Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
When robots do all the jobs, humans will no longer have an income.
No income means no way to buy products.
No customers. Businesses end.
Did anyone look beyond the immediate need to cut costs to see the utter demise of their profits?
No.
Greed kills Humanity.Businesses won’t even look beyond the next quarter’s earnings.
The rich don’t care. They’ll watch the world burn from their bunkers then end it with a cyanide laced glass of champagne when they get bored.
You know we took a wrong turn as a society when not having to work is seen as a devastating crisis. Let the robots serve us and start enjoying life!
Unfortunately, we still have to pay for things. No work = no money = no food or housing
There’s nothing stoping us from restructuring the system such that we don’t need money/work to live a comfortable life.
That would be nice. But governments aren’t so hype on UBI yet.
Nor all the fat cats with billions of dollars.
So eat them. We elect them, and we outnumber the elite that would oppose this.
This will be the end of capitalism, the only option they have is universal income.
The other option is having you do shitty gig jobs for next to nothing and be grateful that you have just enough money not to starve. Guess which option will the rich chose?
But this does not solve the underlying problem for the rich which is: with automation of work with AI and robots and so on, they will be able to produce wealth like we haven’t seen in history, but with shitty underpaid jobs people won’t be able to consume enough so that capitalism can maintain its health, so it will inevitably lead to an overproduction crash of capitalism. That’s why I continue to believe that the only option they have is universal income. Even a capitalist pig like Elon Musk recognizes that this is their only way around.
Thus UBI
The rich will just buy and sell stocks.back and forth to each other. They’re already decided they don’t need us anymore.
Post-scarcity tbh
edit: added video explaining democratic workplaces
Sadly, this will keep happening.
Corporations are: profit>humans.
Once it is cheaper to replace humans, they will.
Co-ops and unions. Democracy in the workforce is required.
Video on subject:
A Democratic Society Should Have Democratic Workplaces - Richard Wolff
If the workforce democratically decides to keep people employed whose job can be done cheaper by AI, that company will not survive in the long term.
So either we as a society decide to artificially keep people in jobs that aren’t needed anymore, or we have to give the labor cost savings to the people instead of the owners.Both is not possible under a Capitalist system, so that will have to go.
labor cost savings to the people instead of the owners.
This is the way.
Profit sharing should be a part of our laws.
Good thing our politicians that vote for us are all bought out by corporations who don’t want shit like that to pass
Taxes are essentially profit sharing
No.
Taxes pay for the infrastructure that companies rely on to operate.
Taxes don’t reward the workers for their contribution to the companies bottom line.
You have a point, if a democratic workforce votes to increase profit instead of investing in workforce, they will not survive.
I am thinking it would work more like a non-profit, due to all the money made would be used in reinvesting in the company and paying workers.
Aren’t some companies artificially kept up or is it manipulation of the market?
I think the capitalist system is already dead, you need markets for capitalist system.
Technofeudalism: Explaining to Slavoj Zizek why I think capitalism has evolved into something worse
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Would love the AI society that artists and authors started to imagine (in an admittedly idyllic fashion) a world where technology and AI meant that people could invest more time in personal projects, socializing, and relaxation instead of working all the time. All it will really do under our current system is leave a bunch of people who’ve been replaced with no real way to stay afloat. We’re replacing the workers, but not their support system
Agree, making harder for working class to support ourselves
No support system in the works, so more crime and violence as a result.
Union density is highest in pseudo-socialist countries like Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and in pseudo-communist/ex-communist countries like China, Russia, Kazakhstan…
It seems that the work was easy enough to be replaced. I wouldn’t do a job that can be replaced by an AI in the long term.
I wouldn’t do a job that can be replaced by an AI in the long term.
What job do you do now?..
I am a car mechanic and can’t imagine being replaced by a AI or machine any time soon.
Blue collar job are safe from this type of AI. If anything it will make diagnostics easier.
in the long term.
any time soon.
Two different time scales.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former Gizmodo writer Matías S. Zavia publicly mentioned the layoffs, which took place via video call on August 29, in a social media post.
Earlier this summer, Gizmodo began publishing AI-generated articles in English without informing or involving its editorial staff.
The stories were found to contain multiple factual inaccuracies, leading the Gizmodo union to criticize the practice as unethical.
For Spanish-speaking audiences seeking news about science, technology, and Internet culture, the loss of original reporting from Gizmodo en Español is potentially a major blow.
Subtle errors, mistranslations, and lack of cultural knowledge can impair the quality of automatically translated content.
But with so many media companies chasing revenue through SEO manipulations and AI-written filler, it’s unlikely that we’ll see the end of this apparently cost-cutting AI trend soon.
The original article contains 523 words, the summary contains 129 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
The irony of an AI bot being the first reply…
A bot doesn’t use an AI or ML, or DL. A bot does what it is programmed for. You don’t train it.
This bot uses ML to summarise the article, however.
Does it? The summarization library doc link is broken, but it doesn’t mention AI/ML on its page.
I had a look at the github repo. The summarization is being done by a library called Sumy.
After a quick look through it, you’re right that it doesn’t use machine learning. However, it does use a lot of key concepts from Natural Language Processing, such as Tokenization, which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence.
You’re right, I had a look too and couldn’t find much. The Sumy space is hosted on hugging face though, which does ML stuff. But yea can’t be sure
You have narrow view of what a bot is.
AI is going to get more humans fired by fucking up on purpose making people look even dumber.
And then AI will go in for the coup de grace.
They took er jerbs!
I came beer to say this.
