Do you have evidence for this beyond your friends (who were accepted into college)?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7284300/

"It was stated in notes that I had lung cancer. I do not and never have had lung cancer."

"I did receive a referral for physical therapy, it was for the wrong body part"

"Doctor reported that I did not claim to have pain in my hand. I am a pianist and I went specifically because pain was in my hand."

"I have been complaining of difficulty breathing [for over 3 mo]... notes saying my breathing is normal"

And plenty more

It's okay if you're not the target audience for one or the other.

It's too late. It already exfiltrated the benchmark rubric.

Cut to pandemonium on the streets

Oh so you do believe in justice

Not sure if these are the best stats to illustrate the point, but ChatGPT was released November 2022, 2.5 years ago, and they currently claim ~1 billion users [1]

By comparison, iPhone sales were something like 30 million over the same time period, June 2007 through 2009. [2]

In other words, what took ChatGPT several months took smartphones several years.

Of course there are problems with the comparison (iPhones are expensive, but many people bought each version of the iPhone making the raw user count go down, Sam Altman is exaggerating, people use LLMs other than ChatGPT, blah blah blah), so maybe let's not concentrate on this particular analogy. The point is: even a very skeptical view of how many people use LLMs day-to-day has to acknowledge they are relatively popular, for better or worse.

I think we're better served trying to keep the cat from scratching us rather than trying to put it back in the bag. Ham-fisted megalomaniac CEOs forcing a dangerous technology on workers before we all understand the danger is a big problem, that's for sure. To the original point, "AI-first is the new RTO", there's definitely some juice there, but it's not because the general public is anti-AI.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/martineparis/2025/04/12/chatgpt...

[2] https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology--media-a...

> did your boss ever have to send you a memo demanding that you use a smartphone

Yes, there were tons of jobs that required you to have a smartphone, and still do. I remember my second job, they'd give out Blackberries - debatably not smartphones, but still - to the managers and require work communication on them. I know this was true for many companies.

This isn't the perfect analogy anyway, since one major reason companies did this was to increase security, while forcing AI onto begrudging workers feels like it could have the opposite effect. The commonality is efficiency, or at least the perception of it by upper management.

One example I can think of where there was worker pushback but it makes total sense is the use of electronic medical records. Doctors/nurses originally didn't want to, and there are certainly a lot of problems with the tech, but I don't think anyone is suggesting now that we should go back to paper.

You can make the argument that an "AI first" mandate will backfire, but the notion that workers will collectively gravitate towards new tech is not true in general.