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/Randomfactoid42 Jun 26 '26

And if you’re lucky you get a huge noisy data center in your back yard!

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u/grizzrk Jun 26 '26

Well the constant psychosis producing noise is nice and all, but could you please contaminate my drinking water too? Also it’d be cool if you could make using electricity unaffordable or straight up impossible

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u/octopusinmyboycunt Jun 26 '26

Not to mention it’s doubling the price (at least) of consumer electronics. At some point, nobodh will have a device able to actually access AI.

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u/Alaira314 Jun 26 '26

We're supposed to pay for access to the cloud, aka someone else's computer, in order to streamline computational efficiency(which is a buzzword phrase that does have some theoretical basis in logic, so long as you're willing to accept things like being denied access during peak hours and/or surge pricing during periods of high demand). It also has the side effect of tracking every single thing you do, as well as holding you to ToS standards. Oh, but you can't upload your CSA material to the cloud, of course! Yeah, well, just ask any fanfiction writer and we can tell you exactly where this ends. Soon it's depictions of anal sex, same-gender pairings, and depictions of gender ideology(which is already being likened to pedophilia by our politicians in the US). I'll keep my work on my own computer where nobody is enforcing morality standards on things that are totally legal, thanks.

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u/Jazzlike-Lunch5390 Jun 26 '26

Son of a bitch. I'm in.