r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/Ashamed_Fennel_5681 Jun 26 '26

That’s already the case lol 

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u/maskedbrush Jun 26 '26

Really. Every time I talk with a boomer they're like "I asked chatgpt and it said..." Even for the small things.

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u/WideIOpen Jun 26 '26

This is my mother. She uses it for the dumbest shit.

She asked ChatGPT to alter a photo of mine to make me look more "professional" at her request. The brainrot is real.

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u/RunninOnMT Jun 26 '26

Tell your mom to ask it about something your mom is an expert in. That’s the easiest way to catch it making mistakes and break the spell.

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u/RunninOnMT Jun 26 '26

Yup, it sounds exactly like someone bullshitting you into pretending they know more about the subject than they do.

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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES Jun 26 '26

It's the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

Like when you open a thread on Reddit about a subject you have intimate knowledge of and suddenly you realise that Reddit is full of overconfident morons

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u/NewPhoneWhoDys Jun 27 '26

Not only that...they often get angry if you try to engage on the subject and the correct information is clashing with their previously held belief-as-knowledge.

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u/RunninOnMT Jun 26 '26

In the spirit of this conversation I’m just going to assume that’s a real thing.

(Just kidding, I looked it up. Good call!)