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That's the mirage of value. It's a mirage 'cause: a) it isn't creating that value but taking it from somewhere else (past IME contestants and test preparers, S
by conartist6 1y ago
That's the mirage of value. It's a mirage 'cause:
a) it isn't creating that value but taking it from somewhere else (past IME contestants and test preparers, StackOverflow, the job market, etc)
b) users fight to bid up the value of a single set of fixed capabilities, like rats fighting over the same scrap of leftovers. The market floods with generic copies of whatever stuff it can do.
That is to say it's utterly, humorlessly laughable to think that we're trending towards these things doing a whole economy worth of work.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoNot sure why you are getting downvoted. AI only worked when you had an internet full of people taking their time to post/help others out. When AI takes those peoples jobs, they stop posting. I don't post anything AI useful on public sites (I answer peoples questions via DM if I want to help). Imagine the constraint on every breaking change going forward being 'can AI be trained to handle these changes against the pre-AI training dataset'. Because AI is an inertia machine. It takes all the momentum from everything it touches. Next step after it takes the devs jobs is to freeze out all breaking changes that could make the AI training set useless (and we don't have a new one yet, because it's a new breaking change, and also because, you know, no one is posting knowledge for free AI scrapping anymore, yay, huge step forward for humankind!!!). Inertia machine sucking the momentum out of everything. They tried working with a movie studio for a video tool. They needed more movies than the output of the studio. How do you train in new things if you just happen to need 5 studios worth of 'new thing' but output is all from 'old thing' and AI generated? Inertia machine.