Ewan Morrison@MrEwanMorrison
"44 percent of polled Gen Z workers said they’re “sabotaging their company’s AI strategy in at least one way,” Link👇
7:24 PM · May 1, 2026 · 66.5K Views
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Practically every day I see new signs that the backlash against AI is growing. The above example is just one example of many. Others like this aren’t hard to find, either:
Futurism@futurism
"If there's anything that even has a hint of AI, there's strong opposition to it."
trib.al
AI-Powered High School Scrapped After Protests Erupt Against It
9:31 PM · May 2, 2026 · 35.3K Views
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There’s also the QuitGPT movement:
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla
“.. QuitGPT is the first true consumer-driven, social-political movement against AI .. it is a first sign of a crack developing in the AI race.” - Fed Watch Advisors quitgpt.org @MarkRuffalo
4:32 PM · Feb 14, 2026 · 62.5K Views
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Fortune was one of the first major media outlets to catch on, last summer:
But it’s been a long time to coming.
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Indeed, about year ago I predicted that the backlash against AI would grow so much that it would be a major factor in the 2028 Presidential elections.
Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus
Public backlash against AI will so be strong by 2028 that anti-AI sentiment will probably be a major factor in the 2028 US Presidential election. AI could have been a great thing. Greed, overhype, and recklessness have screwed it up.
Bindu Reddy @bindureddy
While AI has been mostly awesome, it's encouraged some bad behavior. - lawyers are using AI to spam corporations with more garbage lawsuits - students cheat using AI, and teachers have outsourced their entire job to AI - 30% of the web is AI slop - codebases are being infested
6:00 PM · May 26, 2025 · 49.4K Views
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That prediction very seems to be on track. Frustration with AI may even factor into the midterms. It’s already splitting both parties.
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Here’s my theory about what’s going on, slightly edited from a post which has gone viral on X.
Outside of coding (where there is clear value), and a handful of other domains (e.g. brainstorming), Generative AI has been a net negative for society.
GenAI has been undermining secondary and college education, opening up mass surveillance, increasing disinformation, delusions, impersonation, phishing, and other forms of cybercrime, nonconsensual deep fake porn, bias in employment and other domains, and economic disparity, drowning the world in slop and unwanted, over-leveraged environment-damaging data centers that risk causing a recession.
Simultaneously it has empowered a bunch of people who want to privatize almost all the gains while leave all the downsides to society, taking almost zero responsibility.
I don’t think we are better off than we were four years ago.
Some of this is technical (LLMs aren’t reliable), some of it is political/economic (such as the utter lack of responsible regulation).
Most of these downsides were predictable. (I warned of most of it in my 2023 Senate testimony, in fact, and so did many other folks working in AI ethics over the years. But even more striking is that OpenAI did too, even earlier, in 2019.)
On net, things don’t look good.
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All that said, I honestly believe some future form of AI might be great. But Generative AI has hurt more than it has helped, and been managed irresponsibly.
It’s no wonder many people have had enough.