Just look at who’s in charge of the Senate, and ask yourself if they are to be trusted to do anything but lie, steal and carry out witch hunts.
As for LLMs, unless driving contact-centre customer satisfaction scores even further through the floor counts as an achievement, so far, all there’s been has been a vast volume of hype and wasted energy, and very little to show for it, except for some highly constrained point solutions which aren’t significant enough to make economic impact. Even then, the ROI is questionable.
Stop calling LLM AI. It creates false expectations.
The fact that “AI” training off other LLM slop produces worse and worse results is proof there is no “intelligence” going on just clever parroting.
So they want to keep them terrified of losing their shitty, barely functioning status quo.
The reality is that these are the numbers the Republicans want , because it’s the numbers their billionaire owners want. ChatGPT is just accidentally letting us know how they’ve poisoned the models.
I.e., made up on the spot.
Yes but got forbid those jobs be stolen by another country. Can’t have that.
Well my AI says it will take 96 or 98 million jobs, depending on what you want it say and only for $5,000.
Good.
Having machines do the work for us is a good thing.
Yes, just kill the 96 million people because it’s not like the capitalists are ever going to share what they control and Americans are never going to vote for social safety nets. Not within the next 10 years anyway.
LOLLLLLLLL that’s like a third of the US population. Probably half of the number currently employed. There’s no way in hell this useless garbage will take 1/3 to 1/2 of all jobs. Companies that do this will go out of business fast.
You can tell how competent someone is at something by how good they think AI is at that thing.
I think the fad will die down a bit, when companies figure out that AI will be more likely than humans to make very expensive mistakes that the company has to compensate, and saying it was the AI is not a valid cop out.
I foresee companies will go bankrupt on that account.It doesn’t help to save $100k on cutting away an employee, if the AI causes damages for 10 or 100 times that amount.
Good podcast about this bubble bursting : https://craphound.com/news/2025/10/06/the-real-economic-ai-apocalypse-is-nigh/
When the bubble bursts, whoever is left standing is going to have to jack prices through the roof to put so much as a dent in their outlay. Their outlay so far. Can’t see many companies hanging in there at that point.
Not if the IP is purchased by another company leaving the original saddled with the debt, or spun off so the parent company can rebuy it thusly, or the government bails them out, or buys it to be the State AI too, or a bunch of other scenarios in this dark new world ahead.
That’s my favorite part. All the stolen IP.
I put my money on AI act here in Europe and the willingness of local authorities to make a few examples. That would help bringing some accountability here and there and stir a bit the pot. Eventually, as AI commodities, it will be less in the light. That will also help.
Agreed, but I do think that some jobs are just going to be gone.
For example, low level CS agents. I worked for a company that replaced that first line of CS defense with a bot, and the end-of-call customer satisfaction scores went up.
I can think of a few other things in my company that had a similar outcome. If the role is gone, and the customers and employees are being served even better than when they had that support role, that role ain’t coming back.
Oh 100%. The question will be are there more opportunities that come from it. Here’s my guess: if you can’t produce something interesting you will be fighting for scraps. Even that might not be good enough.
I’m pretty sure that even consumer services is an area where I saw a computer made an expensive mistake, promising the customer something very expensive, and a court decided the company had to honor the agreement the AI made. But I can’t find the story, because I’m flooded with product placement articles about how wonderful AI is at saving cost in CS.
But yes CS is absolutely an area where AI is massively pushed.The court honored it for now. I expect the future it will be your problem.
Oh but the EU?
Once they are done with North America the EU will be a non issue for them.
Not sure if it’s the one you are referring to, but AI gave discounts on flights.
No it was a single case of reparation for damages of some sort. Where the company wouldn’t honor the deal, but lost the case in court.
But thanks for finding a concrete example of how AI makes stupid mistakes, this Airline case looks like the bot suffered from the infamous hallucinations they are prone to.
And it’s absolutely disgusting that the airline won’t honor it, and instead make all sorts of claims about how when and where the complaint needs to be filed.
Very good example of the principle of what I meant, although it’s only a few hundred dollars.
The Senate will decide its fate.
This is how AI will take over… not through wars or competence, but by being better at bureaucratic forgeries…
Edit: well, I guess the apple never falls far from the tree, as it were! Wa-hey! We wanted to create the ultimate worker, but we’ve managed to create the ultimate politician instead=))
It’s easy when the first line of every reply is “oh, you’re so goddamn smart. Holy shit, are you the smartest person in the world for asking that question?..”
AI politicians might be the move after next.
Corporate personhood(you are here) ->
Corporation self advocates ->
Corporations run for officeI don’t like this future. I’d like to go back.
I hate to break it to you….
I said I DON’T LIKE THIS FUTURE. I’D LIKE TO GO BACK
This.
And over the next 50 years it will take 485 million jobs, and the unemployment rate will be 235%.
And we’ll all be dead.
Here’s hoping!
Thus demonstrating the crux of the issue.
I was just looking for a name of a historical figure associated with the Declaration of Independence but not involved in the writing of it. Elizabeth Powel. Once I knew the name, I went through the ai to see how fast they’d get it. Duck.ai confidently gave me 9 different names, including people who were born on 1776 or soon thereafter and could not have been historically involved in any of it. I even said not married to any of the writers and kept getting Abagail Adams and the journalist, Goddard. It was continually distracted by “prominent woman” and would give Elizabeth Cady Stanton instead. Twice.
Finally, I gave the ai a portrait. It took the ai three tries to get the name from the portrait, and the portrait is the most used one under the images tab.
It was very sad. I strongly encourage everyone to test the ai. Easy to grab wikis that would be top of the search anyway are making the ai look good.
If you understand how LLMs work, that’s not surprising.
LLMs generate a sequence of words that makes sense in that context. It’s trained on trillions(?) of words from books, Wikipedia, etc. In most of the training material, when someone asks “what’s the name of the person who did X?” there’s an answer, and that answer isn’t “I have no fucking clue”.
Now, if it were trained on a whole new corpus of data that had “I have no fucking clue” a lot more often, it would see that as a reasonable thing to print sometimes so you’d get that answer a lot more often. However, it doesn’t actually understand anything. It just generates sequences of believable words. So, it wouldn’t generate “I have no fucking clue” when it doesn’t know, it would just generate it occasionally when it seemed like it was an appropriate time. So, you’d ask “Who was the first president of the USA?” and it would sometimes say “I have no fucking clue” because that’s sometimes what the training data says a response might look like when someone asks a question of that form.
LOL Maybe AI will be the next big job creator. The AI solves a task super fast, but a human has to sort out the mistakes, and spend twice the time doing that, than it would have taken to just do it yourself.
This what’s happening in computer programming. The booming subfield is apparently slop cleaners.
funny… i expected IT workers to be in that list but we’re not. AI couldn’t do my job but it could be my boss and that frightens me.
I drove Amazon Flex during Covid, having an AI as your boss is deeply and perpetually unsettling but ultimately doable! Just do what the push notification tells you to do. If you want to say something to your boss, use the feedback form on the corporate website. So simple.
What do you do?
what don’t I do… some days… I tell you. My job is Systems Administrator
If you have a job that you can be confidently wrong without any self awareness after the fact, then yeah I guess.
But I can’t think of many jobs like that except something that is mostly just politics.
Don’t forget the vast majority of CEOs.
IMO AI would probably do the job of CEO better than a human. It wouldn’t be as greedy and would be happy with any growth while being humble enough to make decisions that might be personally embarrassing
Spam and astroturfing mostly.
