Its not AI
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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Anxiety or animosity?
It's happening in college students, too. We're seeing students asking for paper'n'pencil work again.
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If AI worked, we would have had self driving cars by now.
I can’t think of anything good that we have today cause of AI that we didn’t have 5 years ago.
quarterly profits have been great or something
Will no one think of the shareholders. 🫤🙄 I am very much against this push of AI on everything without proper informed consent. I’m mainly thinking about how bad it is that AI is scanning people’s private photos like Google and Meta in the name of looking for child abuse. It’s an easy sell if you say anything is done to “save kids”, but it’s just mass surveillance and creating more harm than good.
Global warming. It is definitely better rn.
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I'm so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. "We're ai native" , "we want employees who are excited about ai tools", "agenic workflows"
Just fuck off.
Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!
We're ai native
I always interpret it as "ai naive"
They always want you to be excited about things that don't benefit you in any way.
Even from source documents fed to notebooklm, it has been confidently giving me wrong advice back to back. These non deterministic tools can be useful but can also be dangerous for our work.
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Because they’re blatantly using it to try and enslave us?
Like, not even metaphorically.
That's what people see
Yeah, there seems to be a campaign to deflect blame from Trump onto AI. I can't imagine it working, though. What average voter will connect rising prices to some new gizmo on the phone?
People find AI to be irritating because of its flaws and failure to deliver. They are also angry about big tech suggesting that AI will force real humans out of human spaces. The arts, media, research, science, the work force etc.
The "anxiety" is mostly fear of exactly what's being promised at the detriment of the people expected to fund it. Anyone who's got eyes and ears knows that the venture capital well will run dry eventually.
There is no return on investment for the vast majority of regular every day humans living in this world at this time. Not where AI is concerned. It isn't hard to follow what is being marketed to its conclusion. Tech Oligarchs have been saying the quiet part out loud since the begining.
AI will replace workers. AI will replace people who make art and music, and write things. AI will replace.
They even tell us they know it's a flawed replacement that they can't make better. And they pretty much tell us that they haven't found a way to monetize it so it's sustainable which basically means one way or another they will be looking for people to pay more for it.
People have started thinking about what that means and naturally they don't like it. Tech Bros are selling this dream of replacing us but we don't have any money to pay more for a product that doesn't produce anything worthwhile for the cost. Especially not if you're replacing them and there is no safety net.
AI will replace workers.
While at the same time producing poorer quality work and consuming far more resources.
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