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The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble (www.latimes.com)
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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 46 points 2 months ago (4 children)

As for the prospect that AI will enable business users to do more with fewer humans in the office or on the factory floor, the technology generates such frequent errors that users may need to add workers just to double-check the bots’ output.

And here we were worrying about being out of work...

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More tedious work with worse pay \o/

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Shitty idea: fire the workers anyway and gamify the product so the customer does quality control while earning fake money. If we're feeling generous we may even award NFT monkeys to the harder working customers.

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