Comment on Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’

• trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s just idiot grifter CEOs afraid of being left behind because they believed hype in the media. Not happening in the timescale that they want, but by 2033 the trend will be easy to spot. And it will be nowhere near the current claims.

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• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hmm, kinda? A lot of industrialization went hand-in-hand with losing customizability and things made to fit.

  A while ago I talked with a woman in her 90s and she said that when she was young, no serious TV moderator would have worn an ill-fitting off-the-shelf clothing.

  The same holds true for all sorts of articles: custom-made shoes, custom-made furniture, custom-made houses, for example. All that is relegated to the luxurity sector and most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf industrial goods instead.

  AI kinda fits into that department for many tasks. Low-quality translations, low-quality texts, low-quality work, all off-the-shelf and ill-fitting but cheap and mass-produced.

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf industrial goods instead.

    The age of Amazon has made it so much worse… even poor people went to clothing stores and tried stuff on before buying it.

    Now, if you don’t want to pay triple, you get it from mail order and just hope it fits - yeah you can return it if it doesn’t fit, but how much hassle is that, if it’s “close enough” people generally don’t bother, whereas if you were in the store you’d get the right size within a minute or two before buying it.

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