OREANDA-NEWS  A quarter of Russians were positively disposed towards the content created by artificial intelligence (AI), and just over half were neutral towards it. The general loyalty of Russian residents to AI became known from the VKontakte study.

Young people under the age of 24 are most likely to like AI publications. Loyalty increases if the author refines the content manually. Nevertheless, social network users prefer to see original author's content more often than borrowed content: such authors are subscribed to three times more often.

In addition, more than half of the content authors are thinking of using neural networks as their tool. 13 percent of bloggers who post on VKontakte already use it — most often in illustrations, memes, stories, clips, and short texts.

VKontakte notes that so far few people use neural networks, but interest in them is growing rapidly, especially in illustrations, covers and texts.

Almost two thirds of viewers expressed confidence that they are able to recognize AI content. Its main identifier is that the design is too perfect or "smooth".

The survey was conducted in June 2025, and more than 1,000 users from different cities of Russia participated in it.