Reddit Long Read: AI Fatigue Isn't About AI — It's About Companies Forcing It Everywhere
Teetotaler75 · reddit · 2026-11-12
A Reddit long post arguing that public resentment of AI stems less from the technology itself than from how companies force it into everything.
Key points:
- Trend-chasing features: Google pushes AI Overviews to the top, Gemini is baked into Android, Apple pushes Apple Intelligence, and even a Dyson toothbrush claims to use machine learning — AI is becoming a marketing buzzword.
- Resource costs: Unnecessary AI features inflate demand for data centers, straining electricity grids and water supplies and drawing local community opposition.
- Skill atrophy: Vibe-coding lets people generate codebases they don't understand, then just paste error messages back into the AI; creative fields face a similar dynamic as years-learned skills compete with "good enough" AI output.
- Support pain: AI customer-service bots trap users in loops of canned answers.
The author concedes some features are genuinely useful and low-code creation is a win, but questions what we lose when we stop learning to make things ourselves.
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