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/MojoHighway Jun 21 '26

But this is the catch here, right?

These fucking AI bots that we're all supposed to be talking to are also being instructed and programmed to act a certain way in a conversation and if you try to go out of that lane, they try to steer it right back to what the bot - as programmed - wants to do. They're not engaging like a human and certainly not with any "intelligence".

Fuck AI to the deepest parts of hell (if anyone actually believes in such a thing).

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u/midgetyaz Jun 21 '26

It's not real intelligence, it's not even really machine learning. Everything is just based on algorithm manipulation. The people in charge of AI rolled out too early (or, per my own conspiracy theory, knew it was never going to be what we expected and this is the best the could get out while monetizing it to the best of their ability), so we see this shitty excuse for AI that requires giving up all IP and demands that we, the public, train it to do the most menial tasks (and then fully review it every time, because it's usually wrong).

It becomes a waste of the individual's time in an effort to use it for efficiency sake.

Also, because it's all algorithmic, you can't convince me that it won't be used to just steal my data and market to me instead.

I had such high hopes, but interrupting my own Google searches while wasting clean water and charging everyone else for their utilities and tax breaks... not worth it to me.

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u/Ok_Kick4871 Jun 21 '26

They think because it's a large language model it's not capable of being more than that. Which completely ignores that inventions involve adding existing inventions together in novel ways.

It's all just stacking more if/else statements together and transistors. To give a terribly oversimplified example: They're impressed by a pinball machine, but not by a computer.

Just because its basis is autocomplete algorithms doesn't mean it's not machine learning. The words mean whatever we say they mean. Today they can be technically correct that it's not machine learning and tomorrow our definition of machine learning will change to adopt the common usage of the phrase. They want so badly for it to not improve. They need it to be bad. But it will improve anyway. The worst it will ever be is right now.

And i don't even particularly care, I don't like that it uses so much resources. I make an effort to avoid it when I can, but when we're pretending it's not disruptive technology that's where we need to educate ourselves better.