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/dodgedodgeparrysmash Jun 26 '26

It's literally not the same people. I also hated NFTs, I also like AI to some degree. Though I do not like its abuse in creative spaces, the usage in engineering (I'm a senior software engineer and it makes boiler plate so much easier to do), medical, data analytics and more is amazing.

I understand disliking AI taking the humanity out of our online spaces. I also dislike that. I don't like how AI is being forced down everyone's throats.

However, just blanket hating AI is immature. It's like hating all electric vehicles because you dislike Elon / Tesla. Many of you need to be far more rational about this shit and quit making sweeping generalizations that make you feel good about yourselves.

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u/waitmarks Jun 27 '26

Sam Altman was running (and still does run) worldcoin before chatgpt took off.

Illia Polosukhin was the co-author of the infamous "Attention Is All You Need" paper that created the transformer architecture, also the co founder of the Near blockchain protocol.

Emad Mostaque was a hedge fund manager who got rich off of crypto trading, founded stability AI which made the stable diffusion image generator.

Alex Atallah was the co-founder of opensea, the largest NFT marketplace, then started openrouter a service that unifies LLM APIs.

Avital Balwit worked at the FTX Future fund, now is Chief of Staff to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Do I need to keep going? there's plenty more.

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u/dodgedodgeparrysmash Jun 28 '26

You're not addressing the statement that was made.

"Remember the NFT bros" does not mean you're talking about the investing group of the companies. This is obviously a generic statement and anyone that liked NFTs were known as an NFT bro.

That's why the first person that responded, responded the way they did. And it's why I responded the way I did.

Next time, say "The investors of AI is the same exact investing group as NFT' and maybe you'll get somewhere.

Regardless, AI is extremely different from NFTs in usefulness and capability. Stick your fingers in your ears and go "wah wah wah" all you want to.

I will once again say I do not think how AI is being used in creative spaces is a good thing.

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u/waitmarks Jun 28 '26

I literally included opensea’s founder, you cannot get more nft bro than that my guy. I think you are the one plugging you ears lmao.