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What My Audience Really Thinks About AI on Smartphones
The answers… may not be a surprise
I’ve mentioned this before, but I feel I need to illustrate the point once again: I’m not against AI. At all.
There’s a very simple reason for this — it has transformed operations behind the scenes in my business. Tasks that once took thirty minutes now take seconds. Our YouTube video titles are better because of AI and, as a result, often perform better. The need to spend thousands on sound treatment for my studio was erased, overnight, thanks to AI.
I’m just desperately bored of consumer-facing AI.
Don’t get me wrong — I’m impressed by it. It’s hard not to be when you can make stuff vanish from photos and tweak the individual audio components of a video shot on a smartphone.
The problem is that smartphone manufacturers appear to have fallen on AI as a clutch during their launch campaigns for new devices and treat it as a giant pissing contest against the competition.
Clutches and pissing contests in tech are deeply uninteresting.
