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submitted 8 hours ago by schmorpel@slrpnk.net to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

I translate for a living, and sometimes I'm forced to translate marketing. Lately there's a shift in the bullshit copy I receive to work on. Slogans 6 months ago were all 'Use AI or your company goes broke!' and now it's 'Use our product to make your AI agents more efficient and reduce token use!'. It's hilarious, I'm half ashamed to have to participate in perpetuating this garbage, and fascinated that any decision maker in any organization would keep adding layers of bullshit on top of their tech stack to stay ahead of the competition. I wonder how many layers of bullshit they can still squeeze between reality and profit before it all comes down.

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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

There is some ai company that routinely spams my work email. Various typical vague, "AI will fix everything with your work" promises.

Then some report came out that 95% of business AI adoption failed. I figured either it would be ignored, or some response explaining how the study was mistaken or didn't say what folks said it did.

Instead, that company said "Study shows that 95% of business use of AI fails, you don't want to be in that 95%, so use our services to make sure you are in that 5%". Had to have it to them, they really found a way to steer into the skid.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

How would you gauge the threat AI may or may not pose to your own job?

[-] BigMacHole 23 points 7 hours ago

I can have my AI be ALMOST has Efficient and Inexpensive as a HUMAN! SIGN me UP!

-Highly Paid Job Creators!

[-] crispbacon99@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Highly paid low wage job creators

[-] crispbacon99@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Highly paid low wage job creators

[-] Polyphilic@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 hours ago

How do I get a job as a job creator?

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 hours ago

Choose rich, wrll-connected, socially adept parents.

[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 16 points 6 hours ago
  1. Give yourself the title “Job Creator”
  2. Congratulations, you created a job.
[-] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 6 hours ago

you just gotta pull yourself up by your bootstraps

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

*create yourself up by your jobstraps

[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 hours ago

I am currently reading bullshit jobs, and have a feeling you will like the book if you haven't read it already.

[-] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 hours ago

I have read it, but it's time for a re-read. Most of the words I write are bullshit and do not make the world a better place and I found the book (as well as Graeber's other books) incredibly enlightening. I spend a non-zero amount of time grieving that the man cannot write more books. 'Bullshit jobs' motivates me to work as little as I can (by living frugally and recycling, reusing, repairing, DIYing everything and growing my own food). It also motivates me to be creative in my free time, to use words and other artistic expression for less idiotic stuff. Maybe one day I can make the shift to be a fully functional member of society. They are advertising a job for the maintenance of local shit treatment stations currently, and I am quite tempted to apply. If only there were part-time options for out-in-the-world jobs, my autistic ass doesn't handle full time.

this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
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