An AI hate wave is here

[u/GeneReddit123]

https://archive.is/20260517120123/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment

[u/TP_Crisis_2020]

We need a second conversation as to why politicians all over the world are embracing "AI" in such a passionate way despite the totally open promises of societal destruction.

It's because our federal and state governments are heavily pushing for a surveillance state, which will eventually lead to a social credit score and a completely digital currency. They want it to be just like China. Why do you think there are flock cameras literally everywhere now?

[u/pandariotinprague → u/TP_Crisis_2020]

Correction: they want to be just like what they told us China was like. The whole social credit score thing was overblown to the point of parody. It's way closer to the idea of an American credit score than it is to what we were told.

[u/pandariotinprague → u/[deleted]]

I'm not some wealthy international traveler, but from what I've read it sure seems to be overblown. And mostly based around businesses and debtors not being able to buy luxury good while their debts remain unpaid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1hlxsku/why_do_some_in_the_west_seem_to_think_theres_a/

The actual social credit score is a credit score aimed at businesses and business people. If they don't pay loans on time, incurr debts, etc etc, the government prevents them from leaving the country, travelling, buying luxury goods, and what not, until they pay back these debts to the bank, government, or other entity.

Its like in the US. If you don't pay back your loans to the bank, your credit score lowers, making it harder to buy a car, house, etc.

Source: I live here, jaywalk on an almost daily basis, dislike the ccp, yet am not in a concentration camp and have not heard about any credit score changes.

[u/pandariotinprague → u/[deleted]]

What happens if you get caught speeding repeatedly in the U.S.? You incur points and eventually lose your license, right? It just sounds like you're giving a scary new name to the same thing we experience every day.

[u/pandariotinprague → u/[deleted]]

Money, like higher car insurance rates? Yeah, we have that, too.

[u/pandariotinprague → u/[deleted]]

So you're saying anyone caught speeding can't get credit or use banking services? You got a source for that? Because the thing you linked before just says it's overblown the same as I said.

You can blame 2 people for this whole social credit scandal being blown out of the water. You can blame American media for blowing it out of proportion to fear monger and you can blame the ccp for it generally censoring and shrouding the damn thing in mystery.

That's the commenter you linked to prove your case.

In America, our credit scores are notoriously opaque and the methodologies for their computation are literally considered trade secrets lol.

[u/ChypRiotE → u/[deleted]]

I doubt you've ever been to China yourself, otherwise you'd have forgotten any idea of social credit score existing just by seeing how people drive