AI only does a half-ass job, so you need a real human stepping in to “fix it in post.”
We’re seeing corporations throwing money hand over fist at AI because corporations want it to replace workers.
We’re burning an extra planets worth of energy for something that still needs human intervention to be usable.
Maybe, just maybe, we could just pay humans a living fucking wage to do the same work to begin with instead of constantly trying to find more and more ways to just not pay people at all.
Like, shocker, if you have a fully staffed customer service department, you actually will solve problems for people faster than an AI staffed customer service department.
The corpos don’t care, they’re not actually interested in solving our problems. They’ll burn the planet to the ground in effort to avoid paying us a living wage.
From their point of view the goal isn’t to abolish human involvement, but to minimise the cost. So if they can do the job at the same quality with a quarter of the personnel through AI assistance for less cost, obviously they’re gonna do that.
At the same time, just because humans having crappy jobs is the current way we solve the problem of people getting money, doesn’t mean we should keep on doing that. Basic income would be a much nicer solution for that, for example. Try to think a bit less conservatively.
What about the cost to the environment? That cost is just a negative externality to them and you, apparently. Yet I’m the one accused of thinking “conservatively.”
Burning ten times as many fossil fuels to “minimise the costs” is literally fucking stupid and short-sighted.
In the end it’s about money. If one had to pay for environmentally damages (e.g. a new tax on $energyUnit, $resourceUnit,…) and you’d not only pay for the resources + some markup for the producing company and just external externalize the “worth” of the damages (read: the taxpayer,…), then it’s cheaper to use these services instead of humans.
This comes up again and again:
AI only does a half-ass job, so you need a real human stepping in to “fix it in post.”
We’re seeing corporations throwing money hand over fist at AI because corporations want it to replace workers.
We’re burning an extra planets worth of energy for something that still needs human intervention to be usable.
Maybe, just maybe, we could just pay humans a living fucking wage to do the same work to begin with instead of constantly trying to find more and more ways to just not pay people at all.
Like, shocker, if you have a fully staffed customer service department, you actually will solve problems for people faster than an AI staffed customer service department.
The corpos don’t care, they’re not actually interested in solving our problems. They’ll burn the planet to the ground in effort to avoid paying us a living wage.
That’s a a bit too absolute way to look at it.
From their point of view the goal isn’t to abolish human involvement, but to minimise the cost. So if they can do the job at the same quality with a quarter of the personnel through AI assistance for less cost, obviously they’re gonna do that.
At the same time, just because humans having crappy jobs is the current way we solve the problem of people getting money, doesn’t mean we should keep on doing that. Basic income would be a much nicer solution for that, for example. Try to think a bit less conservatively.
What about the cost to the environment? That cost is just a negative externality to them and you, apparently. Yet I’m the one accused of thinking “conservatively.”
Burning ten times as many fossil fuels to “minimise the costs” is literally fucking stupid and short-sighted.
In the end it’s about money. If one had to pay for environmentally damages (e.g. a new tax on $energyUnit, $resourceUnit,…) and you’d not only pay for the resources + some markup for the producing company and just external externalize the “worth” of the damages (read: the taxpayer,…), then it’s cheaper to use these services instead of humans.