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That word 'augment' hides volumes of data for good and for bad. that is called 'whitewashing'.

Sometimes thoughts can just stay inside our heads and don’t have to be shared with everyone else AI is currently obliterating higher education and destroying everyone’s ability to critically think, using our fresh drinking water, etc. You sound like the people pitching radium in the 1900s

time to do a career pivot then

uh no, actually they are just overfitting the harness, it’s going to top out any day

i assume the humanoid robots are instead hillclimbing on DenaliBench

AI? The thing that we have to be warned isn’t accurate? AI? The thing my company laid off a bunch of people for without measurable returns? AI? The thing I can ask to read a subscribed software? Who the fuck are you that you think you know my job better? You’re embarrassing as hell

Pick meeeeeese

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmno

Ai turing test: replace a public library custodian or hotel housekeeper.

Why don't you get a real job waiting tables

If it was truly inevitable, people wouldn't have to keep trying to convince me that it was inevitable.

You seem to think all of this is inevitable and good. That's the main problem people have with AI shills.

tennis coach for a mental health charity? that is not cope, a robot cannot do my job in my lifetime or someone's born tomorrow c'mon

I can see limited use cases. But I’m less concerned about it killing us all than I am it not working for crap yet being pushed to hell by our oligarchic overlords because OMG OUR INVESTMENT and their desire to send us to subscription service/mainframe-and-terminal hell.

I think AI cheerleaders vastly underestimate how much people hate it.

Yes but what if I want the result not to feel weirdly hollow and boring despite the surface level being all "WOW WOW WOW!"

I dunno that anyone's gonna answer a question like that for you satisfactory. My point is more like, where's the buffet of open roles? Most individuals still can't duck out of the market for a hot minute to raise kids without getting dinged on hiring prospects as it stands today.

You are losing mental capabilities every day you spend leaning on AI slop.

I believe running around on social media trying to convince other people what to think about AI is COPE. You need us to "like AI" for it to work? If this is all true it will be SELF EVIDENT.

Why is there no evidence of any impact to productivity or employment? Even the bump in entry-level/youth unemployment that people pointed to as the leading indicator has reversed. There's no impact to the economy or to society other than AI psychosis.

i guess if your professional role is fart huffing i could see how you'd think this

shrinking by way of not hiring will collapse the economy

It's currently being used to bill for those services and to assist nurses and doulas with writing care notes for patient records. I am an AI skeptic but I work in healthcare IT and it is being rolled out everywhere.

Scheduling. Medical research. Influencing human society such that birth becomes more or less common. Our lives are even today shot through and with mediated by software, and that will only accelerate. Nothing is unchanging.

It can be, if the workflow only works at today's token price. A dedicated agent wrangler may be exactly what keeps the useful runs visible and the busy loops from quietly becoming a line item.

I guess you could argue that stylists are using it to juice up their photos, but I’m also not seeing that as very different from the photoshopping and filtering that was already going on.

It probably won't change how you cut hair, no, but things like booking/tracking appointments or managing finances or tracking/ordering supplies are things that LLMs already do reasonably well.

That’s true for all professions. Nobody is saying AI is doing your job. It’s an assistive technology like a calculator or copy machine. It’s an efficiency improver. That’s it.

(I do not wish it good luck)

I think it will still be a while before semi trucks can self-drive (legally, or effectively in all scenarios). You just might be safe! (If you are still driving a truck 20 years from now, I think you might not be safe then.)

It turns out that some economically valuable things are economically valuable precisely because they are done by humans rather than computers

I dabbled in it to come up with theories and I found that it was very useful for making me feel either overconfident or under confident.

Have you tried it, but found there are deal-breaker issues with completeness and correctness? I think for legal research it’s rife with such issues today, but, think back to what it could do 8 years ago and then imagine 8 years from now.

I mean, the day AI learns how to troubleshoot and repair the hardware that runs it, we might be kinda screwed anyway. Until then, I'll still have a job

nailed it.

By safe I meant, does it affect your job security in your field. For software engineers, it’s already resulted in a lot less job security. Downward pressure on salaries, quarterly layoffs like clockwork, fewer people employed making software (even though most still are).

Personally I think in the next decade or so, all knowledge work (jobs that involve reading and writing or spreadsheets) and most physical labor (farming, warehouses, shipping) will be impacted in the form of decreased job security as corps try to cut costs and replace humans with AI (+ robotics).

I agree, I think live theater is safe from AI job displacement.

“Keep this light pointed at this actor” is something that AI could've handled reasonably well multiple years ago, let alone now. Same for moving props, if you put those props on motorized wheels/arms/etc. Heck, AI's probably overkill for both of those.

I make condiments. Small business, everybody wears five hats. There are definitely places AI comes in handy, mostly for business organization, but safe to say it won't be replacing my kitchen staff.

I’m retired now but spent my career in sporthorses - buying, selling, training, competing, breeding, teaching etc. AI can’t touch any part of that work and I’d extrapolate that to virtually and all sports careers. There’s a LOT of hands-on jobs that AI can’t replicate

One can believe AI is a massively disruptive technology that should not be in the hands of Big Tech w/o major oversight & regulations while simultaneously believing it is & will be a very useful tool (like word processors & Google search were before it) for everyday use.

There are definitely lots and lots of jobs where people don’t even use computers that AI isn’t going to make easier. But it will probably speed up non-ai automation.

well until your post, I didn't have a reason to elaborate, because people were just shouting tropes at me :P in my particular case (outside of work) - I use it to reduce the number of "micro-decisions" I have to make in a day, which frees up my mental energy for more important things

ok

sure

What if the thing I do is called thinking? Because so far the evidence is suggesting it makes people worse at that, and I'm worried enough about cognitive decline as I age from natural causes without accelerating it by outsourcing my brain.

It gets worse: I’m excited for him

yeah, i feel that to a degree. there are so many more things i could/should(by most peoples standards at least) be using AI for if limiting PHI exposure wasn't such a big concern

assertions that are nonsensical the whole way through that only a fundamentally incurious idiot would make? this post is THERE, baby.

in the art field, ai is only "getting there" for people who are not artists.

Is it getting there in a hand basket?

Do you wake up every morning and get hit in the head with a large boulder the size of a small boulder?

Art? You can’t be serious.

I've 35 years experience in my field, which involves analysis of social policy. In my field, AI's product is 'meh,' and costs a lot. Context is a real problem for it. A simple example: given a speech, it can't tell you what wasn't said, which is often as illuminating as what was said.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Listen, Anthropic will simply be given an assignment by an editor, make a series of phone calls to conduct interviews via phone and algorithmically rank the level of expertise for each subject on the story topic. /Massive wanking motion towards AI journalism

What they really mean is that people who don't want to put in the time to be good at writing will be able to produce something readable. They resent that they'd have to work to do that.

Don't feed the trolls.

The other day I was asking AI (ChatGPT) about hosts on NPR and it couldn't even name one presenter from the local NPR Illinois. I will give it credit. It literally said "I don't know" instead of bull shitting me.

How do you think AI gets its training data? Do you think mighty Apollo floats down from Mt. Olympus to bless the AI with knowledge? No! Those biased humans are feeding their biases into the LLM. And then the LLM recreates those biases! Christ, what are you even thinking?

How does a reporter DO that research you unserious person?

You straight up sound like a Republican.

really prime example here of "people who love AI think it can do everything that they don't know anything about"

No it could not. And "bias" is a catchphrase of the dimwits.

How? you keep saying that it will help all these different fields but you have yet to cite one concrete example of how it will help them. meanwhile llms are actually just making journalism worse day in and day out

This is legitimately fucking hilarious. Your brain is cooked.

Yeah AI doesnt ever fall for misinformation. It definitely doesnt read satire as fact.

Do you honestly believe that AI is accurate and unbiased

Is this good www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

... Do you think some outlets are publishing misinformation because they don't know it's false

You don't think AI is biased?

You think AI isn't prone to spreading misinformation? Did you just blow in from Stupid Town?

Ehat the fuck are you even on about? AI is biased. AI messes up facts and makes them up! It's literally not deterministic. You people fundamentally misunderstand the technology you're boosting and are smug about it, it's maddening.

How long have you believed human beings were disposable?

hailey, the idea that AI would help with bias in journalism is risible. It requires ignoring already documented context where tech like this has actively reinforced bias, e.g. law enforcement and surveillance. Why do you expect people to believe this will just magically not happen in this context?

No.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...

My health care provider’s Ai transcription and visit summary wrote that I was “nervous” because I’d said that pain I was experiencing felt like a bundle of nerves.

farming???

Let me be clear, I spoke to a friend who uses Claude extensively in his job as a programmer and they talked about how it still takes a highly skilled human to know both how to use the AI tools and to monitor their output for the inevitable hallucinations and errors. They don’t replace people.

punctuation? hailey is not getting there

Even if AI were capable of creating “good art” it’s still made by a fucking computer and devoid of meaning and therefore utterly useless. AI ‘art’ will only make human creation more valuable and relevant

How many years has Tesla been charging for "self driving" on the same stale promise that it'll totally be fully autonomous any day now?

Come back when it actually works. Come back when it can interview somebody, when it transcribes charts correctly, when it stops citing Goofus v. Gallant, when it stops telling people to plant geese, when the restaurant food pics don't make us want to throw up.

is ai writing these posts for you because they suck

There’s no strong argument for cheerleading the manufacturing of our own obsolescence

You let me know when it actually gets there on anything, and I’ll start caring.

Oh, you are a CERTIFIED stupid motherfucker.