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The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

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451 points imartin2k | 1 comments | 06 Jul 25 06:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.264s | source
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tim333 ◴[06 Jul 25 17:20 UTC] No.44482456[source]▶
It's annoying having AI features force fed I imagine but it's come about due to many of the public liking some AI - apparently ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly users (https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2025/05/chatgpt-stat...) and then competing companies think they should try to keep up.

I say I imagine it's annoying because I've yet to actually be annoyed much but I get the idea. I actually quite like the Google AI bit - you can always not read it if you don't want to. AI generated content on youtube is a bit of a mixed bag - it tends to be kinda bad but you can click stop and play another video. My office 2019 is gloriously out of date and does that stuff I want without the recent nonsense.

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1. timewizard ◴[06 Jul 25 18:22 UTC] No.44482898[source]▶
In two months they've doubled MAUs? Without an explanation of that specific outcome I don't believe it.

Also:

> As per SimilarWeb data 61.05% of ChatGPT's traffic comes from YouTube, which means from all the social media platforms YouTube viewers are the largest referral source of its user base,

That's deeply suspect.