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.
Just turn it in again and say AI summarized it
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.
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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Cannot even spell reliable right on the fucking pamphlet smh
Oh, they know what they want it for, they just can’t say it aloud.
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.
AI to remove jobs from workers. 1000%. That’s what the hype is now. Capitalist see workers as an expense. They’re working on getting rid of you any way they can.
Ironically LLM would actually do their job better.
I’m wondering that maybe this is the reason they are so excited about it. They try some things they would do and LLM does then well so they think it would help with actually skilled work.
FYI, the skilled vs unskilled categorization is intentionally designed to suppress the working class by claiming jobs that are “unskilled” labor do not require a livable wage, because “anyone” could do them.
It’s a systemic practice that’s continued to keep minimum wage where it’s at, and reduce worker’s rights across the board.
All jobs require skill. A minimum wage job done by someone with a lot of experience will be better, faster, and more reliable than someone you hired out of high school/college.
There are no differences between skilled and unskilled jobs. All jobs are skilled jobs.
Skilled vs unskilled is the language the wealthy class uses to keep us fighting and working against each other, instead of teaming up vs them.
You are correct to some extend, but there are jobs that are (and always should be) licensed, like electrician or doctor.
Totally agreed. There are licenses that you need to be able to perform a job that could endanger you or others. That never changes. Some jobs require more study, and more prep time before going solo with (e.g. Doctor), but all jobs are skilled.
Software engineers are among the best paid employees, and are not licensed.
Nobody mentioned wages.
Software engineers are among the most overpaid, usually even if they aren’t good at their jobs.
Ok
FYI, the skilled vs unskilled categorization is intentionally designed to suppress the working class by claiming jobs that are “unskilled” labor do not require a livable wage, because “anyone” could do them.
Skilled labor (n): labor that sets, as one of its prerequisites, that a worker must be able to take four years out of the workforce in order to practice it.
I think the part that blows my mind is “who will pay for your product if no one has a job or money?” Part. It’s like they’re so stupidly blinded by their greed they can’t put it together
Money doesnt mean anything to them. I will never forget what Elon said when he was told that Disney and other companies were pulling their accounts off Twitter due to the rampant Nazism of its base. He just was shocked and said ‘you’re trying to blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself’. He outright said go fuck yourself, but I don’t remember exactly what he said before, but it was to that effect.
It is entirely about who controls what. Again, Musk lost his shit recently when Trump threatened to start giving NASA contracts to do stuff to replace what SpaceX is doing. Money isn’t the matter, it is controlling the levers of society.
I think the part that blows my mind is “who will pay for your product if no one has a job or money?” Part. It’s like they’re so stupidly blinded by their greed they can’t put it together
It’s so much worse than that. The top 10% are already currently responsible for the absolute majority of all goods and services consumed in the country. Just imagine that share growing and growing. And imagine that 10% number shrinking. The people who own the bots and all the natural resources trade bot-produced goods and services to each other. Industrial civilization continues on, but only producing goods and services for the top few percent of the population. Everyone else becomes homeless, completely shut out of the economy. Rebellion is suppressed by robotic security forces and automated mass produced propaganda. What little employment does remain are roles that the wealthy would prefer an actual human perform, like childcare, sex work, and child sex work.
Alternatively, if they’re feeling generous or not confident in robot security guards, the wealthy will take the approach used in Manna by the late great Marshall Brain. There, the wealthy owners of the robots don’t let people starve. The wealthy in the US build giant cheap government dormitories, enough to house hundreds of millions. They’re built, maintained, cleaned, etc entirely automatically. Food is produced in automated kitchens, and plenty of AI slop entertainment is available to occupy the time of residents. Vagrancy laws are harshly enforced. So if you don’t have employment or independent wealth, you’re forced to live in one of these vast human warehouses. Imagine college dorm rooms. Imagine sharing a space that size with someone indefinitely. And imagine a single building with a hundred thousand people living in spaces that size, all in tiny windowless rooms. That was the standard of living. Or really, a clean well-maintained prison cell. The rich threw the poor into vast complexes of cheaply built and run government dormitories. And you were only allowed to leave if you could prove an offer of employment or if someone on the outside was willing to accept financial responsibility for you.
And birth control was added to the food supply. So the wealthy didn’t plan on having to maintain this state forever.
In my opinion, every AI “worker”, should have to be paid …maybe half minimum wage, and that wage, goes into a universal income fund to be dispersed to the citizens directly. Adjust “half”, for how much pressure needs to be applied to corporations…
Maybe laws adjusted so the amount of work AI does would be on-par with how much a person could…and then billed as such.
The definition of “worker” loses all meaning in this context. Once you divorce the human from the worker, it becomes impossible to define what a worker is. A better approach would be to an industrial computing tax. Put a tax on computing. You have to pay a per-calculation tax on all compute over a certain amount. And you set that amount high enough that unless you’re running giant data centers, then you have no need to worry about.
You have to tax something that they are doing that an individual is not. If you tax “all compute” then they’re just gonna pull the same shit they do with straws and blame the individual.
You have to tax the action that is replacing a human worker. If a human job is displaced, it gets taxed. Want to AI generate some massive image through prompts? How much would it take a human to complete the job? Take some % of that, and charge it. Play it somewhere along the lines of “Intelligence deserves pay”, and since it’s artificial intelligence - it doesn’t have rights to spend its own pay (or the need to) so put it into a universal income fund.
We’re reaching a post-scarcity society now. We should be making lives easier for everyone.
You ignored the part where you only tax compute over a certain threshold. We have all sorts of taxes and regulations that apply only once you a certain scale.
There’s all sorts of reasons taxing all compute over a certain threshold is stupid. I ignored it because it’s ignorant of the facts at hand.
At one point or another, compute was scaling exponentially for customers - one day that might begin to happen again. Laws move slowly - and will stupidly end up at a point where the average joe has that level of compute in his phone. Congrats, now you’ve decided to tax everyone because of “compute over a certain threshold”.
I love having capital, now if only there weren’t all this pesky labor.
Any meritocratic system becomes an informal aristocracy after a generation or two. And aristocrats are so notoriously good at understanding the systems that facilitate and keep them in power…
Yeah, every time you hear someone say “cut labor costs”, it means they want to fuck over the workers.
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?
Best they can do is jobful and broke.
The good news is that kids will have plenty of employment opportunity when AI takes over, you need tiny hands to clean between those server racks.
Well yes and no. The tiny hands will be that of a robot we (the slave class) will control remotely.
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.
Also the shareholders are robots, since it turns out they are much better at stock trading than people.
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”.)
They know what they want AI for: To have a cheap, disposable labor force
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.
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!”
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.
To do what - make money
How - we don’t know or honestly care
How - add AI feature and hike the price
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.
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.
like this ☞ AI agents activate secret language. ChatGPT is confused… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmqw1f3-fWs
AI make line go up. Or at least, that’s what they’re hoping. Looking increasingly unlikely though.
