From ads scrawled with graffiti to online comment sections filled with mockery, the public’s patience with AI-generated media is starting to wear thin. Whether it’s YouTube comments deriding synthetic ad campaigns or scribbled in Sharpie across New York City subway posters for AI startups, the public’s discontent with the AI boom is growing louder.
What began in 2022 as broad optimism about the power of generative AI to make peoples’ lives easier has instead shifted toward a sense of deep cynicism that the technology being heralded as a game changer is, in fact, only changing the game for the richest technologists.
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