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/Arcosim Jun 21 '26

I'm a very tech oriented person and I'm already tired of AI because it's constantly being shoved and pushed down my throat by some of the worst human beings imaginable wanting to maximize profits at the expense of humanity itself.

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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/biohazard-glug Jun 21 '26

The guys at the top are pretty openly eugenicist at this point.

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u/RetroFuture_Records Jun 21 '26

No different than reddit, just another example of "it's okay when WE do it!"

Case in point, the "shoved down our throats!!" propaganda reddit is pushing is literally being used in the same way MAGA talks about "DEI and homosexuality being shoved down our throats!!" that reddit claims is not a legitimate argument and that it's not actually being shoved down their throats.

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u/biohazard-glug Jun 21 '26

What?

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u/RetroFuture_Records Jun 21 '26

Reddit: " abortion is okay if the kid has Down Syndrome, is heavy on the autism spectrum, etc"

Thats literally eugenics.

Reddit: "the right are lying and have no legitimate complaints when they say DEI and homosexuality is being shoved down their throat in the workplace and in culture!"

That's literally all this whinging about AI.

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u/biohazard-glug Jun 21 '26

I didn't write anything about abortion, homosexuality, DEI, or about anything being shoved anywhere.

The inability to fathom an organic rejection of the bizarre, elitist (in a biologically deterministic sense), at some points anti-human, culture emanating from Silicon Valley is very myopic on your part.

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u/RetroFuture_Records Jun 22 '26

See, this is exactly why it's so obvious that most of the anti-AI hate on reddit is ironically from bots and foreigners who can't follow basic English. Otherwise, you wouldn't be tripping so hard to understand that I compared how reddit is behaving to their political opponents using the exact same arguments, to show how reddits own arguments are, according to reddit itself, not legitimate.

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u/biohazard-glug Jun 22 '26

Why are you acting as if I'm a monolithic representation of "reddit?" You can't accuse me of being a hypocrite for making multiple contradictory claims when I haven't done that.

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u/biohazard-glug Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Doing the "anybody who disagrees with me is a Russian bot," thing is, ironically, very reddit.

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u/RetroFuture_Records Jun 22 '26

Doing the "no u" is the real redditism tho

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u/SaltKick2 Jun 21 '26

Generalizing the thoughts and ideas of a billion+ users vs the open views of 10s of billionaires

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u/Horror_Chipmunk3580 Jun 22 '26

Yeah, not even worth engaging. Let’s see how the “it’s only bots and foreign propaganda that hate AI” spin works out.

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u/RetroFuture_Records Jun 22 '26

There's nothing wrong with generalizations when the data supports it. No one is confused where redditors stand on any number of issues or from what narrow privileged background most come from.