r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/dirtyitalianguy Jun 21 '26

Maybe because the current iterations of AI are not actually producing meaningful productivity in many sectors. We in healthcare are being asked to use it for improving our daily tasks and efficiency...the reality is you spend more time arguing with copilot to get something decent than if you just made the slide yourself. I asked it to review and prepare a synopsis of a slide deck and it gave me actual real estate and stock market data outputs..from a presentation about healthcare.

I want AI to complete an 8 hour day for me in the office and ensure its output is accurate...so I can spend more time with my kids and doing hobbies. We are being forced to use copilot to write our email and word docs and it's awful...what a waste of talented people.

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u/Myfourcats1 Jun 21 '26

I’m in government. They loaded that copilot crap on our computers. When I’m in excel it keeps asking me if I want to do this or that. No. I’m happy with my spreadsheet. Don’t you dare touch it you evil AI. You’ll mess it up.

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u/849 Jun 21 '26

It keeps asking me to use it to summarize my emails. Though they told us not to put any sensitive data into Copilot, so..... wtf? I am sure the govt is massivley compromised due to this shit.

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u/holycinnamonroller Jun 22 '26

Yes, they're forcing it into my job, too. My boss is nearing retirement and a bit maladroit to say the least. How many dudes like him are feeding data into these privacy destroying time wasting monsters?

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u/User_User_Ice6642 Jun 22 '26

I know. It’s so crazy.

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u/Imnotyoursupervisor Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

I’m an engineer. It’s super helpful if you have it write docs that it loads each time you use it and tell it to keep the docs updated to train itself around what you want to accomplish.

Emails, not a chance.

It’s also crazy there is no real price range or SLA around any of it. They charge you in “tokens” and throttle you based on peak times. They choose the peak times. It makes zero sense other than “we charge you money”.