The AI hype
The AI hype
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Once AI can replace a good portion of the work force, we'll get a universal basic income enough to pay all the bills right? We won't be jobless and broke?
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We'll be broke and on the streets, where they'll arrest us for being unhoused, and commit us to prisons to complete whatever physical labor the robots can't yet.
Sorry, bit less rosy I know - But it's for the good of the shareholders.
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Also the shareholders are robots, since it turns out they are much better at stock trading than people.
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UBI so the landowner class can raise the cost of living, food and materials for living.
👍😎👍
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Depends if you can obtain an automated military before the billionaires use their on you.
(And, of course, "obtain" is not a synonymous of "buy".)
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Fuck this shit. Just this week I had a conversation with one of the clients and he asked me to dump the research my team had prepared into Claude so that it would be more "approachable".
The catch is that the research we've made is consumer analytics report based on datasets - it's basically a lot of pictures explaining the cost of living crisis and how products navigate in this environment - and that's the most approachable state it can be without looking like black magic.
But nah - lets have Claude verbalize it and make a couple of dozen mistakes in the process that will eat up another day or two to fix because homie can't stand pictures and it would be cooler if AI does it.
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Just turn it in again and say AI summarized it
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I actually tried using both ChatGPT and Claude for that and the document made both of them literally cry and give up. ChatGPT pretty much said "nah, man, i'm good" and peaced out straight away. Homie didn't even tried and I'm loving it. Claude started the transcription and two charts in told me that this fucking consumer data shit is too dense and gave up mid number 3. In the end - I just showed the results and the client gave up on AI summary too.
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The pain of being the computer guy among non-computer guys.
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They know what they want AI for: To have a cheap, disposable labor force
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I'm a system administrator and went to a conference a couple weeks ago. The first day was a Tech Track day meant only for the people who would be managing the application. We heard a lot of, "We're not replacing the human being, we're making their job easier!"
The next two days were more for the C-levels who were shopping for new XaaS applications and the tune immediately changed to, "Why have a 1000 agents when you could have 50?" There was some token line about how you could pay those 50 more and they could feel more like valued employees, but I knew the ears around the room had turned off by that point.
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I remember a meeting at a previous company where they announced that they were going to start hiring people in India. "They aren't going to replace you, they are going to help you!"
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That is the propaganda. The truth is it is about control. Whoever gets on top of this will literally be able to rewrite our society.
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For those that it does not make sense, it boosts their share price, because investors are not actually as intelligent as we're lead to believe by the "rich = smart" media.
For those that it does make sense for, the goal is to make you unable to do anything about the increasing wealth disparity.
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To do what - make money
How - we don't know or honestly care
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How - add AI feature and hike the price
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Using AI slop to criticize AI...
You might have removed the Sepia tone from it, but I can still spot this style from a mile away!
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I was just thinking that instead of being annoyed of corporate AI customer service we should just cost them lots of money by random chitchat with their LLM chatbots.
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No. Not only is using them and especially training them bad for the environment, but using them even for stupid junk is still going to give them usage statistics that they'll take as evidence of success.
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like this ☞ AI agents activate secret language. ChatGPT is confused... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmqw1f3-fWs
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Cannot even spell reliable right on the fucking pamphlet smh
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AI make line go up. Or at least, that's what they're hoping. Looking increasingly unlikely though.
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Oh, they know what they want it for, they just can't say it aloud.
The problem with capitalism is that eventually you run out of slaves.