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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're generalizing a LOT here. The attitude isn't typically "fuck people who did work"... it's "I don't have sympathy for you if your job role was so piss poor that a language model could scrape up data already present in the world and slap it together better than you can." AI is still extremely limited and the results it produces are fed from other sources, and very soon itself, as it generates more and more. A human is capable of complex, self critical, unique thoughts. If the human in that job role was doing any sort of critical thinking, a robot would not be able to replace them. AI isn't all powerful and all knowing. It's pretty shit. And if you can be replaced by it, you're shit at your job.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't have sympathy for people because they lost their livelihood, and the reason for that loss isn't that they were themselves rotten people making other people's lives worse, then you're a rotten person.

Full stop. End of discussion. Kindly exit society, we don't need more people like you in it.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This person was writing email advertising. It's the kind of job that's not necessary to society, it would be better if people never did it ever again

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your opinion on necessity is a red herring. That isn't the system we are in. We are in a market system (for better or worse) that determines what jobs exist and how much they're worth in compensation.

Besides if it were all about bare necessity, we could pare down most jobs. I mean heck, let's go back to being hunter-gatherers. We don't need anything more to survive as a species. (And all this bullshit we do every day dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will guarantee our demise, most likely).

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean to say is that this job being eliminated is market efficiency at its best, since this job not existing and being done by dumb AI is good enough. Nobody will cry about lower quality copy in email ads