Place your bets how long before this is moved into the nottheonion sub
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It shouldn't ever be, because The Beaverton is basically the Canadian Onion.
I think they mean "how long until there's an actual news report like this"
🙁 Booooo for satire getting my hopes up!
Only satire for now
There are jobs popping up around me here in India where the "job" is to be a software engineer whose responsibility is to review AI-generated code as training data. It pays more than my job...
The burn-out rate is high for being an AI error catcher so I guess they need to offer a high wage.
True but it really makes me want to set aside my morals when it pays 8 times what I make right now... Would make life a lot easier
would they notice if you would give false reviews? if its text form maybe you could generate lengthy reviews so that it eats more money, and makes it less likely someone throughly checks your work
Huh... I wonder.. I'm not sure. I think I'll apply and see if I can pollute the well.
I'm constantly surprised and disappointed this hasn't happened.
In France, we take to the streets for the smallest issue (or so they say), and the world mocks us.
Meanwhile the gun crazy crowd in the US only ever uses their god given arms to gun down their neighbours and schoolmates. Great job!
I like to show my students the clip of French firefighters protesting and how they're making police pull back. There's a lesson in there about teamwork and being prepared.
In France, we take to the streets for the smallest issue (or so they say), and the world mocks us.
We don't mock you guys for that. There's plenty other things to use for mocking the French. We're secretly in awe of the liberal application of the guillotine in a class struggle.
The world mocks you only as standard preset punchlines. Its more upholding tradition than actually funny or real.
For rioting over small shit, I assure you you have our utmost respect.
the world mocks us
I don't. Go go frog eaters!
France is much smaller; USA is more comparable to the entirety of the EU.
Millions of people are protesting often, but the BBC isn't reporting about it on the front page.
We have "national" protests every few months, millions of people around the country.
There are big problems organizing here, USA is a surveillance state and if you are an organizing party (like let's say the Greens for one example), they are watching.
The USA so far has been "too big to fail", but that won't last forever
That's why they are driving countries into fascism., there will be plenty of police state jobs.
"I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to join civil protection just to get a decent meal." -city 17 citizen
Eventually they won’t even need them. Your smart fridge reported you discussing seditious conspiracy and your smart washer has noted you own a black hoodie, aka terrorist attire. Your smart vehicle has been remotely disabled, and an Amazon delivery drone has been rerouted to terminate you after its final delivery. Don’t bother trying to turn off the tracking device in your pocket, it still pings even when powered down and between Ring and Flock we can see you at all times anyway.
All of that requires you have money. Which you don't have anymore, because you don't have a job that pays you. Unless the system changes radically, at some point enough people can't even buy food and have only time in their hands. So what are they going to do?
Steal what they need?
And if millions of people start stealing? The point is, if the scenario of AI taking away jobs and making people useless keeps happening at the rate it is happening now, our societies will collapse in some way. Unless it's solved by other changes, fast
I get the impression we’re in the final stages of “money” as we’ve known it and heading to some sort of digital feudalism where most people don’t own much of anything and rent, lease, or pay a subscription to access everything else. You don’t need to buy a smart fridge that analyzes your behavior because it was supplied by your landlord. Can’t tamper with it, can’t replace it, and older models are no longer supported. Can’t repair the 40yo car you own because it’s no longer considered “safe”, plus they quit making replacement parts so you have to get a new one. I would not at all be surprised to watch them shift to an all digital money market where your rent, bills, and subscriptions are withheld and distributed as a convenience and when you go shopping the retailer adjusts the price based on your ability and willingness to pay more. You might make 10% more than your coworker but WalMart knows that and gouges you for every last cent of discretionary income they can pull. Can’t shop anywhere else, it’s all the same because the same people own everything. Jobs will exist, the illusion of “work hard/climb the ladder” will be abandoned and the tasks it’s cheaper/more efficient to use human labor in will be your career options. If you cannot find a mate one will be assigned to you and the expenses of your children (obligated to provide) will be deducted from your wages, after taxes of course.
Dystopian and dark, probably a bit of a stretch, but I do think there’s an effort to make private property and capitalism as we’ve known it a thing of the past. Not in a socialist, collectivist way, but to get to some perpetual indentured servitude.
What to do about it? Sink the ship. Yeah, we’re on it; so are they. Some of us won’t survive, there’s no guarantee we’ll win, but we’re constantly patching up a 250yo vessel that has some parts worth saving but is mostly rotten. We sleep in the bilge while they enjoy the cabin. Scuttle it and start again. I get why people still aren’t ready to do that, but I guess we’ll see what they think of our prospects when elections start getting cancelled, suppressed, or ignored.
Jobs will exist
That's the key thing I was kinda talking about. Work will always exist - but there won't be enough for everyone. At this rate there's quickly going to be millions of "useless" people with no market value, no jobs, no nothing - this has already started to happen in China for example. What will they do then, when the mass of people gets big enough? The systems aren't capable of getting rid of all of us quickly enough either, since this problem is already rising way faster than even fascists can build death camps, as the real cause is companies trying to maximize their short-term profits without caring about anything else, and not some carefully orchestrated plan aiming for this scenario.
And yeah, the ships are on the way to sink themselves right now. Societies with safety nets will likely fare a bit longer than ones with no social security, since the options are either taxing the AI etc. companies enough to pay sort of general income to everyone, or the total collapse with the figurative (or literal) guillotines being build
There still need to be people to go in and arrest them, and meat is cheaper than motors and hydraulics using resources that would otherwise remain unexploited.
Police can rid themselves of the loathsome term “peace officer” and revert to their preferred name, “slave catcher”. The violent beatings of minorities and dissidents will continue because anonymously exploding them by remote isn’t as rewarding to the ruling class as watching them suffer.
They aren't peace officers, they are police officers. That means no peace outside of the exclusion zones( read: Rich enclaves)
“To serve and protect… ourselves and our masters from being held accountable by the the masses.”
Just the houses? Don't forget the yachts, planes, cars.
What if we all plan the end of the world next April 1st. We will all pretend to start race and religious riots until all the billionaires get nervous and go into their bunkers. Then we strip off our costumes and masks and start mixing concrete to pour over the bunker doors and air intake.
AI has already torched my creative side project I have spent hundreds of hours on to hopefully one day it replaces my miserable income. now that AI has been able to generate acceptable videos by the public. my revenue went down by 80%. and people are expecting lower prices in times of inflation
People think there are wins to come, how I see it is that we have already lost the fight.
Please point me to those people expecting wins.
They must be very misinformed or super stupid.
What was your creative side project about?
This may be a joke now, but it's actually what's going to happen.
Nice.
Beautiful and appropriate.
this was always part result for making people suddenly unemployed intentionally in large numbers. the oligarchs kept the "lowly plebs" in thier place by giving them enough(high income, shiny stuff) and culture war propaganda (includes copaganda/military propaganda media) to not to foment an uprising.
Silicon Valley CEOs like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel have reported mild growth in AI-fuelled productivity, as well as massive leaps in jobless bourgeoisie rabble surrounding their estates and pounding at the gates with guillotines.
I misread "AI-fuelled productivity" as "AI-fucked productivity"
truth
It's a joke but that's sort of what happened in the US during the CoViD lockdowns. People weren't at work so they had free time to care about unions, racist policing, civil liberties, etc. Even if AI really could take over huge swathes of the work, there's a fair likelihood of the people who lost their jobs turning data centers into war zones and then autonomous zones.
It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. - Tyler Durden
That pitchfork is not the right kind for rabble style mobbery. You want the pitchfork with the round tines for some proper stabbins
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