this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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I agree with you completely, but,
I wouldn't say "no one wants this" though. The oligarchs have poured in billions and bought off every media company to constantly spout off about ai companies so your general normie thinks its "the future". Almost every single (normie) person I know (except 1 who is anti AI, and he's a geek) is using some form of slopbot for tons of things. Easy excel formulas (that anyone can do), turning pictures black and white (that literally any photo program has been able to do for 30+ years) , to summarize documents (because people are idiots now and have no reading comprehension) etc. The normies LOVE it and eat up the slop. Especially if they were stupid at computers before, now they think they're on the level of woz because they told a chatbot to make slop code.
The company I'm in can't go 3 seconds without bringing up "ai innovation" and "being future ready".
Its only here on Lemmy that people dislike it. The rest of the world is already addicted, and we are screwed.
I've seen quite a few people who make casual use of it. The key point is that it is currently free to them. As soon as it starts costing money, a lot will bail on it.
Several people I know have decided to already start paying for it.
Nowhere near the actual cost, however. Estimates range from $5 to $10 compute cost for every $1 compute revenue for LLMbecile subscriptions.
Will the people using a $20 subscription now be copacetic with a $200 one (needed for the slopmongers to just break even)? Somehow ... I don't think so. $20 is still in the realm of 'mad money' spending for the middle class. $200 is not.
The only people who are excited for AI are twitter users and rich people. It's not just in Lemmy.
Haha so right on the Twitter users. Funny how much correlation there is. Low intelligence - xitter - sloperator user.
People dont need to be excited for it to want & use it.
Sort of, yeah. The thing is... it IS the future, whether we like it or not... it's just not the PRESENT.
Yeah, lead pipes were the future too when they were first brought in 😁
Also: PLASTIC!
(Enough, please make all this "future progress" stop?)