Comment on Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 week ago
Here’s an important bit from the actual journal article abstract
This lower literacy-greater receptivity link is not explained by differences in perceptions of AI’s capability, ethicality, or feared impact on humanity. Instead, this link occurs because people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI’s execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes.
It then goes on to say you should target ads for AI to people who don’t know anytime about AI, since they’ll see it as magical and buy in. Kinda gross, if you ask me.
jarfil@beehaw.org 1 week ago
That’s marketing summarized: sell feelings, not facts.
Check most ads for cars, perfumes, airlines, even food. They don’t focus on what they do better, but on how you will feel while using them. Even when they put some actual data here and there, it’s often disguised as part of the “feel better” narrative.