They could let an AI decide
My first thought exactly :P
How about those C-level management positions that nobody needs? 🤷🏻♂️
As soon as the AIs learn to say “let’s circle back” and “I just wanted to touch base on our product strategy,” you know it’s over for those motherfuckers.
The problem is ai needs work to train on.
“AI” again.
Jobs which technically could be replaced with that will not be because they require a living person doing social stuff.
Most jobs technically can’t be.
Entire industries cannibalizing one another to eliminate competition and their industry’s ability and desire to make the products/services they existed for in the first place. TimeWarnerHBOblahblah shelving projects and making lazy appeals to nostalgia for what the companies they destroy once made and cheap reality garbage instead of actual media comes to mind, but it’s terminal capitalism, it’s happening in every sector.
Then they lay off their workers cutting their workforce to the bone by activist shareholder demand, eliminating potential consumers of the economy.
Now they want to use AI to cut the bone.
The economy no longer has any interest in the human beings it was created as a lowly tool to serve. We’re being cut out entirely.
AI could and should be used to free mankind from tedious labor, that’s why such innovation should have come from well funded PUBLIC research our economy should have been oriented to feed.
Instead, like every other technology, it will be used as yet another cudgel against society.
Most of AI is open source, so everyone motivated enough can try it! It’s public and anyone who has the will, can use it to benefit the public.
I do myself, on albeit 5 year old hardware that struggles on my home server, but with decent GPUs with decent amounts of Vram running in the thousands, it isn’t accessible to most even with the inclination.
AI is open source, but running it is an expensive proposition, Raspberry Pis need not apply.
The owners can buy all they like without a thought though to use against us for their gain.
Welcome to late stage capitalism where the game’s made up and the points don’t matter.
Privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
I’ve tried to use “AI” to help me with minor programming tasks, or to start basic projects, it’s really bad. As in, it takes me more effort to fix the garbage it outputs than it would have to write it from scratch. In addition to that, it writes things badly in non-obvious ways. Junior engineers make similar mistakes to each other, because they’re working logically. “AI” makes weird mistakes because it’s not working in the same way a human mind does.
A-fuckin-goddamn-men.
There is no tool that is OWNED that will ever serve the public without first having to pay the owner.
There really are some things that should be publicly owned, but of course that LeAvEs MoNeY oN tHe tAbLe and that’s a worse sin than murder to our society…
