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China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen
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Lol this article is very relevant to a lot of scam industries (essential oils, Earthing, 5G protection crystals, etc), but AI is objectively not one of them.
Regardless of how much of a bubble we're in, regardless of how many bad ideas are being pushed to get VC funding or pump a stock, regardless of how unethical or distopian the tech is, AI objectively has value. It's proving to be the most disruptive tech since the world wide web (which famously had a very similar bubble of bad ideas), so to call it "magic beans" is just wishful thinking at best.
i have noticed that there are two competing narratives in the leftwingosphere:
A) ai is 100% slop garbage and a giant waste of electricity, pumping out garbage images with multiple hands and the text is nothing but hallucinations that can’t even count the number of r’s in “strawberry”
and at the same time
B) AI is going to take all our jobs and we will all be homeless and poor while tech billionaire CEOs turn us into slaves
@Eyekaytee @teawrecks
Fun fact: they are scarily compatible as long as the CEOs are not in their role thanks to meritocracy :)
That can't be possible, if they fire all their workers and produce AI slop then we will simply start a new company with human workers that doesn't.
This isn't communism we can simply start a new business at any time for any reason, with or without AI
@Eyekaytee
You seem to think, once again, that meritocracy is a thing.
It's the exact same dynamic you are used to when it comes to yes-men and bootlickers.
Are they more productive? No. Do they get better paying job? Yes.
You can absolutely leave and fund a "good" company, good luck getting anywhere.
If the product has value then people will buy it*
Humans have always created jobs, we love em, can't get enough of em, in a capitalist system if people want to buy human made goods and services and those systems are profitable then there will be jobs for those people
This isn't a communist dictatorship where you will be forced to buy government sponsored AI produce and no other choice is given to you
*I assume the products would have little logos on them like "non-gmo, organic, human made and farmed fruits!" etc
Wouldn't slop AI crash their motorcade or private jet pretty much immediately?