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title: "People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?"
description: "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…"
author: "Will Douglas Heaven"
section: ai-tech
published: 2026-10-22T13:31:53.202551+00:00
canonical: https://valorandventures.media/article/7da27cf3-9772-4245-9586-214407df6efb
publisher: "Valor & Ventures Media"
source: "MIT Technology Review"
source_url: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1145682/people-really-hate-ai-so-why-cant-they-get-enough/
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# People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?

*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…*

## Article

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Will Douglas Heaven · MIT Technology Review

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Originally published by MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1145682/people-really-hate-ai-so-why-cant-they-get-enough/