Most People Rarely Use Ai, and Dark Personality Traits Predict Who Uses It More
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A study found that most people rarely use AI, and individuals with 'dark personality traits' are more likely to use it frequently, sparking discussion on the implications of AI usage and its relation to individual characteristics.
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How does this reconcile with what we are told is a dramatic loss of pageviews due to "AI" searches?
Remember when they later apologized because it turned out there was no giant rise in theft?
It tells you any company having trouble adapting is thrilled to find a popular scapegoat so they don’t have to admit they made mistakes. Or at least to explain why they’re not doing even better if doing fine.
The company who cried wolf is an endemic problem.