Spyke
acchariyareply
lemmy.world

Hey some of us have made a whole career of this and we didn't need ai to do it

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This must be why c-suites and investors are gung-ho on AI. It speaks the same vapid language lacking any true understanding and meaning. It is the Adam they made in their image.

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lemmy.world

Too late. Didn't have time to prep backup plan, clients all went AI. Now I'm job hunting like a 15 years old trying to figure out what I can do with my skills now that everyone thinks they can be great at anything using Large lying models.

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My service cost money and chatgpt was free. They all took the person that was interfacing with the multiple linguists and put that person in charge of asking the translations to chatgpt.

They lost in quality, quality control, cultural fitness of the message, creativity. But none of them cared and they just started pasting texts into chatgpt.

It's not just me either. Projects are multilingual so there can be dozens of translators working on a given project. We all tried to reason and explain why that was stupid as hell.

But money saved is money so they did it anyway.

Initially I tried looking for new clients but the once buzzing world of translation was a ghost town, no one was asking for translation services anymore.

Some people don't do AI for money, there's a subgroup that thinks they are helping by doing the prep work with AI so we can deliver to them faster . That's easier to work with because they usually understand when we explain why it doesn't help at all.

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Honestly, just wait. This happened to a lot of us in 2002 and 2008. It sucks, but they'll learn they can't do everything with AI and they'll SLOWLY hire people back. But it will take time.

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job sites essentially made it very hard to find many jobs, i think because AI is being used in resume and screening by employers, its not getting any better. before that they were already doing something similar to AI to screen people out, AI just have more false positive, or if they made sure the AI would have denials.

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lemmy.world

No way AI will get to the point where it can steal catalytic converters.

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sh.itjust.works

Start a new career fixing all the fuckups made by AI. If you think vibe coding is dangerous, try vibe machining

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MatSeFireply
lemmy.liebeleu.de

That's also what I currently experience in my position. A lot of workflows are going to be automated by some AI stuff, but whenever someone is planning to produce physical goods in masses you can not effort doing stupid misstakes. When you simply put the output of the LLM in to the input of your CNC, Ion-Implanter, Litograph-Machine, Welding Robot, Aribag or Breaking systems. A mistake is going to be sooo fucking expensive that the human in the loop is not an cost factor anymore. And when you do high precision stuff an approximate solution is never sufficient.

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I always think years back when Jeep had to issue a recall for like 30k vehicles because a robot missed a fillet weld on a suspension component and QA missed every single one lmfao

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lemmy.world

I work in cybersecurity. My job is in no danger. AI seems to be an expert in things until you start asking it questions about a subject you're an expert in. Then it all falls apart. Anyone who thinks they're using AI for cybersecurity or thinks AI can do cybersecurity knows nothing about cybersecurity.

The only people who would use AI for cybersecurity wouldn't hire a cybersecurity firm anyway but would instead ask their friend Bob who "knows computers" and would get roughly the same level of expertise as a result and feel just as happy about either.

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lemmy.world

Right now they're using it for attacks, so it's fighting itself lol. I fucking hate what AI has done to jobs, the environment, minds of people who use it. We spent a whole generation denying cookies, now we're giving our info away. Brainless morons.

Flint Michigan still has shit for water, but data centers are drinking up millions of gallons per day. I wanna see a ceo of any dc to drink a gallon of the water they say comes out clean for the environment.

And the noise destroying wildlife, people, permanent headaches. Wtf america. Money does not trump humanity.

https://youtu.be/m7_WDzPyoqU

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/with-ai-on-the-rise-what-will-be-the-environmental-impacts-of-data-centers-180987379/

https://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/sites/stpp/files/2025-07/stpp-data-centers-2025.pdf

https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption

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Saprophytereply
lemmy.world

I have no doubt that it's a PR stunt not releasing this amazing thing that's so incredible they can't even show you! Their last code leak and showed brittle memory issues, AI generated functions with incredibly inefficient functions that appear to be designed to inflate API calls.

Open AI also immediately had a press release about another super secret project that they can't show you that they also somehow released 6 months ago. The one that was already released is also too dangerous to be released!

PR stunt after PR stunt. Just trying to drum up more investors.

https://www.sabrina.dev/p/claude-code-source-leak-analysis

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lemmy.world

Not to mention the Mythos red team report claims, even at the currently subsidized inference prices, it cost over $20,000 to find that OpenBSD bug

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LH0ezVTreply
sh.itjust.works

To be fair, such bugs can easily be worth quite a bit more. If it can indeed automate finding RCEs and similar for everyone with a few $10k, then that's suddenly way more accessible than paying a guy in a basement somewhere a million in shitcoins for that RCE.

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Maybe. But I am talking about both above the table and more shady government programs. Ever wonder where the guys at Pegasus and friends get their exploits from? They aren't all super great hackers, they buy a lot of stuff, or so I heard. After all, for someone without money, it is a hard decision to be paid a year's wages right now or to go the responsible disclosure route, and potentially get nothing.

And iirc the advertised price for juicy bugs in common platforms and apps was quite substantial. So, according to demand and supply, the price for such exploits was rather high, and is now significantly lower.

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lemmy.hogru.ch

In a way, LLMs have already taken my job as a software engineer. It's not that they can do my job better than me. But they suck all the joy out of the field, they expose the almost religious culture around efficiency and velocity in the field (no, i don't want to be 5% faster to make the boss richer and feel miserable doing it) and how little my peers care about craft and quality. Also why do those fucks have to lap up every new technofacist oligarchy thing with such enthusiasm, it pisses me off.

so it's not that it does my job, but that it showed me how much i disdain this field now.

I'm thinking of switching to something (cnc) machining/cad related, both skills i taught myself and love , but i don't know what kind of position could be suitable given my dev knowledge and lack of formal training. Plus i wouldn't want to do the operator kind of work where all you do is put stock in the cnc machine and execute someone elses CAM, that seems too close to using LLMs in spirit. I do want and like creative work and tinkering.

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and I'm lucky enough to work for a university, so good work life balance, job security, pension, mostly meaningful work. Ironically enough in the AI field… But that makes considering to switch even harder. I could easily and comfortably coast along and feel discontent for many years to come.

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Agreed, I love programming and taking my time to think through problems before I code, but my God these casual AI users at work lap this shit up and can't be fucked spending an extra minute thinking before they write their code.

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lemmy.world

Take a 6 month vacation and then negotiate double my pay when they frantically try to rehire me.

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This, exactly!

I'll accept a substantial ownership stake in the whole place, in exchange for making a leasurely attempt to pull their asses out of the fire.

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AI already does that, well enough. It is probably, difficult for it to be useless poorly.

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Serious question: Anyone seen a janitor robot running anywhere that wasn't constantly filthly?

I have only encountered janitor bots fighting in vain in places that have clearly gone decades (or one astonishingly abusive hour) without a successful cleaning.

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lemmy.world

I know the addresses of several billionaires, and I am not too good to commit cannibalism

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I am studying CS. AI has already taken my job. I am glad to be studying CS anyway. I had a lot of anxiety about it early on and was bummed the fuck out, had to do some soul searching and remember why I chose CS in the first place. I like computers, I wanna know how they work. And I don't wanna let AI dumben me down and make me forget for the bubble will eventually pop.

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Unless something revolutionary happens, AI is not taking your job anytime soon. This is just another wave of the tech sector trying to beat down developers because they don't want to pay them.

If current AI systems could actually replace people, the the job market would have already collapsed. Right now in the US the job market sucks because of Trumps policies and wars.

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There's all kind of dev work that needs to be done in industries that aren't "tech first", for example a industrial machine manufacture needs someone to program the robot arms and gui - ai doesn't know how the brand new machine works.

Commercial buildings have all kinds of systems; lighting controllers, audio systems, HVAC, networks, security systems and so on. All of that needs both someone to program the device (and firmware support) and someone to physically deploy and integrate those systems.

It's pretty hard to avoid corporate hell. Some people find success in smaller, well established, private companies. Less corporate nonsense, or at least HR knows your name and there's no investors demanding a mass-layoff.

My suggestion is to find something where you're on-staff for a company that exists outside of the "digital" realm.


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lemmy.world

There are lots of things you can do besides working in a corporate hell that you should consider before you get to suicide. You haven't even taken out a huge loan to start your own business yet.

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Anebreply
lemmy.world

Can I clarify that this isn't an endorsement for taking out a loan

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I’m fairly decent with mechanical work and I can work trades too.

But I won’t be doing that; if AI takes my job, it’s taken the economy and it’ll be a dystopia. I’ll be farming my back yard wishing it was big enough to sustain my family and knowing it’s not.

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Depends.

My main job it would be interesting. I mainly plan for organisations how to handle disasters. Not necessarily IT disasters but actual one - what happens if your hospital is on fire, your airline has hundreds of people stranded somewhere (yeah, we had a bad time recently), your muncipial water supply goes bad, the Russians actually come,etc.

If AI can do that on a level it replaces my staff and me...well...good for everyone else,because right now it's a underdeveloped and rarely looked upon issue.

In my side job I am still working in my original trade as a critical care paramedic. Until AI can fully replace one there it will take a long time (but we see a lof of actually beneficial developments that makes the job insanely more easy and capable) and I am very likely retired by then. What is far more likely is that societies won't be able to pay for proper healthcare anymore...and that would be "not replaced" technically, I guess.

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I'm very good at quickly sharpening knives and other blades. I'm sure I could have a decent side hustle with traveling and sharpening gravity fueled blades.

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Weep. Try something closely related with some paid training. In a few years, get more money to fix all the crap that AI has done.

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lemmy.world

I'm 6 years away from getting Social Security.. Which means I'll get to it about the time to see some billionaire buy another boat with what was left in the Social Security fund.

I wish my wife would be up for this, but I'm damn close to selling everything and buying a boat then fucking off to the south Pacific until I die. The problem is she gets motion sickness from standing still. She'd never be able to live on a boat.

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I've thought about selling my house and everything I own and skipping off to the other side of the world too, haha. But I'm 33 and want to move to Australia and work as an electrician in the mines. It's 2 weeks on, 1 week off, they fly you in and out of the mines (FIFO), set you up with a free dorm, cafeteria, gym. We have a friend in Melbourne so we'd probably live there. The week off regularly sounds great if I wanted to hop around SE Asia and check out Vietnam for a week or something.

We currently live in Pittsburgh. I have a lot of experience in industrial electrical work and am fine with hard work and long 12 hour days over and over. But my future husband just works crappy food service jobs. He's been working in a commercial kitchen, basically just like a tiny factory for grab and go food for small businesses around town. Idk how feasible it is for someone like him to immigrate to Australia without any kind of marketable skills or whatever they look at. He dropped out of high school when he was a teenager.

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fedia.io

Pick up something else like a trade. Would be a great excuse to pick up electric engineering or carpentry

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fedinsfw.app

Always said I'd love to learn to weld for real... would be as good a reason as any

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sh.itjust.works

Get a mask, gloves, a stick welder, and some scrap steel for practice. You can learn it off of Youtube easily enough.

Just whatever you do, DON'T WELD GALGANIZED STEEL! The zinc evaporates into fumes and can get you very sick and possibly kill you. If you absolutely have to weld galvanized steel, do it outside with a fan blowing all the fumes down wind.

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Oh no, I can weld, everything but TIG... I'm just a farm welder, learned functional welding to fix stuff but never learned "propper" techniques.

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treadfulreply
lemmy.zip

Just whatever you do, DON’T WELD GALGANIZED STEEL! The zinc evaporates into fumes and can get you very sick and possibly kill you.

See, this is the kind of thing that a class might teach, though.

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Skilled trades have been flushed with folks who are green and have no experience that they're becoming very competitive to secure an apprenticeship and long-term employment. It can be tough finding something in plumbing or electrical with no prior experience. Even moreso in the unions. If more office-level workers start getting laid off and start competing for those jobs, it'll be even harder to make the switch into something like that.

There's a massive shortage for skilled journeymen and people with lots of experience. I love electrical work to death, but I hear "I'll just be an electrician or plumber" a lot which grazes over the fact that any company training you is taking a hit for the first year or two of you working there.

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lemmy.zip

I work at a slaughterhouse so not sure if AI can replace me. Bots most likely could, but I feel like they would have by now if they were gonna.

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yeah but the trouble is also that if other jobs close down, people are gonna push into your field and take up the jobs too

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I mean they're welcome here. We're desperate for workers and the only requirement is being alive and able to do repetitive tasks. Although some may not like the pay or location (middle of nowhere starting at $20/hr for 30-40 hours, not consistent, pay goes up after your first couple weeks a different amount depending on your department). You don't even gotta speak English.

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MagicShelreply
lemmy.zip

Smart thinking, since the only people with money will be living on boats anchored just outside Molotov range.

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I mean probably no more of a security risk than the head of the Department of WAR and the rest of Whiskey Leaks's entourage.

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lemmy.world

Watch the internet break. Good luck talking to your cloud hosted AI agent when your internet is offline.

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discuss.tchncs.de

There's no reason for that sort of planning, because AI can't do shit. Especially not reliably and dependably. The CEOs who claim to have replaced people are lying. A price explosion for LLMs is also necessarily coming, because currently they are all burning through privat equity funds like a strawfire.

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quipsreply
slrpnk.net

Bro have you looked around? Its already happening.

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already happening.

They're laying people off and then bleeding money. Replacing people implies actually still making a pofit and remaining a viable business. That isn't happening. They are, as usual, sacrificing the future of each company, for a quick stock price boost.

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The price explosion? Yeah it has started for some of them. Anthropic seems to be the first.

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lemmy.world

There is no backup plan. We are in trouble.

I guess the backup plan is OnlyFans or something?

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Yeah... with all that a.i porn only fans is on the chopping block.

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I take solace in the fact that if my job got automated, a significant portion of the population would be in the same boat as me, so it wouldn't be purely up to me to work something out.

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feddit.org

I am smart, and I am always right.

Therefore AI cannot take my job.

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MagicShelreply
lemmy.zip

I see you are vying for AI's job. Speaking bullshit with confidence is always in demand. Just... normally in sales, not implementation.

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I work in data protection and governance.

I'll be the poor sod behind the scenes trying to stop it taking over. I already insisted that the words

"AI must not be used to make decisions" was inserted into the AI and data protection policies.

Which means I'm probably marked for extermination when it takes over.

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piefed.muxika.org

If AI takes over my field (education), we are truly fucked.

I guess I'd try out a personal business of making home servers for people who want to start their own businesses.

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AskewLordreply
piefed.social

education is in flux.

some places are going anti-tech, like no screens at all.

others are pushing AI-literary graduation requirements.

and nobody seems to want to actually education anyone anymore because education is not really just job-training rather than education.

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muxikareply
piefed.muxika.org

Yes, the focus should be on problem solving, thinking for yourself, navigating texts, etc. I don't want to issue them a tool to get a job done. I want them to build their own toolbox and decide for themselves what the best strategy is going to be.

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Yeah, but the students don't want to do that.

Majority just see it as a obligation they have to suffer through and want the path of least resistance and effort. The vast majority of human beings are allergic to learning and think it's painful and miserable.

And then you have the minority of students who embrace learning, and the minority who actively reject it.

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plus teachers are not putting up with the bs anymore, they are quitting in droves, leaving huge areas "undereducated".

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fedia.io

Looks like a lot of people are going with "denial". Not a good plan.

My personal plan is to have spent the last twenty years saving intensively for retirement, which looks like it's a good plan for me but is not something that can be started right now by others.

So I'm not really sure what to recommend. Try to get ready for a period of unemployment and hopefully things will stabilize quickly enough that a new career path will become evident? Getting started on a new one right now might not be a good idea if things will change drastically over the next few years and potentially eliminate that too, so just build up savings and resources as best you can I guess. Research unemployment benefits ahead of time so you'll know what to do if something happens without warning.

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Denial of a prediction from the same techbros who said bitcoins would replace dollars and banks, or NFTs would be used for real estate,.or napster would launch the careers of new musicians, or.you wouldnt need a printer anymore,.or computers would lead to a.three day workweek,isn't exactly Luddites complaining about weaving machines.

If LLMs are still economical after the bubble pops they'll be tools that increase efficiency and in some cases help one human do your job and someone else's. Which was exactly the trend for all jobs before the AI bubble started.

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AskewLordreply
piefed.social

A lot of people realize that AI isn't going to take that many jobs, and it's just a paranoid talking point.

I use AI tools in my job... the vast majority of them constantly break and who has to fix that? Me. They break themselves with feature updates...

the AI panick is just fear of automation. automation often produces different kinds of jobs while it reduces others. also it increases throughput, meaning you need more workers.

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Automation reduces repetitive common tasks. It always fails when a task is outside the average range. The more complex a task, the lower the probability is to achieve successful automation.

What the techbros and billionaires don't understand is that most jobs that exist today are because of their difficulty in automating already. Seemingly simple jobs have hidden complexity.

Since my job is highly complex, non-repetative, with a very high degree of non-recorded specialized knowledge, my fear of a LLM replacing me approaches zero.

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Ironic: the same troll (Facedeer) complained people were too paranoid about job loss:

I think the online rhetoric around AI has been way more apocalyptic than the more vague and abstract political stuff... All jobs will be taken away and everyone will be reduced to serfs or killed as surplus population? Drum that into a sufficiently mentally fragile subset of the population long and hard enough and you'll get them worked up enough to feel like they need to strike first.

But what's a troll without inconsistent rhetoric...

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Currently AI is a buzzword and excuse to lay people off, i think that has always been the plan.

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AI can't do my job. For the very least it needs a physical body to go along with it.

However, as I work in the trades my jos is probably among the last ones to go. Once that happens there's no need for human labour anymore so I'll probably just retire then.

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I've already started production on a line of (still in stealth mode). I think I can do enough in sales - both direct to consumer and wholesale to shops - to patent it and then cover my mortgage and other bills. And hey, if AI doesn't take my job, maybe I'll finally get out of debt. Of course it could fail and I'll be out the seed money, but I'll also have hundreds of (product) to remind me of my shame, so, whatever.

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lemmy.ca

I don't think AI will take a lot of jobs. It could happen but I don't see it.

Even before AI these things could happen. I just watched a documentary on lighthouse keepers and the disappearance of their job because of automation and LED lights. When I was a kid, well before "AI", they were telling us that computers amd automation would take most of the jobs.

Translators would be a thing of the past! Yet, machine translation still sucks. Sure it reduced the amount of translators needed, but they're still needed. AI translation can't even make the difference between a common and proper noun. It's making slop.

I work in tech support and customer support. I've been told many times that automation and AI would take my job, but so far computers are bad at that. I have scripted myself out of certain tasks at work much before any AI could do it, and it just freed me and my coworkers for other tasks. A big part of my work is understanding what people want and what went wrong, and AI is absolutely not there yet.

Although I can see the effect it has on the industry and job market as enthusiasts are trying to push it everywhere they can, I doubt it will replace lots of work. AI can be a good assistant and help on some tasks, but it still can't read a piece of paper properly. It's not even good for data entry.

All those "AI will replace a lot of jobs" claims are exaggerating. Sure, it will happen for a few people in small numbers, slowly. But not like what tech bros are predicting.

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AI is an excuse to reduce costs.

What has been happening is they use AI to fire 2000 people, but then they want to re-hire 1500 of them as contractors at a higher pay rate... but w/o benefits which greatly reduces costs for the company.

It's really just being used as leverage to dis-empower labor, esp in sectors where labor is paid 'too much'. The tech sector massively over-hired and is still over-employed, hence why most of the news you hear is about tech company layoffs, as all their projections on pandemic-level growth ground to a halt once the pandemic was over in 23/24.

And yeah, most of it is media hype, because it freaks people out and gets them anxious and talking and eyes glued to screens and listening to talking heads endlessly bullshit about AI when they know next to nothing about it. For most people AI is a form of magic, like any technology.

And then you have the evangelists and the luddites on either side fanning the flames in their own ways, who claim AI will be mankind's salvation, or it's destruction...

Reality is it's just the next 'big thing'. it will fade into the background like all the 'big things' before it. We'll have all these data centers doing lots of computing and all it will functionally end up being is just a major upgrade of a computing capacity. The question really is what will we do with it, will it be used productively, or will it just be used to flood the internet with endless bullshit. As if people themselves don't already produce enough bullshit.

Then again, people's capacity for consuming bullshit... is pretty infinite as we have seen from the rise of social media, influences, and podcasting. If you told anyone 15 years ago people would spend 8 hours a day listening to weirdos bullshit on the internet, they'd have thought you were nuts.

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Slop generators cannot truly replace very many jobs. They can however give your boss an excuse to fire you and enshittify their own company. And most bosses will take that trade if offered. When people say AI is stealing their job, they mean it gave their boss an excuse to fire them. Not that they've truly been made redundant.

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When people tell you that AI will (or already does) take a lot of jobs, it's not necessarily implied that it's good enough to replace humans. Just that it is sold well enough to the people who make those decisions.

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ttrpg.network

TLDR: I think AI is coming for teaching (for better or worse), but not coming to replace us, because the teacher:student ratio is already as poor as can be.


I'm a teacher. Giving a serious answer, AI is likely going to be very involved in this industry over the next decade, purely for it's ability to track and scaffold individual learning better than one adult doing the same for 30 people, but that would require a shift to even more digital learning, which takes the "how" of teaching out of the hands of a teacher in a way it currently is not.

That said, I don't actually think it's coming for my job precisely because there is 1 teacher to every 30 students. If you compare us to how cashiers have been replaced by self service tills, teachers have already been stripped to a minimal coverage of the classroom, and you cannot have 30 students independently working, because children and teenagers are predominantly motivated to avoid working. I'm this regard, it can only supplement our job, as they can't meaningfully cut the adult to student ratio further for safety reasons.

Also, although I think it'll start to be seen in the next 10 years, I'm not sure where it would come in. State schools do not have the budget, energy or time to experiment with individualised AI learning support, and private schools prefer to maintain older styles of teaching for a long time, as they prioritise the development of attitude and trust over academic scores as not only does it supplement academic scores, but it is what the corporate employers of privately educated students seek above merit.

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I've saved a lot of money and I have income insurance coverage for a bit over a year. This combined should keep me afloat for a long time

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I'm not convinced that there's enough training data for it to be good in my specialization anytime soon. And it certainly won't be trusted for safety critical applications even if that were to happen.

That being said I'm very, very, glad to not be in CS or law where there is nearly endless data to train on.

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lemmy.myserv.one

AI can't run wires, but it certainly can diagnose problems. Focus on the install work fam. I'm in the security game and while I'm close to aging out of install work, ChatGPT can't put a multimeter on the wire. Yet.

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sh.itjust.works

AI doesn't think. It can't diagnose. It can suggest things to try. That's not diagnosing.

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lemmy.myserv.one

I'm not sure I can agree with that. If you give enough inputs, the results while not guaranteed can put you in the right direction. I know AI doesn't think but the millions of people who it was trained on did, and it's just echoing their responses anyway. So you're right, it can't diagnose, but thousands of people already did and its weights in training will drive it to give similar answers.

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And then it needs someone to implement those answers. And confirm that it is the correct answer. Again something that it can't do.

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Are you imagining that we will get UBI? Cuz I think we are many decades out from that being realistic. I don't have savings to survive 10 years without a job.

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It will still take long until it would be able to take my job fully, but if it really were to. Charity work, cook (that might robots), museum, or actually go to uni and become a teacher ig lol

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Even though it will be some time until an AI could do all of what my job requires I'm already training as a dressmaker and tailor. And I'm already forging myself a reputation at being good sharpening high end scissors.

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programming.dev

The problem is that there are no industries or jobs that are entirely safe in the long term. Yes white collar jobs are most at risk at the moment, but I see no reason to believe manual labor wouldn't be at risk after 5-10 years. I literally don't know what we are supposed to do?

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I'd imagine what the Zuckerbergs and Musks of the world want for us is to just die. Once they can automate all of their needs they have no use for the rest of humanity. They couldn't possibly care any less if we all died of starvation, they would be ecstatic over the newly available property wherever they want

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lemmy.world

I climb and trim trees for a living. I'd love to see AI or a robot do my job. I really would, too, but I don't think it will happen soon.

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kinda already has. or at least IT hiring seems to be anemic. I really have no plan but keep trying and hoping.

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Become a paid online troll I guess. I have a background in manipulation. And if they get so far as my field, we are truly in the bad place.

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feddit.org

I don't believe that will happen permanently. I'm a Sysadmin currently working in client support I don't think ai will drive around town and fix laptops for the clients bit if it ever does AI still needs servers to run on. Also something with Wood maybe?

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65gmexl3reply
lemmy.world

Or like other IT jobs, there will be less admin as companies expect the workload for say 5 people can trim down to 2 pax with AI-assisted tools. But I'm not expert to say if that will really work.

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On the other hand we asked an LLM last week how many full time employees it would take to manage everything we're doing and the result was 6-8. We currently have more like 2.5 with 1.5 coming. So at least AI believes we need more rather than less employees.

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sopuli.xyz

It already did before I even got a chance to get it.

At least I have a farm job that won't be replaced by AI but that's pretty far from my EE studies

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As was said, electrical engineering. Getting my bachelor's degree in a year or so.

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LH0ezVTreply
sh.itjust.works

What, they are coming for EE now? Fuck. I thought I was safe for a while on the basis of "surely they won't have the hallucination machine design and test the multi-million $ project"

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Not EE directly that much, AI stuff has made the whole job situation quite bad.

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If it takes my job. Then the Chinese Tesla bots have taken over and we are already living in a great society, or we are all poor fucks

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If AI takes my job it's already taken everyone else's job. So non I guess.

Seriously though if it gets to that point, and I don't think it will I think AI is overhyped, governments are going to have to either put up or get lynched.

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Tbh, if I thought that I couldn't get another job I'd just buy some land and start homesteading. I work in an office, but I'm also no stranger to manual labor

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lemmy.world

anyone who thinks their job is safe vastly underestimates the stupidity of greedy rich fucks running their company.

they don't give a fuck if it's illogical, as long as it looks good on paper.

personally, I'll go out and steal some land in a national forest. build a house, small garden, hunt. oh yeah, I'll never use or see modern technology again. I'll be perpetually stuck in the late 90s at the most recent.

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Eventually something will have to give when companies continually get fucked in the ass by breaches and downtime caused by vibe code piling up. We're already starting to see the cracks.

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Have and AI work for me and make all the money I guess. If its was impossible for me to find another job then the model of work and living wages would need to change anyways. There would need to be universal basic income for the unemployed masses.

The point of life isn't really work so as long as everyone can afford to live there are plenty of things I would like to do

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