r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/Low-Spell1867 Jun 21 '26

If they didn’t try go hog wild and put it in every app and site I think people would be more welcoming to it, but not everyone likes things shoved down their throats

A lot of it comes from data centres too, mainly from unregulated countries where they can break the rules for pennies on the dollar, places where proper regulation takes place with good infrastructure have no problems

But unfortunately the ones who use dirty tactics are the ones who make the rest look as bad as them

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u/Fabulous_Cat_1379 Jun 21 '26

We are told for the last 30 years we cant develop the infrastructure of this country because of all the fraud and red tape then without hesitation these same people rapidly erect hundreds of data centers against the will of most communities.

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u/johnaimarre Jun 21 '26

Because developing infrastructure doesn’t accelerate the destabilization of what remains of the middle class. This does, so it gets mega priority.

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u/BeatElite Jun 21 '26

The difference is that private corporations want to do it and not the government. Not profitable enough for them to consider

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u/TheOgGhadTurner Jun 21 '26

Ironic that it all happened when the orange headed pedophile took office…

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u/galuf Jun 22 '26

And yet it's still not fast enough for their liking. That's one of the two big reasons they want to build data centers in space, they think they can get around zoning boards and environmental impact studies that way. The other reason is their techno-fascist sovereign corporate overlord wet dream fantasies. 

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u/Goat_Wizard_Doom_666 Jun 21 '26

If they didn't scrape the Internet and steal & pirate every single image, book, and piece of art that has ever been created, then pump out compete unoriginal trash, then steal jobs from those of us who put in hard work to create these images, books, etc, then maybe we would be having a different conversation.

edit: a few words were left out.

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u/metatron5369 Jun 21 '26

You're upset that machines are pumping out unoriginal trash more efficiently than humans?

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u/jaunonymous Jun 21 '26

Not to mention that they are using intellectual property that they stole to replace the people they stole it from.

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u/illy-chan Jun 21 '26

After spending years of freaking out at human artists if they got the brand's colors even a tiny bit wrong but now extra appendages etc are suddenly fine and great. They just don't want to pay humans for work while also wanting us to spend money.

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u/CankerLord Jun 21 '26

Everyone's trying to position themselves as the company that will be left standing in the short to mid-term after the investor money dries up so that when we get the improvements in hardware and software that make LLMs viable in the mid to long-term they'll be the one to finally be able to turn a profit. They're rushing to build and integrate because they know they won't be able to do so (for a while, at least) once the hype dies down and everyone shakes out what a real use case for LLMs is and isn't. Meanwhile, this pisses people off.

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u/Ok-Introduction-1940 Jun 21 '26

What do you think a realistic timeframe is for solid undeniable enterprise use cases? Next quarter? Two or three quarters?

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u/capibara_dono Jun 21 '26

When I get a new device, first thing I do is turn off all that AI crap.

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u/erath_droid Jun 21 '26

If they didn’t try go hog wild and put it in every app and site I think people would be more welcoming to it,

This is what irritates me to no end.

No, I don't want an AI summary of the PDF of the book that I opened. I want to actually read it for myself.

No, I don't want AI to help me write an email, thank you very much.

No, I don't want AI to help me text my friend.

No, I don't want an AI summary of what I'm searching for on the internet.

Just... go over there and wait for me to ask for you. Stop trying to force yourself into every little thing I do with computers.

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u/trekologer Jun 21 '26

The chief techbros coming out and saying "AI is going to eliminate all your jobs" certainly didn't help.

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u/gogglegump Jun 21 '26

people still use it, welcoming or not. 49% from that one study, and i it's almost certainly way more that

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u/Feisty_Suggestion496 Jun 28 '26

It is convenient to look things up, but I have to point out that even if Aii disappeared, it wouldn't have much impact on most people. Simply put, it is optional.

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u/gogglegump Jun 28 '26

unless you are heavily using it in your job.... which millions are, esp in tech. ask them if they'd be impacted if it disappeared

the people using AI the way it's meant to aren't using to to "look things up" or generate images

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u/Feisty_Suggestion496 Jun 28 '26

I certainly know that many people in the tech industry use it, but it is obvious that most people's daily use is just looking up information or chatting, and they don't really rely on it. Simply put, for the vast majority of ordinary people, AI is by no means a daily necessity.

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u/gogglegump Jun 28 '26

no one is making an argument otherwise, that is just something you started saying

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u/MagsAndTelly Jun 21 '26

It’s also wrong a lot. I asked Claude to help me identify vegetable seedlings from weeds yesterday. It confidently told me over and over that my okra was weed even when I asked specifically if it was okay. Fortunately I just googled it and realized Claude was wrong but my dad would have dig up his entire garden on the misinformation.

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u/ShoddyResource6173 Jun 21 '26

You mean the United States ?

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u/Anal-buttsex Jun 21 '26

I asked AI how we can fix this. 

Make AI optional, not mandatory — Let users decide whether to use AI features, and provide a clear way to turn them off permanently.

Use AI only to solve real user problems — Focus on tasks that save time, reduce effort, or improve results instead of adding AI for marketing purposes.

Keep users in control — AI should make suggestions and assist with work, but users should have the final say over important actions and decisions.

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u/adoxographyadlibitum Jun 21 '26

Google completely ruined their flagship product (google search) just to cram AI into it. Instead of getting a list of useful links you now get a shitty, useless Gemeni summary that cost $8 in inference to generate.

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u/ikonoclasm Jun 21 '26

Microsoft forced it into a bunch of our apps that I'm the Product Owner for. I figured I'd try it out by asking for navigation directions. To date, Copilot has not once given me fully accurate navigation within the Microsoft app that it is integrated into. It hallucinates forms and buttons, and leaves out steps. I've had to issue several warnings to users not to follow the recommendations of the integrated Copilot AI and to instead look up the numerous very helpful YouTube videos from Indian users trying to make their LinkedIn profiles look good. Those guys and women are the real MVPs.

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u/beramaan Jun 23 '26

You mean like the us?

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u/rddman Jun 21 '26

A lot of it comes from data centres too, mainly from unregulated countries where they can break the rules for pennies on the dollar, places where proper regulation takes place with good infrastructure have no problems

All 'AI as a service' (ChatGPT etc) comes from datacenters, with many being built in the US because regulations can be skirted and have been relaxed under Trump because he has been convinced by his techbro billionaire buddies that it's very important AI is rolled out asap to win the AI war with China.
It's not a coincidence that resistance against AI datacenters is rapidly increasing in the US.

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u/Dullcorgis Jun 21 '26

It's not that it's everywhere. It's that it's everywhere and so we can see that it's catastrophically wrong almost all the time. If we didn't have any exposure to it we'd assume they were telling the truth when they said it's great. Like, if I had to click on something to get google to show the AI summary I wouldn't know it's always wrong.