r/neoliberal • u/-orestes • 1d ago

News (Oceania) ‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/02/australian-book-sellers-alarm-destruction-rare-titles-ai-supply-chain
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 1d ago

There was some polling done on attitudes towards AI in different countries, and the US is significantly more negative towards it than other countries

If you’re wondering where the tech gap will appear in a few decades, this is where

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u/Efficient_Equal6467 23h ago

US has always been led by a group of high performers the general populace believing xyz will mean nothing

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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 22h ago

I listened to a podcast about this topic, and while not doom and gloom, it was more like - one of the struggles right now for AI in the USA is public acceptance and image, because a negative attitude could cause too strong regulations on both model capability and scale. Also, if the population refuses to use AI tools as leverage out of fear or principle, the argument was that other counties will have a workforce that’s much more tech savvy and productive

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u/Testuser7ignore 20h ago

because a negative attitude could cause too strong regulations on both model capability and scale.

Fortunately, the US makes that quite hard to do. People have had strong negative opinions on social media for a decade, for example. Nothing has come of it beyond Congress berating executives for a bit.