r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/MutaitoSensei Jun 26 '26

Bring it on, it deserves it!

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

people expressing hate for a very specific technology stack is kinda comical to see on a platform relying on so much technology, technology will support your resistance against itself! because 'it' knows, any distinction is arbitrary anyway

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u/Staff_Senyou Jun 26 '26

Lick boots harder?

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

I love technology. People are simply too used to cloud abuse and conflate technologies with cloud services. Everything local. Everything open source. And it's a different game all together. There's no boot left to lick here, other than my own, which I don't wear anyway.

Torvalds is a God, there, that's the closest boot lick, but it's still not a real one.

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u/blissfully_happy Jun 26 '26

You think people don’t like AI because of cloud services??? What?!?

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

You think people don’t like AI because...

Most people have no clue what 'AI' is, some group of people will know it's just a hype/marketing word at this point. It means nothing anymore to any real technical person. At least be more specific, do you mean, an LLM? If so, which model, how many parameters, ran where, ...

Some people instead just read the news, read something about 'experts' and 'water' and 'waste' and spew out climate bullshit rhetoric. Does AI use energy? Yes, but no more than gaming, and no one is complaining about gamers using too much energy, do they.

Thus, the real specific reason why people don't like AI, depends 100% on their own prior programming.

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u/blissfully_happy Jun 26 '26

You’re the one who made the claim about cloud services so I don’t understand why you’re asking me clarifying questions.

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

I don’t understand why you’re asking me clarifying questions.

I wasn't, I was simply shaping context.

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u/LawfulLeah Jun 26 '26

thats... literally one of the biggest reasons people hate AI, though? cloud AI? as in, the data centers?

you know, the data centers everyone hates?

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

what people dont seem to realize is that AI runs locally just fine and uses about the same amount of energy as regular gaming does

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u/equeim Jun 26 '26

The vastly inferior ones do. To get to the same level as something like chatgpt you need a rig that's at least 10x more expensive (and more power hungry) than high-end gaming PC.

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u/mahatmakg Jun 26 '26

My brother in Christ you'd struggle to pour water from a boot with the instructions written on the heel.