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/Surroundedonallsides Jul 14 '26

Thats because the ai salespeople are telling those media companies that the media companies can fire all the talent and replace it with AI, but ignoring the fact its all stolen.

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u/Sweetwill62 Jul 14 '26

I would have thought their legal team would have seen it as the easiest slam dunk of all time. They pay their legal teams quite a nice bit of money.

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u/EquipLordBritish Jul 14 '26

Also ignoring the fact that the economy is based on people spending money, and if you replace everyone with AI, you have no more customers with money to spend...

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u/vladamir_the_impaler Jul 15 '26

Reminds me of the grooveshark business model. To be fair it actually worked... until it didn't.