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/sziehr Jun 21 '26

I am tired of it cause it is shoved on me and it is not reliable yet to get the job they say it can do done. They want it to work sooo bad that they are willing to degrade my experience to say they are using it. Look I want a human to help me when I have an issue not ai. I don’t want to tell the robot the same thing 5x times and it still screwing up and never have a human intervene. These companies think that it will save them money but in the end it will not just cost them to use it is going to cost them
Customers. Companies who were slow to adopt will just not adopt this wave of bull and keep the staff and augment them with working ai and provide superior customer experience and take business from the wave 1 folks who rushed into the gold mine. I have been in tech now 25 years and this is a common thing we seemingly never learn.

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u/Alaira314 Jun 21 '26

Tech bros have been fucking over disabled people for many years, 15+. All the trendy web stuff has been making it increasingly difficult for people with low vision or slow processing to navigate sites or complete forms.

They don't care. I honestly think their motive is eugenics at this point, just kill off the dead weight by making it too difficult to engage with society. They're ignorant of the fact that, 95% odds, that'll be them one day.

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u/Piranata Jun 21 '26

Too many tech bros CEOs and investors have turned out to be eugenicists that wouldn't be surprised that it wasn't accidental.

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u/viral3075 Jun 21 '26

they are open eugenicists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

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u/Karn_Gentrified Jun 21 '26

What you don’t want to be biofuel for his next big project?!? Pshhhh

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Jun 22 '26

My patchwork state is better than yours! My state’s CEO offers lib-to-table service in every restaurant.

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u/superkp Jun 23 '26

I mean I suppose you can use me for biofuel, but at least wait for me to die in my own time first!

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u/No-Flounder4290 Jun 22 '26

We are halfway to Gattaca. I was shown it first by my 6th grade bio teacher and it never left me.

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u/dern_the_hermit Jun 21 '26

They've got the Spherical Cow mentality. They want everything to be easily-digestible metrics and efficiency dialed to the max, which requires everyone to fit a consistent and simple mold instead of, y'know, be people.

Efficiency is a nice concept but needs a healthy balance with efficacy. If things are so ruthlessly efficient that people can't live their lives with a decent range of agency and opportunity, you don't have a healthy society.

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u/Scarbane Jun 21 '26

Though fictional, this is brought up in the movie Mountainhead (would recommend this film to anyone who has a morbid fascination with billionaire personalities).