'It's like having a dumb friend': Young San Franciscans hate AI (sfgate.com)

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I have some dumb friends and they are way more fun to be around than LLMs are

I'm not too surprised the younger generation has a healthy distaste for AI. AI represents a lot of negatives in the world today, which is kind of the icing on the shit pie for the young. They were already facing a pretty uphill battle ahead of them, then ChatGPT shit all over any hopes they really had. It is gutting the entry level positions already (or at least is being used as the scapegoat for this behavior by Execs). It is poised to collapse entire industries. It is already starting to speed up the further enriching the rich and enpooring the poor

Be really honest: if you were to go back to who you were as an 18 year old, with all of your hopes and dreams ahead, would you be looking at AI positively?

I would probably have given up.

i am not sure,

some companies are marketing themselves as AI despite barely using AI and customers demanding AI and with a belief it's superior to anything else.

While i see the articles where they say average person hates AI?

which one is true?

Ok, then don't use it. Or do. Or only use it when you find it beneficial. Nobody cares, nobody has a gun to your head forcing you to use it. I barely use AI in any capacity. That's my choice. Others use it to an extreme. That's their choice. JFC.

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People need to understand just how saturated San Francisco is with ads for AI companies right now. I know what these companies do, but I'm still amazed at how niche and bizarre the ads come across. They use an enormous amount of public space to advertise something only relevant to a few hundred people. Locals have a deep resentment of these companies.