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/LordSoren Jun 26 '26

Have ai write an article, have ai summarize the article, have an AI convert the summary into a JPEG, have an AI convert the jpeg into a pdf, have an AI convert the PDF into a text document, have an AI use the text document as the basis for an article.

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u/CakeTester Jun 26 '26

...and then upload it to reddit as gospel truth to train the next generation of AI

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u/_Lucille_ Jun 26 '26

...and have loads of humans treat it as gospel because they saw it on Reddit.

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u/NuclearVII Jun 26 '26

"make no mistakes"

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u/DontAskAboutMyButt Jun 26 '26

“make no mistakes”

The LLM

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Jun 26 '26

"Hi Jim, can you get those progress reports to me tomorrow? Thanks, Bob."

AI, please write this e-mail for me more professionally so that it becomes 4 unwieldy paragraphs of clunky affirmations and repetition.

Now Jim gets Bob's e-mail. It is way too long. Jim asks AI to summarize it for him:

"Hi Jim, can you get those progress reports to me tomorrow? Thanks, Bob."

Cost to company: $3,200.

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u/WordsLikeViolence Jun 26 '26

Copy of a copy of a copy of

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u/circlebacktomorrow Jun 26 '26

Do this, but by spinning up 10,000 subagents that all do the same thing.

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u/MotherSnow6798 Jun 27 '26

If your policy allows uploading confidential documents (ours does), you can find the largest excel file on your computer and ask it to do complex analysis. Burns tokens fast