They Hate AI, They Still Use It // AIDRAN

The social media comparison has become a fixture of AI criticism, but it is usually deployed as a warning. What the Bluesky commenter captured in a single post is that it functions better as a structural prediction ^[17]: if the arc matches, then public loathing is not a counterweight to adoption — it is a feature of how adoption works at scale. The people most harmed by a technology are often the people most embedded in it, because opting out carries costs that resentment does not offset. This was true…

The Loathing Is Real. So Is the Usage.

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