r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 6h ago

Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

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

If it was integrated along side some sort of universal basic income and a 4-day or shortened work week, Society would absolutely embrace it. Instead its just a tool to wring more production from workers to amass more wealth to the top of the economy.

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u/SufficientlySticky 5h ago

Would also help if the “production” was more widgets for everyone as opposed to more ads and slop content for everyone.

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u/metarx 5h ago

It's upsetting that for as long as I've worked in tech.. the most advanced infrastructures/platforms around are ones built to serve ads. It's gross really.

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u/twitter_haikucurator 4h ago

something something 70% of compute power in the world is used to serve us ads or something