An AI Hate Wave Is Here

karakoram

https://archive.md/sgGST

saez

I think it’s interesting that AI is in itself compressing the length of time it takes to move through its phases to reach maturity. It’s a lot faster than for example the dotcom phase. Humans don’t much like change, and fast change worries them even more. The dotcom bubble didn’t really threaten jobs in the same way that the AI shift is. It’s closer to the industrial revolution / the industrial loom where people lost their jobs in waves. It’s going to be interesting to see if we end up with another Luddite push back.

Avicebron

It's not AI. Like the layoffs AI is a convenient scapegoat for the economy creaking to a halt, real world income across most sectors won't buy a house in the state where the job is. It's hate, but it's only "against AI" because AI is being trotted out why people can't get their first home until they are 50 if they are lucky..

sscaryterry

I hate it, yet I'm burning millions of tokens doing shit I previously knew I could do, never had the attention or time to, but now, its like crack...

antiquark

To put it simply, nobody wants to watch AI slop. This should be obvious!

pier25

The hate is not about the tech. It's about the greed, lies, fascism, and basically that AI is making almost everything it touches worse.

voidfunc

In our new era of corpo-facism the people will learn to love it or else. Nothing a couple years of brain washing bots and algorithmic feeds cant fix.

Marciplan

I know I can read this through archive.ph (like Bloomberg and Verge) but I’m just not gonna

lousken

It was here for quite a while - see Copilot, Recall, Microslop; pizza glue, bard, firefly, ... Shoving shitty products down customers throat was a bad idea from the start. And now there are even more reasons to hate it

maplethorpe

I used to be proud to say I worked in tech. Now I look around me and I'm surrounded by scam artists and grifters. Where did it all go wrong?

christoph

Honestly, my opinion, our lives were fundamentally better before some tech came along - touchscren phones & “social” networks being the main two. We still haven’t caught up with the carnage this has caused. Kids social media bans are only now becoming a thing in some countries and we’re left with a deep sense of unease it’s really not to protect the kids at all. It’s lead to plenty of good as well, a luddite I am not. I love my tech. I love conversing with people online, I became a happy mIRC user well over 20 years ago, I use telegram & discord daily. I just really, really despise tech’s current trajectory. I grew up wanting this stuff to supplement my life, not control & rule over it. The days where I want to toss it all in the trash and run off to the woods are increasing all the time. I didn’t want an internet where i’m constantly having to ask myself every image… is this real? I certainly don’t want one that’s constantly surveilling me and I definitely don’t want one that’s about to threaten to lock me out, or up(!), the moment I commit wrongspeak. The analogy would be a 17 year old kid passing his driving test and getting straight in a 500bhp rear wheel drive sports car. We as a society have just collectively done that over the last two decades. And it feels like we’re just about to take it nuclear with AI. So we can dwell on all of that past or set ourselves some basic goals and ambitions to aim for. Refocus. Change the conversation. Somebody responded to me earlier that “at least we have reusable rockets”. Do you know what I really want? It’s really quite basic - clean air, clean water and clean energy. Let’s collectively work to tick those three off the list, for every.single.soul here on this planet first, then after that, we can focus on making them free for everybody. Then we can set our sights on the stars.

dwoldrich

'Hate' and 'fascist' seem to reliably trigger people to stew in anger and give up their power. Don't fall for the divide and conquer. You have agency, you can do your part to steer the ship if you can resist the learned helplessness of hatred. AI is a tool. I enjoy using it as a search engine. But just like I don't trust everything on the internet, I don't blindly trust AI. AI's index the same information as search engines with additional retrieval error factored in. There are deeply unprofitable modes of AI. The chat interfaces are, as I understand it, deeply unprofitable loss leaders whereas the enterprise API's and agentic stuff is profitable. Maybe try to intensify your use of the unprofitable offerings if you you dislike what the AI companies stand for before the economics come back to earth for them?

karim79

I don't really see the problem here. We're all getting laid off because AI I superior to us. I can now do the job of a product owner or even exceed it by simply prompting with some nuance, magic spells and bit of salt and pepper. But down the road the AI bros promise us that this will reduce inequality and make human society better, somehow. I really need to understand this shit and if anyone can weigh in on it I'd be most grateful. We will all eventually get replaced by AI and yet we need to pay Big AI to stay in the game. Even when nobody has any income. I'm sure that there is someone here who can smack down this comment and put me in my place and give me a good and proper lesson in economics.

lowbloodsugar

Anti-AI propaganda is false-flag. AI is going to happen. The only question is whether it will benefit everyone or just the rich. Best way for the rich to ensure they own it is to convince the poors that AI is a monster, so they don’t demand it for themselves, and instead fight pointless battles they are guaranteed to lose. Folks need to wake up and start talking about a post-scarcity world where machines do all the work. You can have Star Trek or Elysium.

cogman10

People really hate AI because it's marketed in the worst ways possible for the general public. CEOs love to get up and say "Hey, we are firing 1000 people because of this awesome AI" [1] For people that like computers, AI is jacking up the price of electronics with CEOs saying things like "We don't even have a place to plug these cards in, we are just buying up whatever we can get" [2]. They are further causing memory manufacturers to simply discontinue consumer products [3] Then there are the AI CEOs that love advertising the fact that their companies will eliminate huge swaths of the job market and make good paying jobs obsolete. [4] Of course when the general public even starts to ask "ok, what is this and why should I care" a lot of the answers are "You just should, you'll be left behind" without actual explanations for why or how. [5] And of course lets not forget that practically cartoonish villiny of the data centers being ramrodded through by bribing local politicians with false claims of tax benefits. All while being powered by massive amounts of fossil fuel burners. [6] Yeah, people hate AI, because it seems be a bunch of out of touch CEOs that only talk to each other in glee about how awesome it will be to have no workers and how great it is that they have enough money and political influence to do anything they like regardless public sentiment. It's a product that wasn't sold to the average joe, it was sold to the uber wealthy. It very clearly shows. [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ [2] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell... [3] https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-deta... [4] https://fortune.com/article/why-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-s... [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTJUl4--8c [6] https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/04/utah-data-center-fina...

skeledrew

Everytime I see something like this I wonder how much of a repeat it is of when the first steam powered monstrosity started to gain some public traction, or electricity, or... Hate it or love it, something's inevitably coming. Literally no way to stop it when it's ultimately China vs US, which wasn't even a concern during previous technological revolutions.

thrance

AI is capital incarnate. People can finally put a name on an unease that's been growing inside them for a while now. We see these subhuman billionaire ghouls invited on TV daily to fearmonger about AI finally replacing all labourers and freeing the Epstein class from relying on these pesky workers. We see them making millions in fake money with each announcements, while the rest of us have nothing to show for it. We see slop everywhere, permeating every facets of our lives, in the name of never-ending cost reductions. It really doesn't matter what AI can or cannot do, what it even is. It is capital incarnate. The promise that labor was finally vanquished and the bourgeoisie is free from its shackles, at last. It is certainly sold as such, and people notice, even if unconsciously.

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davkan

Of course people hate AI. In a world where people no longer believe that progress in technological efficiency will pass any benefits on to them why would they possibly like this product? What will AI do to improve your actual life besides be a search engine or generate shitty art? Sure it’ll revolutionize business but nobody actually thinks that means more food on the table for them. They think it means more billions in rich people’s bank accounts and less jobs. And meanwhile it’s become the basis for the entire economy and is driving up costs on power and water and electronics.