If humanity resulted in UBI, everyone would still criticize their fellow humans on social media. I see no evidence AI would be any different.

It might alleviate the negative implications for widespread job losses but the criticism AI receives is a lot broader than that.

No.

But there is the anti-marketing effect: some of us saw the “Apple intelligence” ads and laughed right away, others were disappointed when inevitably it was disappointing.

Google has a new “AI mode” search button which is brilliant, but if I try to advocate for it people will confuse it for the trash summaries that have been polluting the results although often when you ask a yes/no question the summary gives the wrong answer and AI Mode gives the right answer.

Shoving products that don’t work up people’s nostrils mean that they’ll reject products that do work! At this rate it will take a year for the average HNer to realize that they’ll never look at a Fandom site or Forbes or see another chumbox ever again.

If we got UBI, our landlords would just increase our rent by slightly more than the UBI payment...

Why would they?

Of all dystopian schemes, UBI is one of the worst.

Instead of jobs and future, it gives total dependence from the government for the majority of the population, and total control - just attach strings to the UBI handouts and conditions to spending them.