"Consumers aren’t taking AI's bait"

That lovely moment when Bing AI was asked if it were sentient

"A huge amount has been invested into AI but consumers aren’t taking the bait....
    "Who is buying all those AI-written books? Who prefers AI-made songs to human music? Who wants to rely on AI journalism to keep up on the news? Who trusts AI in any mission critical job?
    "I don't know anybody doing this.
    "On the other hand, I see plenty of people relying on AI for scamming, spamming & shamming. Those are the real markets....
    "With every passing day, OpenAI looks more like Napster or the many defunct piracy platforms—it relies on the creativity of others to make a buck. And there are plenty of laws against that....
    "Back in February, I wrote about the total meltdown of Bing AI—when over the course of 72 hours it did the most alarming things, including fall in love with a 'New York Times' reporter and try to get him to break up with his spouse.
    "And now, six months later, we can see that the real tech story of 2023 is NOT how AI made everything great. Instead this will be remembered as the year when huge corporations unleashed a half-baked and dangerous technology on a skeptical public—and consumers pushed back."

~ Ted Gioia, from his post 'Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking'