nixCraft 🐧
New York Times tech workers are on strike for fairer pay and just cause job protections.
Perplexity, an AI company that has repeatedly ripped off the work of human journalists and created a mess for every human work, is now offering help to the New York Times.
See how these AI companies are stealing jobs from humans and then selling back services at a price. https://www.404media.co/perplexity-ai-offers-to-help-new-york-times-with-tech-union-strike/
nixCraft 🐧
This is not going to end mostly for human tech workers, journalists, writers, & artists. The billionaire AI tech bros found a new loophole to make money. The laws are slow to catch up with this kind of abuse. By the time laws are updated, the whole generation of whilecaller jobs will be lost forever. They are already deploying AI in hospitals to replace trained medical professionals. This will not going to reduce your medical bills. You have to be a delusional fool to think this will help you😅
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Oh, but I'm a software developer. AI can't do my job. From the same site:
Netflix Bullish on Gen AI for Games After Laying Off Human Game Developers https://www.404media.co/netflix-games-ai-exec/
So, video game developers, artists, and voice actors are also being replaced. It is happening way too fast, and nobody is safe. Meanwhile, politicians are busy throwing mud at each other. They don't care as long as AI companies keep paying them. Nobody is going to protect your job and your family.
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@Xenograg NYT doesn't know that perplexity is after their job, too. Perplexity will show live US election results despite AI accuracy warnings
AI search engine embraces 2024 US election with live tracker and chatbot info hub. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/perplexity-will-show-live-us-election-results-despite-ai-accuracy-warnings/
Xenograg
@nixCraft I am tempted to want to see NYT try them on election night. nytimes.com almost went down on 2016 election night due to a configuration error made weeks before. Disaster was only averted by a senior netadmin flawlessly making numerous realtime changes in less than an hour.
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@Karsten Add CEOs and C-suites to that list too.
Karsten
@nixCraft When is AI going to replace the first politician? All they do can be done by a machine. Even better.
I mean, some decision making position like in "Wargames" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames)
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@nixCraft It's not just that replacing humans with "AI" in health care won't save you money. It will also result in a reduced standard of care, and more injuries and deaths from mistakes. The mistakes have already been seen with AI for transcription, having the same "hallucinations" as other uses of LLMs.
So-called AI is not intelligent at all.
nixCraft 🐧
@Varpie I understand. Every tool, device, medicine and software used in the medical field is typically certified and approved by the FDA. I don't see Perplexity, OpenAI, or Microsoft obtaining such approval from the FDA. What happens when something goes wrong, or AI misses cancer screening and someone dies out? There is no procedure or even law in place to prevent this kind of abuse by AI companies, including responsibility for the loss of human life.
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@nixCraft Out of all the possible examples, you had to give one of the few cases where machine learning is actually well used... Unlike GenAI which is mostly profiting from stolen art and scraped social media posts, medical uses such as image classification to assist in cancer detection doesn't replace trained professionals but it allows them to focus on the cases that matter.
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