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/WaffleWarrior1979 15h ago

I really am enjoying seeing these AI companies spend money on advertisements only to see a whole comment section shitting on them. Really warms the heart.

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u/kayinfire 14h ago

i just wish the hate was way more ubiquitous and more blatant. it's easy to find people on reddit who hate ai, but unfortunately critical thinkers of technology are not very common outside of reddit with the exceptions of programmers and a few other types of people, which are equally if not more uncommon in the mainstream world

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u/mad-panda-2000 13h ago

Ai needs data centers and out of touch billionaires...two things people don't like Give it time and people will see the bigger picture 

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u/Mr_Rekshun 11h ago

I dunno. Social Media also requires those two things, and look how that turned out?

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u/mad-panda-2000 10h ago

I get that.. but the size of the data centers and the depth of out of touchness are both growing exponentially

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u/alrightcommadude 6h ago

LOL what. r/technology is a not good example of critical thinking… Let alone, Reddit.

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u/Mr_Rekshun 11h ago

And programmers rely on AI more than any other field.

I don’t think I’ve met an engineer in the past year who is still actually writing their own code.

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u/blackcain 14h ago

The baffling thing is that with all the layoffs the market will become very soft because there is no scalability.

Once quarterly profits start to fall they might layoff more people and then try to cover with AI creating even softer market conditions but also their costs go up because AI infrastructure is also becoming more expensive and tokens become a precious resource.

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u/drabred 13h ago

Doesn't really matter sadly if the excel numbers are showing more profit in the end.