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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (26 children)

At some point in the last decade, the ~~ostensive~~ ostensible goal of automation evolved from savings us from unwanted labor to keeping us from ever doing anything.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

It says something important about this "revolution" that it's starting with replacement/replication of art, not labor or manual drudgery work.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If this whole AI craze was actually about replacing labor, I honestly believe it would have started with firing and automating CEOs.

I’m not even saying that as a “eat the rich” shtick - AI is great at analyzing huge datasets and determining a conclusion from the results. It would obviously need refinement, but that would probably be the major role I could see it immediately taking over.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've worked at places where the CEO being removed without a replacement would have had the company run markedly better. So replacing a CEO with just a license to stock ChatGPT would be a net benefit to probably a significant number of corporations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Except corporations aren't meant to make a profit, they're meant to make the executives at the top a profit. Everything else is just a mechanism to do that.

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