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Is "Job Bot" really the best anyone can come up with?
(hexbear.net)
This job I applied for had a little chat widget in the corner of the page called "job bot" that offered "AI application assistance". I feel like I can use all the help I could get so I clicked it. It asked for my name and email address, then provided a link to the page I was already on. 
Bonus points: It was for an environmental conservation position
No I will not welcome our new AI overlords.
The rapid pace of technological development seems to have broken the brains of otherwise smart people and given rocket fuel to hucksters.
I recently attended a webinar on "Claude Code for Climate Risks." It was by a consultant selling a $2,500 course to learn how to make Claude Code take a preformatted spreadsheet and turn it into an HTML dashboard, something that can be done with Tableau (or even within Excel, the aesthetics were nothing to write home about!). He bragged that this was saving him weeks of work.
idk, I got nothing
You owe me $2500 for these three sentences, minus the intro which I give for free, and uploading a .CSV.
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It legitimately seems like you could make good money doing that if you know how to market yourself and don't experience cognitive dissonance.
Like selling MAGA and Jesus Slop or starting a meme coin for every breaking news story, it's the cognitive dissonance that stops me. Even maintaining grass lawns at a landscaper made me feel like I was making a deal with the devil. Morally I could never justify selling someone their own alienation to the degree that AI creates.
I think it's almost the opposite. Technological development has stalled, utterly, on the promise of "making life more humane" in the way that has been promised for decades. The LLM stuff pretends it cares, that it will finally offer freedom from drudgery.
In the case of an environmentalist, it also offers a fleeting hope of an impossible solution to climate change. Though the only result is that when the geoengineering scams get into full swing they'll be full of promises about their "AI" enabled drone swarms offering intelligent cloudseeding to optimise B2BSAAS (Shade As A Service).