People hate AI, so why can't they get enough?
Artificial intelligencePeople really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?Around the world, a love/hate attitude toward AI is very much the vibe right now. By Will Douglas Heavenarchive pageOctober 5, 2026Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Getty ImagesEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI company.
- ▪Artificial intelligencePeople really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?Around the world, a love/hate attitude toward AI is very much the vibe right now.
- ▪By Will Douglas Heavenarchive pageOctober 5, 2026Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Getty ImagesEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider v
- ▪At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI company.
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| Original publisher | MIT Technology Review |
| Canonical URL | https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1145682/people-really-hate-ai-so-why-cant-they-get-enough/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:02:58 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-05T11:35:49.747Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-05T11:35:49.747Z |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Artificial intelligencePeople really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?Around the world, a love/hate attitude toward AI is very much the vibe right now. By Will Douglas Heavenarchive pageOctober 5, 2026Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Getty ImagesEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI company. We don’t know if we really like what we’re doing.” “I guess that makes me a self-loathing AI journalist,” I replied. It was a joke! I love my job.
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