Why do people hate AI features in apps like Google and Meta?
Because most people never asked for them. AI chatbots, summaries and assistants have been forcibly embedded into search engines, workplace software and social apps without consent, alongside embarrassing failures like Google's AI Overviews recommending glue on pizza. Coerced exposure breeds resentment, not adoption.
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