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https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findings-about-how-americans-view-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/0

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findings-about-how-americans-view-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findi... >A majority of teens use AI chatbots. Roughly two-thirds of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 (64%) say they ever use an AI chatbot, according to a fall 2025 survey. >Around half of adults under 50 say they interact with AI about once a day or more often. Smaller shares of those 50 and older say the same, according to the June survey. and mind you, that particular study bends over backwards to say "AI bad".

hansmayer 5mo ago
We all use them at some point, given how much effort the big tech is investing to make the shitty LLMs un-avoidable, from search to cramming them into support processes etc. The issue is whether people like them. And they mostly do not. (apart from the Office Idiot, who absolutely loves them).
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
  the completely avoidable ChatGPT app has 1B+ installs on Play Store alone. your reddit/bluesky/whatever circle of terminally online folx is not representative of the general population. you're utterly detached from reality if you think that young adults in particular give a flying fuck about copyright, water, electricity, or artists and journalists losing their jobs.
  - hansmayer 5mo ago
    Buddy you keep changing the parameters. Nobody talks about downloads, what are you talking about? What circle? Have you been following the graduation ceremonies in the US recently? Seen the AI boosters being booed off into oblivion ? Is that a "terminally online circle"? And if you think young people don't care about the envionment or ethics ... Maybe you should get out a bit more, it sounds like you are describing yourself, talking about terminally online folks...
    - DaSHacka 5mo ago
      Not him but in my anecdotal experience I've noticed there's two distinct crowds of younger people: Those that embrace AI, and those that reject it. There are certainly more that "embrace" it. Maybe not as much as tech executives, but there's a huge amount of students using it for both homework and personal tasks. Conversely, the second crowd that believe AI is an ontological evil, are a much more vocal (and insular) minority. All in all though, I've found much more people just generally apathetic than anything. People are generally not positive about slop content, but aren't about to boo tech executives. The download count of the ChatGPT app per GP, and the insanely pervasive use inside education, somewhat back this up. It's a useful tool, thus people will use it.
      - hansmayer 5mo ago
        > the second crowd that believe AI is an ontological evil, are a much more vocal (and insular) minority. Wasn't that generally the case that people seeing through something as bad, regardless of whether it indeed was evil or something of lesser degree of badness, were usually the minority? Think we've got ample evidence in each century.
    - b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
      yes, yes. graduate ceremony booing/cheering, the pope's highly invaluable opinion, all the things you saw on the front page here, all the comments you read on reddit, all irrefutable evidence that everyone hates AI. but meanwhile, new data centers are being frantically built to satisfy the demand.
      - hansmayer 5mo ago
        > new data centers are being frantically built to satisfy the demand. More like, frantically being announced and hyped up. How much new capacity has really come online recently? Show me the data, let's not bullshit here.
- tokioyoyo 5mo ago
  Pretty much every young person whom I know who says “AI bad”, also uses it for work/personal reasons. Which, i think, isn’t wrong. But just funny. Most understand how LLMs are handy in a lot of scenarios. Pretty much every single person I know in the age range of 12-70s use one app or the other. It doesn’t even matter how much we like it, as if it’s somewhat useful, it will be enshifticated, and profits will soar. People said the same about Facebook, Netflix/Spotify, Uber/Instacart/etc. Eventually ads will be injected everywhere to turn it into profits.
59percentmore 5mo ago
Most teens do homework, but I'm sure they also despise it, too. And it's been known for years that the industrial school pedagogy is backwards; readings/lectures should be done at home, problem sets should be done in class. But we keep doing it the wrong way because entrenched interests prefer it that way.

hansmayer 5mo ago

We all use them at some point, given how much effort the big tech is investing to make the shitty LLMs un-avoidable, from search to cramming them into support processes etc. The issue is whether people like them. And they mostly do not. (apart from the Office Idiot, who absolutely loves them).

b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
the completely avoidable ChatGPT app has 1B+ installs on Play Store alone. your reddit/bluesky/whatever circle of terminally online folx is not representative of the general population. you're utterly detached from reality if you think that young adults in particular give a flying fuck about copyright, water, electricity, or artists and journalists losing their jobs.
- hansmayer 5mo ago
  Buddy you keep changing the parameters. Nobody talks about downloads, what are you talking about? What circle? Have you been following the graduation ceremonies in the US recently? Seen the AI boosters being booed off into oblivion ? Is that a "terminally online circle"? And if you think young people don't care about the envionment or ethics ... Maybe you should get out a bit more, it sounds like you are describing yourself, talking about terminally online folks...
  - DaSHacka 5mo ago
    Not him but in my anecdotal experience I've noticed there's two distinct crowds of younger people: Those that embrace AI, and those that reject it. There are certainly more that "embrace" it. Maybe not as much as tech executives, but there's a huge amount of students using it for both homework and personal tasks. Conversely, the second crowd that believe AI is an ontological evil, are a much more vocal (and insular) minority. All in all though, I've found much more people just generally apathetic than anything. People are generally not positive about slop content, but aren't about to boo tech executives. The download count of the ChatGPT app per GP, and the insanely pervasive use inside education, somewhat back this up. It's a useful tool, thus people will use it.
    - hansmayer 5mo ago
      > the second crowd that believe AI is an ontological evil, are a much more vocal (and insular) minority. Wasn't that generally the case that people seeing through something as bad, regardless of whether it indeed was evil or something of lesser degree of badness, were usually the minority? Think we've got ample evidence in each century.
  - b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
    yes, yes. graduate ceremony booing/cheering, the pope's highly invaluable opinion, all the things you saw on the front page here, all the comments you read on reddit, all irrefutable evidence that everyone hates AI. but meanwhile, new data centers are being frantically built to satisfy the demand.
    - hansmayer 5mo ago
      > new data centers are being frantically built to satisfy the demand. More like, frantically being announced and hyped up. How much new capacity has really come online recently? Show me the data, let's not bullshit here.
tokioyoyo 5mo ago
Pretty much every young person whom I know who says “AI bad”, also uses it for work/personal reasons. Which, i think, isn’t wrong. But just funny. Most understand how LLMs are handy in a lot of scenarios. Pretty much every single person I know in the age range of 12-70s use one app or the other. It doesn’t even matter how much we like it, as if it’s somewhat useful, it will be enshifticated, and profits will soar. People said the same about Facebook, Netflix/Spotify, Uber/Instacart/etc. Eventually ads will be injected everywhere to turn it into profits.

59percentmore 5mo ago

Most teens do homework, but I'm sure they also despise it, too. And it's been known for years that the industrial school pedagogy is backwards; readings/lectures should be done at home, problem sets should be done in class. But we keep doing it the wrong way because entrenched interests prefer it that way.