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IronLionZion

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6. Anti-tech? Plenty of techies are against AI

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2026, 07:14 PM

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Lots of people love technology but don't want data centers to destroy residential communities or use autonomous agents to replace humans in all types of jobs. Data centers jack up costs of water and electricity and are loud.

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US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows [View all] highplainsdem Tuesday OP

I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Overlords (/eyeroll) Tim S Tuesday #1

Luddites of the world unite! pecosbob Tuesday #2

It's not about just the resistance to AI "adoption." It's about NO water AND skyrocketing electricity bills. ancianita Tuesday #3

Exactly. highplainsdem Tuesday #10

Fucking hell. The "anti-tech" (which they are actually using to describe anyone who specifically is anti-AI) people Karasu Tuesday #4

Those opposing generative AI and data centers are a large group, even though they don't have the highplainsdem Tuesday #11

Time to get the Monkeywrench Gang back together... EarthFirst Tuesday #5

... highplainsdem Tuesday #12

Anti-tech? Plenty of techies are against AI IronLionZion Tuesday #6

Yes. So are science fiction writers like John Scalzi, and I think that particularly upsets the AI bros highplainsdem Tuesday #13

It's not anti-tech, it's anti-exploitation. They use new technology for new forms of exploitation, but ... eppur_se_muova Tuesday #7

True. highplainsdem Tuesday #14

Such were the luddites GenThePerservering Yesterday #15

I wish more people understood that about the Luddites. They were losing their jobs and livelihoods, when there was eppur_se_muova 14 hrs ago #16

There isn't any need to have thousands of AI data centers all over the country. patphil Tuesday #8

They're in the phase known as "excessive buildout". Demand for their product will never be enough to meet the costs of eppur_se_muova 13 hrs ago #17

What's even crazier is that obsolescence GenThePerservering 13 hrs ago #18

If AI starts wiping out tens of millions of jobs NickB79 Tuesday #9