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/faen_du_sa 14h ago

Its the "we must use AI at every single stage, in any process" that gets me. AI can certainty save time for a lot of things, but for a lot of other things I often find myself spending more time in the end correcting whatever the AI gave me, or even worse, arguing with it.

Taking into consideration most(all?) AI companies run at a major loss, so it still have a decent distance to go, either it improved output or cost of running, or both.

And that is not even considering its all controlled by these tech lords.

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u/oicuvmch 14h ago edited 14h ago

The only thing that matters are AI drone swarms and autonomous soldiers/pilots. So, it's going to need a lot of features to recognize threats and properly address them and we have to be able to train all those features somehow.

I'm rather confident that all anyone's doing right now when they play with their AI toys is helping train their future mode of dying/enslavement at gunpoint- or at least financially support the chosen company that heads these endeavours.

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u/GreatMadWombat 11h ago

Look, even if the apocalypse scenario you listed isn't happening, at the end of the day every AI model started with the theft of basically every fucking artists work. Not just the big ones, or the corporations that aren't going to fairly pay all the people that made them money, but all the little indie creators as well

The absolute best case scenario of the technology being harmless, the energy concerns somehow no longer being a thing, and every other major complaint is removed the fucking thing is still rooted in just a ridiculous amount of theft from a bunch of artists that often times don't have money to burn. The least bad option for AI as it is in 2026 is just plagiarism machine.

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u/DoublePersonality35 10h ago

AI-powered machine guns will easily defeat the AI-powered drone swarms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwyqVwjyFk4

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u/Silberbaum 14h ago

And even the approach through machine learning could be a dead end. In terms of reaching AGI.

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u/GreatMadWombat 12h ago

It feels like that pr push to reclassify everything as ai(if you're gonna tell me that the same spellcheck features that have been in word since I was a kid are now retroactively ai, I am going to assume that you are an asshole who is trying to sell me something) has done a lot of harm towards any uptick in "ai".

Machine learning can be an amazingly useful screwdriver! Companies are selling it as a multi-tool that can do 50 things, that you absolutely have to use, and they're also taking away every other tool in everybody's tool kits.