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The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

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451 points imartin2k | 2 comments | 06 Jul 25 06:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source
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daishi55 ◴[06 Jul 25 10:53 UTC] No.44479578[source]▶
ChatGPT is the 5th most-visited website on the planet and growing quickly. that’s one of many popular products. Hardly call that unwilling. I bet only something like 8% of Instagram users say they would pay for it. Are we to take this to mean that Instagram is an unpopular product that is rbi g forced on an unwilling public?
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satyrun ◴[06 Jul 25 11:51 UTC] No.44479913[source]▶
My 75 year old father uses Claude instead of google now for basically any search function.

All the anti-AI people I know are in their 30s. I think there are many in this age group that got use to nothing changing and are wishing it to stay that way.

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croes ◴[06 Jul 25 16:26 UTC] No.44482056[source]▶
Isn’t it fascinating how all of a sudden we swap energy saving and data protection for convenience.

We won’t solve climate change but we will have elaborate essays why we failed.

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DangitBobby ◴[06 Jul 25 21:12 UTC] No.44484100[source]▶
I think for the majority of the population, solving climate change is a non-goal. Even people who ostensibly care about it aren't willing to sacrifice anything for it.
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1. goatlover ◴[06 Jul 25 21:43 UTC] No.44484351[source]▶
How long will that remain true though? The effects of climate change will only get worse.
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2. ben_w ◴[06 Jul 25 22:13 UTC] No.44484562[source]▶
Even when it's a goal, it's one that only works with a collective action and vanishingly few defectors; and the more defectors, the easier it becomes to tell oneself a narrative that ones own actions don't matter because those defectors have already broken it anyway.

Personally, I'm still optimistic, at least for the emissions due to primary energy, because renewables and storage are just so ridiculously cheap now.

Unfortunately, all the other emissions are still enough that prisoner's dilemma type defection still comes into play. But I'm hopeful for cement, and have good reason to expect electrolytic reduction of metal oxides (beyond just aluminium) to become viable soon, as the primary energy is made increasingly renewable and cheap.