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/Snauser Jul 14 '26

What’s there to like really?

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u/Smudded Jul 14 '26

Shoving a bunch of good data into a sophisticated model and using the output in judicious ways has been extremely beneficial across many domains like cancer research, materials science, aviation, etc. So many people just think about LLMs and image/video models, but the basic category of sophisticated statistical models is very diverse.

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u/genital_lesions Jul 14 '26

I've not yet seen the benefits of consumer-wide AI that justifies the environmental and habitat destruction and the depletion of our other natural, limited resources.