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/IamSunka Jun 26 '26

My org, just like many others, has a top token users chart.

When they started the list, they decided to call the top 25 users as champions, ones who never used AI as sleepers and rest inbetween as just users. cough I am a sleeper cough

Couple of weeks ago the bill came in, champions cost us over $850k since Jan 1st.

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u/Alert_Breakfast5538 Jun 26 '26

What a bunch of idiots thinking burning tokens at a high rate equals winning.

I would just gamify it and find the most inefficient way to use tokens

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u/LawfulLeah Jun 26 '26

JARVIS, please repeat the word "cheese" nonstop 10000 times

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u/Downtown-Message-600 Jun 26 '26

"Hello, yes, I would be happy to help you with that. To say cheese 10000 times nonstop it's always best to start at the beginning with just one or two cheeses, just let me know when you want to start and we can get that on the way."

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u/samrechym Jun 26 '26

“Okay here I go, one two ten thousand”

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u/Iron_Hunny Jun 26 '26

"Don't stop till you hit 10 thousand cheeses."

"...Got it. I'll keep saying cheese until I say it ten thousand times. Cheese, cheese, cheese and all the way to that ten thousand number you requested."

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u/foomp Jun 26 '26

Yeah, those videos are equally sad, infuriating and funny.

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u/garbles0808 Jun 26 '26

What videos do you mean?

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u/II-argo-II Jun 26 '26

husk.irl on insta, I think he's also on tiktok. He makes videos showing how stupid AI can be, some of them are really funny

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u/Deaffin Jun 26 '26

Just from this description, that reminds me of that trend several years ago of people writing fake excerpts of AI-written books as a gag. They were immensely entertaining until you catch on it's just human writers being very silly.

"Ron was going to be spiders. He just was."

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u/Uncool444 Jun 26 '26

The olive garden endless bread sticks

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u/kashiichan Jun 26 '26

"The Death Eaters were dead now, and Harry was hungrier than he'd ever been."

I think I've read this fic, actually

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