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- Comment on AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite. 5 days ago:
How is it a positive for you to be required to deliver 10x the work in the same timeframe as before, while earning the same salary, and while having your job change without warning or negotiation? AI makes it possible to do much more work in a shorter amount of time, but that doesn’t translate into more free time - it’s just that it becomes expected that you should deliver much more work.
Let me give you an example: imagine you work for a magazine. Before, you worked on a team of 5 designers, who each had a week to come up with two or three sections of the magazine. Now, most of the team is gone, you are creating the whole magazine by yourself using AI, your job changed from writing copy and using photoshop to create art to “prompt engineering”. The company expanded its business and now they publish 10 magazines (mostly AI slop) instead of one, because they can.
This is great for those who sell tokens and maybe for your boss, no one else. Workers end up being expected to increase their output multiple times; the fun parts of the job are taken over by AI and you’re left doing basically QA all day; the market is runover by AI slop; your boss now has to compete not only with very specialized people, but also with kids using AI.
I can tell you from personal experience working in the consulting world that many people who have been heavy AI users for the last year are now ending up with burnout. I can personally see everything the article mentions going on in my real world bubble.
- Comment on There is a reality-translator built into me. It translates raw reality into the familiar time, space, things, people etc. 8 months ago:
- Comment on As disinformation and hate thrive online, YouTube quietly changed how it moderates content 8 months ago:
You’re either very young, or very dumb. It is known that every low-moderation platform quickly devolves into nazism and/or child porn.
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 9 months ago:
I’ve been using nextcloud for years also, as a repository for files for a small company. We are 10 people in total using it everyday to store and share files, and we have a few TB of data in total.
It’s basically having your own dropbox or google drive server, that you can manage as you see fit.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Oh no =(
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 11 months ago:
Sorry but which country is this? Can you elaborate on that photo?
- Comment on Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift hits Meta staffers, targets Apple 1 year ago:
Come on. VR may not be mainstream, but there are millions of Meta Quest devices out there and a lot of people do use VR for gaming, exercise or training.
- Comment on Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets 1 year ago:
Meta is desperate for content and use cases for MR, and nothing comes up. They have been doing jams, they are funds to give to developers, and everything that comes up are basic wave shooters or simple ports (downgrades, really) from VR to MR.
Microsoft has probably figured out that, except for the military, it’s a solution in search of a problem (at least in the current form factor ans with current limitations).