this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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Fuck AI

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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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To be fair, yes, I'm just another person on the fediverse for all of you, but for me, this is the reality I live in.

I've always wondered about all the AI hate around here, and if this is just a fediverse thing, but realized recently that it's not. In fact, people are generally getting tired of constant LLM and genAI use. I've already noticed people getting turned off by AI flyers more and more, sentences like "oh, they switched to an AI flyer", in a voice of disappointment. And recently, I was at a trade show, talking to one of the reps at a booth, and it was really interesting to hear what he had to say on the topic. Apparently, two years ago, he constantly got questions about AI, wanting to hear that the products contain AI. This year, people also ask him fairly often if his products have AI, hoping to hear that they don't have AI. And he was able to clearly say, there is no AI in his products (at least not the LLM kind, only the classic, non-neural network kind).

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[โ€“] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are the sources for those numbers? They seem wildly inflated.

In absolute numbers, this corresponds to 6 billion people, up from 5.8 billion in 2024

https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-internet-use/

Saying 2/3s of all people with Internet access are using AI seems insane. As a general rule of thumb, I think it's a pretty good idea to immediately discount any self-reported usage numbers from publicly-traded tech companies as they've been found to lie again and again.

[โ€“] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yea, I edited my comment. It was a shit source. I still stand by it being widespread though.