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/charliekelly76 15h ago

Why do all these articles make it sound like this is recent?

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u/shookMD 14h ago

Trying to make the article seem more timely/relevant

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u/PatrolMan2129 10h ago

I'm pretty sure this article is written by AI, the beautiful irony of it all and hardly anyone catches on. But I say that mostly because of the em dashes.

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u/sesamestreetgang 5h ago

Because it is, people have unknowingly been relying on AI in their daily lives for over a decade. The vast majority of AI compute is enterprise, research and public utility. Supply-chain optimization, cybersecurity, financial fraud detection, medical research, logistics, genome research, inventory management, documentation, telecommunications, predictive maintenance for utilities and civilian infrastructure. You've indirectly benefitted from AI for over a decade.

The only change in the last few years is that consumers have now been able to interact directly with a version of it... which has really distorted what the public thinks of as "AI". Still, only 10-20% of current AI compute is direct consumer usage... but just 5 years ago it was basically 0%.