https://wandering.shop/@maco/116075925593898835

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.

Some people I work with when they do an internet search they go straight to the ai info. Literally read out the first bit of what's there and take that as the truth.

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 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

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.

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.

I don't think it's "regardless" at all.

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.

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.

Sam, please get off of the feddiverse, we don't want AI here.

The most ridiculous shit I have seen was when the lastest Gripen version was marketed as being AI powered.

Ah yes, the other can't-miss trick, "everyone who isn't 100% on board with or mildly questions the hate train is a shill."

Asking for less delusional anti-AI arguments isn't AI boosting.

For about 3 weeks I wasnt able to share documents with coworkers without sharing them with Copilot first..

I don't hate AI. That's pointless. I hate the people who use AI to ruin everything, which is the majority of AI users today.

This is the fediverse, you can't really expect people here to check their hate.

Yes how dare you challenge our opinions!

ChatGPT alone has nearly a billion daily active users.

According to whom?

The people who run it? Who have every financial incentive in the world to inflate their numbers?

They’re not all being forced to at gunpoint.

No, but a lot of them are being ordered to do so by their employer.

And what's going to happen when the VC funding dries up and they have to charge what it actually costs to run?

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.

Do I love my 4-year-old? Yes

Would I let my precocious 4-year-old full of imagination write my business report? Fuck no. Are you stupid or what?

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.

People around me use AI all the time to get answers to generalized topics. More and more they use it like a search engine / information augmentation system.

They are not technical people. They mostly know that the information needs to be double checked and might be wrong. But usually take it at face value if the importance is low.

Honestly this is about what they did before. They would search Google, click on the first blog, skim it, and repeat until getting some answer they believe.

I too use AI regularly for brainstorming, quickly summarizing massive text messages, and reformatting text from a jumbled mess into something more cohesive, etc.

I don't love it or hate it. In some cases it saves a lot of time and is useful tool. In other cases it outputs trash that we cannot use for any serious case.

Just like a hammer or a shovel, it's a tool. Can be used the right way and it can be used the wrong way.

I think you're being too literal, they mean they hate having to use it or they hate being constantly exposed to its shitty output. Obviously pretty much nobody hates, like, Markov chains.

I reserve the hate (well, severe disdain and contempt, hate is personal in my book, haven't needed it for quite a while) for the C-Suites and owners, users get contempt if they're using it to think for them and a pass with some sympathy if they've found a way to use it as a tool while retaining executive function. LLMs and broader machine learning are fine, just a tool. You can use a wrench constructively or give someone a concussion, that's on you.

SamA is the exception, hate that market cornering fucker (and yes it's personal, I was going to go AM5 this year).

I don't hate AI I like it for a lot to things. It is especially awesome at writing 1 off scripts/small projects or allowing me to test multiple different versions of a programming solution to see what one I like most. I use it to search the web and search my own knowledge database. Its an awesome tool. I get why people would hate it having it shoved down their throats all the time but that's not a problem I ever have to deal with cos almost everything I run is a full foss stack.

I think of an LLM as extraordinarily lossy compression. All the training data is essentially encoded in the model. You can get an approximation of the data back out again with the right input.

I don't think it's any less reliable that random blogs on the web, and I don't have to wade through SEO tripe either.

McKinsey isn't exactly stupid, its amorality run amok and a culture of cutthroats.

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.

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!

The annoying thing though is that all the random blogs on the web are written with using these LLMs now. It makes it much harder to be critical of your sources, because they're all coming from a unnamed, proprietary LLM with no information about who owns it or the training data. At least before, I could look up the user or check out their other articles, now every article is randomly generated from some unknown prompt.

Great way to make yourself immediately untrustworthy

I also hate the term AI.
And I'm not sure about the actual code either.

[...] has nearly a billion daily active users.

So has Facebook, or opioids.

Your point is invalid.

Yeah, the point where companies don't want to run those services at a loss any more is going to be interesting.

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.

I just want to give props to you. I totally get your point but even through the negativity you stayed polite and tried to get your point across. Thank you for making the fediverse a better place.

I'm sorry, but all the use cases you listed show that you're just lazy. Stop it. It's embarassing.

I'm lazy as fuck. I want to solve problems in the easiest way humanly possible. With the least amount of effort output.

What about you? Do you take the hard way?

I have made the conscious decision to try and not refer to it as AI, but predictive LLM or generative mimic models, to better reflect what they are. If we all manage to change our vernacular, perhaps we can make them silgtly less attractive to use for everything. Some might even feel less inclined to brag about using them for all their work.

Other options might be unethical guessing machines, deceptive echo models, or the classic from Wh40k Abominable Intelligence.

I had an idea for a SciFi story I wanted to write where a person's consciousness is uploaded into a computer. Now I can't even trito it without feeling gross because LLMs ruined everything for me, even AI scifi.

Here's a great video about what they did to disneyland https://youtu.be/Q7pgDmR-pWg

If you've ever worked with consultants or managers in general, like 50-75% of them are fucking stupid. Just because they can convince other idiots that they're not, doesn't mean they aren't. I've watched the blind lead the blind into financial ruin, while getting paid big bucks to do it.

I think the research can be pretty cool. Every implementation has been kinda horrible.

The research/tinkerer community overwhelmingly agrees. They were making fun of Tech Bros before chatbots blew up.

I'll be real with you, I typed lazy but wanted to type idiot. Read your fucking emails Jesus Christ. You still have to check all the shit generative AI writes because it lies constantly. It's very nature does not understand what it's generating.

Where’s the graphic?

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/70096211-stop-forcing-ai-into-fucking-everything-original

Do you not cross reference multiple archived news articles and seek out past attendees to remind yourself of what Britney Spears wore at her last concert? smh

The fuck are all these comments? AI is shit, fuck AI. It fuels billionaires, destroys the environment, kills critical thinking, confidently tells you to off yourself, praises Hitler, advocates for glue as a pizza topping. This tech is a war on artists and free thought and needs to be destroyed. Stop normalizing, stop using it.