Apathetic indifference

A survey of more than 2,000 smartphone users by second-hand smartphone marketplace SellCell found that 73% of iPhone users and a whopping 87% of Samsung Galaxy users felt that AI adds little to no value to their smartphone experience.

SellCell only surveyed users with an AI-enabled phone – thats an iPhone 15 Pro or newer or a Galaxy S22 or newer. The survey doesn’t give an exact sample size, but more than 1,000 iPhone users and more than 1,000 Galaxy users were involved.

Further findings show that most users of either platform would not pay for an AI subscription: 86.5% of iPhone users and 94.5% of Galaxy users would refuse to pay for continued access to AI features.

From the data listed so far, it seems that people just aren’t using AI. In the case of both iPhone and Galaxy users about two-fifths of those surveyed have tried AI features – 41.6% for iPhone and 46.9% for Galaxy.

So, that’s a majority of users not even bothering with AI in the first place and a general disinterest in AI features from the user base overall, despite both Apple and Samsung making such a big deal out of AI.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    21 days ago

    “Stop trying to make fetch AI happen. It’s not going to happen.”

    AI is worse that adding no value, it is an actual detriment.

  • fritobugger2017@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    21 days ago

    My kids school just did a survey and part of it included questions about teaching technology with a big focus on the use of AI. My response was “No” full stop. They need to learn how to do traditional research first so that they can spot check the error ridden results generated by AI. Damn it school, get off the bandwagon.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      I say this as an education major, and former teacher. That being said, please keep fighting your PTA on this.

      We didn’t get actually useful information in high school, partially because our parents didn’t think there was anything wrong with the curriculum.

      I’m absolutely certain that there are multiple subjects that you may have skipped out on, if you’d had any idea that civics, shop, home economics, and maybe accounting were going to be the closest classes to “real world skills that all non collegate educated people still need to know.”

      • fritobugger2017@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        21 days ago

        I regret not taking shop and home economics. Filing taxes and balancing checkbooks would be good skills to learn also.

  • TylerBourbon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    21 days ago

    I do not need it, and I hate how it’s constantly forced upon me.

    Current AI feels like the Metaverse. There’s no demand for it or need for it, yet they’re trying their damndest to shove it into anything and everything like it’s a new miracle answer to every problem that doesn’t exist yet.

    And all I see it doing is making things worse. People use it to write essays in school; that just makes them dumber because they don’t have to show they understand the topic they’re writing. And considering AI doesn’t exactly have a flawless record when it comes to accuracy, relying on it for anything is just not a good idea currently.

  • thingAmaBob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    21 days ago

    Unless it can be a legit personal assistant, I’m not actually interested. Companies hyped AI way too much.

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    20 days ago

    please burst that bubble already so i can get a cheap second hand server grade gpu

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    20 days ago

    Much like certain other trends like 3D TVs, this helps us see how often “visionaries” at the top of a company are charmed by ideas that no one on the ground is interested in. Same with blockchain, cryptocurrency, and so many other buzzwords.

    So maybe I’ll mention it again: The Accountable Capitalism Act would require 40% of a company’s board be made up of democratically voted employees, who can provide more practical input about how top-level decisions would affect the people working there.

    • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      21 days ago

      every NVDA earnings call lol. Old man Jenson had a (chip) farm, AI AI OH! guy literally said AI almost 100 times in a call.

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        Sounds like corporate right now. Had a meeting earlier and it wasn’t even focused on AI, but I heard it enough times to make my ears bleed.

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    21 days ago

    The AI thing I’d really like is an on-device classifier that decides with reasonably high reliability whether I would want my phone to interrupt me with a given notification or not. I already don’t allow useless notifications, but a message from a friend might be a question about something urgent, or a cat picture.

    What I don’t want is:

    • Ways to make fake photographs
    • Summaries of messages I could just skim the old fashioned way
    • Easier access to LLM chatbots

    It seems like those are the main AI features bundled on phones now, and I have no use for any of them.

  • mesa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    21 days ago

    Sometimes I wonder what is going to happen to all this tech in 4 or so years when its less profitable to keep the AI centers on.

    Right now they are “free” because of all the investment that is going on. But they have a huge maintenance/energy cost.

  • diffusive@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    21 days ago

    I hate that nowadays AI == LLM/chatbot.

    I love the AI classifiers that keep me safe from spam or that help me categorise pictures. I love the AI based translators that allow me to write in virtually any language almost like a real speaker.

    What I hate is these super advanced stocastic parrots that manage to pass the Turing test and, so, people assume they think.

    I am pretty sure that they asked specifically about LLM/chatbots the percentage of people not caring would be even higher