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20251015 - AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

science shows as true what you thought was only 99% true

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Sources:

  • Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/21522715251379987
  • Most people rarely use AI, and dark personality traits predict who uses it more https://www.psypost.org/most-people-rarely-use-ai-and-dark-personality-traits-predict-who-uses-it-more/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

  • Anthropic, Apollo astounded to find a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/19/anthropic-and-apollo-astounded-to-find-that-a-chatbot-will-lie-to-you-if-you-tell-it-to-lie-to-you/
  • MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam — from 100% crypto bros https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/21/mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam/
  • video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vgYq22Q5A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
  • Workslop: bad ‘study’, but an excellent word https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/23/workslop-bad-study-but-an-excellent-word/
  • video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnI-Yr6plXI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
  • Are AI users dishonest? If they are, this Nature paper doesn’t show it https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/25/are-ai-users-dishonest-if-they-are-this-nature-paper-doesnt-show-it/
  • video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkj_J0o9j9Q&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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