• MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Oh, c’mon - have you EVER tried managing people? They’re a pain in the ass: expensive, unpredictable, needy beyond just the money they demand. Of course dimwit managers would rather outsource their people jobs to a service company wherever and whenever they can, let the service company do all that messy people-management.

      What they’re missing is: those outsourcing service providers, even the ones providing AI “workers”, are themselves made possible by, staffed with: people. Your outsourcing bills are ultimately paying for: people. Once they become dependent upon these outsourced service providers, guess what? Their billing rates will go up and up and up right up to the point that it’s almost tempting to stop paying the service provider and just: hire their own people to do the work.

      Worth the time to read: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-03-18-asbestos-in-the-walls-government-by-spicy-autocomplete-ff437603809c

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    the sad thing is we should be excited to replace human beings doing monotonous work but we all know how that will go with capitalists running things.

  • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I guess he didn’t read history books about … (flip flip)

    • Robots taking automotive industry in the 80, or (flip flip)
    • mechanisation throughout 20th century, or perhaps (flip flip)
    • steam machines in the 19th century

    Well well he seems to have never touched a history book.

      • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months 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.