Post #4915703 · Elektrine

2026-09-25 14:16 UTC

It's not just the fediverse, the tide against widespread LLM use is turning in real life To be fair, yes, I'm just another person on the fediverse for all of you, but for me, this is the reality I live in. I've always wondered about all the AI hate around here, and if this is just a fediverse thing, but realized recently that it's not. In fact, people are generally getting tired of constant LLM and genAI use. I've already noticed people getting turned off by AI flyers more and more, sentences like "oh, they switched to an AI flyer", in a voice of disappointment. And recently, I was at a trade show, talking to one of the reps at a booth, and it was really interesting to hear what he had to say on the topic. Apparently, two years ago, he constantly got questions about AI, wanting to hear that the products contain AI. This year, people also ask him fairly often if his products have AI, hoping to hear that they don't have AI. And he was able to clearly say, there is no AI in his products (at least not the LLM kind, only the classic, non-neural network kind).

Replies (5)

@teslekova@lemmy.ml 2026-09-26 02:55

It’d be great if everyone would mention the little bit of AI that they noticed making something worse. Me, it’s extremely petty and first world problemy. I am disabled in the brains, so until recently I was getting a lot of Ubereats delivery. (Not so much any more, because I live with a kind and generous and extremely good cook now who likes doing culinary experiments on me. Because I’m expendable.) The descriptions of the food are all the bloody same now. AI slop wall to wall. And when there’s pictures, it’s best to ignore them because they’re so often just slop which might or might not look like food. It’s an incredibly minor issue, but it grinds my gears. Every little piece of everyday human creativity just mashed away into a mediocre paste. No more descriptions like “hottest goddamn curry, no bull, don’t complain about the burn you wimp” like my favourite Thai place had for a while. Just bleh. “Fragrant spices and fresh ingredients combined into a green curry.” Thanks AI, real fucken descriptive.

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@baddaywithacamera@lemmy.world 2026-09-25 23:13

I’m seeing widespread acceptance and adoption around me IRL. On Reddit it is more accepted than not, seems t be the same smaller bunch running around frantically downvoting. Can’t say I lose much sleep over it.

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@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-25 15:23

All the small restaurants are using it for menus and ads. So many posts and dlyers using AI. Teachers relying on it entirely in classrooms. Smart coworkers deep frying their brain by using it. It’s everywhere.

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@Tattorack@lemmy.world 2026-09-26 03:50

Wasn’t there a business article that was about how people are less willing to buy a product if it advertises its AI implementation?

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@thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2026-09-25 18:35

EVERY single leader and college is using it by choice at unprecedented scale. I feel like I’m living in a twilight zone episode everyday. There’s a could chunk of people with real money who buy this crap.

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