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Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is a certain quantity of this socially useless labor mathematically vital to the survival of capital, or is the proliferation of this labor a sort of unchecked outgrowth that's an unforeseen outcome?

graeber "The answer clearly isn't economic: it's moral and political."

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    "The answer clearly isn't economic: it's moral and political."

    that's not at all clear to me

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's literally straight out of the article that coined the term "Bullshit Jobs", a point that's made several times

    It's not at all clear to me how capitalists are directly compelled to do what they do by macroeconomic forces alone, in such a way that it is not possible to imagine them acting otherwise. That is a far-reaching claim that demands the burden of proof.

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