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.
“AI” (as in LLMs for the sake of having LLMs accessible on your phone) is so fucking useless…
From a technical standpoint it’s pretty cool, I love playing around with Ollama on my PC every now and then.
But the average Joe seems to think it’s some magic being with absolute fucking knowledge you can talk to using your phone. Apart from being stupid, I think this might actually endanger human capabilities like critical thinking as well as reasoning and creativity.
So many people use “Chat Jippity” to look up stuff. I know google is enshitificated… but OH MY GOD.
After having mostly relevant Information available for everyone, the zone was flooded with Advertisement and FakeNews, and now the FakeNews are generated directly on the User’s device… no interaction and connection to anyone necessary.
I think the hate of AI does what you describe more than the actual AI
Yeah, no
Definitely is. It’s identical to the fear of immigrants. Like they just recycled the same articles. It’s manufactured outrage. It’ll either work or it doesn’t. We’ll find out. Not a big deal either way. Getting my information on this from media created by non tech literature journalists (who feel most threatened by AI) isn’t a great move. It’s like watching Fox News to stay on top of the latest immigration problems.
Take any articles on AI and put “immigrants” into the headline. It’s weird how it’s all the same crap. “They’re taking our jobs” “they threaten our way of life” “society can’t handle the influx of this thing”.