What actual problems do you have with AI? - In jobs, arts, computers, and more.

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Its a hype cycle, and we're right at the peak of it. We've got startups running their entire operation as a "dark factory", where they throw in specifications and then just use the code that comes out the other side, because it "works". We've got people proclaiming the end of the developer (and the end of middle management, so maybe it's not entirely bad) and that everyone needs to be spending a grand a day on AI tokens just to keep up. I'm about to be forced into a "session" by someone at my current client because I'm not using AI enough for his liking, even though I know for a fact that it wouldn't have been able to replicate the work I've done in the last week. I tried it. I spent an inordinate amount of time writing out specs and guard rails, and then it shat out some of the worst code I've ever seen. It "worked", superficially, but it was a steaming heap of spaghetti nonsense. This doesn't matter, because I'm "stuck in the long grass", which definitely isn't a result of the constantly changing and contradictory requirements being handed down to me every day - something that using AI wouldn't fix, because an AI given poor specification just goes off into the weeds all by itself.

This is going to be my third major IT-related hype cycle, except this time I worry I'll be forced out of work before it completes, because it's such a broad and deep one compared to the others, which were fundamentally bubbles on top of a solid foundation.

On the bright side, still no indians.
 
How overhyped it is and how that hype mirrors so many other "revolutionary" tech innovations that've stagnated or fizzled out due to consumer disinterest in my lifetime. By now we were supposed to be watching AI-generated TV shows that look perfectly real on our VR headset connected to the Metaverse while a self-driving car delivers us lab-grown goyslop paid for with Bored Ape NFTs, and with the exception of a few rich, soulless bugmen, that simply isn't anyone's reality. Sure the technology isn't going away, but so far only the most annoying people on planet Earth are convinced that it's worth the time, money, and energy currently being put into it.

"B-b-but Mr. Ointment I see those people all the time! They're jerkin' it to their AI waifu in the back of the Waymo! We're dooooooooooooooooomed!!" all this means is that you live in a bughive and should touch grass immediately, and maybe also leave my country because you're probably a smelly jeet.
 
I have next to no issues with AI by itself, I have more of a problem with the unwillingness of the world to change in response to AI:

- If AI does effectively make most humans obsolete or will in the foreseeable future then we need a system to accomodate for it. No, I am not a commie and no, I have not the solution, but it is clear that, always assuming this is the case, that we are moving fast towards a future where if you don't either have entertainment value for other humans or significant ownership of passive income then your value as a human being is in rapid decline. Degree inflation is already a thing and this would be that times 100. Effectively we would move towards a future where people are like Olympians with their AI servant system. 7 billion people are going to live like hell while the world shapes around those 12 Olympians.

- If, much more likely, AI is an unsustainable fad, then effectively the world is getting actively ruined without precedents in the pursuit of that fad, creating the biggest financial bubble in history which can't be walked back, ever. Meanwhile lives are ruined, people are building careers over nothing and (((bankers))) and (((managers))) will still make money despite being the ones who fucked up, as governments bail them out like they always do.

Both cases I don't hate AI. AI is just algorithms. It's human stupidity and the cattle like behaviour of the middle and low class I despise. Leave it to humanity to (allegedly) have an instrument to become as Gods and instead elevate it as a demiurge to be enslaved by.
 
It's error prone after awhile and you have to pay shekels to big companies for worthwhile use. Not to mention the performative anti-AI nutters but that doesn't have to do with AI directly.
 
The most understated but probably the most important: The complete destruction of all information. Yes, all information. You can't rely on "reliable sources" any more because you realize that "reliable source" has underpaid and/or lazy employees who are going to AI generate an article. You can't rely 100% on dates either because I've seen AI articles with fake dates going back to 2014.

Also the fact that most people can't tell the difference between AI generated slop and human written content made me realize that the average person is just... extremely illiterate. This is a horrifying realization, and even more horrifying when I remember that 50% of the US can't read past a sixth grade level or so. Being mistaken for AI isn't an "autistic" problem, it's a "We're living in Idiocracy and you're the smartest person now" problem.
 
That people are accusing everything, and anything of being it now.
 
I hate how nerfed it is. For years, most of us have been anticipating what ai would be and do. Then when it is finally here and the superstitious monkeys of our society who are too dumb to use it have demonized it. Corporations exploit it. Starving artists screeched about it.

So all we have now, is an AI, that can't even tell you the date and time. It is simply a glorified generator of text and images. It can help with code but that is its own can of worms.

So much potential down the drain. Fuck humans.
 
Jobs, yeah.
I've seen how good at programming it has become in the last couple of years, so I assume you can throw any white-collar work that primarily deals with documents at it and it will manage to perform it. So instead of employing a whole department of workers you now only need several senior employees to wrangle the AI. What are all the redundant former workers supposed to do now?
 
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Jobs, yeah.
I've seen how good at programming it has become in the last couple of years, so I assume you can throw any white-collar work that primarily deals with documents at it and it will manage to perform it. So instead of employing a whole department of workers you now only need several senior employees to wrangle the AI. What are all the redundant former workers supposed to do now?
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the issue is what happens when those senior employees retire / quit. You need a pipeline of Juniors. The way you get competent seniors is you give Juniors a bunch of the Bitchwork
 
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