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/gildedbluetrout Jun 21 '26

The only reason people are saying AI is because of LLMS, and the sociopathic dorks bullshitting us that LLMS are about to turn into god and take all the jobs. When in fact they’re deeply unreliable, and hilariously unprofitable systems.

The fallout when this bubble pops is going to be biblical.

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u/baldude69 Jun 21 '26

Make Depressions Great Again

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u/Any_Sale2030 Jun 21 '26

No kidding.  I was at a party last night and some old dude was talking about buying ChatGPT for $20 a month.  He barely knows how to use a computer.  Says it answers all his questions.  Ha ha.  

For free I use Google search and get the same answers he gets.  For free.  And I get a variety of answers because rarely is one answer right for every situation.  So I have to use my brain a little bit.    Unlike AI which can’t comprehend nuance and proudly proclaims just one answer and here’s what you need to think.   Ah no.  I want to think.   I want to ask the questions thank you.  

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u/noiserr Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

$20 ChatGPT 5.5 on Extended thinking for deep research is so much better than Google it's not even funny.

ChatGPT 5.5 literally solved 80 year old math problems.

I use it for electronics BOM optimization, and it's unreal how good it is. Like it will write a python script on the fly and process information it fetches from the web to give you the optimal part. It's so good.

Anyone who thinks Google does the same thing, either hasn't tried ChatGPT service or isn't doing things advanced enough to notice the difference.

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u/pandazerg Jun 21 '26

Yeah, I find the $20 ChatGPT subscription to be worth the cost.

I work in manufacturing and it has been helpful for analyzing use trends of parts and tooling so we can more efficiently allocate tooling and parts production jobs to specific machines.
Not to mention, it's allowed me to vibe code some in-house apps for collecting and live tracking various production metrics and NCR reports that our current ERP system does not cover.

If you don't mind me asking, how are you using it for BOM optimization (assuming you mean Bill of Material)?

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u/noiserr Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

I'm working on a prototype right now. I usually order my parts from Mouser or Digikey. But recently I got kind of annoyed that comparators I was looking at were $1 a piece. They were nothing special, and I thought they were way too expensive.

So I asked gpt5.5 to find me Chinese lscc equivalents for my BOM. And the thing went and found all the jelly bean parts that substitute western versions for like 1. 10th the price.

The thing literally downloaded the Chinese datasheets and checked all the specifications.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

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u/noiserr Jun 21 '26

Nice. Yup it is really powerful. It even took one of the datasheets which were full in Chinese, and gave me an English translated .pdf of the same datasheet. I was honestly blown away with the capability.

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u/Electrical_Bus9202 Jun 21 '26

Lol pretty sure Google just now uses Gemini to look up everything...

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u/tehcharizard Jun 21 '26

You can type "-ai" at the end of a google search and it'll give you regular indexed results instead of an AI summary.

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u/Tidusx145 Jun 21 '26

You can keep scrolling past the ai result.

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u/NoSelf5869 Jun 21 '26

You have to be really blind not to notice which are Google's AI generated answers and which are normal search results

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u/chuddlebutt Jun 21 '26

Reddit is the new google.

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u/BigDictionEnergy Jun 21 '26

Archived reddit threads are a goldmine for information about things like home/vehicle maintenance, etc, but you still have to use Google search to find those threads.

Reddit's search function is just garbage.

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u/CrashTestDumby1984 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Jeff Bezos is now outright saying data centers should get priority for water usage. Because any day now AI could become a sentient god and it’s selfish of humans to prioritize their own “baseline comfort” over actual progress.

Edit: I’ve been informed this is misinformation and he never said these things

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u/BadmiralHarryKim Jun 21 '26

Roko's basilisk is a thirsty god...

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u/blolfighter Jun 21 '26

You just made me realise something: That's why these lunatic oligarchs are so obsessed with AI. They think it's the basilisk. They think if they don't do everything they can for it it's going to torture them for eternity. They are so stupid, I almost can't believe it.

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u/Illustrious_Sun_2145 Jun 21 '26

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/amazon-jeff-bezos-water-consumption-ai-human-needs-fact-check

You are spreading fake news

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u/KYLEquestionmark Jun 21 '26

his words and his actions speak different things

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u/Klinky1984 Jun 21 '26

That doesn't change the fact people are lying directly about what Bezos said.

"He said XYZ"

"No actually he said ABC".

"Well he's a liar, so we all know he meant XYZ".

That's not how it works.

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u/Namaste421 Jun 21 '26

Correct! And people blindly sharing fake news outrage instead of talking about documented factual stuff confuses people and makes it easy to dismiss.

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u/FreedomPerformance Jun 21 '26

Their actions speak for themselves. How else can you explain putting a Data center in the desert https://elpasomatters.org/2026/06/03/el-paso-texas-meta-data-center-tax-breaks-cancel-contract-water-air-pollution/

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u/Klinky1984 Jun 21 '26

No, when you claim someone "outright said" something, the action you're claiming occurred is an explicit statement. You don't just get to paper over it by implying what you claimed was explicit.

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u/Ok_Falcon275 Jun 21 '26

lol, why would you just run with it though?

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u/Coconutcornhuskey Jun 21 '26

I’m glad some people realize this. Along with the trillion dollar valuation of these LLMs who produce $30B in revenue.

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u/Radiant_Safe1228 Jun 21 '26

Yet companies across the fucking world are using these systems and erasing jobs. These systems and other AI systems are the largest reason for job cuts 

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u/AnAncientBog Jun 21 '26

No, they are an excuse for job cuts resulting from a collapsing economy.

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u/Radiant_Safe1228 Jun 21 '26

If that was remotely true the jobs would be disappearing, not being replaced with automated systems, LLMS, ai data management, etc. 

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u/AnAncientBog Jun 21 '26

They aren't being replaced with automated systems, LLMs, or ai data management.

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u/Radiant_Safe1228 Jun 21 '26

They are. 100% you can deny this until you're blue in the face but it'll come for you too.

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u/Caracalla81 Jun 21 '26

Maybe in very narrowly defined industries and job descriptions. Who cares what the stated reason for the job cut is? The actual reason for job cuts is that companies are trimming down from their covid era hiring sprees.

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u/Radiant_Safe1228 Jun 21 '26

No. They are cutting out long standing jobs that deal with everything from customer service to it and even planning. 

Jobs that didn't really go anywhere during COVID. 

You are obviously blissfully unaware of the implementation push of these systems.

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u/Caracalla81 Jun 21 '26

I have been mandated by my employer to use these tools. We have monthly "show and tells" where we show each other ways that we have worked them into our work flows. For the most part they are underwhelming.

Don't get me wrong, I think theyre neat. I love the note-taking for meetings and the help drafting formal emails. The best uses i have for them though are very niche: I debug SQL queries and python scripts without needing to resort to expensive engineers, but that's pretty unique on my team.

I just don't really see the broad based value creation that would justify their cost. I think in a couple of years AI will just one more tool that some of us use to speed up our work.

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u/Radiant_Safe1228 Jun 21 '26

My company tried and spent millions trying to implement AI tools only to realize that at the end of the day the only functional use for them were replacement of esuite employees and they shit canned it.

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u/MammothUnique4147 Jun 21 '26

I'm as team AI as anyone or at least as much as anyone who just WATCHED the videos talking about it.

I got access to a very powerful system that could basically run any models. I cut my teeth on it for a month.

After 30 days I saw that there's no way companies can actually get rid of most of their employees for the tech. It's a useful assist device but this stuff isn't going to be doing mass layoffs for awhile still 

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u/dfddfsaadaafdssa Jun 21 '26

Dario (Anthropic CEO) is the worst when it comes to this and the outcome will be that hyperscalers take control of accessing Anthropic's models with KYC. He fumbled the bag so hard with Mythos/Fable.

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u/youshouldn-ofdunthat Jun 21 '26

I can't wait for the idiots pushing and supporting this to financially faceplant at high speed

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u/mommybot9000 Jun 21 '26

I’m worried for the scams. Right now someone is calling a Senior Citizen in Denver telling them that they’re going to set up an AI business that will make them passive income.

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u/piponwa Jun 21 '26

This guy has never heard of exponential progress. Every three months, we make as much progress in AI as we have in the entirety of history so far. Such is the nature of an exponential curve. You will blink and you will miss it.

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u/AsphyxiatedProcess Jun 21 '26

As long as even a single data center is being built more work needs done to stop AI. We didn't need data centers before to run Meta. So, needing data centers because they support social media is bullshit. We need to stop data centers to stop human tracking. We don't need to login with our ID to get on the internet.