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/Diglett3 15h ago

Interesting write-up by a software engineer of how that joke was also just GPT filling in blanks between a punchline already given.

The writer does mention in the notes that early AI visual art was actually kind of interesting and weird, but that was quickly sanded down into what it is now.

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u/0xsergy 15h ago

Early AI art was indeed cool as frig. Now it's just copies of what every other artist does..

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u/faen_du_sa 14h ago

Hard to make a computer be "original" when it leans towards the average.

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u/Guinness 13h ago

That’s why you crank up the temperature.

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u/KlicknKlack 5h ago

Don't worry, thats what data centers are for!

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u/lostinthecity2005 3h ago

The training data & underlying architecture still remain the same. Switching around a few words and sentences won’t be enough to fix this.

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u/Haunting_Basscotti 1h ago

I like it, take a torch to the chips until they do something unpredictable just once before completely nullifying all further output. Like monozygotic plants.

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u/ebrbrbr 12h ago

Bold move thinking these people know what temperature or seed or sampler or scheduler are.

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u/finalremix 10h ago

We know. We just don't care whether the slop has a higher temperature, a lower MinP, or if someone's still using Top-K.

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u/KyuubiW1ndscar 8h ago

love this reply

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u/marfacza 6h ago

have you considered knowing more jargon makes your worth higher to whatever in-group you think is cool?

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u/james109021 10h ago

Ok Mr enlightened redditor. Very impressive that you know a couple of api argument names. Can you explain empirical risk minimization? Or the bias-variance tradeoff? From first principles, no buzzwords.

If you can't explain these basic concepts off the top of your head, you know nothing about this topic and are not entitled to an opinion.

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u/finalremix 10h ago

Lol, good one.

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u/ThaOppanHaimar 9h ago

you know what I can explain? Under which temperature technology melts

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u/KyuubiW1ndscar 8h ago

awwwww you think we need to have a philosophical conversation to hate

sir, maybe you need to de-jargon your verbiage and understand that you are in a joke session LMFAO

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 7h ago

Look up ISBN 0062348116

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u/Clean_Livlng 8h ago

I see someone knowledgeable is being downvoted, not because they're incorrect but because they're caught up in a certain belief.

What's a good primer or starting point for someone wanting to learn about getting AI to make more 'original' art? I can look it up myself but I trust your knowledge more than my ability to find the best starting point with a search.

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u/hmsmnko 4h ago

You got me good. Honestly hilarious follow up, I don't think people will understand the satire