38.6% of respondents said they "very trust" or "somewhat trust" advice from AI-generated sources regarding relationships and social interactions.
Very worrying.
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TBH, I'm an autistic male and using AI for dating advice has 100% helped me get laid (still working on a stable partner though). Not because its super smart, but because I can rapidly ask multiple questions I'd be otherwise unable to ask a human without incredible and crippling embarrassment and get answers that are "good enough" if a tad broad or obvious probably to most people.
But as a broad trend, I'll admit that is a little worrying.
AI responses are probably less shit than they'd get from real people these days.
half the people I meet now are living in a delusion-fueled alternate reality and suffering from main character syndrome, they are utterly useless for any social or relationship advice.
and social media is 90% terrible advice pushed my influencers who are only there to stir up drama or 'work on yourself', both of which are pretty useless advice, and are just designed to get you hooked on buying shitty products they advertise.
and social media is 90% terrible advice
Well, I hope and pray that no one ever trains AI on social media posts and then they regurgitate the same bullshit.
Oh...wait...
half the people I meet now are living in a delusion-fueled alternate reality and suffering from main character syndrome
I'm very sorry you're surrounded by such terrible people, but I disagree with you. People understand people better than machines.
I only consult AI about my homelab problems.
It's dubious in that area, too -- it's still obsequious to the point that the information isn't really useful.
"Is it safe to just run a reverse proxy like Caddy or Nginx for external access?" -> "Yes, that's safe and secure."
"Shouldn't I also use a separate VLAN on my home network?" -> "Great point! It's much safer to use a dedicated VLAN."
"Are you sure I shouldn't set up a VPN to tunnel into my home network?" -> "Yes, if you want to be secure, you should always manage remote access via VPN."
Sadly that’s a big problem. “Where did it get its data from?”…”Stack Exchange?”…”Cool, you gonna post new answers there or that it worked?”…”No”…”So where does it get its data from for the next thing?”
It becomes an oroborous loop that causes less and less information to be available. You can’t exactly feed it a manual and expect it to understand. Not to mention a lot of things don’t have manuals or good documentation. It’s like Discord, but worse.
and most of the time it doesn't help.
It literally set up about 20-25 services in a week and I'm not experienced with it.
lame
Around non-specifically 50% compared to as high as 29.999% doesn't seem like a huge delta. I wonder what the real number on both is.
Edit: Looks like it was 52.4 and 29.1 respectively. The numbers on how much they trust the responses later in the article might be more worrying.
That's because you don't understand the numbers. 30% to 50% means it's actually 66% more common for girls.
And with the actual numbers of 52.4% and 29%, its closer to 80% increase in how much women trust the responses. That’s a huge delta, what is driving that
Random uninformed guess: women are on the whole more open to sharing their problems to begin with. So it's probably less "teenage girls turn to AI with their problems while men go to therapy" and more "men continue to avoid talking about their problems to anyone, including LLMs".
It is worrying that social interactions and support are getting delegated to algorithms at such high rates but I'm not convinced there is a significant gender gap to be explained on the technology level. Dudes probably ask the word prediction machine plenty about cars, tech, or weird conspiracy theories.
Is this a joke?
This person appears to be using shrinkflation math: The difference between 30 and 50 is 20, 20 is 66% of 30. When you see a bottle on the counter in the store that says 20% more that’s how they’re getting their number. It’s the percentage of the smaller bottle.
The math was not the funny part, the funny part was them discussing something that had already been included in the article.
When asked about their purposes for using AI-generated content in daily life (multiple answers allowed), the most common overall response was information retrieval and research at 76.4%, followed by writing and editing texts at 33.9%, and seeking advice at 23.3%. Information retrieval remained the top choice across all age groups, but seeking advice ranked second among teenage girls and third among women in their 20s to 40s and men in their 30s.
38.6% of respondents said they "very trust" or "somewhat trust" advice from AI-generated sources regarding relationships and social interactions. Trust levels were higher among younger generations, with over half of those in their teens and twenties expressing this trust. Among teenage girls, the figure reached 63.1%.
As I say above, it's funny to me that neither of them translated the article.
No absolutely not. This is reality, if something increases from 30% to 50%, you need to increase your capacity to handle it by 66%.
That's reality, and not moronic idiocy.
Correct, my question is because the article outright states the number:
38.6% of respondents said they "very trust" or "somewhat trust" advice from AI-generated sources regarding relationships and social interactions. Trust levels were higher among younger generations, with over half of those in their teens and twenties expressing this trust. Among teenage girls, the figure reached 63.1%.
Going off saying 'you don't understand the numbers' when neither of you have translated the article seemed genuinely funny to me.
Edit: I should say, I recognize you understand the numbers — I was not calling out your math.
I did translate and read the article, so WTF do you mean?
I used rounded numbers that are close to make the calculation easier to follow for the people that apparently don't understand how this works.
The part you quote was already quoted.
Dude probably reversed some numbers, math is hard sometimes. Or... they're focusing only on comparing between the affected population which is kinda weird.
No, their math is right — it says so in the article itself.
Well the math they did was 0.5/0.3 = 1.(6)
To make the logic for that math easier to follow, imagine it was actually 60% of teenage girls rather than the 50% from the article.
If you pick a random man, there is a 30% chance they consult AI. If you pick a random girl, that chance is instead 60%. So twice as likely, or expressed a different way, 100% more likely than when picking a random man.
Switching back to the 30/50 numbers you get that a random teenage girl is (at least) 66% more likely to turn to AI than a random man.
To me, this seems like a reasonable way to compare these numbers and it makes it clear that the difference is actually pretty significant, contrary to OP comment's claim.
Absolutely 100% correct, and if I recall correctly, it's about 5th grade math. It's astounding the number of people here who don't understand such a simple concept.