If we restructured society in a way that makes increases in efficiency benefit everyone I’d be fine with such things. The difference here is, however, that we don’t live in such a society and that LLMs aren’t actually useful or better at work that people are, it’s just that managers and CEOs think they are. They will realize this in a few years after most of their software is fucked over and they’ll have to hire actual developers to fix it.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
it’s great that one of the main dicks in charge of AI uses pants-on-head stupid not-logic to justify taking water away from literally everything else for a thing that doesn’t work, but still steals jobs
lena@gregtech.eu 21 hours ago
snooggums@piefed.world 20 hours ago
The problem is we want increases in efficiency that benefit 99% of people but the 1% want the opposite and can override everyone else.
Juice@midwest.social 20 hours ago
Taylorist production has been tried, yielded objectively better results than the old production methods, and they were still scrapped. Workers wouldn’t adapt to more efficient production methods without more pay, and it necessitates worker-managers to train other workers. Since the owners of the factory refuse to pay workers more, so it’s DOA.
Capitalism isn’t rational, and can not become rational. “Increasing efficiency” means firing workers, not improving production. I know you maybe aren’t arguing for more efficient capitalism, just saying it has been tried. Taylorism is the Esperanto of production. “Increasing efficiency,” to the capitalists, means firing people, not making the system more rational.
lena@gregtech.eu 20 hours ago
It wasn’t my goal at all to advocate for capitalism, an inherently abusive system :P
Increases in efficiency should lead to less work required and a better life for everyone
Juice@midwest.social 20 hours ago
I had a suspicion you weren’t advocating for capitalism. But just in case someone comes along and thinks “yeah make capitalism more efficient,” I like to underline the fact that “efficiency” has a different meaning if someone is a worker than if someone is a capitalist.
Ohi@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
If it’s stealing real jobs, perhaps it is time you should reconsider the ‘doesn’t work’ perspective.
It seems to work just fine my dude.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
just because companies are trying to replace humans with AI doesn’t mean AI is “working”
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…/ar-AA1UdtvH
futurism.com/companies-replaced-workers-ai
phillyvoice.com/artificial-intelligence-jobs-impa…
www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/…/91287960
vice.com/…/this-company-replaced-workers-with-ai-…
hbr.org/…/companies-that-replace-people-with-ai-w…
i would say i hope this all underscores how little employers ever actually give a shit about their employees, but that would be wishful thinking. not only are they not capable of giving less of a shit about you, but they’re also gullible enough to jump on this AI bandwagon that they grasp no understanding of beyond what they’re told by the
peoplecon men selling it to themjaybone@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
It appears to be working, to execs and CEOs. But this will eventually be a problem when you are missing skilled workers who can handle things AI cannot.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
thats why they are trying to get india to build the datacenters for them right now, and outsourcing some of the workers there.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
ALSO TO note, one of THIELS other proteges.