[danaris]

> They're all using it.

[Citation needed]

I know many more people who do not use AI than who use it, and many more who refuse to use AI than people who are enthusiastic about it.

Given your username, you are almost certainly in a bubble—an echo chamber—that makes it seem to you as though "everyone is using it." I recommend getting outside that bubble and talking to non-technical people outside your usual circles, especially people in the arts and humanities.

[sethammons]

My blue collar buddy in water treatment uses ai to summarize reports and fix up emails. My retired neighbor who "doesn't do technology" was having an ai conversation on a product he was thinking of buying. I ordered through a voice kiosk ai at the drive-through last week. I am surprised how fast it is propagating.

[danaris]

But, see, this is part of the problem:

Most of the people I hear from who use AI say everyone they know uses AI.

Most of the people I hear from who don't use AI say no one they know uses AI.

It seems to me that we've got competing bubbles here. But the statistics certainly show that, leaving aside whether they use it, most people don't like it or want it.

...I think it's also worth noting that AI usage is likely to be "louder" than AI avoidance in many cases—that is, whichever side of this one falls on, it's easier to detect someone pasting from ChatGPT directly into emails, or complaining that Gemini told them you would sell them XYZ, than it is to detect someone who's just keeping on the way they've always been.