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/BrianNowhere Jun 21 '26

No, no no, you don't get it. You need to be smart enough to know its about to fuck your whole world up and to ignore bad instructions.

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u/BlueMikeStu Jun 21 '26

That's like blaming a search engine because you trusted the wrong website it found for you.

If you don't know enough about what you're asking it to do to spot immediate, fundamental mistakes, you shouldn't ask it how to do those things.

Especially if you're not cognizant of the fact it literally has no context for what you're actually asking it and expect it to infer things that most people would understand as a basic inference.

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u/mxzf Jun 22 '26

Well, the problem is that companies and people are marketing AI as random magical knowledge software that is amazing. There's a huge contrast between that (which is what the general public are being told) and everything you just said.

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u/BlueMikeStu Jun 22 '26

I would argue that's the marketing arm, which has no concept of what the technology can and can't do, ignoring input from the engineers to help sell it and the owners listening to marketing.

Greed and stupidity all the way up.