Big Tech Just Got a Brutal Reality Check

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:43:38 +0000

AI is everywhere now: in search, email, workplaces, customer service, politics, policing, and the endless slop machine we still apparently call the internet. But the more people are forced to use it, the less they seem to trust it. This video looks at the widening gap between AI adoption and public confidence, from Pew’s new polling on American distrust, to Microsoft’s Copilot backlash, Meta’s unwanted AI search, Google’s glue-pizza hallucinations, AI-generated software slop, political spending by AI-linked PACs, and surveillance systems being abused by police.

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00:00 Introduction
01:25 The Paradox
04:56 Big AI In A Little Garage
09:34 Make It Rain
12:47 Something To Believe In
17:39 The People With The Matches