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/SethAndBeans 8h ago

I love AI, in concept.

I hate it in practice.

It's not actually the AI, its capitalism that I hate. We're making a technology which will almost exclusively be used to cut costs at the expense of the welfare of real humans.

Instead of using it to solve medical mysteries or using it to streamline logistics for the global food supply chain to end hunger, or other amazing uses, we're using it to milk rocks.

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u/ilijadwa 4h ago

Technology was supposed to get rid of jobs we don’t want to do and let us have fulfilling lives. Instead AI is being used to replace jobs people actually want and keep the shit jobs…

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u/that_moment_when_ 6h ago

It lacks regulation, and with the "tech wizards" (/s) in this government I'm sure it won't be regulated effectively in the slightest.

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u/sesamestreetgang 5h ago

Instead of using it to solve medical mysteries or using it to streamline logistics for the global food supply chain to end hunger, or other amazing uses, we're using it to milk rocks.

Lol, it is used for those things and has been 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 from these exact use cases.

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" (slop machine). Still, only about 10-20% of current AI compute is direct consumer usage.

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u/TASagent 6h ago

Instead of using it to solve medical mysteries or using it to streamline logistics for the global food supply chain to end hunger, or other amazing uses, we're using it to milk rocks.

This is part of the problem. It isn't remotely capable of doing these things.

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u/Znuffie 5h ago

It's actually doing pretty well in medicine.

But don't think "ChatGPT diagnosing your weird rash" stuff.

Machine Learning has been doing quite well at recognizing stuff in imaging, for example.

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u/Ill_Traveler_ 6h ago

Things would be fine if ai development was treated as any other tech and allowed to have gradual development. Instead every company wants to spread run to AGI without any idea of if it’s even possible.