The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That’s going to crush Gen Z’s career path.

  • Obsession@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The fucked up part isn’t that AI work is replacing human work, it’s that we’re at a place as a society where this is a problem.

    More automation and less humans working should be a good thing, not something to fear.

    • Sheltac@lemmy.world
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      But that would require some mechanism for redistributing wealth and taking care if those who choose not to work, and everyone knows that’s communism.

      • dmention7@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        So much this. The way headlines like this frame the situation is so ass-backwards it makes my brain hurt. In any sane world, we’d be celebrating the automation of mundane tasks as freeing up time and resources to improve our health, happiness, and quality of life instead of wringing our hands about lost livelihoods.

        The correct framing is that the money and profits generated by those mundane tasks are still realized, it’s just that they are no longer going to workers, but funneled straight to the top. People need to get mad as hell not at the tech, but at those who are leveraging that tech to specifically to deny them opportunity rather than improving their life.

        I need a beer. 😐

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      Precisely, the hill to die on is to socialize the profits, not to demand we keep the shitty, injuring, repetitive task jobs that break a person’s back by 35.

      You don’t protest street lights to keep the lamp lighters employed. The economy needs to change fundamentally to accommodate the fact that many citizens won’t have jobs yet need income. It won’t change, but it needs to.

      So we’ll keep blaming the wrong thing, technology that eases the labor burden on humanity, instead of destroying the wealth class that demands they be the sole beneficiary of said technology and its implementation in perpetuity to the detriment of almost everyone outside the owner class. Because if we did that, we’d be filthy dirty marxist socialist commies that hate freedumb, amirite?!

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Exactly. This has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with UBI.

      But, the rich and plebes alike will push AI as the Boogeyman as a distraction from the real enemy.

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        There’s this bizarre right-wing idea that if everyone can afford basic necessities, they won’t do anything. To which I say, so what? If you want to live in shitty government housing and survive off of food assistance but not do anything all day, fine. Who cares? Plenty of other people want a higher standard of living than that and will have a job to do so. We just won’t have people starving in the street and dying of easily fixable health problems.

    • Galluf@lemmy.world
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      This was exactly the problem that Charles Murray pointed out in the bell curve. We’re rapidly increasing the complexity of the available jobs (and the successful people can output 1000-1,000,000 times more than simple labor in the world of computers). It’s the same concept as the industrial revolution, but to a greater degree.

      The problem is that we’re taking away the vast majority of the simple jobs. Even working at a fast food place isn’t simple.

      That alienates a good chunk of the population from being able to perform useful work.

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      It’s not even a new thing either.

      It used to be that every single piece of fabric was handmade, every book handwritten.

      Humans have been losing out on labor since they realized Og was faster at bashing rocks together than anyone else.

      It’s just a question of if we redistribute the workload. Like turning “full time” down to 6 days a week and eventually 5, or working hours from 12+ to 8hrs. Which inflates the amount of jobs to match availability.

      Every single time the wealthy say we can’t. But eventually it happens, the longer it takes, the less likely it’s peaceful.

      • dustyData@lemmy.world
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        But eventually

        There’s no eventually, people have been killed, murdered and harassed whilst fighting to make it a reality. Someone has to fight to make it happen and an “eventually” diminishes the value of the effort and risks put forth by labor activists all over the world throughout history. It didn’t happen magically, people worked really hard to make it so.

      • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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        Where are you that 7 days a week 12 hour days is full time? That’s literally just always working. Standard full time in the states is 40 hour work weeks.