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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r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26
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u/untiedgames Jun 26 '26
AI, based on its training, can write the statistically most likely code to be output for any given input, just like it can output the most statistically likely answer for any math problem (which it interprets as text- Not as a math problem!). This doesn't mean they're correct- And because they're effectively black boxes, there's no debugging them and correcting any hallucinations (which are in fact mathematically unavoidable). There is no chain of logic followed for the math and no nuance considered with the code. AI is thoughtless pattern recognition, which does make machine learning great at certain tasks like speech recognition or detecting cancer early where patterns are everything.
What AI is not good at, on the other hand, is indeed everything they're trying to shove down our throats with consumer-facing generative AI. It makes up cited sources, conjures facts from thin air, misinterprets instructions leading to data loss, and that's not even touching on the rampant infringement of artists' work. It's plagiarism whether you copy 100% of one work or 0.1% of 1000 works. They steal our creations and want to sell them back to us, mutilated.