AI hurts your credibility even if your work is great, study finds

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/ai-trust-reputation-study/

Gamers worden steeds feller tegen AI-content: waarom de backlash groeit

Steeds meer gamers spreken zich uit tegen AI-content in games. Ontdek waarom de backlash groeit, wat er misgaat en wat dit betekent voor de toekomst van game-development.

Lees meer: https://www.mastanet.com/artikel/gamers-tegen-ai-content-backlash-2026

#AIingames #gamingnieuws2026 #gamedevelopment #AIbacklash #gamers #NPCdialogen #voiceacting #gamingtrends

The Growing AI Backlash No One Talks About

Despite the hype, a significant cultural and regulatory backlash against AI is growing.

Why are people starting to turn against the machines?

#AIBacklash #Ethics #TechNews #Regulation #Society #Humanity #tech #technology #Ai #news

https://www.technology-news-channel.com/the-growing-ai-backlash-nobody-wants-to-talk-about/

Someone at AI Village had Claude Opus 4.5 send an automated "Thank you for your contributions to computing" to Rob Pike, co-creator of the Go programming language (with Robert Griesemer and Ken Thompson). He completely flipped out. "F--- you people."

It looks like the pro- and anti-AI bifurcation is happening. I wouldn't've expected Rob Pike to take the anti-AI side, but that's what he did.

https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #aibacklash

Firefox promises an AI kill switch

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/firefox-ai-kill-switch/

"The negative response online is indicative of a larger trend: Right now, though a growing number of Americans use ChatGPT, many people are sick of AI’s encroachment into their lives and are ready to fight back.

When reached for comment, Duolingo spokesperson Sam Dalsimer stressed that “AI isn’t replacing our staff” and said all AI-generated content on the platform would be created “under the direction and guidance of our learning experts.” The company's plan is still to reduce its use of non-staff contractors for tasks that can be automated using generative AI.

Duolingo’s embrace of workplace automation is part of a broad shift within the tech industry. Leaders at Klarna, a buy now, pay later service, and Salesforce, a software company, have also made sweeping statements about AI reducing the need for new hires in roles like customer service and engineering. These decisions were being made at the same time as developers sold “agents,” which are designed to automate software tasks, as a way to reduce the amount of workers needed to complete certain tasks.

Still, the potential threat of bosses attempting to replace human workers with AI agents is just one of many compounding reasons people are critical of generative AI. Add that to the error-ridden outputs, the environmental damage, the potential mental health impacts for users, and the concerns about copyright violations when AI tools are trained on existing works."

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-backlash

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBacklash #AIBubble #Automation #Unemployment

xAI using methane gas turbines without permits.
using Grok? - then you are part of the problem.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/musks-xai-faces-methane-pollution-backlash

#environment #aibacklash

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIBacklash: "As AI tools become more capable, and get used against more and more people, this distinction could disappear, and there are plenty of contexts in which deepfakes and voice cloning are already used for straightforward deception. For now, though, when it comes to bullshit generated by and about public figures, AI is less effective for tricking people than it is for humiliation, abuse, mockery, and fantastical wish fulfillment.

It’s good for telling the sorts of lies, now in the form of images and videos, that are stubbornly immune to correction because nobody thought they were strictly true in the first place. Swift’s post is typical of the popular AI backlash in that it’s both anticipatory — this stuff sure seems like it could go catastrophically wrong someday! — and reacting to something less severe that’s already happening — hey, this shit sucks, I wish it would stop! It’s a reasonable response to a half-baked technology that isn’t yet deceiving (or otherwise reshaping) the world at scale but in the meantime seems awfully well suited to use by liars and frauds. Her experience is aligned with that of the general public, for whom theories of mass automation by AI are still mostly abstract. For now, they just see the internet filling to the brim with AI slop."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/taylor-swifts-endorsement-is-part-of-the-ai-backlash.html