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BuzzFeed shares shoot up 146% as it announces that it will cut 12% of its workforce replacing it with ChatGPT generated content.

This is the reality of automation under capitalism. Instead of automation being used to reduce labour and create more free time it's used to create unemployment.

Meanwhile, the contradiction of this approach is that businesses need people with disposable income to sell things too.

Capitalism is a self destructive system.

forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/202

27 Jan 2023 at 22:16 | Open on mas.to
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ᚦᛖᚱᚢᚱᚨᚾ

@yogthos and every AI salesman and researcher I have heard say that AI is meant to augment the human, not replace them. It really is just lip service.

27 Jan 2023 at 22:18 | Open on merveilles.town
Yogthos

@theruran AI would be amazing technology under a sane economic system, but instead it will be used to create further misery

27 Jan 2023 at 22:21 | Open on mas.to
The Doctor

@yogthos Jesus Christ, Alistair Crowley, and Alan Turing playing pinchole...

27 Jan 2023 at 22:31 | Open on hackers.town
Chimi_Chuang_Tzu

@yogthos

What does automation have to do with capitalism? What does automation look like under communism, fascism, etc.?

Automation has always been about reducing human labor. Human wants and desires are infinite, people will always find a way to earn a living if they don’t want to die. New industries and jobs will arise just as they always have.

Perhaps those whose job is affected should learn to code or coal mine.

27 Jan 2023 at 22:32 | Open on merovingian.club
Yogthos

@Chimi_Chuang_Tzu the economic system has everything to do with how automation is used because that's what decides towards what purpose labour and resources are allocated.

Under capitalism, the means of production are owned by capitalists and the primary purpose of work is to create capital with all else being secondary.

Under communism the purpose of work is to produce the thing people need to live, to improve the quality of life. Technology is used to reduce necessary labour.

27 Jan 2023 at 22:46 | Open on mas.to
Yogthos

@Chimi_Chuang_Tzu it's incredibly myopic to say that people affected by automation should just find new ways to be exploited

27 Jan 2023 at 22:48 | Open on mas.to
Chimi_Chuang_Tzu

@yogthos

Communism is failed idea that looks good on paper. It doesn't matter what or how you implement it as it flies in the face of human behavior.

There is nothing myopic about it.
This is, has been, and will continue to be the reality of life. You're not owed a job, income, or happiness. Its on you to create that for your self. Competition is the natural order.

If you feel exploited then git gud my dude.

27 Jan 2023 at 22:58 | Open on merovingian.club
Yogthos

@Chimi_Chuang_Tzu that's an incredibly ignorant statement to make. China in particular is a great example of just how phenomenally absurd your claim is.

Meanwhile, if human behavior tends towards negative tendencies like greed, then it's an argument against capitalism as opposed to for it. We should be creating systems that inhibit negative tendencies instead of encouraging them.

The reality of life is that capitalism is failing across the world. Anybody with a functioning brain can see that.

27 Jan 2023 at 23:03 | Open on mas.to
gjd :blobcattea:

@yogthos short term gains (for me) for long term pain (for everyone else)

27 Jan 2023 at 23:02 | Open on aus.social
Maybe(oz)

@yogthos Hard to believe it went so far so fast...

I can't wait for AI web-browsers to post comments (on BuzzFeed), or generate videos and follow friends on TikTokGram.

Once they can write their own code correctly, we can get rid of computers ; or computers will get rid of us. Idk. :)

27 Jan 2023 at 23:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Yogthos

@oz lol the future is just gonna be bots talking to bots

27 Jan 2023 at 23:50 | Open on mas.to
Robb Montgomery

@yogthos
I thought the Buzzfeed business always was to recycle content from others. This move just makes it less costly to produce crap content that has the appearance of not being crap.

28 Jan 2023 at 11:01 | Open on newsie.social
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