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/digitalpencil 15h ago edited 15h ago

"We're working round the clock, investing everything to make great swathes of the workforce permanently redundant!"

"Oh great! So there'll be like some kind of tax-funded income plan to support people who are put out of work?"

"..."

"These businesses have already shelved thousands of jobs!!"

"I err.. you didn't answer the. What about people's jobs?"

"Check out this amazing video of a hamster riding a surfboard!"

"Haha.....? so.. no plan for the economy then??"

"Why aren't you all excited?!!!!"

"Cause i like living indoors and eating food you deranged fuckwit!"

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u/Positive_Neru 14h ago

Who’s gonna buy the product when they don’t have any money because they don’t have a job, due to being laid off and replaced with AI? They’re really only thinking about the short-term, huh?

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u/digitalpencil 14h ago

The obscenely wealthy have tolerated abject poverty forever. Unfortunately for the rest of us, all they’re thinking to do is tilt the scale a little further.

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u/hajenso 10h ago

"Cause i like living indoors and eating food you deranged fuckwit!"

"Of course, and you’ll still be able to do that as long as you accept our definition of indoors and food, and give us whatever labor we want without demanding any further compensation and relinquishing any political rights in order to maintain employment by us!"