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Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it (fortune.com)
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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 28 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

"Its useless and acheives nothing" is not a realistic take and anybody who does any kind of office job and has used an ai in the past year would be able to tell you the same.

I have an office job and I can tell you it’s useless.

Sure you might feel like your being more productive but that’s only because your lowering your output quality.

Reducing cost by reducing quality has always existed.

Think about it this way, if you reach support helpline, would you feel like your getting the same quality support if it’s a chatbot?

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I also have an office job and can tell you I have uses for it.

I don't use it to produce anything, but where I am researching something and have run out of leads it can sometimes produce more which are then verified.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

have run out of leads it can sometimes produce more

I sometimes use it for that too but imo that’s a downgraded replacement from asking a colleague or a more senior person.

The capitalist class has squeezed the workers so much that taking a step back and asking your peers can be seen as wasting time, but that’s when breakthroughs happened.

If your wondering why I use it, well I think big brother is probably watching so my use shouldn’t be zero. I would much rather have collaboration time

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 9 hours ago

I suppose it's useful for writing those reports that have to be written because financial rules, but no one ever looks at. Reduced quality in that area is acceptable because the chances any of the documents are ever going to be looked at are minimal, and if they are looked at, the work the AI did was probably good enough, even if it wasn't to your normal standards.