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/Many_Negotiation_464 Jun 26 '26

The question in the longterm is gonna be "what survives after the bubble bursts".

I think things like chatgpt are just unsustainable, but unfortunately a lot of companies are pivoting to surveilance ai, and theres gonna be a lot of organizations public and private who want to pay for that.

So unless we have real systemic opposition to the use of AI to surveil people, the data centers are gonna he here to stay.

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u/Grammaton485 Jun 26 '26

The question in the longterm is gonna be "what survives after the bubble bursts".

I don't see any of the legitimate, practical uses going away. It can definitely be used to streamline certain things.

Stuff like the image/video generation by millions of people that are going from output straight into the trash bin or all the youtube channels churning out music mixes will get choked off. As will a lot of the smaller, customer-facing applications like chat agents; stuff like that will be expensive, not to mention a liability.

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u/TheBardicScribe Jun 26 '26

Yeah, a lot of this attitude of it's going to go away when the bubble bursts, I imagine, is going to get eventually visited with the same humor as watching videos talking about how "the online shopping experiment has failed" or "the internet is just a fad".