Hype Dysphoria While CEOs and investors rush to jam AI into as many products as possible, the general public seems unable to give a hoot. In a new study conducted by Oxford University and the Reuters Institute that asked roughly 12,000 people in six countries about AI, large swaths of respondents said they had never used popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot — and between 20 and 30 percent said they’d never even heard of them. Using the YouGov platform, the researchers asked 2,000 people each in Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom a battery of questions related to AI, from how often they used programs and their familiarity with various brand names to whether they trusted the tools and the people using them. The results were surprising, to say the least, suggesting companies are vastly overestimating how much the general public cares about AI. “Large parts of the public are not particularly interested in generative AI,” Richard Fletcher, the Reuters Institute’s research director and the lead author of the study, told the BBC, which highlights a “mismatch” between the “hype” surrounding the tech and the public’s interest in it. Just a Number When asked whether they trust generative AI outputs, the results were even more stark. Across ages and nationalities, an overwhelming percentage of respondents said they hadn’t used AI tools enough to trust or distrust its outputs, be they writing emails, answering questions, or getting the latest news. Another substantial percentage…Most People Couldn't Give a Crap About Using AI, Survey Finds