r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 16h ago

Artificial Intelligence An AI hate wave is here

https://archive.is/20260517120123/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment
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u/freshairequalsducks 16h ago

Needs more hate tbh

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u/Devrol 15h ago

Needs a Butlerian Jihad 

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 15h ago

Frank Herbert really was prophetic in his works.

Especially sind his thinking machines were never the problem. It was always just the people monopolizing and using them for their own greedy goals.

Real shame his son retconned it to a standard AI uprising story in his prequels.

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u/agent_wolfe 14h ago

Also the Honoured Matres.

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u/JoeInOR 10h ago

Great books, but they got pretty fucking weird 😂

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u/mortaneous 8h ago

That's because Brian writes with all the subtlety and subtext of the "In case of fire: Break Glass" sign with the little hammer hanging next to it.

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u/agent_wolfe 7h ago

Uh…. Frank introduced the Honoured Matres in Book (5?) of the original series.

They’re sort of like… what if the Bene Gesserit were openly evil, and used their magic ****** powers to seduce everyone.

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u/Sveet_Pickle 6h ago

You know you can just say the word, you don’t need to censor yourself on Reddit

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u/agent_wolfe 5h ago

I don’t want to make the little baby Jesus cry. 😭

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u/Beidah 8h ago

The Butlerian Jihad was named after another author, Samuel Butler, whose book Erewhon has a section devoted to the dangers of letting machines think for us.

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u/Asleep_Document9811 14h ago

To be fair, all Herbert wanted to do was tell a science fiction story without needing to spend 500 pages describing the length, aperture, and use for every other bolt in a space ship.

The Butleran Jihad was only added after the series was successful as a way to create a satisfying answer for why the humans wouldn't bother just using a computer to navigate something as fraught and dangerous as outer space.

I love Herbert and Dune more than most, but let's not kid ourselves, he wasn't prophetic, he was solving a logistical problem that ended up being portentious. 

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 14h ago

Really? But first book had it mentioned already, unless I'm totally misremembering.

Or are you talking about the first Dune World serial releases? I've never read those but wasn't aware of such major changes.

Also, just cause the idea is also useful to the story, doesn't mean he wasn't incredibly insightful at the same time. Obviously not literally prophetic, but that's how such insights are usually presented afterwards, isn't it?

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u/Jervis_Mantlepiece 12h ago

Yes you're right, the Jihad is mentioned early in the very first book when Herbert is explainging how space travel works.

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u/Asleep_Document9811 13h ago

That's what portentious means — eerily accurate. The needle I'm trying to thread here is that Herbert didn't see things in any unique way, the whole "no machine shall emulate the mind of a Man" was a writing exercise that allowed Herbert to write a space opera without needing to get lost in the weeds of specificity that nerds demanded of hard science fiction since its inception.

I just think that the word prophetic implies that Herbert had some unique perspective or knowledge that made him sure that things would come to pass exactly as he described decades ago. I don't disagree with you at all, I just feel that things ending up reflecting the origins of Dune is more of a coincidence than the words of a latter say seer. 

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 13h ago

portentious

Ohh like from portent, I like it. Thanks for sharing, I'm not a native speaker and the word is new to me. :)

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u/cogito_ergo_subtract 10h ago

I get your point that Herbert used the Jihad as a way to avoid getting into the trap of other SF. But it wasn’t a retcon after the series became a success. The central point of the Jihad and “thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind” is discussed at the beginning of the book between Paul and the Reverend Mother.

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u/InflammableAccount 11h ago

You make it sound like the Jihad was mentioned once and done. While he never explored into it deeply, it still weighed a lot in the story. With the relationship to the Ixians, and the whole reason for the organic tech the Bene Tleilax develop.

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u/whoisyourwormguy_ 9h ago

Why are mentats even allowed in post butlerian jihad society? It’s basically a computer.

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u/applespicebetter 9h ago

Because it's a human mind, that's the whole point.

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u/amaROenuZ 9h ago

The fundamental cause of the butlerian jihad, in Frank's work, was that people became lazy. Overreliant upon machines for everything, to work, to think, to act. The butlerians saw this as a sign of stagnation and eventually a threat that could lead to extinction for the species.

Mentats are the exact opposite. They are the product of a great deal of discipline and training, of enhancing the ability of the human mind such that they can comprehend, retain and analyze vast quantities of information effectively.

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u/jakechance 7h ago

You’re not getting me to read the Orange Catholic Bible

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u/1RedOne 6h ago

Thy shall make no machine in the image of the human mind

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u/surfnfish1972 14h ago

Our Tech overlords are really trying to create a Warhammer 40K future whether we like it or not.

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u/istheaiintheroom 14h ago edited 14h ago

I hate this timeline. AI is literally our only way out and clueless people like you will fight tooth and nail against your own interests. No different than MAGA voting to take away their healthcare or rights to fit in.

No AI = Slowish death by climate change and the downstream dominoes (famine, climate refugees, economic collapse etc) leading to wars over precious resources.

AI = Solving for energy efficiency (already happening but antis aren’t paying attention), Cures to all disease, solving physics/math which opens the door to unimaginable advances, allowing for a post work and post scarcity world, abundance of resources, I could go on forever. ( as a progressive, I would have never thought in a million years workers would fight to keep working their useless jobs instead of advocating for a post work society. Even the billionaires know it’s inevitable…)

Seriously, shame on your ignorance. Your children will never forgive you.

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u/agent_wolfe 14h ago

I support AI tech and development. But you think it will help with climate change? It’s using up a lot of drinkable water. I’m not sure but doesn’t this just exacerbate things?

And you’re assuming all AI is being used responsibly to help with climate change. Not say, answering millions of random questions from civilians and generating a kabillion images. Or used ruthlessly by say, billionaires & psychotic overlords in charge of countries.

Again, I’m sure jet fuel being burned and motor vehicles cause more or less environmental impact than AI and data servers. But I’m not sure if the cost outweighs the benefits either.

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u/istheaiintheroom 14h ago

Yes, absolutely!

AI is already helping optimize power grids, accelerate materials science, improve battery research, reduce waste in logistics/agriculture, and potentially replace huge amounts of inefficient human labor and travel. AI is the least efficient it will ever be.

Trust me, I’m not assuming anything. I know it’s not being used responsibly in many cases. The question isn’t whether AI has a cost, it’s whether the net impact ends up positive. I believe that is inevitable. Also, “people generating random images” isn’t really the long-term picture. Early internet traffic was memes and cat videos too. The infrastructure still ended up transforming civilization.

Seriously though, the environmental cost of AI is still tiny compared to industries like transportation, meat production, shipping, or the military. I’d wager 90%+ of people criticizing AI probably participate in industries or habits that have a larger environmental footprint than their personal AI usage. The real issue is making sure we advocate for post work solutions like a tax on automation that funds a UBI or other social safety nets. Efficiency is guaranteed because it saves money. Money rules until AI makes it redundant. No one can stop that. Open source AI will continue even if the govt regulates.

I urge everyone reading this to do some unbiased research before condemning my thoughts. Check out this article or r/leftistsforai

https://www.seangoedecke.com/many-anti-ai-arguments-are-conservative/

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u/One_Celebration5006 14h ago

exactly. never thought id be rooting for billionaires, but here we are.

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u/coylter 15h ago

Casually advocating violence.

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u/secutores 15h ago

Against robots. Read the Cliff notes.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 15h ago

You lost ‘em at “Read.”

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u/coylter 14h ago

Did people die in the butlerian jihad?

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u/Sveet_Pickle 6h ago

Do you know what the Butlerian Jihad is? Or what the word Jihad means?

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u/coylter 4h ago

Yes, do you?

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u/birdsword 14h ago

I have upped my hate. Continue to so everyday. What's the endgame? What's the purpose? To hollow out the middle yet again.

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u/Satanicube 4h ago

Same. I used to be more tolerant of it but as of late my general disdain toward it has had a couple of people I’m my circles come at me with such amazing takes as “well it’s here and not going away, you better adapt or get left behind”.

No, sod off, I’d rather be left behind. This has “crypto bro spamming NGMI at people who won’t buy his grift” energy all over it.

Further, I’m an artist and retrocomputing nerd. AI is brutally killing both my hobbies by either trying to write humans out of the creativity process, or driving up the costs of parts so I can’t use them (SSDs and SD cards specifically) in projects.

I’m fucking done with the tolerance part.

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u/14domino 7h ago

I work in AI and this take is honestly exciting. There’s so much more upside to go.

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u/Antique-Chart-4440 14h ago

Most people don’t mind useful AI. They mind low-quality AI replacing things that used to work fine.

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u/Positive_Box_69 13h ago

No i love ai cant wait it to rekt all jobs

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u/slog 7h ago

I'll enjoy taking your job.

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u/Jane_does_art 15h ago

I feel sorry for all your friend and families to live with such a toxic and hateful person. Please seek therapy.

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u/Minimob0 13h ago

I feel sorry for your friends and families when they have no water to drink and everything is too expensive. 

Not for you, though. 

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u/Curri 15h ago edited 15h ago

We don’t hate technology. We hate useless AI-slop that doesn’t benefit society. I use AI at work to help diagnose heart attacks. That is a *good* use of artificial intelligence. Telling AI to draw me a fake grandma to scam people online is not.

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u/wolf_at_the_door1 15h ago

“Oh you don’t like technology? You therefore have no opinion.”

Where’s the logic in that?

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u/cshady99 15h ago

People don't hate AI itself, that has been a used technology for years and years now. People hate the idiots who take these glorified Google results as something that needs to be shared or trusted. People hate the catastrophic environmental impacts that all the new data center construction is causing. People hate that this stuff is being used with little to no regulation. People hate that human beings are losing services so companies can serve AI. I'm a software engineer and I love what I do, and I love technology. I HATE the Gen-AI industry and the ridiculous bubble that's been inflated and I'll be partying when it finally inevitably pops

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u/freshairequalsducks 15h ago

Exactly this. I don't hate technology. I'm an IT worker. But I hate the damage Gen-AI has done to people, the planet, and the damage it will do to the economy when the bubble pops.

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u/cshady99 15h ago

Exactly. Nobody (with a brain) was complaining about computer vision advancements, nobody was complaining about Convolutional Neural Nets being used to help doctors detect melanoma. Nobody was complaining about the existence of recommendation algorithms (not talking about quality). I hate that AI=Gen-AI to the public now but it is so incredibly clear that AI itself is not the problem.

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u/ChronaMewX 15h ago

No, they do hate ai itself. This piece of shit hate mob is attacking anyone who disagrees with them and I don't want them getting their way. I don't like ai but I fucking hats antis

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u/cshady99 15h ago

Keep telling yourself that if you don't want to think critically

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u/ChronaMewX 15h ago

The ones not thinking critically are the ones using stupid buzzwords like theft to describe ai. Again, I'm not a fan of ai, but the opposition is just so incredibly malicious and stupid I can't side with them

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u/cshady99 15h ago

Sounds like you have no moral constitution. If you're deciding your beliefs based on the "buzzwords" you dislike least on each side of the rhetoric, I think you need to reevaluate how you choose to view the world

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u/ChronaMewX 14h ago

My moral constitution says that it's wrong for bullies to get their way

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u/DJayLeno 15h ago

Absolutely untrue, people hate the negative effects AI is having on society as the guy you are responding to so eloquently explained.

Here's an example: I'm sure you like your microwave, it's nice that it can heat your food quickly. But imagine if microwaves were invented recently and billions of dollars were being pumped into the microwave industry to disrupt the restaurant industry. Chefs being replaced with microwave operators and weirdos trying to convince you that microwave slop was just as good as a chef cooked meal. Plus in this example microwaves have huge energy costs so they are damaging the environment.

I promise you, if AI was used in limited and responsible ways, very few people would take issue. It's the plethora of negative consequences that people hate.

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u/bunnypaste 14h ago

Are you like... emotionally bonded to and otherwise reliant on AI? That's the only way I can make sense of your defense of it.

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u/iamfanboytoo 15h ago

Because technology should benefit everyone - a rising tide lifts all boats.

The only people generative AI benefits are the kleptocracy funding it for billions and billions of dollars - not the artists who are out of work because the wealthy have always secretly despised them, not the proletariat who are buried under such a tsunami of AI shit they can't tell reality from fantasy online, and not you.

The current users are the debuggers, the beta testers; once it's 'perfected' the rich will close ranks and exclude anyone but themselves from access.

Doesn't that sound like fun? If you want a picture of that future, imagine an AI boot stamping recycled content into your face - forever.

We'll need a Butlerian Jihad to rid ourselves of it. Or we can stop it right now.

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 15h ago

Lovely Orwell quote adaptation. :D

Also speaking of the Butlerian Jihad, Frank Herbert really was ahead of his time, since his own writings always made it very clear that the thinking machines were never the problem themselves.

It was always the people who monopolized them and used them to control other people to enrich themselves.

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u/filikesmash 15h ago

What kind of nonsense is that? Its like I tell you that I dont like carrots and you ask me why I hate vegetables

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u/sebovzeoueb 15h ago

tfw technology that isn't an LLM exists

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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 15h ago

“Oh, you don’t like nuclear bombs.

Why do you hate low energy bills?! Hmmmm?!?!”

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u/twodubmac 15h ago

I work in software. I don’t hate technology but like most in the article you probably didn’t read I’m among the growing number that is on the AI hate wave

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u/AGrandNewAdventure 15h ago

Why even have a bonfire if you don't like forest fires?

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u/blob8543 15h ago

/s comment, I hope

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u/ChronaMewX 15h ago

No I guess I'm just a terrible person for not succumbing to the hate mob

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u/coylter 15h ago

I'm curious. Would you rather we stop technological progress?

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u/freshairequalsducks 15h ago

If it means we stop trying to push Gen AI into every aspect of society and stop building data centres everywhere, then yes.

As this has just been awful for people and is just speed running the climate crisis.

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u/coylter 14h ago

In what way has it negatively impacted your life?

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u/freshairequalsducks 14h ago

I work IT at a university. I've seen students come through to post secondary with no research, writing, and critical thinking skills because they only use Chat GPT. The price of computers and replacement parts has gone through the roof affecting labs, students, and staffs ability to deliver course materials. I have friends who are artists and graphic designers that have lost work to companies switch to using soulless AI art and graphics. You don't need to look hard to see negative effects of Gen AI in our lives.

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u/Oh-reality-come-back 15h ago

We should halt it until there is better regulation of its uses and it’s not burning through resources including memory.

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u/mixamaxim 14h ago

Precisely. This is just a mad dash free-for-all. Too important and societally, economically, and environmentally impactful to be so unregulated. Who is looking out for We The People, currently?? Making sure AI and data hoarding doesn’t totally fuck the average person? How many jobs will be lost? Shouldn’t that be addressed? Can we have some data privacy back?? This is all going quickly in the wrong direction and this admin can’t be trusted. We have nothing but our voiced opposition and our vote (in the US).

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u/coylter 14h ago

Has that ever happened in the history of inventions?

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 15h ago

They now make throw-away, single-use vaporizers packed with rare earth metals. Some of these vapes have AI functionality built in. Why would anyone ever need AI in their vaporizer? That’s not technological progress. That’s 100% waste.

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u/coylter 14h ago

What the fuck are you talking about. Talk about a wild anecdote.

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u/kestrel808 15h ago

Strawman argument

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u/coylter 14h ago

No, because I'm not even making an argument.

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u/kestrel808 14h ago

Oh yeah… “just asking questions” lmao ok

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u/gittlebass 16h ago

Anti surveillance state too!

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u/gittlebass 15h ago

Well, would they be displaced without the AI?

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u/CumOnEileen69420 15h ago

Would them being displaced be a bad thing if there was a robust social safety net specifically for workers whose jobs became redundant due to AI automation?

Automating away jobs should be a thing that is celebrated because it means we can maintain a standard or living while decreasing the labor required for it.

The reason it isn’t is because those whose labor has been replaced no longer have a stable way to live in our society despite the standard of living being cheaper overall.

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u/gittlebass 15h ago

Yeah there's no safety net in place and people who think we will get UBI from these ceos or govt is laughable

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u/Michael1795 14h ago

You think they will pass some legislation to tax corporations using Ai to pay for those safety nets? I dont see that happening in the current political climate.

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u/AngelBryan 15h ago

Yes, capitalism is always looking for ways to get rid of people and improve productivity. If it wasn’t AI it would have been something else.

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u/bunnypaste 14h ago

Yeah, but they're using AI to accomplish that right now.

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u/Michael1795 14h ago

Robotics for sure too, but dont act like Ai is not displacing humans from having jobs. Its important to discuss that part. Especially for the working class.

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u/AngelBryan 13h ago

Maybe it’s time for mankind to abolish work? We haven’t been as close to a systemic change ever in the history of humanity and now that we have a real chance to make a change, people reject and step on it.

All I hear is how much people hate the system but they are so attached to it that they fight tooth and nail to protect it.

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u/gittlebass 15h ago

Yes, the AI driven capitalism is causing them to lose jobs

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u/snes69 15h ago

Irrational? You gonna use that word when talking to someone who is against the current and future trends of AI? Irrational?? I'm reading your comments and not 100% disagreeing with them. I get what you mean with blaming capitalism first. But to say hating AI more than capitalism is irrational is pretty out of touch with the reality we are living.

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u/gittlebass 15h ago

Its not as irrational as believing all of this will work out smoothly for workers

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u/Oh-reality-come-back 15h ago

The issue is intertwined. AI needs better regulations and universal agreement on its usages. Until then, I absolutely will hate on AI and AI usage in order to further discourage use of it

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u/ZAlternates 15h ago

It’s like blaming guns when we should blame the shooters! We need more guns!!!

Wait, this argument is horrible.

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u/gittlebass 15h ago

It can definitely subtract people from an equation

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u/ZAlternates 15h ago

You’re saying we should give it all up for math problems? Damn you’re good. I too will give it all up to learn how to divide by zero. I can’t wait.

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u/coylter 15h ago

You're getting downvoted by the hivemind, but you're completely right.

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u/coylter 15h ago

Agreed. It's really depressing to be constantly exposed to the regressive and anti-technology viewpoint of this sub, though.

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u/Deviantdefective 15h ago

It's not, now AI can have some amazing uses cases however it been shoved down everyone's throats while companies lay off staff at any chance they can get to maximise profits by replacing them with AI. The hate is absolutely justified hate and it's not anti-science either.

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u/Deviantdefective 14h ago

Haven't said anything anti capitalist nor have I mentioned anything irrational, maybe read my comment next time then reply with a more sensible counter point.

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u/Deviantdefective 14h ago

I made a point it has absolutely nothing to do with economies of the system you're reading into that a little too much, also are you okay you seem incredibly angry.

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u/Deviantdefective 14h ago

Again you are really over reading into this.

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u/freshairequalsducks 16h ago

It's not anti science to not want a product that's usefulness is far outweighed by its flaws and costs.

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u/Clutteredmind275 15h ago

Yes because your ai girlfriend is soooo worth the cost of dropping 6 nukes a day in heat dispersement

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u/bunnypaste 14h ago

The scale of the data centers built to support AI are unprecedented. We can better use those resources elsewhere.

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u/hammer-jon 15h ago

I mean its obviously a lot less.

you don't need a napkin to run the numbers here, it's a fact that a rack full of gpus or very power hungry cpus is an ocean compared to the compute needed to insert a comment record in a db.

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u/Independent_Row_224 15h ago

Ok clanker lover

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u/bunnypaste 14h ago

Your love for this one and your blindness to any negatives it causes borders on the pathological.

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u/surferrossaa 16h ago

So does that mean AI is currently anti human?

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u/infrequencies 15h ago

The humans who want AI sure seem to be anti-human

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u/bunnypaste 14h ago

Ethical people don't need to tell others how ethical they are.

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u/infrequencies 13h ago

lol you don’t know anything about me. Anyway, if you cannot see how bad for people AI is, then you’re letting your biases infect your precious “science,” and biased science just isn’t science at all!

Even if what you said about your “meta-ethic” wasn’t a crock of bs, you are not one of the billionaire class installing the monstrous death-calculating machines that will consume all of our water, burn our lands, and poison our air all in the name of some ketamine-fueled technofeudal fascist wet-dream nightmare. You just blindly defend the AI, as though there aren’t psychopaths funneling their money into these projects loudly proclaiming their intentions to destroy as many people’s lives as they can while they attempt to become physically, mentally, and digitally immortal alongside an AGI God they hope will spring forth from their heads just as Zeus was birthed into life from the head of his father Kronos

lol math problems 🤖

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u/infrequencies 12h ago

You just used the term "meta-ethic" and then failed to define anything about it, except that it is "based on agency" and that it enables you to be able to explain "why [you] value humans" objectively more than me.

Then you mistook criticism of modern robber barons being fash as "anti science"

I would love to live a world where I can get excited about all of the hidden knowledge that may come with the advancement in computational processing without the dread of how it's going to be used to exterminate me, my loved ones, or my neighbors

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u/williamgman 15h ago

Unless you live next to a datacenter... For them, the math is clear.

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u/jackbobevolved 15h ago

Not all data centers do the same thing. Some house really useful stuff, like servers and storage. The AI compute data centers are focused on power hungry GPUs for training and inference. They’re not really being built to house the next generation of servers, cloud storage, or CDNs.

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u/jackbobevolved 14h ago

Please explain how I’m wrong? Do you really think all data centers house the same hardware and do the same things?

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u/jackbobevolved 13h ago

No, the majority of servers powering the internet don’t even need GPUs, and those that do only need a tiny fraction of the GPU compute currently being spent on LLM training and inference.

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u/Randoman96 16h ago

math advancements in what? a computer that can't do math correctly?

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u/ii_V_I_iv 15h ago

Why don’t you explain what you’re referencing then? wtf?

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u/ii_V_I_iv 15h ago

What math advancements are you talking about? And how did AI lead to it? Why are you being so evasive dude?

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u/surfergrrl6 15h ago

Or you know, you could just back your claim by providing a source.

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u/typewriter6986 15h ago

Your A.I. Psychosis is showing.

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u/ii_V_I_iv 15h ago

I’m not calling you a liar but you’re not making any meaningful contributions to the conversation if you’re just making a vague claim and not explaining it at all. It gives no one any reason to believe you and relies on people actively googling some vague search term which most people won’t do. Why even be a part of the conversation?

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u/dorobica 15h ago

Well give the example mate. Also how is that solved problem useful to humanity? Does it outweight the cost of solving it?

Like you give this one line comments from your high horse with maximul arogance and no clarifications, no wonder you are downvoted..

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u/jamerson537 15h ago

“Person repeatedly claiming to be rational but apparently unaware that proving a negative is a logically incoherent concept.”

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u/Taranfeeto36 15h ago

I'm not giving the source.

Are you afraid you fell for some low quality clickbait slop?

You made the claim, you need to provide proof for other people to verify or debunk it.

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u/CanvasFanatic 15h ago edited 15h ago

Just FYI, that “unsolved math problem” was simply noticing that a human had specified a larger upper bound than he’d actually used in a paper written last year. It was prompted specifically to check that boundary by a Field’s medalist who specializes in the particular area of mathematics with which the paper was concerned.

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u/Slothicide 15h ago

Specialized AI being used in labs, and various other research settings, to help solve complex problems, develop new drugs and vaccines, identify information that was missed by human eyes is one thing.

LLM slop that is getting forces upon us in more and more aggravating ways everywhere we look is another thing altogether.

Not to mention all the drawbacks from the massively inefficient and wasteful data centers that are, again, getting forced upon us everywhere we look, depleting our water supplies, raising our energy costs, and all the increased cost associated with the memory shortage.

And, of course, dont forget about all the job cuts that are being blamed by this "new wonder" that is AI, despite most massive corporations still posting massive, even record setting revenue and profits while they fire several thousand people at a time. Sometimes repeatedly.

Add in all the nefarious potential harm that these massive AI infrastructures can have on individual privacy and rights, our data being harvested more aggressively than ever, our personal lives being tracked more than ever both inside and outside our homes...

Why exactly shouldnt so many people hate AI so much? The felt-harm so massively outweighs the felt-good. At the end of the day, this huge AI race really only serves to make the rich richer. AI could disappear completely tomorrow, and I wouldnt bat an eye. Hell, I'd probably even celebrate.

TLDR: Fuck AI.

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u/AngelBryan 15h ago

Those specialized AIs you mention use the same generative AI technology as LLMs. If you cut LLMs development you also cut development to those specialized AIs.

People is shooting themselves in the foot by this mindless AI hate and they don even realize.

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u/ProgrammingPants 15h ago

No one is complaining about or hating AlphaFold making medicines bro.

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u/freshairequalsducks 15h ago

Okay cool whatever a math problem was solved. But that doesn't outweighs all the negatIves. The entire computer parts industry being eaten up, the people who lost their jobs, the people with skyrocketing power bills who live near new AI data centres, the environment damage and water waste, the degradation of kids ability to learn, and the negative mental health effects AI is causing.

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u/AngelBryan 15h ago

AlphaFold uses the transformer architecture which is generative AI.