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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 32 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

For reference, the "Hopeless Dipshit Percentage" in any population is about 25-33%.

About a quarter to a third of the population believes in witches, ghosts and ESP; that the earth revolves around the sun; that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; that Obama was born in Kenya; and that evolution and climate change are hoaxes. A third of the US population can't name a single right guaranteed by the constitution or even one branch of government. And a quarter of the population self-professes that they wouldn't stop supporting Trump no matter what he did.

In that context, only 3% willing to pay any money for AI is an utter failure. The LLM bubble needs to burst yesterday, and the whole Internet needs to roll back to 2022.

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

I would far prefer the rollback to be 2004 or earlier...

[–] dragonsidedd@mstdn.science 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

@salacious_coaster @dgerard Wait till you learn the percentage of ostensibly fully functional adults that have an Invisible Friend in the Sky

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but that particular lunacy is grandfathered in to society, so I avoid it in my rants

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 15 hours ago

I don't know how true this still holds but two years after 9/11 70% of the US thought Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. My guess is that number continues to be higher than 30%.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -1 points 16 hours ago

I mean, "ideally" (to AI companies) those 3% would be the people who use it the most, so businesses and employees who get real value out of the stuff. Depending on who are considered AI users, it's not awful as a B2B thing. Selling to the general public is definitely a no-go though.