ChatGPT has a billion users so surely not all of the public hates it
Helpful, sure. Would humanity be better off without generative AI? Definitely.
This kind of hyperbloic stance amongst the broad public is sad concerning
Like I was telling someone else, what we've made here is the ultimate double-edged sword. Use it right and there's great glory. Use it wrong and you're a lifeless, empty husk. In this case, though, people get the far greater dopamine hit from using it wrong.
Algorithmic social media is like this and we already see people rotting out on the infinite scroll. And genAI makes social media look like 70s weed. The question is: on the whole, which side of that double-edged blade is going to be doing the slicing?
When you use ChatGPT for yourself, you may have a sense that what you see is made up; when someone else that you trust uses it and pronounces the output in a way that suggests it is their own, you are left doing much more complex social math to figure out if your trust in this person or entity can hold. It gets exhausting, personally.
But that position is orthogonal to whether they like having to participate in the race to begin with.
Well, they simply don't. Everybody is forced to use it at my (>100k employee) company. They are tracking it - if you don't use it every single day, you get flagged. Tons of people hate this.
I use it constantly. Everybody I work with uses it constantly. We use it voluntarily (we are the software folks). And we would all give it up in a heartbeat if there was a way to destroy it.
I hear this sentiment constantly online and from friends at other large companies. You are not observing the general reality.
And their company's leadership is famous for compulsively lying. Pardon me if I suspect they might be arriving at that number using creative math.