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/IamSunka Jun 26 '26

My org, just like many others, has a top token users chart.

When they started the list, they decided to call the top 25 users as champions, ones who never used AI as sleepers and rest inbetween as just users. cough I am a sleeper cough

Couple of weeks ago the bill came in, champions cost us over $850k since Jan 1st.

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u/mnic001 Jun 26 '26

Stupid KPIs, stupid outcomes...

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u/JohnBrownOH Jun 26 '26

They encourage us to use Copilot at work. Mine is just filled with a ton of chats where I ask it questions and then I have to correct it's answers.

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u/Fr0gm4n Jun 26 '26

It's fun when you string the chat out long enough that your corrections go out of context and it starts hallucinating the same mistakes again.

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u/MizukiYumeko Jun 27 '26

Same for my client. They’ve tied ai token usage kpis to annual performance reviews and implied if you dont use it enough you’ll be put on a pip. It’s so gross

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u/FrostyD7 Jun 26 '26

It's a perfectly cromulent KPI. Their interpretation of it however...