Mastodawn

Has there ever been a sustained backlash and doubt about a new big technology like what we are seeing with AI? Where the most vocal critics are tech people?

It's similar to bitcoin, to NFTs...

It's also similar to the internet-connected device trend, though I don't remember the resistance and doubt to that being as intense. I was mostly very excited about "the internet of things" I still put wifi in places where it doesn't belong with the most flimsy of excuses.

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SlightlyCyberpunk

@futurebird I recall a pretty large amount of skepticism during the dot-com bubble. But of course, there's a reason we now call that the "dot-com bubble"...

Although I think in hindsight it could be argued that a lot of those ideas weren't as crazy as they seemed at the time...