Comment by cogman10

People really hate AI because it's marketed in the worst ways possible for the general public.

CEOs love to get up and say "Hey, we are firing 1000 people because of this awesome AI" [1]

For people that like computers, AI is jacking up the price of electronics with CEOs saying things like "We don't even have a place to plug these cards in, we are just buying up whatever we can get" [2]. They are further causing memory manufacturers to simply discontinue consumer products [3]

Then there are the AI CEOs that love advertising the fact that their companies will eliminate huge swaths of the job market and make good paying jobs obsolete. [4]

Of course when the general public even starts to ask "ok, what is this and why should I care" a lot of the answers are "You just should, you'll be left behind" without actual explanations for why or how. [5]

And of course lets not forget that practically cartoonish villiny of the data centers being ramrodded through by bribing local politicians with false claims of tax benefits. All while being powered by massive amounts of fossil fuel burners. [6]

Yeah, people hate AI, because it seems be a bunch of out of touch CEOs that only talk to each other in glee about how awesome it will be to have no workers and how great it is that they have enough money and political influence to do anything they like regardless public sentiment.

It's a product that wasn't sold to the average joe, it was sold to the uber wealthy. It very clearly shows.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

[3] https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...

[4] https://fortune.com/article/why-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-s...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTJUl4--8c

[6] https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/04/utah-data-center-fina...