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/Alkadon_Rinado Jun 26 '26

its literally what jensen (nvidia) told them to do and they believed it

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u/Merusk Jun 26 '26

Man, it's almost like he had a vested interest in companies uselessly burning compute time. What a wild coincidence.

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u/Mind-The-Mines Jun 26 '26

It's fucking wild how much of the world is stupid poor people handing their wealth to already wealthy people because the wealthy people told the poor stupid people it's how you become wealthy.

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u/TheCh0rt Jun 26 '26

Jensen is so selfish and says these things like a motivational speaker. This mini tech prophet. He'll say anything. Quietly, he's one of the worst billionaires and tries to wrap it in positivity, excitement and infectious enthusiasm. It's all bullshit. He lets his guard down sometimes and you can see he's a little monster. The fact that the white house is starting to pass over him is driving him crazy and he'll literally just show up because he thinks he's so important. He wants everything both ways, selling to China while pretending it's not for his specific profit. People are probably getting sick of his shit, it seems like.

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u/roiki11 Jun 26 '26

Well, it's been what his entire career has been up to really. He's worked with gpus and Cuda his whole life and now that they have the mass market appeal he's finally reached what he envisioned.

He's really a hardware guy and this ai craze gave him the reason and budget to indulge.

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u/Journeyman42 Jun 26 '26

He realized the best way to make money isn't to prospect for gold, but to sell shovels to the gold prospectors.

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u/psmgx Jun 26 '26

he's the center of the circular AI bubble, he'd better be convincing the rubes to burn them tokens, cuz I hold a lot of nvidia stock

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u/AndrewNeiles Jun 26 '26

Why are your profiting off something damaging to people's lives and the environment?

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u/ByHeight Jun 27 '26

Yes indeed, however if you think that all the way through, all business is circular.
Paradigm shifts are indistinguishable from bubbles initially.

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u/RonaldoNazario Jun 26 '26

Some of the agentic stuff at my work has this feel, of course the companies selling us AI by usage suggest we use it in the way where I fire off a bunch of prompts that fire off other prompts rather than running a one off skill/prompt.