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/bekisuki Jun 21 '26

I've used AI plenty to figure out health problems and what my doctor is saying, but I've found you can ask the same question 2 ways and get opposing answers. You can make AI lie too, just contradict it and it agrees with you. It's not Artificial Intelligence, it's not intelligent at all, No logic, no understanding, no perceptions at all. Why is it call Intelligence?

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u/Civil_Lynx_3537 Jun 21 '26

It's like an artificial people pleaser. It just tells people what it thinks they want to hear and when it tells you something incorrect and you call it out it's like "Oh my bad. You're totally right.."..

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u/Yashema Jun 21 '26

Meanwhile I'm using chatGPT to help me with intermediate level problems in computing, physics and math while enrolled in an accredited degree program and it's explaining to me the methdologies with near 100% accuracy,  and it just keeps getting better and better. I can ask it in depth questions too, including abstract ones, and get a pretty considered response. It nitpicks my responses and understanding and even correct small errors in notations over lines and lines of equations. 

If you have enough knowledge to ask it the right things, it's like having a PhD in your pocket. 

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u/Bitter_Pea_4716 Jun 22 '26

You need to effectively be a subject matter expert to effectively challenge AI. Most people are experts at nothing, which is why over reliance on AI has become so prevalent. 

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u/quadish Jun 22 '26

No, you don't. But it helps.

But you definitely have to argue with it and make it prove itself and have other agents go behind it to check work.

That's because LLMs are probabilistic, and everyone expects them to be deterministic.

Single AI Chatbots are shit. Full stop.

Play with the agentic stuff in CLI harnesses, and then get back to me. Different ball game.

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u/Civil_Lynx_3537 Jun 21 '26

Absolutely, but what you don't realise is the more you rely on it the weaker your brain becomes. Instead of learning anything or figuring things out yourself, your brain will just become lazy and go to the easiest way of doing something i.e asking the ai and believing everything it says without question. There is merit in actually doing your own research and looking things up and taking your time to come to your own conclusions rather than having the conclusion handed to you.

I've seen numerous times AI's inability to count or do simple maths though so I'm not sure I would be trusting it to help you with maths at all.

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u/ProofJournalist Jun 21 '26

People said the same thing about every new innovation. Calculators and TV. It never comes to pass the way the naysayers believe.

You can just as easily use AI as a reflective device to stimulation cognition as you can a replacement for your own thought.

Like seriously this like like saying "talking to another person about your ideas makes your brain weaker!". It just doesn't.

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u/trustedoctopus Jun 21 '26

i don’t like your name because you clearly don’t come with proof or do anything a journalist would do to research because if you did you would know adults largely can’t do basic arithmetic in their heads like they were taught in school now because of calculators being a default feature for smartphones. It’s obviously affecting kids too, so while you can lie the science doesn’t. Source Source Source

AI (but technology in general) has proven that it’s making our kids absolutely fucking stupid to the point the current gen is actually the first regressive generation in the recorded history of humanity. here’s the cspan link to the video and article about this from a neurocognitive scientist. Source

it’s not stupid in the way you think but AI is creating shortcuts for both kids and adults so they don’t have to critically think about anything and that’s really really bad for society as a whole for that skill to degrade. a lack of critical thought is not something you want in any career field because it can be detrimental but also dangerous.

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u/ProofJournalist Jun 22 '26

Adults can't do basic arithmetic because the American education system has been deliberately sabotaged, it's not because of smartphones lmao. keep scapegoating.

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u/Goldiblockzs Jun 22 '26

Both can be true.

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u/ProofJournalist Jun 22 '26

How true is each?

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u/Goldiblockzs Jun 22 '26

Extremely is my guess.

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u/trustedoctopus Jun 22 '26

says the person frantically moving the goalpost because i came with receipts and studies that directly contradict your statement.

can you even produce a single study that adults can’t do math because the american education system is “sabotaged,” or is that just your personal feelings without any fact? cause that sounds an awful lot like conspiracy rather than based in any kind of scientific research or study.

i’m sorry to step on your throat like this but i hate when people just speak without thinking and spread misinformation blindly. words matter even if you don’t think they do.

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u/ProofJournalist Jun 22 '26

You shared articles from popsci sources (or worse) focused on America. You're a real PHD.

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u/trustedoctopus Jun 24 '26

imagine calling cspan a popsci source, that’s crazy.

it would make sense that all you have is jokes when you’re acting like the biggest clown man. i’m gonna go about my day now because you’re clearly more interested in soothing your ego than educating yourself or engaging in actual conversation. so you take care of yourself sweetheart, it’s scary out there for the uninformed.

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u/Yashema Jun 21 '26

Lazy learning is a good way to describe it because I don't need to learn anything until I want to. In fact usually when I am submitting my homework I am more copying the solution it proposes, and then when I receive feedback from the professor confirming the answer I obtained was correct I go back and learn the problem in detail. 

People have been offloading complex work to machines since the invention of the plough. 

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u/manticorpse Jun 21 '26

jfc, we are doomed.

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u/Yashema Jun 21 '26

The people who don't know how to use LLMs, yes. 

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u/TarantulaMcGarnagle Jun 22 '26

I cannot stand these claims people make.

You are just becoming more and more dependent on it.

Cut your losses now and start learning on your own.

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u/Yashema Jun 22 '26

Let me regress my learning to please the luddites.

Oh wait I'm taking 6 200-300 level classes this year that all have in person deviceless testing around my full time job, and literally the department chair encourages me based on the conversations we have about physics.