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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (15 children)

Meanwhile a huge chunk of the software industry is now heavily using this "dead end" technology 👀

I work in a pretty massive tech company (think, the type that frequently acquires other smaller ones and absorbs them)

Everyone I know here is using it. A lot.

However my company also has tonnes of dedicated sessions and paid time to instruct it's employees on how to use it well, and to get good value out of it, abd the pitfalls it can have

So yeah turns out if you teach your employees how to use a tool, they start using it.

I'd say LLMs have made me about 3x as efficient or so at my job.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (6 children)

Your labor before they had LLMs helped pay for the LLMs. If you're 3x more efficient and not also getting 3x more time off for the labor you put in previously for your bosses to afford the LLMs you got ripped off my dude.

If you're working the same amount and not getting more time to cool your heels, maybe, just maybe, your own labor was exploited and used against you. Hyping how much harder you can work just makes you sound like a bitch.

Real "tread on me harder, daddy!" vibes all throughout this thread. Meanwhile your CEO is buying another yacht.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

This is how all tech innovation has gone. If you don't let the bosses exploit your labour someone else will.

If tech had unions this wouldn't happen as much, but that's why they don’t really exist.

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