{"id":662344,"date":"2026-10-22T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662344\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:48:14","slug":"four-years-after-chatgpt-moment-the-end-of-ai-euphoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662344\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years after ChatGPT moment: The end of AI euphoria?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are you still euphoric about AI? Or are you rather annoyed by the AI slop, disillusioned by the possibilities? About four years after the release of ChatGPT, AI has arrived in everyday life \u2013 and people’s mood seems to be at a turning point.<\/p>\n

If 2022 is considered the Big Bang year of the AI revolution \u2013 will 2026 go down in history as the year of the AI turning point, in which humanity began to doubt, criticize, warn, and protest loudly in droves? About four years after the release of ChatGPT, one may ask: Is that it for AI euphoria? Is the counter-revolution coming? Or are we simply at a point of sober reality check?<\/p>\n

This is what surveys say about the AI euphoria of Germans<\/p>\n

If one believes surveys and studies, part of the population is somewhere in between: As of June 2026, enthusiasm for AI in Germany is reportedly declining, according to the polling institute Ipsos (external link). At the same time, Germans perceived AI in 2026 as a slightly greater danger than the year before, according to a survey by the Digital Association Bitkom (external link).<\/p>\n

Even though awareness of the risks of artificial intelligence is increasing: 69 percent of Germans still see it as an opportunity according to Bitkom. And only 41 instead of 46 percent are getting nervous about AI use in products and services, says Ipsos.<\/p>\n

In summary, the prevailing mood can perhaps be described as follows: An increasing number of Germans are coming into contact with AI and using the technology. At the same time, awareness of its limits is growing. Many people are skeptical and ask: Where is all this headed? In what kind of world do we actually want to live in the future?<\/p>\n

How AI and reality are supposed to become distinguishable on the net<\/p>\n

In any future where AI dictates our lives: Many are already complaining about AI slop on social networks \u2013 freely translated: AI-generated rubbish in image, text, and video.<\/p>\n

The platforms are responding: YouTube has deleted some popular AI channels. On TikTok, users can now adjust how much AI content they want to see. Snap no longer recommends pure AI videos in some cases. Meta labels AI content on Instagram and Facebook.<\/p>\n

The European Union has also reacted<\/p>\n

The EU has passed the AI Act: Providers of generative AI like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini must label their content beginning in December so that it can be identified with the corresponding programs.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless: Distinguishing between artificially generated but deceptively realistic AI fantasies is becoming increasingly difficult. Because AI models are getting more powerful. This is also changing the work of journalists. They can no longer simply trust especially image and video sources. At the current media days in Munich, the topic of AI is therefore at the center of many lectures and discussions offstage.<\/p>\n

Battle for resources: Is resistance to construction projects slowing down the AI revolution?<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence can be immensely powerful. However, it requires high-performance data centers. Their operation consumes a lot of electricity \u2013 and water for cooling the servers. Many people in the USA are already protesting the construction of massive data centers, and there is also resistance in Germany.<\/p>\n

In Bavaria, data centers consumed about 3.1 terawatt hours of electricity by 2025, according to the Borderstep Institute (external link), mainly around Munich and Nuremberg. More than 20 percent of the capacity was attributed to AI and high-performance data centers. This roughly corresponds to 0.6 terawatt hours per year \u2013 or about 10 percent of the annual electricity consumption in the city of Munich (external link).<\/p>\n

AI has arrived \u2013 and is losing its magic<\/p>\n

Despite societal protests, legal regulations, and the major resource question, the use of AI is unlikely to be reversed. Whether in the fields of medicine, industry, finance, commerce, logistics, or digital life: artificial intelligence has arrived in all areas of life.<\/p>\n

So is the euphoria over? As far as studies, insights into companies, and social trends suggest: Not quite. Many visionary ideas still sound euphoric, while the limits of AI are becoming clearer and many people are looking at its possibilities with a sober perspective. Is the AI revolution therefore over? Hardly conceivable.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa7 How is AI changing our lives? And which AI programs are truly important in my everyday life? Answers to these and other questions are discussed every week by Gregor Schmalzried, Marie Kilg, and Fritz Espenlaub in “The AI Podcast” \u2013 the podcast from BR24 and SWR.<\/p>\n

An article written by Ariane St\u00fcrmer (BR), initially published on 22 October 2026, 11:15 (CEST)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We need your consent to load this EBU contentWe use EBU to manage extra content that can set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-662344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}