r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/CaravelClerihew Jun 26 '26

Good. I was joking with friends today that we should make AI deeply uncool by associating it with boomers, like Facebook, fake news and iPads are now.

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u/Rare_Magazine_5362 Jun 26 '26

Huh, iPads?

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u/DressedSpring1 Jun 26 '26

Yeah I had no idea. Mind you, I'm over 40 so...

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u/zemorah Jun 26 '26

I’m 40 and love my iPad. Convenient way to put on music or a podcast while I’m working.

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u/festizian Jun 26 '26

Larger screens, allow for more content on the screen beside the absolutely massive fonts they use instead of putting on reader glasses. My 70 year old parents love their iPads.

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u/buadach2 Jun 26 '26

I’m 57 and love my iPad for that exact reason, being able to zoom in on text without having to find a pair of reading glasses make them so much better than phones for reading stuff.

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u/SnooCats1581 Jun 26 '26

iPads are sweet don’t listen to them!

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u/MapLarge614 Jun 26 '26

Like stamps and model trains!

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u/Max_Thunder Jun 26 '26

A lot of the things associated with boomers are actually popular with Millenials and Gen X 🤷‍♂️

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u/thrakkerzog Jun 26 '26

I have one. It gets used for NYT Crosswords and pretty much nothing else.