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Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel “devalued” by the technology and warned of a downward trajectory in the quality of work.

Recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund found AI would affect about 40% of jobs around the world. Its head, Kristalina Georgieva, has said: “This is like a tsunami hitting the labour market.”

Workers who have trained AI models to replace some or all of their roles tell the Guardian about their experiences.

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[-] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

The story is ultimately the same as it ever was: Businesses are looking for ways to make employees work harder while paying them less. But now an editor can be told to fix an AI-mangled manuscript and paid less... Because the business class has fallen under a collective delusion that the AI is actually good at its job.

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