"People hate AI not because of bad PR, but because it drains meaning from life"
juliey4 · x · 2026-11-06
Pushing back on the claim that AI backlash stems from big-AI-company leaders being terrible communicators, the author argues ordinary people don't follow tech companies at all — most only know Elon Musk by name.
The real reasons people hate AI, she says: it made the internet less fun, and it removed necessary labor from people's lives — and whether you like it or not, labor is what makes life meaningful. AI makes the experience of life feel hopeless.
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