[watwut]

Per polls, ai is pretty hated. And the distaste is growing with growing use.

A lot of ai usage is forced and unwanted. People dont perceive it as source of greatness, but as source of slop, cheap low quality and enshittification and crutially, existential threat.

[alex0015]

Sure, people might not like AI by some narrow definition or choose not to use it themselves. But roughly every single service they consume or interact with is downstream of AI at some level now. The demand isn't just for chatbot usage and hasn't been for a long time.

[watwut]

That does not make ai "extremely popular". Instead, it is source of anger. That is what I called "forced to use AI".