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**and they want as many automated (AI/robotics) systems as possible to replace "untrustworthy" human workers/servants in their enclaves. They fear betrayal from within while wanting to keep the societal comforts they enjoy, incl medical care, food prep, entertainment, manufacturing, and more.

while making the only place they’re allowed to hang out unsafe!

Filterless sociopaths….

CEOs were incredibly insulated from what people think of them and haven't had any negative feedback for whatever it is they think and do. But with social media and the fact that they have decided to make themselves the face of their companies, people can see them for what they are.

The kids are (all) right.

Mary Shelley ironically proved that technology only grows if you start asking hard ethical questions about it. When we believe technology ought to serve the world, not the other way around, it grows like weeds.

As a reminder there is yet hope for our species. It's amazing that, even without being taught critical thinking , the ability to read, doomscrolling through endless 'influencers', and so many more debilitating distractions, they 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 manage to get it right every now and again.

At 74 I have something in common with the younger generation.

It’s a mystery.

Spherical bastards.

They guys and their friends and ex-friends have all the money and power too. Who WOULD like them?!

As in that high of an approval level.

Exactly, they trample everything without a thought or care for anything but money (especially people and laws) and leave a massive mess. Look at DOGE. Why will data centers be any different?

This massive effort to push AI into everything, to make it somehow profitable, is insane. I made an appointment to take my car in for service at 8 am. I just got an AI-generated reminder to bring it in at 8 pm, with a helpful Google scheduling link. The Unabomber was not all wrong.

This Gen X kid hates them too 🙋‍♀️

It’s almost as if they are hateful people. And now we find out kids hate them? That is some sort of weird coincidence.

not even he would support the current AI circlejerk (if for no other reason than the increasingly obvious lack of profitability)

I just don't understand how people dislike the guy that created the nazi child porn machine.

Well, they're not coated in cinnamon and sugar. Have they tried that?

And yet those kids are making them so wealthy and powerful by using their services in overwhelming numbers. It's a depressing cycle.

The problem is older people don't hate them enough.

And who are specifically believed to be fucking up the job market for graduates?

‘AI is bad’ - my teenage daughter

Come on, Young People, you can hate them more than that! I believe in you! Let's go!

The kids are alright.

I know it’s a bit too much to hope for, but I really want the recent wave of "People hate AI" reporting in the media to be the start of mainstream acceptance that AI as pushed by the techbros is absolute dog shit and nobody wants it.

This old kid too. Awful people and everyone of them should be taxed until they are not billionaires anymore. Every dollar they spend to corrupt our government (aka known as “campaign contributions” etc) should cost $10 in taxes.

What is hard to believe?

I'm near the younger end of Gen X and never saw it. I did, however, watch Godzilla beat up the Smog monster.

I really enjoy Jason Salmon's send up of how not caring is the calling card of our generation.

🎯

Ah - sleeper agents.

My youngest gen X/perimenopausal rage says we would run them over with our car if we saw them trying to cross the street.

Right?! Like. These people are shitty, bargain bin captain planet villains.

They're trolls with zillions of dollars.

Maybe it's their hair.

One would think that their wonderful empathetic personalities, warm and humerous discourse, boundless generosity for those less fortunate, concern for the environment, and ability to strike exactly the right tone when commenting on things they know nothing about would make them instant rock stars.

I know my three 20 something’s vote. Their eyes and ears are wide open and they don’t suffer fools well.

It’s not just the kids

This comparison is unfair to James Bond villains.

these people are making drugs uncool. it's unbelievable.

That's not true. There are a lot of us tech people who don't support whatever it is they are doing. Unfortunately we are on the fringe.

We may never know.

Truly a mystery...

😎🖖

It's always "Why do people hate these evil men so much?" and never "Why does our media fall over backwards to defend evil men?"

It’s not Gen Alpha we need to worry about but the next generation (Beta? I guess?) who have grown up immersed in the world these assholes have created. If there’s one thing that’s true about the exploiter class it’s they’re playing the long game.

It's all that avocado toast

Our BS detectors are at peak efficiency when we're young.

Best news of the day.

"But... but... We spent the last century indoctrinating western society into believing that greed and self interest were good! The ideal even! Where did we go wrong?! Quickly now. Ban the children from the internet! They're being exposed to non conforming beliefs!" - Dumb fucks, 2026

Such a mystery. To the sociopaths themselves and their sycophants and literally no one else.

Ai should be taxed, regulated & should always tell the truth.

ai doesn't tell the truth.