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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Cory Doctorow has a great article about this myth of the usefulness of AI:

If Donald Trump ordered Big Tech to turn off all of your country’s chatbots tomorrow, nothing would change. Every one of your country’s ministries and corporations would chug on with nary a hitch. Households, too, though perhaps a few of the younger members of those families would have to do their own homework again.

...Contrast this with what would transpire if Trump directed his tech giants to switch off your country’s Office 365 access, or to brick your Android and iOS phones, or to killswitch your John Deere tractors. Your country would effectively cease to exist.

[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 12 points 3 hours ago

I would hope that even an AI proponent can see how absurd it sounds to say, "Can you imagine going back to the way literally everything worked, like, 30 months ago?"

[-] shweddy@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago

You can tell he uses ai because of how fucking stupid his tweet is

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 21 points 5 hours ago

Have to use "AI" to miss "AI". Honestly my work output would double since I'd get to spend way less time rejecting overly long slop PRs that don't even do what they say they do

[-] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 14 points 5 hours ago
[-] dummyboymc23@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 hours ago

This is so delusional, I can't believe this is where we're at as a society

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Bryant, I was quit when I came in here and I'm twice as quit now.

Stop the fuck right where you are! You know the score, pal. When you're not a cop, you're little people.

[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

I would simply have one less tool at my job, one I didnt have until about 4 months ago, been here 10 years. Google wouldn't provide me with an AI summary of what I'm looking for and I'll have to, god forbid, research.

[-] TheMadIrishman@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 hours ago

Easily. Next…

[-] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Lets just say; if everyone uses coke or some concentration drug for work and you are not, you are fired soon.

Same with AI. Hate it or no, you have to adapt to it.

[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 10 points 2 hours ago

Plenty of my coworkers use AI. Those same coworkers often get in trouble for missing important details and referencing building codes that don't exist. The only adaptation I needed to make surrounding AI was making sure to turn off the new AI "features" that popped up in the programs I use.

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