VC Olive Moore: massive usage gap remains between SV insiders and ordinary consumers
omooretweets · x · 2026-08-20
omooretweets responds that many people who "hate AI" still use LLMs, and there remains a massive usage and engagement gap between Silicon Valley tech people and ordinary consumers. That's partly normal, but she'd like to see it narrow — pure consumer use cases haven't been magical enough to get the average person past the initial learning curve and cultural dislike of AI, unless the product pull is extremely strong.
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