I'm not sure what you mean because you didn't actually say it, but AI is polling as one of the most disliked topics in the USA right now. More hated than ICE.

Source: https://pos.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/260072-NBC-March-...

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TOMDM 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> AI is polling as one of the most disliked topics in the USA right now. More hated than ICE.

I don't think your source substantiates that.

From your source:

ICE

Somewhat negative: 9%

Very negative: 47%

Somewhat negative: 24%

Very negative: 22%

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redwall_hp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Pew Research highlights:

* A majority of Americans consider the risk of AI to society high, a minority consider the benefits high

* A majority are more concerned than excited about AI

* Americans feel strongly that it’s important to be able to tell if pictures, videos or text were made by AI, but are not confident in their ability to do so

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans...

It seems almost universally reviled in creative fields, and the use I mostly see from ordinary people is more along the lines of natural language searches with Gemini.

AI fans are a bubble within the bubble of technology enthusiasts. It's hardly even universally liked among software engineers.

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jrflo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People hate the concept of AI taking their jobs and the top-down implementation of it at many companies. People love chatbots.

	▲	tsukurimashou 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> People love chatbots really?

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ieie3366 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And how much of this is due to the sloppers/grifters/conmen who hopped on to the AI train (same thing which happened to crypto?)

I feel like that is what the hate needs to be directed towards. Same thing with crypto. There is fundamentally nothing wrong with the technology itself. It’s that we are letting these scammers become the face of it

	▲	malfist 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> There is fundamentally nothing wrong with the technology itself It is when the foundation of the training set for the technology is predicated on stolen or exploited labor.
	▲	ieie3366 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I personally know multiple completely clueless people who are ”founders building AI startup” on linkedin despite having zero business skills, zero technical skills, generally low IQ people, just trying to ride the hype wave to scam themselves into fortune. Of course their tactics involve posting total slop on linkedin, scamming freelancers, outsourcing everything to Pakistan, etc This kind of behaviour would need to be name-and-shamed and preferably some sort of industry blacklist for bad behaviour.
	▲	ryandrake 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Grifters and scammers gravitate towards certain technologies (and not others) and become the face of them because of something about those technologies. They are not picking random inventions and then adopting them to their scams.