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Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs (www.theguardian.com)

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Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel “devalued” by the technology and warned of a downward trajectory in the quality of work.

Recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund found AI would affect about 40% of jobs around the world. Its head, Kristalina Georgieva, has said: “This is like a tsunami hitting the labour market.”

Workers who have trained AI models to replace some or all of their roles tell the Guardian about their experiences.

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[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

My job recently shifted me to a new task. The hired 4 or 5 people to do my old work.

What I'm trying to say is that they'll fire as many people as they want and or say that even though the work is being done "more efficiently" they'll just offload more and more work onto employees anyways and do whatever they can to pay them less