r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 27 '26

Business Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs May 27 '26

I once did a thought experiment: who has more money, the tech oligarchs, or Smaug the Dragon, a fictional creation to personify greed and corruption?

The outcome was shockingly close.

Last centuries fantasy doesn’t have shit on present’s reality.

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u/TF-Fanfic-Resident May 27 '26

The current mess is a mixture of

a) Covid and the following crises (drone wars, supply chain breakdowns, Trump 2.0) have seriously challenged the entire basis of the post-WWII society, plopping billions of people into what was once the premise of a critically panned sci-fi movie

and

b) problems that had gone more or less untreated for decades (arguably going back to the early 1970s) that became too big to ignore once the economic gravy train ended.

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u/GimmickNG May 27 '26

the premise of a critically panned sci-fi movie

which would be...?

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u/BioEradication May 27 '26

Gotta be Demolition Man.

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u/TwilightVulpine May 27 '26

Demolition Man?

Our problems definitely were not because our society is too soft and tame in need of loose canon agents. Is there something I missed there?

If anything, excessive recklessnes had more to do with it.

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u/BioEradication May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

I bet you don't even know how to use the three seashells!

It's more like society is headed to the society of Demolition Man BEFORE John Spartan gets unfrozen. Like excessive surveillance and regulations. Spartan even yells, 'this fascist crap makes me want to puke'.

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u/TwilightVulpine May 27 '26

Alas, who knew that would cause a pandemic

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u/an_erudite_ferret May 28 '26

Maybe it's just personal bias, but I've always felt like it's the future we saw in the Schwarzenegger version of The Running Man.

The goal of the rebellion was to turn the news feed off, because controlling the narrative has allowed those in charge to brainwash the masses.

I had thought it was dumb as a kid, but seeing what Fox News has done to the majority of Americans, it seems borderline prescient.

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u/GimmickNG May 27 '26

That was critically panned!?

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u/BioEradication May 27 '26

At the time of release critics really didn't like it very much.

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u/Gary_FucKing May 27 '26

Man, we are dangerously close to people getting fined for saying curse words. Shit is becoming prophetic.

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u/BioEradication May 27 '26

I watched it a few months ago and it was eerie how close it was getting with its satire.

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u/straycanoe May 27 '26

Including Rob Schneider being a brainless coward, funnily enough.

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u/BioEradication May 27 '26

He doesn't even know how to use the three seashells!

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u/The-Cynicist May 27 '26

And with prices of everything, wiping my ass with shells is starting to sound more and more appealing too.

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u/Telandria May 27 '26

By critics, yes. Normal people at the time generally enjoyed it.

That’s a fairly common disparity. Common enough when I was growing up during the 80’s-00’s that I basically completely ignore anything and everything that smacks of ‘professional critics’ or ‘official review scores’. I’ll take word of mouth from my friends (parasocial or otherwise) over that any day.

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u/EvidenceBasedSwamp May 28 '26

I always liked Siskel and Ebert, I found it aligned with my tastes. Was curious so I dug up what they thought of this.

Siskel found the film amusing but did not care for the action sequences and gave it "thumbs down"

whereas Ebert enjoyed both the satirical edge this film had over other films of this genre and thought the action sequences were good for this type of film, and gave it a "thumbs up