I've encountered maybe 5 people who are happy and or optimistic about AI - and 3 of those I'm just guessing. For everyone else, their opinions land somewhere be

I've encountered maybe 5 people who are happy and or optimistic about AI - and 3 of those I'm just guessing. For everyone else, their opinions land somewhere between wary and weary and resentful. For the negative response I've heard, maybe 5% of it is due to actual performance of the LLM. They've run into substandard or unpredictable or unhelpful responses. The other 95% is squarely due to deployment. It's the heavy-handed, pushy, obnoxious, deceitful, non-consensual, creepy coercion that platforms use to subvert you into their AI glue traps.¹ In short, biggest tech has turned AI of every quality into unwanted foistware. From the article: We’re angry that we don’t have choices to use AI. Companies are shoving it into our video calls, email software, digital assistants, shopping websites and our Google search results. Some corporate bosses demand their workers use AI or else. With other new waves of technology, such as smartphones and social media, “you had to opt in,” said Yam. “Now there’s a lot of ambient exposure to AI that I don’t necessarily choose.” Even Harbath, who uses AI fairly enthusiastically, felt angry when a publishing company ran her book manuscript through AI software to identify repetition in her writing and to help identify effective marketing strategies. The feedback was helpful, but it took Harbath time to realize why she was mad: She wasn’t told AI was going to be used in this way, and she had no information about it. And she said “both things can be true” — you can want AI to help you and resent when it’s used in ways that you don’t want or expect.