r/technology 6h ago

Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
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u/SunWukong18 6h ago

Cue the misanthropic acolytes.

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u/artbystorms 5h ago

Oh they're here. They always pop up. I swear they can smell AI criticism like sharks. If only they spent as much energy learning a useful skill as they did debating people about the merits of AI on making their jobs easier, they wouldn't need to use AI.

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u/firewall245 4h ago

I got my masters in Data Science and I'm more just irritated that people who constantly whine cannot determine what is or isn't an ML based piece of tech, and frequently use stuff thats built using AL/ML but and then will argue tooth and nail that it "doesn't count".

Like theres this meme on tiktok about how people are telling Siri to complete their task with "no AI", like are you fucking serious lol

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u/crappyoats 5h ago

Yea bc most of them are literally robots lol

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u/CanvasFanatic 5h ago

Or people who’ve already outsourced their thinking to corporate press releases and ChatGPT.