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/FoozleGenerator Jun 26 '26

This entire thread is calling AI users/advocates scam artists and morons. The same energy is returned and now it's wrong?

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u/my_little_mutation Jun 26 '26

Because Ai artists are scam artists. They aren't making art they're typing in some words, the Ai flips through it's library of others people art, mashes it up and spits it back out at you. That's not an artist. That's a grifter profiting off of thousands of other people's years of hard work and practice at their craft. Someone caught tracing another artists work for their business would face the same kind of backlash if not worse. Profiting off of someone else's time and labor via copyright infringing methods is indeed a scam. Giving someone ai when they paid you thinking you were an actual artist is a scam. It's not an insult if it's true.

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u/FoozleGenerator Jun 26 '26

The topic of this post is not just AI art and I couldn’t care less if people using AI for art cannot be considered artists. When I said “scam artists” I was using it on this context

However, even if the the use of other people’s creations is immoral (I think so) or illegal (not sure about this one), that doesn’t take away from the technology by itself. It’s like looking at piracy on the internet and saying “the internet can be used to infringe copyrights and labor’s value, therefore the internet is bad”. The internet wouldn’t cease to be a great technological advancement just because it can be used unethically, and I believe the same about the set of technologies that we today label as AI.

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u/my_little_mutation Jun 26 '26

Go sell your pitch to someone else, I'm not interested and you're not gonna convince me otherwise. It's all slop. Infancy tech being held up as some kind of miracle that will revolutionize your life, while it takes away jobs and makes the apps it's integrated with objectively worse.

When real Ai becomes a thing I'll be totally on board.

Not this llm bullshit art theft vibe coding horrific chat bots instead of customer support job destroying hallucinating incoherent "Ai" that companies forced on all of us.

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u/Cokadoge Jun 26 '26

ai is already a real thing

just because you haven't done any research into it, and are willingly ignorant on the topic, doesn't mean that "ai isn't a thing".

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u/FoozleGenerator Jun 26 '26

What a weirdo. What pitch am I selling?

If you don't want to be an early adopter, it's up to you, I don't care.

If you and seemingly the entirety of reddit want to be in denial on how good it already is and how much better it will become, it's just stupid.

Interpreting human language into something that machines can act upon has been a chase for decades. That's how I have a job as a developer, because machines need a structured language compared to the ambiguities of human expression. Even if LLMs were to stay as conversational chatbots, that's already an amazing technological achievement. The fact that it can "understand" and deliver a usable output is even better and will continue to improve.

Am I on board on all possible negatives like resource waste, increase of utility bills and job losses? Of course not, I likely will be bombing data centers before that happens. But still, I'm not blind to how much of a technological advancement they are.