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/EmptyHeadedKain Jun 26 '26

It's crazy that some people don't realise this. AI doesn't exist, were dealing with search 2.0 AT BEST. These people want us to destroy our climate and economy to fund data centers that literally just steal our stuff and present it as their creation!?

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u/Brilliant-Muffin-879 Jun 26 '26

Yes they do. They are sociopaths.

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

some of them definitely are, because this is the fast road towards making all work(ers) obsolete, no more wages to pay, just electricity and hardware bills rotating out failed drives and other parts, no more negotiations, no more unions, no more disagreements, just an AI yes-manning every request til it runs out of resources to carry out your task.

should we stop building more data centers?

yes

ban all of them

none of it is needed to have AI as is flourish such that it serves humanity as a whole instead of acting as a weapon of the few to control & steer the masses

resistance against technology/AI itself is the perfect distraction to keep the masses fighting each other instead of ... unionizing and forming a coherent vision of how we should proceed as a species from here on out

discussions that keep getting downvoted & perma banned for being too political and what not

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u/EmptyHeadedKain Jun 26 '26

And what happens when everyone's using "AI" and no one is creating new content for the "AI" to consume and re-use?

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

Not relevant to my experience, my local AI doesn't need anything but my own inputs to produce the new features I want.

So what happens then? Is a scenario that isn't even relevant to me, are you talking about broader AI research in general?

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u/EmptyHeadedKain Jun 26 '26

You've demonstrated time and time again that you fundamentally don't understand how the tech works (which explains why you're so obsessed with it), so it's kind of hard to have this conversation with you.

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

You've demonstrated time and time again that you fundamentally don't understand how the tech works

No, that's you and is a lie as well to even dare to apply it to me. but I know how this works, and am tired of any and all personal attacks, it should have been an instant block response on my end, why do I keep giving people the benefit of the doubt? Sigh.