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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 258 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Automation and job replacement is a good thing. The reason it feels bad is because we've tied the ability to satisfy our basic needs to employment. In an economic model that actually isn't a dystopian hellscape, robots replacing jobs is something to celebrate.

And to switch our economic model to one in which a person can thrive without pissing the vast majority of our lives away on the grind; we just need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps!

[–] sxan@midwest.social 99 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is so important.

An aspect of post scarcity is that people shouldn't have to work. AGI might allow that; LLM is starting to fill some niches.

The problem is how it's being done. Rather than benefiting society as a whole, it's enriching a few. In an ideal world, people whose jobs are replaced should get a stipend. We should all be eagerly awaiting that time when our jobs are replaced and we get a paycheck - maybe a little reduced - but now we're free to pursue our interests. If that means doing your old job, only now it's bespoke, artisan work, great.

The other missing factors are free energy and limitless resources; but we're making progress on energy, but resources are an issue with no solution on the horizon. Plus, we're killing the planet by just existing, so there's that.

We have a lot of problems to solve but AI is part of the solution, except that it's being done wrong. And expensively.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (23 children)

but resources are an issue with no solution on the horizon.

We've got tons of resources, and the means the produce more. The problem is that's not going to make some people lots and lots of money, so they don't do it.

Scarcity is not a problem of "can't" right now, it's a problem of "won't".

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[–] youngalfred@lemm.ee 153 points 1 week ago (10 children)

What's a personal?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 133 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Came here to say this... Personal?

This strip was made by AI, wasn't it? WASN'T IT??!?!?!

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 63 points 1 week ago

It 100% is the new 4o image generation which appears very good in producing crisp panel comics with readable text exactly like this.

The most scary thing is all the people responding with denial, oblivious to this not being human made.

[–] choya@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It might be. The doctor ear has different colors. And each robot has a slight difference in shading and shape. An human artist will just simply copy paste all the robots.

[–] Daze@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

brown teeth lady

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

It's very human.

[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing personnel

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 126 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Personal?" Personal what?

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 105 points 1 week ago (6 children)

We will never know, because this comic was produced by AI.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And it made a glaring mistake? Who will verify these errors to ensure they don't occur? 🤔

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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm presuming "personal assistant" and it got cut off due to being itself AI-generated slop.

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Personal is a career?

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 85 points 1 week ago

Probably a hallucination of the AI that generated this

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[–] deeply_moving_queef@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Credit to the original artist.

[–] burgermeister@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I'm deeply moved

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This... Almost looks like the op of this post used AI to translate and change the art style of this comic.

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Why is lemmy filling up with AI posts? Its worse that this is on c/comicstrips

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It’s not a Lemmy thing, it’s a global phenomenon. Humans are using AI more than ever, and believe it or not, humans use Lemmy.

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People under Capitalism: Oh no, our jobs are being automated. 😱😭

People under Socialism: Finally! Now that our jobs are being automated, I can chill and watch TV, maybe go on a vacation. 😎🏖🍺🎉🎊🎇🎆

~(Btw,~ ~USSR/Russia~ ~and~ ~PRC~ ~are~ ~not~ ~socialist,~ ~don't~ ~get~ ~confused)~

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[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

AI generated slop. Reported

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago

As an automechanic, my job will never replace by AI, but instead we're fucked by low wages and the black box automobile has slowly become.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I wanted robots to do my menial unpleasant chores for me so I'd have more time to do art, writing, and analytics. I didn't want robots to do all the art, writing, and analytics so I had more time for chores & menial tasks 😭

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Any personals here?

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The rich will always have money to pay better people to make beautiful things for them

Just be useful to the rich and you'll survive

Just like they planned it

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Everyone thinks their own line of work is safe because everyone knows the nuances of their own job. But the thing that gets you is that the easier a job gets the fewer people are needed and the more replaceable they are. You might not be able to make a robot cashier, but with the scan and go mobile app you only need an employee to wave a scanner (to check that some random items in your cart are included in the barcode on your receipt) and the time per customer to do that is fast enough that you only need one person, and since anyone can wave a scanner you don’t have much leverage to negotiate a raise.

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[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

When I see these kinds of posts I just look over at the vibe coders and just laugh harder than any joke about ai taking our jobs

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The image looks like AI...

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