• Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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    Daily reminder that the wealthiest and most powerful people on Earth live in a fantasy world because they have never had the experience of suffering thr consequences of their decisions. Ai is marketed to be capable of this, but anyone who has been playing with it and testing knows that it is not capable of replacing a human for work like this.

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      I wonder if some companies making this move (“replacing workers with AI”) aren’t just laying people off and then publicly talking about AI for publicity without any real intention to use AI.

      That seems particularly likely with regard to IBM’s similar move not long ago. For them, saying “we’re replacing staff with AI” instead of “we’re laying people off” is basically marketing Watson.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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    For those who came in late, these are the results of a conglomerate deploying in a country with exponentially stronger worker protections.

    It was always going to happen. I loved designing pages; I literally dropped out of college to become a copyeditor when it became clear there was nothing left to learn from my college paper. The number of newspaper pages I’ve designed is either in the high 5s or low 6s in terms of digits. And my exit sign from a role bearing no resemblance to what I signed up for was in November 2019. The beforetimes.

    If you are still at a media outlet, do not personally generate content and missed the last several exits … let me see if I can find a GIF.

    I tried. PNG conversion for uploads sort of cuts that off at the pass.