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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 67 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

For reference, the "Hopeless Dipshit Percentage" in any population is about 25-33%.

About a quarter to a third of the population believes in witches, ghosts and ESP; that the earth revolves around the sun; that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; that Obama was born in Kenya; and that evolution and climate change are hoaxes. A third of the US population can't name a single right guaranteed by the constitution or even one branch of government. And a quarter of the population self-professes that they wouldn't stop supporting Trump no matter what he did.

In that context, only 3% willing to pay any money for AI is an utter failure. The LLM bubble needs to burst yesterday, and the whole Internet needs to roll back to 2022.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    @salacious_coaster @dgerard Wait till you learn the percentage of ostensibly fully functional adults that have an Invisible Friend in the Sky

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I mean, "ideally" (to AI companies) those 3% would be the people who use it the most, so businesses and employees who get real value out of the stuff. Depending on who are considered AI users, it's not awful as a B2B thing. Selling to the general public is definitely a no-go though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    "businesses and employees"

    the business pays for it, the employees "use" it.

    the business measures the value by how many employees they can remove.

    if the business is measuring "productivity", how are they doing that? Is it jira tickets? Is it timesheets? are they measuring quality? Is it starting to seem like you're trying to pick up water with your fingers?

    if you pretend that ai ceos are actually doing marketing the trajectory is right there staring you in the face

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