alt Hacker NewsThe hate around AI is entirely earned by the CEOs of the companies pushing the frontier models and integrating them into social media. Spending time and compute on generative audio and video was incredibly short-sighted. I think it was born of some arrogance that they were speeding towards the inevitability of AGI and now they're stuck with models that are as good as they're going to be due to poisoning, and very expensive bills that will be coming due in the coming months and years. They probably shouldn't have ignored the public sentiment.
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>They probably shouldn't have ignored the public sentiment.
Company goes under and they just start something else.
There's no real consequences. This is a club, not a market.
There's no evidence to suggest that poisoning impacts generative model training in 2026. Frontier labs spend billions on tightly focused training plans, developing assessments and pursuing the long tail of assessment failures.
> The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will. The question is whether you will help shape artificial intelligence.
It's a cute thought that big tech wants our help to shape artificial intelligence.
This, and the fact that AI is taking people's jobs away without (as far as we can tell) significantly creating new jobs for those people to move to.
The job impact is really pissing people off, rightfully so.
> it was born of some arrogance that they were speeding towards the inevitability of AGI
I think it was partly also PR. Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting for mindshare and Dalle-E, Sora, Nano banana, etc generated a lot of media buzz for Google and OpenAI at various points in time.
Did people hate the computer this much when it became a thing?
Let’s not forget about the total surveillance we’re heading into thanks to AI. I wouldn’t say the technology is the problem per say but everything around it is. AI could be used for good, if we only didn’t have psychopaths serving their own interests at the detriment of the rest of us
I don’t think it’s only that. I personally hate AI not because of CEOs and co, but because the tech is intrinsically born out of theft, and is still, to this day, evolving thanks to theft. And that’s even before the ecological considerations.