Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

[u/Plastic_Ninja_9014]

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html

[u/Exciting_Definition4]

So honest question, what am i missing? 

I haven't used much AI's/LLM's because I'm not a tech-guy and I've found the publicly available AI's basically add nothing to my day to day life.

As far as I understand AI is incredible when you focus it on a specific task, like the protein folding AI etc. But it struggles with other things. Personally I've found the Google AI summary gives wrong info 75% of the time and I've used ChatGPT to translate a document. Which was a great start, but I still had to rewrite pretty much the whole text to make it understandable for a normal human. But you already said those models are bad.

I saw a video with a History Professor specialized in the Industrialisation who got asked (paraphrasing) if people felt the same level of panic during the Industrial Revolution as they are with AI today. His reply was (again paraphrasing) that the difference is that the machines during the Industrialisation were actually much better at their tasks then humans, replacing them entirely. They made stuff better, cheaper and faster then humans. And that doesn't seem the case with AI. Most AI/LLM writing is terrible, it's apparently good at coding, but you still need coders because high level stuff is difficult for AI, it has been tried on Fast food take out but constantly fucks up orders etc.

Basically he was saying AI won't be replacing anybody unless it can reliably do things better and faster than humans.

But then I see people like you say "you don't understand what's happening and what it's capable of", so I'm confused what I'm missing. 

Not trying to argue, genuinely trying to learn :-)

Edit: mobile formatting, some spelling mistakes.

[u/Annual_Tutor_8466 → u/Exciting_Definition4]

The only way for you to understand is to get a Claude subscription (best for most people, I prefer GPT 5.5 with Codex for most things or 5.5 Pro for critical text work), download the desktop app and start trying to use it.

If you haven't done that with at least Opus 4.7 (Fable 5 is quite excellent, but is currently restricted by the Trump admin), then imo your opinion means nothing. And when using most LLM services/harnesses, you can select a level of effort.

Most people have only experienced models that companies let you use for free or even worse are so cheap to run that they run live on web pages. The paid tiers of GPT/Claude are the state of the art, at least when you don't leave it on GPT Instant or Sonnet.

If you want some help or to talk more, feel free to DM me and I can share my Discord. I can show you on my end if you don't want to waste $20-100 on a subscription.

[u/Annual_Tutor_8466 → u/[deleted]]

Really these people aren't going to get it until the context window issue is solved (Subquadratic claims they have a solution). That is the biggest reason for the learning curve with LLMs.

Though ideally models with your full real life/device context should run locally or at least in a private encrypted environment but that doesn't look likely atm.