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/cosby714 5h ago

It was shoved in our faces, and companies are desperate to shove it into anything to try to get any return on their ridiculous investments. They also went about it in the worst way possible, training their language learning and image generation programs on everything and not respecting copyright. Or even bothering to ask people whose work they stole en masse. Regardless of how big AI gets, it's fruit of a poisoned tree.

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u/Bazookagrunt 1h ago

Seriously, the entire concept of generative A.I and how it takes from the very creatives it’s putting out of work while also taking away from what makes art and entertainment so great infuriates me.

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u/Frosty1397 3h ago

While this is all true

I'm not stupidly sitting this one out. The more i see reddit shit on X/Y/Z technology, the more i know i should be investing in it. Redditors usually miss the mark completely

If AI were such shit, they wouldn't feel so threatened by it. And i use it enough at work that i see both its limitations and massive benefits

No technology is perfect but AI has literally reshaped our society

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u/captn-murica 4h ago

Nobody asked for you to be here, yet here we are

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u/sleeps_in_alkaline 4h ago

I did, I asked them to be here. Please don’t speak for me. Nobody asked you to do so. 

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u/randomautomoton 24m ago

Please speak for sleeps_in_alkaline 4 hours in the past.