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Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. (www.pewresearch.org)
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[–] [S] 67 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Turns out telling an entire generation that AI will replace half their jobs, flood the internet with slop and make billionaires richer didn’t produce boundless techno optimism. Who could have predicted that? The AI industry may have a capability problem, but it definitely has a messaging problem.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    The AI industry is actively telling companies that they can become 'more efficient' (i.e. fire workers) with AI; that's more than a mere 'messaging problem'.

    It has a financial interest in companies firing their workers and raising prices to make room for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    How it feels to me is that the goal is for the world to become so intrusive/demanding/stressful that the only way to exist in it sanely would be to build an interactive buffer between the person and the greater world, and they want to sell these brown nosing AI agents as that buffer.

    I detest the ethics, economic, and environmental costs of these platforms, but the part of me that is casting around wildly for some sort of life preserver wonders if somehow these horrible contraptions of inevitable doom might just provide some short term relief.

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