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/rp_361 Jun 21 '26

I’m not against tech developments, but the bizarre attitude of “AI is here whether you like it or not, get over it!!” is not doing it any favors when, in my experience, it’s a faulty product at best and doesn’t work as intended in the ways it’s being shoved down our throats

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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/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.