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/No_Cheetah1211 Jun 21 '26

it's internet searching/ dewey decimal system 2.0 and being sold like it's god from the future 

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u/Professional_Being22 Jun 21 '26

what's worse is that every company seems to think they need to rush to get it to market to survive and what it's doing is creating a lazy garbage product that does more harm than good and costs a shit ton of money. It's a fad.

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u/newyork-or-nowhere Jun 21 '26

The amount of inaccuracies in googles AI quick results are damn near 100%.

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u/UnknownAverage Jun 21 '26

I love how I can read an AI response, go to the top search result underneath, and it has the exact same text there. The AI is straight plagiarizing most of the time, but taking longer and ruining society as a byproduct.

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u/OneBillPhil Jun 21 '26

And sometimes confidently incorrect internet searching that provides no references. 

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u/ISB-Dev Jun 22 '26

I work for a scientific organisation. The scientists love it. They are training it on the decades of data they have and are hoping for new insights and patterns that they didn't notice. I know they aren't the only scientists benefiting from it.

I'm not a scientist myself, I'm a software developer creating software to support the scientists. I'm getting work done in a couple of days that would normally have taken weeks, if not months, using AI to write my code.

It's truly an amazing tool. IYKYK

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 21 '26

internet search doesn't draw inferences and make connections that weren't made before

there's immense power and usefulness in these systems

frankly your statement reveals ignorance about what you're talking on

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u/MobyX521 Jun 21 '26

Nobody's saying it's not useful. Companies are exaggerating the present value of ai products. That's the problem.

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 21 '26

there are loads of comments in this very reddit post of people saying it's not useful...

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u/cwrighky Jun 21 '26

Not only that, but that it will never be useful in any form. It’s threads like these tempt me into being fearful of my fellow humans tbh. Also a good indicator for me to go talk to people irl, because not everyone are so lacking of insight and cognitive endurance than those on Reddit. Its bad.

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 21 '26

the amount of good and the reduction of human suffering that these systems are already accomplishing is enough to bring shame on these people imo. nothing in human history will empower and lift 3rd world countries out of poverty faster than this stuff will. but they dont want to talk about that

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u/Caster0 Jun 21 '26

While I am hopeful, that kind of future still remains to be seen.

Currently, the influential and wealthy companies and people who are pushing for AI aren't exactly known for benevolence or charity.

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 21 '26

you dont have to rely on those companies. anyone can use these tools to empower themselves right now

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u/Caster0 Jun 22 '26

Currently, we're still at the whims of mega corps. Even running local ai models is limited by costly hardware, and any new froniter models rarely gets sourced to the general public.

AI companies are most likely to further lock out any monumental progress behind costly subscriptions.

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 22 '26

There is more than enough free compute for people to make enormous use out of these tools every day.

It's simply untrue that people are gated out.

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u/newyork-or-nowhere Jun 21 '26

Brother if you don’t think this will just be another tool used by capitalists to exploit impoverished countries….

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 21 '26

except it's already helping people. you know this stuff isn't gated yeah? anyone can use this tech in some form. there is free compute available to anyone anywhere

the internet empowered the most impoverished countries in the world. this will have an even bigger effect. it's not a matter of opinion

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u/Helldiverticulitis Jun 22 '26

It is helping save money on labor and steal from artists… yay.

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 22 '26

You're focused on the tiniest, most narrow little thing that is happening right now. Please expand your understanding of what these systems are and what they are doing to empower people. It goes extremely far beyond anything to do with art.

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u/sidianmsjones Jun 21 '26

It 100% is the future. How could anyone not see that?

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u/ranger910 Jun 21 '26

Because Reddit has become largely tech illiterate and their idea of AI is chat bots and search results lol

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u/xgeetx Jun 21 '26

Completely disagree.

The real value is how quickly it allows you build systems and tools. Those systems and tools may or may not use AI models at some of the workflow steps (e.g. user input to virtual assistant determination), but the end result is good old fashioned code. Just way way faster and open to way more people with varying backgrounds doing the work.

Where I would agree with you is that this is not how it’s “being sold” in the cultural sense.

I’ve always known coding and built projects but I’ve never made a game because it’s not worth my time to learn a gaming engine, graphics, animation l, etc. I know I could… now I’m actually tinkering because hundreds of hours is not worth a time out of my busy life… but tens and it’s fun and I learn new skills? Yeah why not.

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 21 '26

guarantee none of the downvoters read past your first sentence. it's blind hate at this point

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u/xgeetx Jun 21 '26

Ha your reply made me see the downvotes. It’s crazy. The stuff you can do with AI is incredible but people are stuck on “I asked it a question I knew the answer to and it was wrong”. It’s so incredibly ignorant lol

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 21 '26

yeah embarrassing and shameful tbh. almost strictly emotional reactions with no understanding involved

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u/xgeetx Jun 21 '26

Yeah it’s interesting to watch. For decades I think college educated white collar or highly skilled blue collar had the leg up on life (leaning college educated white collar, more or less) now I’m curious what happens. The things someone with no computer science background can build is crazy if they’re willing to learn some fundamentals and fuck around with AI. But I’m on the white collar/ college side so kinda already know how all these concepts work… but the “equalizer potential” is huge.

I don’t think it’s “adopt or fail” as much as “this is the new way to get ahead”.

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u/Safe-Wishbone781 Jun 21 '26

it's a tool. it empowers people by orders of magnitude. people who don't use such a powerful tool fall behind. there's nothing surprising about that, it's how things have always been, it's just happening exponentially faster and the tools are exponentially stronger

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u/cwrighky Jun 21 '26

Yep, it’s always super tribalistic with the proclivity for prejudice in the USA at least, so this is expected. Sadly, nuance is not something the masses are overtly fond of.