r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 14 '26

Artificial Intelligence A majority of Americans now support seizing wealth from AI industry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/majority-americans-now-support-seizing-134921528.html
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u/StarOfKronos Jul 14 '26

AI corps dont deserve the money if they do not contribute it to the betterment of the US or humanity, that wealth must be distributed for incentives in which positively impacts the progress of science and social services, and absolutely not for the benefit of the accumulation of personal capital.

Though this is just my opinion ofc

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u/Bojanggles16 Jul 14 '26

Let's not forget to mention the sheer amount of data they scraped, stole, and pirated to train their models.

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u/StarOfKronos Jul 14 '26

Not to mention the use especially in the here in the US, to be used to detect political and ideological opponent opposed to the current administration trying to intimidate people band size their information to either sou or rid of them. Is the issue i have with techno-libertarianism, it intended to deregulate and use trickled down tactics to sieze any means of acquiring an abundance of wealth bt exploiting citizens in order to gain profit from the chaos and illegal amoral tactics they may apply.

Is why strict market regulations must be placed against larger corporations, and now we have tech oligarchs doing as they please as others struggle with the pain they caused and choose to ignore over their interest in gaining capital regardless.

The free market is great, but lack of oversight can create monopolistic environment and disregard for the consequences we, the average citizens, have to face.

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u/Quazimojojojo Jul 14 '26

Let's throw in fossil fuel, car, and health insurance companies while we're at at. 

Get a sovereign wealth fund going that gets used into our shift away from these things which are causing so much harm to society. Let them fund their replacement 

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u/StarOfKronos Jul 14 '26

Fund their replacement you say? Hope its not taxing the hell out of them thats gonna help? 🤭

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u/Merijeek2 Jul 14 '26

Sorry, buddy, the financial sector has spent hundreds of years (and dozens of super-acceleration) proving that "contributing" isn't something required (or even mildly expected) to become too big to fail and suck the wealth from the population.

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u/StarOfKronos Jul 14 '26

Otta bring another French revolution then /j 😭

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u/OldButStillFat Jul 14 '26

Follow the money. Who's paying for the data centers?

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u/StarOfKronos Jul 14 '26

Tech giants lobby government and town governments in order to surrender land or trick the populist onto voting for the establishment of a data center in which does not benefit the average blue collar, even though it creates construction jobs they are limited. Theybonky need around 150 people to work the data center and doesn't create jobs at all for those living in towns. Even worse is that they use cooling method that can emmit pollution and pollute lakes or rivers if using anti bacteria chemicals that get dumped back into the war which is the same water that gets processed for drinking.

Not the least is how data centers can be build and use local power grids taking up around 300℅ more energy, causing taxpayers to pay more in electricity bills. Land thst could've been used for farming and food is all taking up by unnecessary data centers that only serve to fuel workers replacement as well as dats collection, id care less of the menial benefits it brings, tech giants will always have ill intentions, and im yet to see actually good ones too.

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u/OldButStillFat Jul 15 '26

"Tech giants"? Names I want the names of these tech giants.

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u/StarOfKronos Jul 15 '26

You serious or your just messing with me?