- CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
I still have my suspicions about how that 49% is being measured, because if it counts any ‘use’ then technically using most search engines is using an LLM regardless of wether you want to or not, a lot of people are now also forced by their employers regardless of wether they want to or not.
- 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
Have you googled anything lately? Sometimes you have to just AI because Google is retarded.
- Repple (she/her)@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
It’s so bad it drove me to finally pay for Kagi, which I must say is incredibly better than ddg or ecosia
4 daysKagi is highly intriguing but their prices put me off every time. $15CAD per month for a search engine is a hard pill to swallow. That’s a higher cost than basically any other digital subscription that I pay or have paid at any point.
- Repple (she/her)@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Yeah, the price kept me away for a long time. I do now find it worth it but completely get that it wouldn’t be for many. So nice to be the consumer rather than the product, though.
- 5 days
I’m sure that the majority of smokers do not believe that tobacco production or consumption is a benefit to society.
- jaschen306@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 days
I’m a dev at work with 1 dev Jr dev under me.
We are in desperate need of another jr dev. But my work rather spend tokens.
So I setup agentic workflows which works 90% of the time. The 10% requires a me, a senior developer to babysit the workflow. My hourly cost are significantly higher.
After calculating the token usage and my hourly rate there are still some savings using the agentic workflows. But not much.
But we end up sacrificing is a pool of junior developers that I can train to be a senior. If I ever leave the company the entire company is screwed.
- howrar@lemmy.caEnglish6 days
100% of Americans (rounded to the nearest 1%) participate in capitalism. How many of those actually support the system?
- Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
I’d like to see the data for that 49% of adults. It feels high and I wouldn’t put it past some companies to report mandatory AI bots as increased use by customers. I know Amazon requires it to do returns now, and I’ve had more than one site bring up the chat bot if you wanted access to content.
- 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 days
Number seems low to me…
People are using AI all the time without knowing it. Almost everyone is using the AI summary feature on every google search (i’m sure those summaries arent generated every time, so does it count as AI use if it’s a re-used result?). There’s probably a bunch of AI bullshit enabled on your phone you dont know about.
My guess would be closer to 90%… only a small minority of people are truly tech savvy enough to know what’s going on under the hood, and truly dedicated 100% anti-AI to avoid using those sites/features.
- 6 days
Unfortunately A LOT of less tech-savvy people absolutely love AI chatbots. All of my girlfriend’s family regularly ask ChatGPT random shit multiple times a day. Many of my friends have taken to using ChatGPT for every single online enquiry. It’s a worrying world.
- acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
it’s “% of U.S. adults who say they ever use AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot”. They didn’t ask about regular use, it’s the total number of people who have ever used a chatbot in any capacity. So with that framing 49% doesn’t surprise me. Of course the percentage of people who have ever used a chatbot is going to go up over time.
Of course the percentage of people who have ever used a chatbot is going to go up over time.
Yes, and crucially, it never goes down.
It’s like asking: “do you use a motor vehicle?” And then counting everyone who has ever been in a car, a truck, a bus, or potentially even a train as a yes. It plainly conflates active users with exploratory or incidental users.
The only reason to do such things is to inflate numbers because being honest about them makes it look bad.
