Your CEO will pay the biggest consulting firms millions so he can fire you. It doesn’t matter if the AI can do your job, nobody gives a shit. It’s enough if either your boss believes it, or he thinks he can dupe the investors into believing it.
Guess that explains the recent news that raises and promotions will now be tied to AI usage.
Really fed up with this. The collapse of big tech and the AI bubble can't come soon enough.
How sure are you that the collapse is coming? Personally, I’m seeing people embrace this stuff without caring too much.
I’m starting to think if there’s a bubble, it’s deeper than big tech. And if there’s a collapse, it may not be of the industry but if things many of us hold dear. I’m starting to think sitting back and waiting for the collapse may be completely the wrong move many of us will regret.
The way I look at it, it's either going to need some kind of collapse or we'll all soon live in a techno-feudalist dystopia.
Yes, a major collapse (especially beyond just AI) would likely have unpleasant consequences for most of us. Heck, for me especially - I work in the tech industry. But, increasingly, I can't see any other way towards a better future. It seems impossible to fix the world while billionaires and huge corporations run the show, destroying the planet in the name of speculative profits. So for me, it's not wanting to watch the world burn, quite the opposite. It's more that it has to get worse before it can get better.
The way I look at it, it’s either going to need some kind of collapse or we’ll all soon live in a techno-feudalist dystopia.
This where I’m at. And I’m now thinking that techno-feudalism is where we are headed (and are already TBH). I’ve just seen too many people exhibit gross acceptance of basically this destiny/outcome, to the point that the logical conclusion is the ground work for the transition was successfully laid decades ago.
I don’t want to be to too doomer, but I fear the complacency we or many may have. The lack of a willingness to dwell on what world we want for each other, the lack of values and conversations about them, the consumerism and doom-scrolling (c)opium. Including, I’m sorry to say, presuming a collapse/reset is guaranteed. We may just end up serfs (again) because Facebook and Google were just too convenient in 2010!
What better is fully embrace it and breaking core systems. Look at windows 11 they started to think about scalping down AI after their OS became so broken. Please sell this to cote banking system. Once money start disappear I assure you AI will go back to it's box.
AI will collapse or the environment will collapse. Either way a catastrophic collapse is coming
The world can only absorb so much unproductivity
And they're still going to make you work in the office
If you replaced all the Accenture consultants with AI I'm not sure you'd notice.
"Fed up with your useless coworkers? Great news! We have an AI coworker that will give you a first class lesson in how useful your old coworkers were!"
We need to work overtime to ensure the term "AI coworker" can never be uttered in earnest and will be endlessly mocked forever.
It's like The Avengers of parasitic corporate bullshit.
This reminds me of an old comic where a company proposed killing all of their employees and replacing them with a single medium. The problem is that dead people can't be punished when they do bad things. Like AI coworkers.
"If you fill the forms wrong again, I'll dock your pay!"
"Of course, you are right! Would you like to fill out this satisfaction survey on my performance?"
Just when I thought I couldn't hate my coworkers any more than I already do...
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
