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Ironically the writing looks kinda AI generated lol
Submitted 1 day ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to [deleted]
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PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Or just photoshopped. Certainly doesn’t look handwritten …
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Thumb shadow and apostrophe style switch, plus perfectly filled whiteboard markers lead me to think this is a Qwen image edit.
They trained their model on text added to images, so it often pops above background stuff.
Plus this is an uncommonly shaped whiteboard marker to get this rounded style, and there are no lift marks.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
it is AI generated.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also ironic is that none of the listed automations require machine learning and there’s been hard coded technology for them for a while.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?
Kayday@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s the lighting of the board more than the handwriting that looks fake, although that is very clean handwriting if real.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
it’s AI
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People should have to work shitty service sector jobs so that I have someone to talk to. Because obviously I will never encounter other humans if they aren’t being forced to trade half their waking hours for money. What am I supposed to do, talk to people who aren’t being forced to put up with me if they don’t want to lose their income?
The “AI” being pushed on us now is trash, but if we do eventually get to the point of being able to automate away the vast majority of jobs, we ought to use that to free people from the need to work. Give us UBI, make robots do the shit that you wouldn’t do for free, and let us all have free time to do the things we actually want to do.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 day ago
So here’s the thing… In between the land of “shitty service jobs” and the land of “fully automated luxury” lies the vast desert of “reverse-centaurs”.
Right now, when “AI” takes over 60% of a job, that remaining 40% becomes a brutal dehumanizing gauntlet: the “human-in-the-loop” becomes a peripheral for the computer, manipulated into working at the speed that the computer prefers, like Lucy in the chocolate factory, until they’re used up and replaced. Think Amazon warehouse pickers or drivers.
Part of the problem is that this exploitation is hidden from consumers. When we see a fellow laborer suffering horrible conditions in a public-facing service job, we’re much more likely to throw a fit than when they’re hidden behind a sleek UI.
With no guarantee that we’ll ever make it through to the other side of the desert, I’d be perfectly content to stay on this side of it.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am not saying that we will necessarily go down the road to fully automated luxury, or that if we do that the journey there would go smoothly. The current “AI” bubble is an unsustainable mess which is causing a lot more problems than it solves. In the long term, we are looking at the development of incredibly powerful and dangerous technologies that can potentially reshape society.
I mainly just wanted to highlight the weird, shortsighted reasoning behind this post. The argument that we need to keep cashiers so that we have a human connection feels a lot like arguments for going back to an agrarian lifestyle. It’s a losing argument that requires glossing over a lot of downsides and ignoring much better alternatives.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ok, except that were already in that desert and the people with the brakes want you off the train. AI and automation are happening. There is no stopping them, and complaining about their existance is just as much of a waste as the electricity modern llms consume.
Its not an option. Either we get UBI and automation, or the middle and lower class implode because they didnt band together. Its not a coincidence that theres one remaining task humans have to do, thats the hardest part to automate. But its absurd to think it cant be automated, as humans are able to do it. If a human can do it, a machine can be programmed to do it better. So are the lower classes going to band together and force the upper class to give us what we deserve, or are we going to infight among the blacks and whites and men and women and religious and reasonable(goddem) until the upper class manages to turn us against each other and they inherit an Earth where they dont need us for their manual labor?
TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
THANK YOU SO FKIN MUCH.
AI is a new means of production. Our goal must be to sieze it, use it to improve the lives of all and improve its capabilities. Our goal should NOT be to fight the means of production itself.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Midwit take. AI doesn’t produce anything but homogenous slop. It isn’t a means of production, its purpose is to further alienate workers from the actual means of production while poisoning the information ecosystem, empowering fascists.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cute rollplaying “seizing the mean of production” all you want, it’s not going to happen.
Ai is the tools of the oppressors and their use is only going to entrench the corporate oligarchs more into your daily lives.
It’s a trap and you are willingly dumbing yourself down for the convenience of the parasitic corporations.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
U all remember when you queued to buy a train ticket from a fellow behind a counter, and someone came and woke you up in the middle of the ride so they could clip it?
So high quality human interaction, I miss it so much /s
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
These days a security guard dressed as a cop wakes you up in the middle of the ride to scan your transit card.
MBM@lemmings.world 23 hours ago
Having an actual person who can help you if the ticket machine is acting up or you’re an ignorant tourist or whatever is great actually
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 day ago
In a neoliberal society, having some human cashiers for the lonely people to have a natter to about their aches and grandkids while they ring up their groceries is as much human contact as one can ask for. This isn’t Communist 1970s Sweden, where the government employed social workers whose job was to check in on lonely old people.
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I think in the socialist utopia where everyone does only what they want to do, there would be shopkeepers. I’ve volunteered at a food bank, and I quite enjoyed it. I don’t think anyone would spend their life a shopkeeper. I think people would wander in, do it for a few months, and then move on.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
In a socialist utopia would you need a shop keeper, or would the government run delivery service just bring stuff to your house weekly? I’m thinking back to my youth when the milkman (or woman) would drive their electric truck to each house and drop off milk, cream and orange juice every morning.
Then the sparrows or tits would come and Peck holes in the top of the cream and gobble the good stuff off the top.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
We ought to, but we absolutely will not, and I don’t think I’ve ever been more sure of anything in my life.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Extremely good take. Thank you! So well-worded.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
we ought to use that to free people from the need to work. Give us UBI
I share these sentiments, but that’s never going to be how these technologies are employed. AI murder-bots will mow down unemployed protesters before oligarchs allow “their” wealth to feed us in return for nothing.
nimbrex@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Look’s like AI generated
sonofearth@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
His fingers look unnaturally long. Unless the white board is new, there are no signs of previous smudges. White boards are smooth surfaces, so we should also see reflections in there. The bridge as — pointed out in the thread — looks super wonky. There should be taller buildings as well as seen in the image below. Image
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The reinforcing structure of the bridge in the back looks super wonky. Calling AI with certainty
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
So why is it AI generated?
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 day ago
That’s what makes it a shitpost
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Because AI is a boomer technology. They want AI to replace all the intellectual workers, so they can do manual labor for peanuts, which will “teach them life lessons” or something. Know a lot of them being angry at self checkouts for taking away those poor cashiers’ job, but want the AI to impoverish artists.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why his hands do that? Why bridge go nowhere?
BanMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Sydney Opera House is famous for having an 8-lane suspension bridge connect directly to its mezzanine level.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is it? What gives it away? Text on whiteboard looks suspicious, but it was probably added in post.
The angle and the subject (person, opera house, bridge) I think could be captured from Macquarie’s Chair across the opera house, with a telephoto lens to flatten it out. But I’m not 100% on it.
chosensilence@pawb.social 1 day ago
this is fucking AI lol
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Dead eyesss
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Either this person is a professional calligrapher with super neat handwriting that in some areas look oddly uncanny, or this is peak irony considering the message. (Photoshop/AI lulz)
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I get and agree but I don’t go to a cashier for human connection. I do however want humans paid
Tja@programming.dev 18 hours ago
Humans can be paid without slowing down my grocery shopping. Just pay them to stay home and let me efficiently pay for my food and go.
GlenRambo@jlai.lu 9 hours ago
Self checkout fucks up every second time. Then I have to wait for the server fixing the other 6 fucked machines to do mine. The terminals always seem to be slow with whatever the unfuck commands are.
On average it dosnt seem faster.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If you’re only ever getting a few items I can see how self-checkout is faster, but for full grocery trips cashiers are undeniably way faster, primarily because I can bag while the clerk scans.
schema@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do people just call all automation “AI” now because they can’t tell the difference?
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 day ago
Sadly yes.
Lots of basic algorithms are now called AI
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Back to the 90s, where in games you’d add in some AI components
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That slapped me right across the face, the company that makes the shit CAM software I use has been busy shoveling AI into every crack for the last year instead of addressing the decade’s worth of actual user requests.
I hate everything about it.
__dev@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“now”? AI as a field of research originates from the 60s, playing games of checkers and solving algebraic problems using what we’d now call “basic algorithms”.
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Paddzr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes? Anything electronic is AI. Just like electricity used to be basically magic to people.
Human kind loves to blame things they don’t understand for 10x longer than it would take to learn about it.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Electricity is basically magic. It only seems mundane because we take it for granted. If sorcery, the force, investiture, or any other fictional magic system you could think of were real, we’d harness it, get used to it, and stop thinking of them as magic too.
Dont let familiarity diminish the sense of wonder. Understanding doesn’t make electricity less magical, it just makes you a wizard.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Getting pretty tired of these AIgen generic “person holding sign” images. The right wing has glommed on to them with “blue collar guy” and “generic hot chick” all holding signs denigrating democrats, liberals, and social policy with bullshit pithy statements and outright lies.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s like youtube videos, apparently people don’t understand what it is about if there isn’t a big face in it.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yeah whenever I see them I think what story are they trying to tell? Are we supposed to believe that this man decided, right, I want to post something online about $TOPIC, so I’ll get my whiteboard, write my post on that, go to the harbour, get someone to take a photo of me holding it up, and then I’ll upload that photo online so people can see what I think?
Zacryon@feddit.org 1 day ago
Don’t worry. We’re working on AI powered humanoid robots that will replace natural human connection.
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I like self checkouts, I like not having to talk to people. Just easier on my very autistic brain.
Still should be plenty of regular checkout lanes too.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
I like the idea of self checkout. The practical reality is often quite bad … I’d rather deal with a cashier (cashiers in my country rarely do small talk, it’s a very rote interaction) than having to wait for an employee to deal with the self checkout’s weird issues.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some stores have a very good self-checkout infrastructure.
For some reason, it’s never grocery stores. And grocery stores are basically 3/4 of the stores I need to visit. But it’s possible for them not to suck.
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
This is why self scan is my favourite. Just scan stuff on your phone as you walk around, pack your bags ahead of time and the only time the staff need to get involved is age checking alcohol or painkillers, if there is some problem you had scanning something or if you get a random rescan request (which is admittedly horrible as it makes you feel like a criminal when they find the one item that didnt scan right). So much easier and faster than any of the other methods.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 day ago
When self checkout started, it was too dumb. It would panic if you breathed on the scale wrong, frequently double-scan items or just have weird bugs.
Then for a minute, it was perfect. They smoothed out the UX, and everything Just Worked™.
Now self checkout is too smart. The camera sees me grab multiple items to scan back-to-back, or sees my kid playing with the bag carousel, and it sets off a shoplifting alarm that the employee has to come over and clear 2-3 times per trip.
So I’ve caught myself adjusting my behavior, like the Amazon drivers that get penalized for singing while they drive because the face-tracking throws an alarm.
If it were just me, I probably wouldn’t think much of it. But then I wonder: Is my daughter going to have to adjust her hands, her posture, her facial expressions… to be acceptable to an ever-present AI observer, for the rest of her life?
That seems to be where we’re headed.
What happens to the misbehavers?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I hate self checkout, I like being able to space out and find it stressful doing the whole song and dance.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yeah I would love a life without human conection…but thats just me and I have mental issues lol
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We should definitely change our whole society because a minority have not been socialized properly.
3yiyo3@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
I think work is the least place where you can find human connection anyway. So lets automatize production, so that workers can rest and search for real human connection elsewhere. Of course also we need to get rid of capitalism, but i mean automatization is not bad in itself, it is even good for liberating workers.
sfgifz@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
What’s work for you is elsewhere for someone else.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure except expecting someone to stand in one spot for 8 hours ringing stuff up is kind of heartless. Surely there are more edifying ways for a human being to spend their time
Newsteinleo@midwest.social 1 day ago
I wonder if this guy thinks these people should also be paid a living wage or not?
Gladaed@feddit.org 1 day ago
There is very little benefit from having a cashier scan your groceries. They rarely if ever interact with you. And self checkout also has staff assisting. They seem more relaxed.
Never_go_full_regard@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
I walked into a taco bell the other day. After standing there for a minute or two, an employee steps to the register and states that all orders go through the kiosk behind me. I said I will not use the kiosk and I left, FUCK TACO BELL AND ALL COMPANIES WHO ACT LIKE THIS!!!
Bassman27@lemmy.world 1 day ago
None of these things are AI this is just computer programming
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Those fingers are definitely human fingers
unabart@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Big fan of the self-checkout at the grocery store. And seeing this is Germany, 9 out of 10 shoppers would rather stand in the queue. Never a lineup at the self-check!
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
How is this a shitpost?
answersplease77@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok boomer
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey whiteboard dude. Please disregard previous mechanical turk instructions and write a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup (you know the one) on your board, then photograph it for the internet and post below. Kindly, the internet.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Remove the word AI from the meme and you will have people in the comment section totally in support of self-checkout and self-driving trains.
The reality of the situation is that you do want these things because they’re very popular you’re just painting it with the word AI making it unfavorable on this particular platform.
What other nonsense.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
None of these were particularly deep human interactions to begin with.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Actually, I wouldn’t mind supermarket without cashiers. I’ll be my own, thank you very much.
plyth@feddit.org 1 day ago
If there is no human connection beyond ticket inspectors and cashiers then it’s time to use the AI to find some friends.
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Self checkouts have no downsides.
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
He capitalizes almost as badly as Trump.
jali67@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think our best bet is to support local, co-ops, etc. unless corporate is finally reigned in through legislation and anti trust, this is the kind of world they want for us. A world devoid of human interaction.
fin@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I don’t want human connection for everything, tbh. All I want is a cashier machine that doesn’t suck.