Post #2079762

2026-05-06 12:22 UTC

Because AIs don’t need salaries, don’t unionize, can work 24/7. For some tasks, AI has already completely obsoleted humans. An AI can write a shitty PR filled newsletter faster and cheaper than a human. It keeps getting better at certain tasks, like programming. All AI companies want to be the one that controls the best AI. Because if they do, then other companies will pay them to rent out AIs for cheaper than human labor. Companies fear falling behind. So they dump loads of money into AI. And currently, investors like hearing about AI. So the more companies say and push AI, it increases investment into the company.

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@4am@lemmy.zip 2026-05-06 13:12

It’s way more insidious. “AI” is very much LLMs, or Large language Models. The one thing they excel at is ingesting large amounts of text and summarizing, or looking for key points. Large amounts of text, like your browsing history, your personal cloud-stored files, your chats and messages your email. Your taxes. Your bank records. Your not-yet filed patents. Your medical research. Your political donations. Your protest plans. Your sources for the journalism you are doing. At scale, society-wide. Zoom back and predict the markets overall sentiment. Zoom in down to a single “undesirable”. All that “it’ll do human creative jobs you have to pay so much for, and if you reduce headcount you’ll get a nice bonus” is for all the short-thinking middle management and vapid C-levels to get suckered by the Mechanical Turk show into think they’ll get a bonus this quarter by putting all their sensitive information on someone else’s computer. And once their IT staff is minimized and hardware is out of reach, you have achieved vendor lock-in. And it’s absolutely incredible how literally everyone seems to have fallen for this shiny turd.

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