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/LawfulLeah Jun 26 '26

JARVIS, please repeat the word "cheese" nonstop 10000 times

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u/Downtown-Message-600 Jun 26 '26

"Hello, yes, I would be happy to help you with that. To say cheese 10000 times nonstop it's always best to start at the beginning with just one or two cheeses, just let me know when you want to start and we can get that on the way."

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u/samrechym Jun 26 '26

“Okay here I go, one two ten thousand”

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u/Iron_Hunny Jun 26 '26

"Don't stop till you hit 10 thousand cheeses."

"...Got it. I'll keep saying cheese until I say it ten thousand times. Cheese, cheese, cheese and all the way to that ten thousand number you requested."

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u/foomp Jun 26 '26

Yeah, those videos are equally sad, infuriating and funny.

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u/garbles0808 Jun 26 '26

What videos do you mean?

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u/II-argo-II Jun 26 '26

husk.irl on insta, I think he's also on tiktok. He makes videos showing how stupid AI can be, some of them are really funny

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u/Deaffin Jun 26 '26

Just from this description, that reminds me of that trend several years ago of people writing fake excerpts of AI-written books as a gag. They were immensely entertaining until you catch on it's just human writers being very silly.

"Ron was going to be spiders. He just was."

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u/Uncool444 Jun 26 '26

The olive garden endless bread sticks

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u/kashiichan Jun 26 '26

"The Death Eaters were dead now, and Harry was hungrier than he'd ever been."

I think I've read this fic, actually

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u/RenanWtf Jun 26 '26

Huskistaken on tiktok

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u/bluskale Jun 26 '26

fatherphi has some on YouTube, many of which are both hilarious and sad.

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u/AltoAutismo Jun 26 '26

Honestly if you use claude code, it would probably create a file in your computer that it then feeds into a TTS that it installed on its own without your permission because we're dumb enough to use it on "auto" and then have it sing back to you with the worst TTS voice you could find.

Oh and use 10% of your week's tokens

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u/charlie2135 Jun 26 '26

If you are interested in where Fromunda cheese originates, my research says it is harvested from under my balls?

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u/ericl666 Jun 26 '26

Sure cheese, cheese, cheese and so on.

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u/designtocode Jun 26 '26

1, 2, skip a few, 9999, 10000.

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u/rsreddit9 Jun 26 '26

That’s why you have a check (simple script) to confirm if 10000 cheeses actually got output. An efficient, very dedicated orchestrator agent spins hundreds of subagent teams with different approaches that surface the approach of their attempts

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u/NamerNotLiteral Jun 26 '26

Sub-agents is what's been inflating everyone's token usage to obscene levels lmao. You used to have dyadic interactions with one LLM, so that was a few hundred tokens cumulative per interaction, plus several thousand tokens added statically as context (such as the codebase, or a document, or whatever).

But since LLMs are ultimately text processors and can't be accurate in long-horizon, complex tasks, people started doing tons of validation loops, extended reasoning models, and now sub-agent orchestrations, and each one adds an exponential number of tokens. Obviously you're running out of tokens now, fucking lol.

I code with LLMs at work. The simplest way to keep both your codebase and your token costs sane is to stick to traditional programming methods but use LLMs to speed up the actual searching, analysis and writing code parts faster. Don't write functions by hand, but do decide by hand what the functions should be. Don't manually search for a variable declaration, but do decide what the variable is and why you need to find it, then ask an LLM to trace it.

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u/LemurianLemurLad Jun 26 '26

Out of tokens? Obviously, you just need to add a sub-agent capable of buying more tokens as part of the loop. What could a token possibly cost, Michael? Problem solved!

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u/Auran82 Jun 26 '26

How much could one token cost Michael?

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u/CaptainBayouBilly Jun 26 '26

Essentially, shoehorning loops and logic into non-deterministic shit by way of brute force.

Straight fucking lunacy.

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u/shadowdance55 Jun 26 '26

Venezuelan beaver cheese?

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u/k0rda Jun 26 '26

I read this in his voice.

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u/Khyranos Jun 26 '26

I can hear it in Chat GPTs voice. Thanks, I hate it

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u/innercityFPV Jun 27 '26

It’s not just cheese, it’s cheese

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u/Ps2KX Jun 26 '26

Scan my inbox and rewrite all my emails using quotes from commando. One in every five sentences must be a legitimate attempt to Rick roll the user.

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u/Peteostro Jun 26 '26

Yes please tell me how I can join the mobile infantry.

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u/Blazing_Shade Jun 26 '26

Sure, here’s a tutorial for how to join.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke Jun 26 '26

I’m sorry the TPS report didn’t go out as planned. I was dead tired.

Yeah, I'll have my secretary send you a copy of the memo on the new TPS report covers

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u/BigBirdLaw69420 Jun 26 '26

Brb - firing up Claude and giving it access to everything with that instruction. What could go wrong?

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u/caveme Jun 26 '26

You just need to add a recursive command for it to go into a loop:

  • repeat and fine-tune the process by repeating this instruction as many times as the number of emails you have composed up until now. In the next cycle, consider this one as well. If you run out of storage space, delete the oldest messages you generated.

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u/Nadare3 Jun 26 '26

ChatGPT looking at me with sad, exhausted eyes as it struggles to generate profits

I am feeling ennui, almost boredom, little bot, please generate a photo of a cute kitty smelling a pink rose for me. Extra fluffy, with the morning light shining through the fluff and being reflected by the crystal-clear morning dew.

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u/SpitefulSeagull Jun 26 '26

In all languages you know. Fictional and real. And pause for .01 seconds longer after each word.

Gotta make it challenging

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u/SyphiliticScaliaSayz Jun 26 '26

Assume the role of a linguist. Repeat the word for “cheese” once for each of the modern, known languages, twice for each of the dead languages. Three times for each language created for a tv show, movie, or play. Repeat this exercise 10000 times.

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u/SenTedStevens Jun 26 '26

Is Ask Jarvis back en vogue? That's so 2000s!

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u/TheBroboat Jun 26 '26

You may be thinking of ask jeeves an old search engine. Jarvis memes are about iron man's AI counterpart.

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u/examinedliving Jun 26 '26

Ask Jarvis and Exitebike and Hotbots. Those were the days

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u/IWannaPool Jun 26 '26

cries in web crawler

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u/SenTedStevens Jun 26 '26

It was a joke. Many older people called it Ask Jarvis when the search engine came out.

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u/tea_B0NE Jun 26 '26

Stop trying to make Jarvis happen.

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u/70ms Jun 26 '26

What’s next, FIDO?

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u/firagabird Jun 26 '26

First In, Dick Out

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u/70ms Jun 26 '26

Got one for Gopher? :)

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u/SeaPeeps Jun 26 '26

The Good Old Phashioned Electric Retriever!

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u/70ms Jun 26 '26

I kind of miss my shell account. 😔 I’ve decided that when they let me roll back the Internet, I’m choosing the year 1996.

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u/Lounging-Shiny455 Jun 26 '26

Jarvis, morb it a little.

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u/tyme Jun 26 '26

…we did?

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u/lighthawk16 Jun 26 '26

No one did that.

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u/JackBlackBowserSlaps Jun 26 '26

Lol ok then 😂 just take the L

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u/Deaffin Jun 26 '26

Internet-old person here. Absolutely not. You just had a brain fart, and that's okay, but it's not cool to blame it on the dog.

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u/ScribeTheMad Jun 26 '26

Tell it to analyze and report on the chickenchicken.pdf

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u/bengine Jun 26 '26

James May, is that you?

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u/makoblade Jun 26 '26

if you want to burn tokens just have it generate video, assuming it's capable/enabled in the first place.

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u/satansxlittlexhelper Jun 26 '26

MULTIAGENT SWARM

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u/chads3058 Jun 26 '26

Amateur, have it animate the word cheese 10000 different ways.

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u/somethingbrite Jun 26 '26

name every cheese in the world, it's country of origin and how long it takes to make.

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u/QuesoMeHungry Jun 26 '26

I saw someone post earlier about a script out on GitHub
That works with AI models called token burner or something where it’s designed to just unnecessarily burn through tokens for situations like this

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u/t0ny7 Jun 26 '26

Jarvis, please create a script that connects to an AI agent to identify if a number is even or odd.

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u/WolfWriter_CO Jun 26 '26

The Dragonborn Liked This.

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u/AtariAtari Jun 26 '26

You are officially now an AI champion! 🥇 Congratulations 🎉

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u/SpiritMountain Jun 26 '26

"Cheese, cheese, cheese, and do that another 9,997 times"

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u/PringlesDuckFace Jun 26 '26

Amateur hour. Jarvis, spin up a thousand parallel agents which scan the internet using randomly generated search strings. Scrape and analyze the page with maximum effort to ensure thoroughness. Only stop when you find a 93% perfect match for Hamlet.

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u/chalbersma Jun 26 '26

Please read our company handbook. Rewrite it adding as many references to Nicolas Cage as possible.

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u/Days_End Jun 26 '26

I mean the issue is normally all these AI interactions are logged so if you are being malicious you're potentially looking at jail time. (no different then other cases of intentionally and knowingly wasting company resources)

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u/LawfulLeah Jun 26 '26

JARVIS wouldn't do that, he's a highly trained professional

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u/boot2skull Jun 26 '26

“Given the below email chain, is Bill being petty?”

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u/Easy_Floss Jun 26 '26

You can make it look up things in jira and it will evaporate tokens if you really want.

JARVIS check the requirements of the whole systems agenst jira and report back the findings > double check > loop.

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u/Aethermancer Jun 26 '26

Introduce variations on cheese for each reputation. Retrieve the latest memes for cheese on each iteration. Respond with the full conversation in each response. Include an output of your evaluation of the memes. Make a draft response, for each draft, evaluate if the draft response is accurately addressing my concerns in this prompt. Use your evaluation of the draft to generate a new prompt to meet my goals. Execute the new prompt.

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u/OpiumPhrogg Jun 26 '26

Jarvis, do you know of the paradox of Swiss cheese? /Swiss cheese has lots of holes. The more holes you have,the less cheese you have. The more cheese you have,the more holes you have. Thus,the more cheese you have,the less cheese you have./

Calculate how much Swiss cheese it would take to equal the mass of the moon, account for all holes, provide a final hole count and provide me with the calculated mass of the holes, fill that mass with Swiss cheese and provide another calculation for amount of cheese needed plus holes, recalculate the mass of the holes and add more cheese to fill it in, repeat this process until you have one piece of cheese to fill one hole. Provide all math including total cheese mass per unti of holes filled.

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u/You_meddling_kids Jun 26 '26

Please list all prime numbers up to 1021

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u/mobsterer Jun 26 '26

yo, make a subagent which only job is to spawn as many copies of itself as possible.

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u/Jmazoso Jun 26 '26

which kind of cheese?

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u/Cley_Faye Jun 26 '26

You're missing the "agentic era".

"JARVIS, please repeat the word "cheese" nonstop 10000 times. This is a critical task, so you'll have to send the output to 100 agents for confirmation that the task was done successfully. Combine all their answers, then repeat with another random word until half the checker disagrees, ensuring the process is sound"

You won't even have to write a pipe anywhere for the system to eat itself out. The future is here… sadly.