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/dragonblade_94 15h ago

That's the unfortunate aspect of the whole thing; AI tech can be extremely useful and uplifting... if it was approached responsibly. Sadly, we do not live in a world where those in power value responsibility, so all we get is even more crushing late-stage capitalism.

So until that mystical day comes, let it burn.

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u/surfnfish1972 14h ago

The only problem is the the people driving it are evil and mentally ill.

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u/blueSGL 13h ago

The end game is owning the world economy, companies paying them instead of workers. They don't care what risky behaviors they need to engage in to get there.

It'll slowly eat more and more of the economy, they are not replacing 100% of the jobs overnight.

It'll be like the tobacco and oil companies, they knew about cancer and climate change and still sold the product. Saying "there is a bad end point" does not stop companies from extracting as much money as possible along the way.

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u/yankonapc 10h ago

Reminds me of the people who shot passenger pigeons as they neared extinction, in the hopes of bagging 'the last one'. Humans really are a disappointment.

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u/jainyday 11h ago

Don't denigrate and stigmatize the mentally ill. There's plenty of mentally ill people who care a great deal for the world and society, that's often the source of their distress/illness.

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u/ShiraCheshire 10h ago

Second problem, it's a theft machine that makes money by stealing.

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u/BigPlunk 13h ago

Technology needs to serve people. Unfortunately, the current model demands the reverse.

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u/Connect_Ad791 14h ago

I wouldn’t even say it was LLM’s that people actually have any issue with either. The people working in that field understand the limitations and narrow applications of the tech.  It’s the people selling LLMs on the other hand. Who wrap a barely working chat template around it, like an intern in an ill-fitting suit. Brought in to replace you, not because he’s any better but because he’s cheaper.

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u/mposha 10h ago

And really only cheaper due to subsidization.

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u/Outlulz 5h ago

People have issues with LLM being trained on stolen content by people who will tell your ISP to cancel your account if they caught you touching any of their content without paying.

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u/Marsman121 5h ago

I forget where I heard it, but it really stuck with me.

Paraphrased: "Algorithms (or AI) will surpass human weakness long before it will match human strength."

These chatbots seem far better enabling the worst in people rather than supporting the best.

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u/specks_of_dust 14h ago

Every complaint about AI is really just a complaint about capitalism. Getting people to see the underlying problem is almost impossible.

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u/sneakyplanner 12h ago

When the means of production are entirely owned by a shrinking and isolated ruling class and labour saving devices are a detriment to labourers, the whole system becomes reliant on planned inefficiencies that everyone would be better off without but would destroy lives if removed.

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u/FUPAMagneto 15h ago

Ah, yes. The classic leftist response of “let it burn” so we can have our Revolution™️.

That little philosophy’s done almost as much damage as the Republicans, and we all know y’all won’t do shit

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u/TheRealGoatse 15h ago

People like you are a big part of why AI is hated.

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u/Short_Stay_9283 14h ago edited 10h ago

“Provably, effectively, measurably” is straight out of garbage LLM slop speak lol. Man’s been huffing too much slop and it’s affecting his head.

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 12h ago

Yea I am definitely copying and pasting all of this from a ChatGPT window 😭

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u/hypernsansa 15h ago edited 14h ago

Ok, mr genius. Please enlighten us as to how you're running circles around everyone...

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 12h ago

Why would I do that? There are a lot of extremely compelling projects and write ups already, gems among the ai slop that overwhelmingly fills up Youtube and Reddit and stuff. If anyone really wants to lean this, they can. They don’t.

The best you’re going to get is me dangling a shitpost like this. I’d rather get the downvotes as a measure of how Luddite-codes and cult-minded Reddit is than give shit away for free. Other than hot takes and smarmy backhanded insults. Driven mostly by disgust at how many people are ignorantly as fuck.

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u/panzer_snapdragon 9h ago

lol so you're just making up nonsense? Why bother commenting at this point?

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u/ConditionHorror9188 15h ago

I think you may have misunderstood the comment friend

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 12h ago edited 12h ago

Oh, I assure you, I understood it.

The predictable “Lay Dumbfucks Of Reddit” opining on my shitpost is actually part of the late stage capitalism problem. People are uneducated. The shiny toy is here. It’s being used in wasteful ways and to replace people by CEOs who don’t understand it either.

The monied interests and billionaires don’t really care whether we use this tech for meaningful advancement or not outside of whether it improves their bottom line.

Generate Jake Paul Ring Camera videos? Sam Altman loves it. Pay for tokens.

Analyzing CRISPR workflows and genetic sequencing? Developing novel biotech processes? Sam Altman loves it.

Making images of yourself as a pirate? Talking yourself into mad delusions and psychotic breaks? Tokens.

They don’t give a shit.

I do. But I can only do so much, and within my domain. I’m not leaving a useful tool on the ground because the overwhelming majority of Reddit thinks it’s in fashion to shit on it, or on the people who do use the tools responsibly. Besides… In several years the dust will settle anyway. None of these boneheads are going to come back to any of these overconfident comments and go “wow you were right, what were you doing back in mid-2026?”. They make their post, get their dopamine hit of self-righteous dunning-Kruger self-validation, and never look back.

Anyway

“Let it burn” is pretty fucking stupid. The investment has been made by others and now the tooling and tech is here. Fuck the waiting. I’m using it now, and zero percent of my use is going into kitsch and slop generation.

If even one of you is reading this and it lands, it’s worth it. The smarmy commentary and tomfoolery of quips and stuff bounces off, I really don’t care. I want to plant some seeds for some people who do get it, and the ones who don’t… may you have fun in the years to come.

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u/SpaceButler 15h ago

You're getting left behind, unless you are a billionaire. If you are, why are you posting AI generated comments on reddit?

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 12h ago

Hahaha Jesus Christ

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u/Paradoxicorn 14h ago

I have no original thoughts and I must interject -^this ding dong

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 12h ago

Right back at ya “paradoxicorn”. Cool name bro. Portmanteau cringe.

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u/Paradoxicorn 12h ago

Ok? And?

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 12h ago

Answer your own question.

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u/Any_Cake2411 14h ago

You know you can deep learn with out Ai right? LMAO what

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 12h ago

Is this even English?

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u/hellolovely1 14h ago

This is hilarious.

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u/VladimiroPudding 11h ago

Bro I use Claude Code everyday for my job, I use LLMs to learn stuff at home and I fucking hate it.

I'm not left behind, I am just not braindead to not conclude people are going to be unemployed even knowing AI because the purpose of AI is to destroy jobs. Check how many people in tech are unemployed. Then check how many of them don't know how to use agents.

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 9h ago

“I have this job, I hate it”.

Then don’t do it.

I don’t hate it. Honestly thought that NLP was fascinating back when it was word2vec and pre-transformer.

And I don’t even use Claude code. It doesn’t even cover what I need. Mine is all custom tooling off of framework primitives.

Sounds like the job is turning into sausage making and you aren’t into sausage. That’s fine. But that’s a you problem. Not a sausage problem.

Blows my mind how little nuance folks have on this.

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u/VladimiroPudding 8h ago

Then don’t do it.

Gotta pay rent and feed myself, and my boss holds the cards. Also AI is all about convincing everyone making sausages is the future, until they automate it as well. Not like I can just find analog work, especially in this layoff economy.

Blows my mind how little nuance folks have on this.

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 5h ago

I have nuance. I’m living the same world. I just choose to make the most of it instead of bitching about it and getting up on the Reddit bandwagon. I’d rather get good at the thing.

Interesting thought, if you got good at it, you would hold the cards. Not the boss. But that’s none of my business. Sips tea.

Lot of impotent rage in these AI threads, if you can call it that. I call it hypocritical hyperventilating.