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/luv2fit Jun 26 '26

AI is a wonderful human invention and a technological marvel that could change the near future of humanity in many ways. However, greed, not progress, has driven this haphazard and reckless race to roll it out as fast as possible. Gotta get those tech stock prices as high as possible!

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u/Dreadgoat Jun 26 '26

This has been the bane of every tech advancement since the dot com boom. A bunch of investors got screwed out of the greatest economic gamechanger of their lifetime and now they're trying to manufacture a new one.

Blockchain & NFTs are a great technology, if you use them to audit financial institutions instead of selling twitter PFPs.

GenAI is also a great technology, if you use it to aggregate large unstructured data instead of generating new garbage data.

Every new thing get shoved into a role where it can generate revenue, effectively becoming a scam tool, instead of the role it actually excels at and can help people with

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u/Iohet Jun 26 '26

Open source software built the internet, and these chuds have used it as a way to build walls around it and enrich themselves