I feel like a variation of this exact article gets posted here every single day for the past year or so, and every time the same comments show up underneath. Nobody ever opens one of these threads and discovers a surprising or novel point of view.
I don’t understand why people spend their whole day talking about something they don’t like. It’s so bizarre to me.
I don’t understand why people spend their whole day talking about something they don’t like. It’s so bizarre to me.
Of course spending a full day on it is a different story, but I think it’s important to discuss things you don’t like, from time to time, and with different people. It can lead to new thoughts and solutions, as an example.
Well, if you do it constructively.
Work? It sounds like thousands of idiot ceos are buying into the fake hype over this shit and forcing it on their employees. Before firing them. And then there’s the AI slop articles and imagery that’s cropping up everywhere…
I disagree - people’s jobs are not on the line because of AI. They are on the line because of the economy and AI is the excuse/fad of the year so AI is what is blamed. However I maintain it is the economy not AI at fault.
Yes. But if it wasn’t for this particular fad their jobs would not have been on the line because there would be no alternative for their employers.
And of course it is not AI that is doing this. AI, can’t feel, think or do anything. It is simply another tool. Just like production robots have replaced automotive factory personnel on a large scale. And you couldn’t blame the people who lost their job for hating the machines that replaced them. It may not be rational, but it is understandable.
And of course if we are going to try to rationalise things, it is also not because of the economy. It is the people who benefit from replacing people with AI: the CEOs, employers and shareholders who care more about the companies’ profits than the human beings they employ. The people who have dehumanised their employees so much that in their minds, they are simply a tool to be used and discarded without any regard for the lives they are destroying. The reason why these people are the way they are and act the way they do has many factors that are way too complicated for any employee who is about to lose their job to an AI to understand.
But if it wasn’t for this particular fad their jobs would not have been on the line because there would be no alternative for their employers.
There have been many layoffs over the years. Laying people off because the economy isn’t good is nothing new, and AI did nothing to make it more or less possible.
If the economy was really good AI would have been used not to replace people but to make them more productive thus earning the company even more money.
I feel like a variation of this exact article gets posted here every single day for the past year or so, and every time the same comments show up underneath. Nobody ever opens one of these threads and discovers a surprising or novel point of view.
I don’t understand why people spend their whole day talking about something they don’t like. It’s so bizarre to me.
Of course spending a full day on it is a different story, but I think it’s important to discuss things you don’t like, from time to time, and with different people. It can lead to new thoughts and solutions, as an example.
Well, if you do it constructively.
If people left me alone about it then I wouldn’t talk about it…reality is closer to this.
Where do they not leave you alone about it? 95% of AI related content I encounter online is people complaining about it on Lemmy.
Work? It sounds like thousands of idiot ceos are buying into the fake hype over this shit and forcing it on their employees. Before firing them. And then there’s the AI slop articles and imagery that’s cropping up everywhere…
Do you use Google search? That’s just one quick example I can think of off the top of my head.
Edit: In case it’s not clear enough, I was talking about Google shoehorning AI into the search bar and results.
Well it’s not just that people don’t like it, there are a lot of people whose jobs are on the line because of it.
So I guess it’s kind of hard for them not to keep talking about the thing that’s threatening their livelihood, which makes sense.
And of course they want to see news that tells them it isn’t going to be so bad and that their expertise will still be in demand.
I disagree - people’s jobs are not on the line because of AI. They are on the line because of the economy and AI is the excuse/fad of the year so AI is what is blamed. However I maintain it is the economy not AI at fault.
Yes. But if it wasn’t for this particular fad their jobs would not have been on the line because there would be no alternative for their employers.
And of course it is not AI that is doing this. AI, can’t feel, think or do anything. It is simply another tool. Just like production robots have replaced automotive factory personnel on a large scale. And you couldn’t blame the people who lost their job for hating the machines that replaced them. It may not be rational, but it is understandable.
And of course if we are going to try to rationalise things, it is also not because of the economy. It is the people who benefit from replacing people with AI: the CEOs, employers and shareholders who care more about the companies’ profits than the human beings they employ. The people who have dehumanised their employees so much that in their minds, they are simply a tool to be used and discarded without any regard for the lives they are destroying. The reason why these people are the way they are and act the way they do has many factors that are way too complicated for any employee who is about to lose their job to an AI to understand.
There have been many layoffs over the years. Laying people off because the economy isn’t good is nothing new, and AI did nothing to make it more or less possible.
If the economy was really good AI would have been used not to replace people but to make them more productive thus earning the company even more money.
Machines also kept replacing car factory workers even when the economy was thriving, so that’s not it.
I’m pretty sure it’s human greed.