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everyone hates AI
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and then everyone clapped
ChatGPT alone has nearly a billion daily active users. Even accounting for corporate types who are pressured to use it, saying that nobody likes it or wants it is delusional.
The closest figure I could find said that chat gpt sees around 800 million users per week, not per day. The per month statistics at the height of January 2026 was 5.72 billion visits. Which means about 185 millionish (rounding up) per day. The statistics often go from visits to users. I imagine users means unique users and visits can mean the amount of times anyone has accessed the website. Regardless all of this would mean a majority does not use chat gpt
And what's going to happen when the VC funding dries up and they have to charge what it actually costs to run?
Yeah, the point where companies don't want to run those services at a loss any more is going to be interesting.
First step will be that they'll slap ads into it. Afaik stuff like that is already planned.
Regardless, it also means hundreds of millions of people use it and other AI tools on a daily basis. They're not all being forced to at gunpoint. Trying to pretend that the opinions of one's own social circle are "everyone" and that people who disagree do not exist is not a persuasive argument for anything.
I don't think it's "regardless" at all.
My point was that saying that "everyone hates this" and "nobody wants this" (what the shirt in the post says) is flatly untrue. Whether ChatGPT has a billion daily active users or 500 million weekly active users or whatever is just trivia that doesn't really change the gist of what I'm saying. Lots and lots and lots of people really like AI tools and use them every single day. Ignoring that fact and pretending like everyone agrees with you is dumb.
Most people would take the statement as hyperbole. Also, the claim wasn't against all AI use. It's the shoving it everywhere that they say people hate. Even among those I know who use and like AI, they say it's being shoved into things pretty arbitrarily and needlessly. Having it available to use is one thing. Ramming it down our throats is another.
True. Many of my colleagues are highly addicted clankers and I don’t think any of them like Copilot in Notepad, for example.
No, but a lot of them are being ordered to do so by their employer.
If it's something like Google or Windows that's suddenly started generating AI "answers" or whatever when you just use your computer as normal, does that get counted in those statistics?
I bet it does, and I bet it accounts for a huge percentage of it.
Those probably won't be counted if the number is ChatGPT users rather than LLM or genAI users. They're a whole separate bunch of obnoxiousness instead!
So has Facebook, or opioids.
Your point is invalid.
Where did I say that was a good thing?
Using it by choice when you specifically ask to is one thing.
When every action you take on a system is visibly being fed to the bots by default it gets intrusive and creepy.
Using it specifically is, at least for me, something different than having it included in everything else. It's everywhere, no matter if it actually offers real benefits to the user and that's the issue.
Yep. Fediverse is in a bubble. People in general have no feelings about it. They don't love it or hate it, they just use it. They have joked about how it gets stuff wrong until like a year ago and that's an old joke now.
A lot of people here have passionate hatred about it and they project that it someone doesn't hate it as much, they must love it. But the largest majority have no feelings towards it. It's just a tool, useful for some things, not as useful for others, that's it.
You are a prime example for a simple truth: circlejerking ("opinion bubbling") doesn't depend on platform.
There are a shitload of users. Yet, "everybody"...
Perhaps in their social circle, AI is the new porn. Who ever would watch that, after all?
But, more likely, everyone clapped and that was it....
The OP is about AI getting forced into things, which rightfully many people are pissed off about. But you're right, ChatGPT and many other LLM tools are very popular.
According to whom?
The people who run it? Who have every financial incentive in the world to inflate their numbers?
Even they aren't that brazen.
It's a "trust me bro" number that the commenter can later dismiss with "well it wasn't precise, but you get my point, and if you don't it's you who's boneheaded, not me"