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How can having more tools to solve problems make things worse? I can't think of any problem in my life that more tools and methods would work against solving it.
Depends on who's using it and for what purpose.
This isn't about you.
It never is I noticed.
"[Eli] Whitney believed that his cotton gin would reduce the demand for enslaved labor and would help hasten the end of southern slavery. Paradoxically, the cotton gin, a labor-saving device, helped preserve and prolong slavery in the United States for another 70 years."
What problems will get solved? “Our ads aren’t effective enough? We have to pay people to do things when we could be putting it into profits? We’re charging less rent than we think people will pay, but we don’t know how much? People have gotten savvy to my latest scam.”
The capital holding class will be the ones using ai to their benefit. The dishonest will join them. We may get some concessions here and there, but they own them.
You aren’t the only one with access to these tools. Yeah if I and I alone had ai that wouldn’t be bad. But the people who used to run Nigerian Prince scams now have ai. Advertisers have ai. The bosses who want to cut jobs have ai. The cops who want to ensure there’s no revolts from the folks getting fucked by the system have ai. So yeah I don’t think I can get nearly as much out of it as the people who want to use it in ways that will/could negatively impact me will. So I’m not excited for it or happy about it, and I’m terrified because the people who seem really excited about it seem blind to it’s weaknesses
Well, for one clearly this creates more mechanisms to exploit the poor. Especially if we chose to regulate as slowly as we have with other tech in the past.
The AI is in the hands of interests who think you are the problem.
(They don't like me either.)
If you manage to keep your job then sure, you'll be way more efficient. I guess AI will help you with your job search and resume if you're laid off, but maybe companies won't need as many people as they used to. 🤷
I don't know if it's just me or what, but I don't think AI, and eventually androids, replacing humans doing awful grunt work is really bad, it's a system that refuses to figure out a way to tax corporations using AI to support those displaced workers.
For decades it's been the grunt work that was automated and outmoded. Suddenly it's highly educated individuals that are nearing the chopping block.
Nah my job is already heavily automated. All more will do is let me go even faster
No, the point of AI is not that you work better, faster and more efficiently. The point of AI is that you will not be necessary anymore.
If we were at that point there is nothing left to discuss.
Ask the thousands of information laborers, some who might've think the same as you, who no longer have a job because they were layoff when the manager got swindled by OpenAI marketing.
Man a lot of people seem to know what I do for a living without me saying a word about it.
“It doesn't affect me, therefore it is not a problem. Fuck those people, I got mine.” The absolute lack of empathy of some.
I am sorry you do not know what "" means. Maybe ask your strawman to explain it.