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The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

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451 points imartin2k | 6 comments | 06 Jul 25 06:19 UTC | HN request time: 1.343s | source | bottom
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daft_pink ◴[06 Jul 25 07:20 UTC] No.44478564[source]▶
The issue really is that the AI isn’t good enough that people actually want it and are willing to pay for it.

It’s like IPV6, if it really was a huge benefit to the end user, we’d have adopted it already.

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1. ethan_smith ◴[06 Jul 25 12:08 UTC] No.44480034[source]▶
IPv6 adoption is actually limited by network effect and infrastructure transition costs, not lack of end-user benefits - unlike AI, which faces a value perception problem.
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2. brookst ◴[06 Jul 25 12:39 UTC] No.44480279[source]▶
ChatGPT has more than 500m DAU, three years after creation. Is that really a value perception problem?
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3. nonplus ◴[06 Jul 25 12:54 UTC] No.44480417[source]▶
That value (of one company) is from speculative investment. I don't think it negates that the field has a perception problem.

After seeing something like blockchain run completely afoul/used for the wrong things and embraced by the public for it, I at least agree that AI has a value perception problem.

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4. brookst ◴[06 Jul 25 15:34 UTC] No.44481633{3}[source]▶
How does speculative investment get 500m DAU?
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5. bitwize ◴[06 Jul 25 18:21 UTC] No.44482895{4}[source]▶
I dunno, how did Juicero get $120m?
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6. ryandrake ◴[06 Jul 25 20:02 UTC] No.44483577{5}[source]▶
Exactly. It is possible for a metric like DAUs to come almost entirely from marketing saturation, heavy promotion, and hype, and not from actual utility to the user. I'm not sure that's the case in particular for ChatGPT but I wouldn't be surprised.