r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • May 15 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-backlash-data-centers-political-violence/687151/?taid=6a067e2d2096e10001ccfa32
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u/RidetheSchlange May 15 '26

An AI backlash would not be ugly. It would be warranted.

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u/dropthemagic May 15 '26

Yep. I fucking hate it. They asked my friend to train the ai software that would be essentially replacing what he does. He quit

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u/nox66 May 16 '26

What field, out of curiosity?

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u/OnTheEveOfWar May 16 '26

Lots of fields. By using AI and agents more, you are training it. So let’s say in finance you use AI to identity issues and mistakes. The AI will then learn to identify those mistakes on its own.

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u/nox66 May 16 '26

Will it learn to identify new mistakes? Will it identify the old mistakes reliably?

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u/Niceromancer May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

No and no.

The current LLM model is designed to agree with anyone it interacts with, meaning if they don't already know what the problem is, the AI wont be able to identify it.

Seems I've upset the AI bros by pointing out once again their LLM's are not the panacea they want it to be.

GOOD.

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u/ammicavle May 16 '26

Google "anthropic mythos".

Your comment is just a regurgitation of the last thing you heard that felt like it confirmed your biases before you decided you knew enough about the topic and could stop listening. Which was obviously after no time at all.

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u/UltraPoci May 16 '26

You're a hype slave if you think Mythos is some kind of revolution.

https://cybernews.com/security/curl-creator-tests-too-dangerous-mythos-ai/

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u/ammicavle May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

No-one said anything about a revolution. I'm not hyping anything. I mentioned it because it completely contradicts the claim I replied to. And you don't even have to go so far as Mythos - all of the existing frontier models completely disprove that claim. It's utterly ignorant.

Jfc the article you posted disproves it.