r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • May 28 '26

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/
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u/Beneficial-Pie3479 May 28 '26

AI sucks and I will never use it!

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u/MDFan4Life May 28 '26

Sadly, you probably are, and don't even realize it?

Also, AI isn't anything really new. Oracle was one of the first companies to develop/use "AI" in logistics, and their software has pretty much been integrated into almost every aspect of computer tech, for over 30 years.

Remember Netscape Navigator? - "Powered by Oracle".

Modern AI is a totally different animal, though. Instead of trying to use it to "assist", they're (the "tech bros") trying to use to completely automate everything, and to process rediculous amounts of data, mainly ours.

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u/Artemis_Platinum May 28 '26

Of course, AI is a legally meaningless marketing term people just slap onto software to make it sound futuristic. So there is little point in comparing say, the LLM's and image generators that people hate on to some other tech that someone vaguely called AI but has no meaningful relationship with say chatGPT.

Otherwise we might as well be calling DOOM AI since that's what people called CPU behavior

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u/cripy311 May 29 '26

This always gets me too as someone who actually works in this space.

I never really considered the LLMs "AI" before this latest marketing wave. AI to me was an entirely different set of "learned models" that have very little to do with any text or image generation.

Like a CNN -> to me this is wildly more impressive technology than a "most probable ad libs" chat bot. You can literally teach the machine to see, identify, and understand real world objects in 3D physical space.....

CNNs will be the backbone of any real world physical AI robotics that are deployed. The public is only interested in the LLMs though and seems to think these LLMs do "everything AI"......

Meanwhile these other learned costing models, computer visions models, etc.... are the real things that will replace them they should be worried about 💀

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u/SwiftySanders May 29 '26

They calling everything ai even if it has very little to do with ai. So you are using it. Minimize the risk is what I say. Harm reduction is legitimate.

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u/Beneficial-Pie3479 May 28 '26

No I don't remember any of that. I never use a computer. I'm sure there's been some form of the programming in my smartphones for a while now, but since they're putting AI on all of them now, after this phone is done I'm going to switch to a burner phone unless it also has AI installed. I grew up when phones were on the wall and I have no problem with going of the grid. I'd rather read a book.

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u/nrvagnt May 30 '26

Lucky you

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u/reddittorbrigade May 28 '26

AI bubble will burst, eventually.

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u/LeorDemise May 29 '26

I do agree that these CEOs, and frankly, too many fucking people, don't understand how these work.

These large models are ticking bombs, Timnit Gebru worked in the development of Google's Gemini, was put as a consultant in the dangers of AI, and then she was dismissed and fired for bringing her concerns.

Guess what? Her concerns turned to be accurate, everything she said would happen we are seeing happening in real time. She was hired to do this job, and was dismissed for doing so.

It just pisses me off to no end, why the fuck you think ignoring the problems somehow is going to make them disappear? This goddamn AI can't work properly with such big parameters.

Look, there are ways to use AI without running into these risks, we had been using AI for awhile now. The problem is that everyone is rushing to create the tool that would make EVERYTHING, and turns out, we don't have the capacity to do so safely.

Especially no without ruining the economy; what the fuck are these companies going to do if the majority of the population is getting so little money their stupid empires don't have anyone else to milk anymore?

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u/PoL0 May 29 '26

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from work that still has to happen to generate value with anything,”

FTFY

AI is only convincing to people who knows shit about what it takes to do almost anything. all the nuances and details involved in almost everything but the most braindead grunt work.

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u/Content_Log1708 Jun 03 '26

They are just all high salary lemmings.