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Re:ChatGPT Has Gone Berserk by asdff on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @04:44PM (#39460007)
Never. 100 years of unparalleled technological progress and productivity gains have lead to a society where 96.3% of the american labor pool is forced to work. Why should AI be any different than any of the "job saving" inventions that came before?
Re:ChatGPT Has Gone Berserk by JeremyNT on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:07PM (#39460315)
In the AI utopia, "knowledge work" is delegated to computers, and the humans who used to do productive and rewarding things will simply do bullshit jobs [0] instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_job

Re:ChatGPT Has Gone Berserk by asdff on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:16PM (#39485550)
Even already today, a lot of knowledge work jobs have a lot of overlap with the bullshit working with excel sort of office jobs especially when you consider what you are actually doing day to day and week to week.
Re:ChatGPT Has Gone Berserk by pixl97 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @08:39PM (#39462066)
Ah yes, the more better technology makes more, better jobs for horses argument.
Re:ChatGPT Has Gone Berserk by asdff on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:14PM (#39485530)
I must have forgotten about the lines of people on every block looking for work as a stable hand
Re:ChatGPT Has Gone Berserk by weberer on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:35AM (#39464654)
Because you don't have to pay AI.