“Why do people hate AI?” People don’t hate AI as a technology. They hate this version of it. They hate the blatantly exploitative setup where tech companies control everything and we have to beg to live in our own world. Where the only jobs we get are whatever ones big tech leaves us. Where whatever work we create sits on their servers. Where they claim the right to copy not just our output but the essence of the unique life experiences that produced it, which they can then package, and sell, leaving us with nothing. Not just nothing. Less than nothing. They intend to sell us back our own creativity, filtered through brand-safe guardrails, all for a monthly subscription. They want to lead us quietly by the nose into a world where all thought, writing, science, and art flows through them. People hate AI because people aren’t stupid. They can see exactly what big tech is doing.