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    4. ElysiumSprouts on

      Free AI is slop-tastic.
      AI locked behind expensive pay walls is useful and capable of doing lots of tasks.

      It’s another class divide where the experience of the richest people is very different from the experience of normal people.

    7. GeneReddit123 on

      Most other political divisions in the US are Left/Right. There are urban/rural, racial, and gender divisions between the camps, but importantly there is a mix of both common people and elites representing both sides.

      AI, however, seems to be an issue which is uniquely split not Left/Right but Top/Bottom. The majority of elites on *both* Left and Right see AI as a tool that increases their own wealth, power, and influence, while the majority of common people (again, both on the Left and Right) are increasingly wary of its impact on their jobs, welfare, and outsized power of the elites over their lives.

      So the dynamics are going to play out differently. The common people don’t have much elite champions representing them, and since neither Party’s political machine (heavily influenced by lobbyists and other elites) is interested to pursue an anti-AI stance, the issue will be buried at the political level no matter how much the masses are concerned about it (at least not until and unless it reaches a full-blown political crisis level). This will play out less like standard political conflict and more like a brewing non-partisan popular revolt.

    8. unwelcome_flesh_sack on

      Let it build into a hate monsoon which covers the earth. Fuck these billionaire assholes trying to create a cyberpunk dystopia.

    9. dev_vvvvv on

      CEOs are using AI as an excuse for mass layoffs, even when AI has nothing to do with it. The remaining employees are being given mandates to use LLMs even when it serves no visible benefit other than to increase adoption rates so executives can justify their spending.

      And those same CEOs are predicting mass unemployment due to AI, with massive changes in quality of life and career trajectory for the rest.

      There are also things like building massive datacenters, which impact locals, against local citizen and even government wishes.

      Is it any wonder there is a backlash?

      Maybe the worst part is there are a ton of very useful aspects of AI (especially garden-variety ML) getting grouped together with LLMs under the umbrella term “AI” that cast the whole field in a bad light.

    13. Laserdollarz on

      AI has its uses and place. Stop shoving it into everything and it wouldn’t get a fraction of the hate it currently gets. 

    14. Soberdonkey69 on

      Fuck AI, goblins are doing more for society and helping the environment, improving our standards of living making sure we have jobs to provide for our families.

    15. VermillionSun on

      To me hating technology / AI just puts the target off of the billionaires and actual humans screwing us

    16. groovyinutah on

      A.I. is starting to feel like one of those “Just because you can do a thing doesn’t mean you should”…

    17. CircumspectCapybara on

      It really depends on where you’re looking or your industry. Far from “hate,” in the tech world and engineering disciplines, AI is huge and hugely embraced as most large, mature engineering orgs have gone all in on agentic “AI first” development and it’s fundamentally changed SWE, SRE, and MLE and security engineering. It’s clear the industry’s changed and the way we design systems, write code, debug alerts and production incidents, and conduct security research isn’t going back.

      AI is extremely disruptive and transformative in that way, so calling it the next “industrial revolution” isn’t inaccurate. And the thing is it’s still in its infancy, this is the dumbest AI technology will ever be again.

    19. letthetreeburn on

      What good does AI do for the common man?

      It takes your job, poisons your air and water, jacks up your electricity rates, steals your work, watches and reports where you go, lies to you in your news, presents fake art for you to watch.

      No wonder people are pissed

    20. Ok_Surprise_4090 on

      “Wave” makes it sound like it’s temporary. We’ve seen your product and we think it’s both shit and in no way worth its costs, tech industry.

    21. NorthernCobraChicken on

      It’s not a wave, it’s not a phase, it’s just that people of power, wealth, and authority, can’t simply idly ignore the fact that the novelty of AI has worn off for a lot of folks.

      Stuck in their LinkedIn / gentlemen’s / golf club bubbles where the voices of other misappropriated wealthy old white dudes are louder than the entire rest of the working planet.

    22. Randomwhitelady2 on

      It’s made our power bills shoot up in Maryland and now PGE is trying to take protected MD farm land through eminent domain in order to install high voltage power lines to supply VA data centers.

      Yeah, everybody hates AI. I refuse to use it at all.

    23. BrandNew098 on

      Im so tired of this shit being forced down our throats. The company I work for doesn’t even have to answer to shareholders and they are still trying to force it. We now have an “AI goal” per employee…

    24. Zegram_Ghart on

      Look, it’s very, very expensive technology, both in terms of finance and ecological impact.

      And it’s has a very narrow scope of genuine improvements.

      So yeh, most people aren’t in love with the idea

    25. cazzipropri on

      Innovation benefits the innovators FIRST, and the customers next, but only as minimally as it is necessary to get their business till they are locked in, and has usually no benefit for anybody else. In fact, frequently the externalities are negative.

      For some reason this point keeps being omitted in the public discourse.

    26. JohrDinh on

      I can’t believe I got to grow up in a world where we had Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, BB King, etc…but AI nerds wanna grow up in a world where they’ll have 80k rock songs uploaded to platforms but not even know what a guitar is or how to play it…cool man. You know content can’t just be content for the sake of it, there has to be substance.

    27. jajajajaj on

      Glad to hear this growing, for real. Just to split some hairs, though…  I don’t exactly hate AI,  I hate the transparently evil push from the billionaire class to use AI to steal skills, knowledge and power from normal people. Definitely that *is what AI is for,* and sometimes even that’s what it is good at, but if it were only permitted in a democratized structure, more work completed per person has the potential to be a good thing all around. As designed, however, it ain’t “all around”. It’s centralizing all that capability into the hands of trillion dollar corporations who have colluded to steal the underlying information, with this new stealing technology. It’s napster for billionaires.

      One formative  idea for a reform law is that you could require to have workers whom you pay to decide how much of the work would be done by an AI. Where there is a union, the current and former union members should own the AI…  It’s stolen intelligence as much as it is artificial intelligence. My off the cuff ideas need work, for sure. I just want us to seek out new structures that identify and eliminate the evil consolidation of powers ahead of eliminating the raw/hypothetical capabilities. 

    28. SoulCycle_ on

      AI is the dominant discourse topic on everyones mind.

      The overwhelming sentiment online about anything is negative/doomer.

      So by that logic you will see a lot of anti ai sentiment going around.

      I suspect this will be the case for any tech trend from now until the end of time.

      Happened with crypto too

    29. bongophrog on

      I love how no one realizes the article is AI.

      *Reality Check*

      *Bottom Line*

      This is clear ChatGPT-speak broskis

    30. WaffleWarrior1979 on

      I really am enjoying seeing these AI companies spend money on advertisements only to see a whole comment section shitting on them. Really warms the heart.

    31. gated73 on

      I blame Prometheus. If that sumbitch never gave us fire, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

      That asshole deserves every bit of that that eagle pecking out his entrails forever.

    33. southflhitnrun on

      I work in AI, and I hate it. There’s very little to like about it. It’s just Tech Bros solving problems for Tech Bros while telling the rest of the World they “have” to use it and “have” to pay for it.

    34. LeBeastInside on

      Yes… but, what can we actually DO about it? 

      These companies could care less, and that is not gonna change unless it comes crashing down somehow…

    35. myowngalactus on

      I decided I wasn’t using that garbage awhile ago, seems like there are practical applications, but nothing it can do for me is worth it

    36. digitalpencil on

      “We’re working round the clock, investing everything to make great swathes of the workforce permanently redundant!”

      “Oh great! So there’ll be like some kind of tax-funded income plan to support people who are put out of work?”

      “…”

      “These businesses have already shelved thousands of jobs!!”

      “I err.. you didn’t answer the. What about people’s jobs?”

      “Check out this amazing video of a hamster riding a surfboard!”

      “Haha…..? so.. no plan for the economy then??”

      “Why aren’t you all excited?!!!!”

      “Cause i like living indoors and eating food you deranged fuckwit!”

    38. Rhino_4 on

      Most scifi predicts the banning of ai after it breaks containment and tries to eradicate humanity. I don’t think I’ve ever read a story where the hate for ai evolved the way it’s actually happened.

    40. __dying__ on

      AI is competing for our very limited water and electricity. The hate is justified. Not to mention job destruction.

    41. Zhuinden on

      > Why it matters: The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as people worry it will steal their jobs, jack up electricity rates and further enrich the wealthy, all while hurting the environment.

      Haha, ironic from Ai generated article

    42. snanarctica on

      It kind of reminds me of when celebrities came onto the Internet. It really bummed me out now. AI is on the Internet and it’s bumming me out. I’ve been pretty much the Internet just might turn into a place we don’t wanna be.

    44. Blackout38 on

      It’s a bubble and like every bubble before it, it is subsidizing our society and setting us up with infrastructure we will use going forward. Like the article concludes, no it’s not going away any time soon and yes it is the future even if it seems overhyped. AI has many forms and has existed for decades, this latest extension into LLMs is nothing but the latest version. More will come and humanity will eventually achieve AGI.

      Also it’s just best practices to be skeptical of any data that in all honesty shouldn’t have a baseline trend established yet.

    46. leavezukoalone on

      I’ve applied to probably a thousand jobs as a product designer with 15 years of experience. It’s never, EVER been this bad.

    47. lil_lychee on

      More like everyone hates AI, and then a small % of the population, leadership at tech companies, are trying to convince everyone that no one hates it.

    50. EmergencyRace7158 on

      I understand the usefulness of having agents for specialized tasks. I use Claude Code at work and as a non coder this has truly transformed everything I do. That said I’m extremely concerned about how we’re going about building and using LLMs in particular. We’ve entrusted this to some of the worst people on the planet – a collection of narcissistic, megalomaniacal sociopaths who have more in common with televangelists than businessmen. They’re going to try to build trillions of dollars in compute in a way that gives them all the upside and control while outsourcing most of the costs and risks to governments and their citizens.

      Even more scary is the social impact of widespread LLM use – its going to destroy most people’s ability to think critically for themselves and its going to allow users to create their own self reinforcing information bubbles that will fragment and divide societies in a way that will make what social media has done insignificant. Some of the worst public individuals in the world today are that way because they’ve surrounded themselves with yes men and women all their lives and think they can do no wrong. AI chatbots let everyone create that sort of self reinforcing bubble for themselves.