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    The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding

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    1. Independent_Plum_489 on

      “lower-value human capital” is an absolutely unhinged way to describe the people you’re firing and they just put it in a press release like it was nothing

    2. acidcrab on

      I’m proud of the youth but I don’t think they’re the ones that need to boo. If the jobs go away and the managers expect compliance the youth will have to play ball like the rest of us.

    3. lurkervidyaenjoyer on

      In the tech world, it’s atrophying the skills that people have spent years honing, builds up technical debt like nothing else, and yet tech CEOs think it’s the new paradigm (top signal), and are laying off workers in expectation of magical levels of productivity from the bots. For young people trying to get in, it feels like the bottom rungs of the ladder have been severed.

      Elsewhere, multimedia entertainment sites are getting flooded with slop. At first it was cute and cool to see AI try to make a gif of Will Smith eating spaghetti, but now anyone can grab the cannons, take aim, and fire away with uncanny sludge, meaning people are getting less enjoyment out of social media.

      Every other OS and service seems to be trying to hawk its new “AI features” at you, which feel soulless and just get in the way of you trying to do things. AI writing is pretty easy to detect these days, and once you know how to spot it, you’ll never not notice it.

      It’s making life worse for local communities where the datacenters are being built. It’s not just the older generations that aren’t happy about the way this is going, everyone can see it and they don’t like it.

      I gotta be honest, I’m not sure what there is for young people to get excited about or applaud for.

    6. extremewah on

      I’m for it. Society only cares about AI because it’s going to affect most of them this time. If it was just a few people these selfish white collar people wouldn’t care. They didn’t care before when people were struggling. Now we all get fucked by capitalism and greed. That’s equal. It was heading this direction anyway for some of us.

    8. corobo on

      Does ChatGPT know that these guys are billionaires when it replies to them?

      Can we just double check it’s not acting out a bit of [Silicon Valley](https://youtu.be/t5zQpN28xa4)-esque storytelling using press releases? 

      “lower-value human capital” lmao, absolute dickheads man. 

      AI was much more fun earlier on when people were worried about it becoming sapient lmao. Now it’s just knowingly replacing jobs with dogshit to save a few quid by people who will take the bonus and bounce before it all blows up. It’s hilariously insane. 

    9. SpookyKite on

      Yeah, because it sucks. A 6 year old kid can answer with more intelligence

    11. 200IQUser on

      I mean I like some aspects like search summaries or some random cooncept thst doesnt worth it to draw for hours instead tocjust get a good enough ai pic, but every company picking itnup makes it lame. Like dudes, its just a word/token guesser not Artificial Intelligence. When that will happen I’d understand wanting it in your products but until it just guesses words its just not needed in every product. 

      I mean the stuff in my life where I’d be content with just a guess is close to 0. 

    12. Infinplayz on

      as a person in high school, it hurts me to see that ai is taking up all my hobbies and future jobs I want to do. everything is gonna be replaced by slop.

    14. PrizeFront8677 on

      Not every painting is a masterpiece. The tech nerds should have known that.

    16. radioactivecat on

      Anyone with half a brain is booing, because we know that current crop of “AI” only exists to increase shareholder value and not improve anyone’s lives.

    17. trysten-9001 on

      Are they though? Every year for the last few hundred years we’ve been able to automate more and more, but this isn’t shaping up to be the leap it was promised to be.

    18. gamewitoutmeaning on

      It pretty much killed 3 of my passions, so yeah I don’t like it much.

    20. Thin-Honey892 on

      Nerds are boring the cool kids on a grander scale than ever recorded in history

    21. Valleygurl99 on

      The problem is poverty, not AI. People fear starvation and homelessness. If these were eliminated I don’t think it would be as frightening. But we can’t talk about inequality in our culture. 

    22. Ok_Replacement4702 on

      “I can’t believe you guys don’t want this thing you never asked for”

      **Clueless CEO, 2026**

    23. bleezy1234567 on

      Honestly I want very liberal government during this time of transition. Governments that will enact a UBI and stuff like that. AI could be a good thing. But in a ultra capitalist environment with governments that favor corporate power and control it will never be a good thing

    24. Expensive_Shallot_78 on

      They all need to join unions but that’s probably impossible considering how fragmented the US job market is.

    25. workingtheories on

      these articles aren’t for the perpetually online, but they’re being posted as ragebait for the perpetually online anyway 

    28. chaotic-kotik on

      That’s because boomers mistook LLMs for real ai and decided to layoff a shitton of people.

    30. bonfireball on

      Went to a game shop yesterday, all of the graphics, banners, and event material was ai generated, how is a recently graduated graphic designer meant to be hopeful about their prospects when all of their work can be outsourced to an ai for uncanny slop. It’s actually ridiculous, and people won’t take it lying down either.

    31. whooo_me on

      The company is coming, which will have zero employees / staff. Once set up, it functions entirely through AI and/or automation. No salaries, no employee rights. Can be moved to a new jurisdiction at a whim, should the local Government regulations prove troublesome. Just pure profit for the owners/investors.

      (Who’ll be around to pay for this product/service? Pfffh, that’s a problem for another day)