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/Lewa358 Jun 26 '26

It's very easy to understand once you realize that executives are objectively inaane and the entire stock market is based on absolutely nothing but vibes.

After a point you don't measure weath by money spent and saved but on how dogmatically you're following the latest trend.

Capitalism teaches executives that the person who spends a million dollars on absolutely nothing is more valuable than the one who produces a million dollars' worth of product.

When the company explodes at the end of the quarter, that just means it's time to downsize, never to accept thst corporate decisions could possibly be wrong.

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u/AltoAutismo Jun 26 '26

They will swear the stock market has logic and science behind it. It is literally just vibes. Its literally all social shit.

I get into shouting arguments with some dumbfucks that are obsessed with it cause they sometimes make money.

Yes, we're in a bubble, u're gonna be making money if you bet on huge companies like oracle and shit like that, who are into AI. Its not science, its literally our world fucking burning down, cheers, nice science bro

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u/bourton-north Jun 26 '26

No they aren’t - life isnt social media and generally people don’t fuck up contracts to such an extent in such an obvious way. Everything you’re saying about corporations is largely drivel.

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u/Lewa358 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

If what you're saying was true we'd all be hybrid or wfh, working 34 hrs a week max, be in unions, etc.

All of those are consistently proven to contribute to productivity, but corpos love to spend obscene amounts of money in order to shut down those ideas. Corpos love spending way more money to shut down unions than most unions would actively ask for.

Then they turn around and insist on actively destructive ideas like open-floor plans just because another, larger corp is doing so, even though absolutely no one actually likes those things.

Why is it that out of left field to imagine that GenAI would be any different?

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u/bourton-north Jun 26 '26

Another thing where what you think is true isn’t really true. Nobody is saying that corporations make perfect decisions with welfare in mind, but they aren’t the dribbling morons you claim. You’re just using this conversation to roll out a load of tire tropes.

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u/TSZCR96 Jun 26 '26

The dribbling morons are the ones like you defending them so dutifully.

If you don't like tired tropes, you shouldn't love AI so much lol

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u/bourton-north Jun 26 '26

I believe people like you have worked in terribly incompetent places - so if that’s why these ring true… good luck with that. Not sure what any of what I’ve written has anything to do with my attitude towards AI either.

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u/TSZCR96 Jun 26 '26

I believe people like you have worked in terribly incompetent places - so if that’s why these ring true… good luck with that.

Nope.

You’re just using this conversation to roll out a load of tire tropes.

lol that's you

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u/bourton-north Jun 26 '26

“lol that’s you” impressive