Comment by fooker
16 hours ago
> The general public are weary of AI.
Have you interacted with the 'general public' in the last year or so?
Every non-technical person I know uses AI for 'fact checking' now, as well as 'doing the math' before deciding something, despite these two literally being the well known blind spots of modern AI. People have adopted AI suspiciously cleanly into their habits and workflows.
The only person I have seen being weary of AI recently is a labor activist, for good reason.
I'm seeing a wary public where I'm at. Dunno what's up with your area.
Most folks use AI and hate it
hackernews will tell you the public hates AI and then OpenAI will report like a billion active users
Who's hackernews? This is one of the most AI-optimist/AI-aligned websites on the internet.
My experience with the people around me are that most people love AI. When I go to coffee shops with people studying, I see people using chatGPT/claude web chat almost every time.