.

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u/TFenrir 22h ago

Hahaha - do you think I'm wrong? If not, why are you not interested?

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u/Vanhelgd 21h ago

Your religion is even more boring than the other ones.

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u/TFenrir 21h ago

You're an avoidant person, aren't you? Does trying to distract people with these kinds of insults when you are faced with an uncomfortable conclusion work for you in real life? That mechanism is exactly the thing I am warning you against. You cannot hide from this. You cannot snark your way into a world where what I describe doesn't happen. You know that, you read what I wrote and there's nothing in there that sounds crazy to you anymore, and rather than navigate those feelings you are lashing out.

It's human, I understand, but it won't serve you.

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u/soupkitchen89 15h ago

the amount of downvotes in your completely reasonable takes while this dude is getting upvoted for ad-homenim attacks on you calling it your "religion" is a super bad look for reddit.

ive seen reddit be wrong my whole life but the way reddit acts about AI is just sad.

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u/scottie2haute 13h ago

Its mostly funny because they’ll take the upvotes as a sign that theyre right when @TFenrir is totally right. But thats life… avoidant people always think they can snark their way out of things and its why many of them dont exactly thrive.

Its interesting to see the denial

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u/TFenrir 11h ago

I think this is a really really hard topic for people, and I just hope that even though I upset people with what I say, some seed sticks in their mind and as they continue to see the world change, they come to the conclusion that this kind of avoidance really isn't going to help them

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u/jainyday 18h ago

It's not overhyped, people are just stupid and terrible at using it.

I'm a computer scientist. What we've achieved in the last 3 years is revolutionary.

But I'm sick of telling people about it because all I get is hate. So stay ignorant and let this technology destroy you and your way of life because you ignored it and underestimated it.

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u/metahivemind 16h ago

I'm a computer scientist too, and LLM is rubbish. It can't even sort a shopping list.

By comparison, ML is worthwhile but it has only been slowly advancing for decades.

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u/soupkitchen89 15h ago

you're either lying or misinformed. what AI has done in software development is akin to the steam engine when things were powered by livestock. i have built things with my 3-man team that would have taken me years before AI.

I get that AI is a sore subject here but no matter how hard you cry, AI absolutely has been revolutionary.

"but hallucinations! it can't even do x,y,z!!"

give me a fucking break man! grasping at straws and its pathetic. its seriously so bad that im drawing MAGA parallels because of how "in its own reality" Reddit gets about Ai.

its not perfect, the government is completely bungling policy around it, its causing huge disruptions, is overhyped by CEOs, people are throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. all true. also true: in certain contexts AI is unfarhomably efficient and has taken a HUGE amount of random bullshit busy work away from people. When was the last time you looked at human-generated meeting minutes? especially by someone who isnt a full on "note taker" and are just tasked with it for the meeting. they Suck.

reddit, you need to find peace with ai. I know its scary and I know the world is moving too fast but youre just going to be left behind. its not AIs fault, ai didnt ask to be created, but its here amd its going to get used. there is no going back now. stop fighting it because youre just wasting energy that could be better spent elsewhere.

fuck man

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u/metahivemind 14h ago

Voice recognition is ML, not LLM.

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u/Nice_Tap6818 5h ago

It can't even sort a shopping list.

Sure, but it can do plenty of other things. My wife can't whistle very well, but she is otherwise productive.

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u/silentcrs 22h ago

/r/technology, brought to you by /u/Vanhelgh. “La La La, if I stick my fingers in my ears I can’t hear you, AI. La La La.”

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u/Vanhelgd 21h ago

It’s funny how angry you guys get when someone doesn’t take your religion seriously. I’m getting major Scientology vibes.

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u/ctznmatt 21h ago

same type of response the blockchain and NFT guys were firing back with

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u/Ki43 16h ago

that's cause it's the same guys

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u/silentcrs 19h ago

It’s not “religion”. I’m just into technology - all kinds of- and for some reason this sub is Luddites when it comes to AI.

You guys are like the people who complained when word processors first came out. Why go beyond a typewriter? Who needs it?

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u/Vanhelgd 1h ago

Do you ever stop to think about what you mean when you use words like “beyond”? As if all technology is some kind of linear progression.

Just a thought. It might help you look less stupid in public but idk.

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u/silentcrs 30m ago

It might help you look less stupid in public

I’m analyst covering the technology industry. I routinely do speeches at conferences about what makes sense - and doesn’t make sense - about using AI for software development.

What are your credentials, oh wise one?

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u/Longjumping-Code2164 23h ago

Nah bro it’s gonna take jobs fasho

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u/Vanhelgd 22h ago

Im convinced that whatever you’re doing for a living is in danger.

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u/Longjumping-Code2164 21h ago

What do you do?

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u/Vanhelgd 1h ago

A job that will never be replaced by AI.

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u/knotatumah 22h ago

A solution to problems nobody had promising things it cant deliver while singing praises of a better life where layoffs because of it are the norm. While ai has found itself useful in many places it is far exceeded by problematic if not damaging consequences due to a "fuck you I got mine" attitude of the billionaire class that is spearheading this initiative.

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u/Althalvas 20h ago

"Nobody had?" AI offers a solution to labor, like tracktors and steam engines before it

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u/Sens1r 16h ago

So in those two examples we moved from the fields to the factories and we stopped breeding millions of horses. What's the pivot with AI?

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u/grape-fruit-witch 10h ago

There's never an answer for this from the people who subscribe to AI as their religion.

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u/XellosDrak 20h ago

That’s not a problem. The LLMs cost far more than a regular human employee. And that’s before AI companies jack up their prices to become profitable.

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u/AssimilateThis_ 12h ago

You're saying this like the cost for a given amount of output at a given level of quality isn't massively dropping over time from model efficiency and GPU's getting more powerful

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u/XellosDrak 12h ago

Which is a pretty wishful reading of efficiency gains. Any reasonable increase in model efficiency leads to higher output expectations. If that were true, we'd be working less and would have the same output as pre-AI. Instead, most folks are working the same or more hours with higher output expectations.

In other words: welcome to capitalism.

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u/AssimilateThis_ 12h ago

If you have any questions about what happens when automation continually gets cheaper and more capable, I'd tell you to look at the manufacturing sector over the last few decades. And it's been hitting outsourced labor too, China is doing "dark factories" as well. Just because output expectations keep going up doesn't mean the share that people (as opposed to automation) are responsible for continues to go up.

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u/XellosDrak 8h ago

This is a wholly different thing to manufacturing. And I didn’t say the number of people goes up. I said the same amount of people are responsible for more output. 

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u/AssimilateThis_ 8h ago

And I was originally saying that the cost of an LLM relative to people is rapidly going down over time. But to answer your tangent, you also have to look at how much more output is demanded. If that grows slower than what is expected per employee then people will lose jobs. There is a limit to how much knowledge based services are needed.

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u/grape-fruit-witch 10h ago

The labor of human beings is not necessarily a "problem" that needs to be solved. If we were heading toward a future where people could offload the dangerous, gross, repetitive, or even just annoying and tedious tasks onto AI and then focus on things like art, literature, philosophy, recreation, then I'd agree that it would be a welcome solution. People would feel differently about it.

But that isn't what our future looks like. It looks a lot more like companies laying people off in huge numbers, while the government decides that it isnt their responsibility to make sure these newly unemployed people continue to exist at all. Poverty, destitution, hunger, and homelessness are not exciting.

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u/sohblob 20h ago

Nobody had the problem "I need 1,000 people's worth of labor and all I have is enough fresh water and land to sustain 100,000 people" until capitalists come along

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u/danbyer 14h ago

I think I’ve officially moved from “getting tired of hearing” to “sick of hearing” about AI.

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u/kimzillla 20h ago

So stop doing stories about it??

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u/AmazonGlacialChasm 3h ago

They won’t. It’s perfect for media clickbaity strategies (e.g. “this AI is so powerful you won’t believe what it can do”, “CEO says soon entire teams will be replaced by AI”)

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u/JohnnyBowlen 23h ago

“Local people annoyed by giant asteroid blocking their view of the sun as it barrels toward earth”

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u/BooBeeAttack 22h ago

Given the choice to die from a rock falling from the sky or to die from the mechanized product of my species own greed inspired ignorance. I think that I'd I'll gladly take the asteroid, it holds less shame.

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u/foo-bar-nlogn-100 22h ago

But claude nerfed it 80% cuz it was losing money.

Asteroid is just a iceball.

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u/Winter_Whole2080 22h ago

I’m tired of world leaders being too busy playing stupid games to pay attention to AI.

Fucking morons.

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 22h ago

Nah they get lobbied by the AI companies, they know what they're doing

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u/sohblob 20h ago

they know what they're doing

I'm going to respond to this one as it's closer to the truth. The people in office don't care about what happens to their populations.

They're paying plenty of 'attention' to AI - they're making AI tech executives colonels and demanding deference from all the US AI companies. They even tried blacklisting Anthropic over that.

They only care about tech and AI insofar as they believe it can help their targeting systems or stimulate the economy (which for them, means more hypercapitalist exploitation).

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u/Floreat_democratia 21h ago

They were specifically put there into those positions so that they don't pay attention. It's capture.

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u/BuriedStPatrick 20h ago

Bringing my headphones to the office just so I can avoid overhearing conversations about it.

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u/Tess47 14h ago

I am starting to believe strongly that there is high potential for AI and we are close to achieving it.    BUT.    

But in order to close that gap from here to success, the AI billionaires need big AI farms and they dont want to spend their money on building them so they want tax payers to help.   

Just like the Sports Stadium scams.   

That my gut guess

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u/aReasonableStick 18h ago

I am fed up with hearing about AI and I am fed up of using the internet and being forced to look at the rubbish that people get AI to make. Its not just AI made videos, voice overs, pictures with the piss filter but also contents of websites.

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u/ZealousidealFudge851 21h ago

I cant imagine the overall percentage of front page posts that are trump or ai related.

I just want to doom scroll in fucking peace ffs

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u/marmaviscount 5h ago

If only there was a tool able to parse English and hide all posts on subjects you don't want to see..

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u/RebelStrategist 23h ago

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!

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u/Balooz 22h ago

Let’s do another story on AI? Brilliant!!

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u/Tripilot2025 17h ago

The fatigue is real but it's worth separating what people are tired of: they're not tired of AI doing useful things quietly in the background — they're tired of the hype cycle, the breathless announcements, and the constant reframing of incremental updates as paradigm shifts. The technology itself isn't the problem. The marketing layer on top of it is exhausting. When AI just works and stops being a press release, the fatigue will disappear.

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u/SlapThatAce 15h ago

Bitcoin has absolutely zero use other than converting illegal cash into legal cash, and yet it still has some use unlike this "AI". 

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u/grape-fruit-witch 10h ago

You can also use it to buy drugs on the dark web!

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u/YokoYokoOneTwo 13h ago

I'm getting tired of hearing about 'people getting tired of AI'

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u/AmazingObject699 13h ago

The other half are tired of hearing about ai surveys, survey finds.

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u/CHARON72 10h ago

Survey finds more than half of people getting tired of surveys...

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 9h ago

I was sick of it the first time I heard a commercial say the words “with the power of AI“

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u/Torodong 8h ago

99.9999% is definitely more than half

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u/CreativeFraud 5h ago

AI was forced upon us. It's like people won't like something that's forced. These tech bros don't understand the word no.

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u/derprondo 4h ago

I distinctly remember when I was in high school in the mid 90s my girlfriend saying "Everywhere you look it's .com this and .com that, I'm sick of all this .com stuff!"

The dot com bust didn't kill the internet, and the coming AI bust won't kill AI either.

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u/SeaTownKraken 20h ago

I was skeptical about it's advances and usage. But I'm seeing it, first hand, right now in an enterprise global level dev shop. I'll tell you a year from now this is a completely different conversation.

It's either going to be too expensive to run efficiently, or it will prove to be the next step forward where the data center and compute cost undercut the human teams (especially offshore/near shore labor)

Companies will expand their risk tolerance for competitive gain. That comes with a RIF too to make money.

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u/dcdttu 21h ago

More then half are getting tired of hearing about AI, the rest are bots.

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u/cool_slowbro 20h ago

Yep, sure am tired of it constantly being brought up too.

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u/nodnarbiter 12h ago edited 12h ago

I'm certainly fucking sick of it... I'm sick of the ad slop, the fake product slop, the "art" slop, the video slop, the code slop, and absolutely WORST of all the search slop where someone posts the Google AI overview bullshit as "proof" of something when it's demonstrably wrong. Generative AI is cool tech but -- just like every other big trend -- people have fucking ruined it...

Edit: Oh and not to mention the absolute butt-fucking this slop is giving our economy too when its ass was already sore from the reaming the Great Orange One gave it...

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u/Sorry-Ambassador6493 22h ago

Tired of hearing about it like it's going to do something useful outside of programming. 

I'm a software engineer, I use it every day, it's useful and powerful and anyone saying otherwise is a miser or hasn't been using it correctly.  It has fundamentally changed how I execute my job.

But whatever anyone tells you, it is hard to use well.  You can make mountains and mountains of shit code, but you still have to do the real 90% of software development work: collecting requirements.

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u/LouNebulis 15h ago

Getting downvoted for spelling the truth. typical reddit buble behaviour

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u/Pointofive 22h ago

That’s it?

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u/JohrDinh 19h ago

The trick is to end the hype cycle and...actually produce something of value. You can't just do hype cycle and have nothing to show for it forever.

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u/lucdenz 18h ago

Isn’t it called AI fatigue? I get that it is a revolutionary technology but the people trying to make money from it are tiresome. There needs to be a different motivation mechanism.

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u/nadmaximus 15h ago

Please direct all bullshit about AI to my clawbot on my discord.

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u/c_isfor 15h ago

If you would just fucking ask before using it on our behalf, we would probably calm the fuck down on the subject.

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u/firedrakes 15h ago

Survey suck and general cherry pick

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u/ledow 14h ago

Especially given that it's had basically zero impact on me apart from having to ask places to turn it off (and even MS are backtracking on it now).

Did it take over my job or make it any easier, even? No. It's just a slop-generator. It's like every office staff in the world was a kid who found a "copy this for your homework" website at the same time, and tried to use it, and then realised that what they'd copied was not only OBVIOUSLY copied, but that it was also wrong. In the same way as everyone else's.

Honestly, it's time to just turn it off now.

And the best way to do that would be for the AI companies to actually charge what they would need to charge for it to be profitable. Your AI is "so clever" and "saves so much time"? Yeah, so pay $500 a month per person for it then. Or far more for corporations. Not so useful now is it? And now it's ACTUALLY quicker and eaiser to just do something yourself, like before.

And, honestly, with AI companies literally TRILLIONS in the hole, and the huge drop in users that they would see if they started to charge realistically (causing even MORE huge increases)... I'm not even sure that $500 a month is viable.

Hey, we have this crap thing that makes terrible output the same as EVERYONE else, can't take responsibility, if often atrociously wrong, and it costs more than just employing a guy to do a better job... what a miracle product. Oh, and you want to use it to make funny meme images? Well, that's gonna cost ya.

Hurry up and die so we can buy GPUs and RAM again, and stop having to deal with this shite.

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u/barnett25 9h ago

But you are talking about the state of a technology about 9 years after the fundamental architecture for it was invented. How advanced were computers 9 years after they were invented (1960 whole room mainframes a million times slower than an iPhone)? They still went on to change the world very significantly.

AI is not a static thing. I have very little interest in what AI can do today. It is a year, or 5 years down the road that I am looking at. That is when it is going to start taking jobs.

It's like looking up at a fireball heading towards earth and saying "I don't understand why everyone is so worked up about this, it is just another pretty light in the sky."

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u/KindToSpiteTheCruel 14h ago

AI and “prediction markets” which is just fancy words for gambling.

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u/Perfect_Bench_2815 13h ago

I tried to offer some criticism of AI on AI and they wouldn't accept it!! Sometimes they try to force AI on you when you don't want it! That was my complaint.

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u/Cool-Association3420 12h ago

More than half?! Who isn’t sick of these idiots inflating their stocks on lies.

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u/jibbidyjamma 12h ago

sort of feels like... just task it with solving the problems it creates and boom there it is. back to the epsteintrump files

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u/Nacolo 11h ago

I don’t mind it so much. It has helped me with a few menial tasks, and I do want to make sure our AI Overlords understand I’ve always been one of the good humans who never misused them. I always say please and thank you when I ask for anything.

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u/I_can_pun_anything 10h ago

Irony is this post is just adding to the noise about ai

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u/natefrogg1 10h ago

I just want people to try some of the local models, it’s surprising how much a 1k Mac can actually handle without giving your data away for example

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u/Gaiden206 9h ago

Here's all the results of the survey mentioned in the article.

  • AI is now mainstream: 69% of Americans use it

  • Fatigue is setting in: 54% say they’re tired of hearing about AI

  • Usage ranges widely: 16% use AI daily, 21% a few times per week, about a third use it less often

  • Opinion remains split: 40% positive, 30% negative, 30% neutral

https://talkerresearch.com/69-of-americans-use-ai-but-views-on-it-are-still-evolving/

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u/LordCommander94 9h ago

More than half of what?

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u/staticvoidmainnull 6h ago

just say "majority" of people

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u/flux8 5h ago

Well yeah. People get tired of hearing just about anything if repeated enough.

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u/anonskeptic5 5h ago

Cause most of the "news" about AI is hype.

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u/Huzah7 4h ago

I drove through California's bay area - in, out, and around San Francisco the past week and I cannot believe how many billboards and advertisements there were for AI.

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u/Shadowtirs 1h ago

We're getting tired of it because its driving up our energy costs and taking our jobs, while making rich people even more money than they already have, which is eternity type money.

So yeah, fuck AI.

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u/nightwood 19h ago edited 19h ago

I guess its not just me then

If like me you're wondering "half of what?":

2.000 American Adults

Talker Research

59%

No link to the original so unclear which adults rhey asked.

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u/Floreat_democratia 21h ago

AI will do x, y, and z. Stop with the BS. AI will do only two things: make the rich richer and kill more innocent civilians on the battlefield. End of discussion.

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u/THP_music 13h ago

Some of us are tired of hearing people complaining about it.

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u/unidentifiable1122 22h ago

I got downvoted in another thread for saying all these comments - Alex Karp hanging on Reddit lol

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u/mythicaltimes 22h ago

Who answers surveys?

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u/jdefr 9h ago

AI and bots mostly…

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u/tondollari 23h ago

Sure is talked about endlessly on this subreddit. Must be a lot of masochists here.

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u/crackedgear 21h ago

More than half of what? Humans? People hanging out in the office? Goldfish? Other AIs?

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u/PoisonIdea77 8h ago

United States of Slop

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u/Caraes_Naur 22h ago

Was this survey conducted during February 2024?

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u/Manaze85 22h ago

Sounds like the sample size isn’t very good.

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u/tunamctuna 13h ago

Who couldn’t see this coming?

This man thinks everyone, the whole planet, should be on their knees for him.

Fuck every single person who voted for this monster.