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most of these complaints aren't because of AI though, managers have always looked to make staff redundant when there is a cheaper alternative regardless of qual
by vincecarterskne 2mo ago
most of these complaints aren't because of AI though, managers have always looked to make staff redundant when there is a cheaper alternative regardless of quality, politicians giving tax breaks to giant corporations? was always happening before AI came along
- solid_fuel 2mo agoYou are perfectly welcome to blame it on capitalism, and you're not entirely wrong, but before LLMs machines couldn't fill these roles at all - so LLMs are the enabling technology here that is being used to justify the cuts.
- vincecarterskne 2mo agosure but capitalism is ultimately the driving force to making more profit at the expense of making things ultimately shittier? capitalism has inherently always done this, this is not a new concept, I don't understand why everyone acts like it's so different when it comes to AI. AI is a tool that's useful for some things, not so good at other things.
- jambalaya8 2mo agoi think it is more correct to call it hypercapitalism at this point (and a particularly sociopathic variety of it); as a "response", the "other side" has created their own bizarre oppositional belief system. neither are healthy, both lead to bad things.
- solid_fuel 2mo agoAgain - we’re on a discussion thread about why people don’t like AI right now. Yes, the root problem is generally enshittification and capitalism, but AI is the tool that is being used the most for this enshittification now, so it is completely understandable that people are pissed off at AI. In a vacuum, LLMs and AI are cool. In practice, in the real world today, they are being used to make most peoples lives worse, while funneling a ton of money to ~25 people.