Cap here. The product is called vocal dampener and used by singers during warmup
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What the fuck did I just read?
Is typing THAT hard?
When you need a nannybot? Yes.
I have never seen anyone except streamers try this out in all honesty, I doubt the article is actually truthful. Even vibe coders understand how to type.
This looks uncomfortable and humiliating. Now if they were to make it in the form of a suppository...
A noise cancelling microphone isn't a terrible invention though.
I've seen those things 10 years ago when somebody was helping a deaf student in university. Used one of those things to talk to a text to speech engine during the lecture. Seemed to work quite well.
Thats true this is just the absolute worst use case scenario i can think of
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It's lazy enough to vibe code, but when you're too lazy to even type a prompt.....sheeeesh
Before I read the text I thought this was a photo of a stenographer; they used those or similar in depositions I've given.
I love the implication that he's speaking to the AI and wants to not disturb people, but has no headphones on. so I can only assume it's responding from the speakers.
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Yes, I know it could be responding over text instead of voice.
Which I think it is even more funny, why not just type them if is not a full audio back and forth.
Somehow the AI part isnt as egregious as the talking part. You should at least be able to type basic sentences if you have a job in tech
This is fox news levels of propaganda but on the left
I missed the political point to the post
As bad as AI is. It is still a new technology and it's an arms race right now. Lemmy is influenced heavily by Chinese bots. Lemmy is also small but not small enough to be ignored. It leans left and towards tech users. If you go back to see the early posts for AI, you'll see a ton of astro turfing. Again, AI has issues. But if you follow right wing media you can see the markers of propaganda and astro turfing because the always need to churn new ideas. For example MAID was new in Canada. The right needed to get everybody on board. So early on you could see a big push in regards to content that isn't organic.
It was the same here on the left with AI. The difference here is that it isn't from the right. American right want to embrace this and build data centers. I suspect that China is behind it and wants to create chaff on the left to prevent us from actually building and innovating with AI. At the same time it's also a tool that can rapidly parse text, semantic analysis, opsec and investigations. Which can help create tools to help detect more astroturfing and bots online which powers that be really do not want the left to do. So they really produced so much content to push us all against it. To the point if anyone even smells AI you all instantly swarm. That's manufactured in the same way the right respond to opinions they're given. If you told someone on the right that their opinions on abortion or guns or patriotism is heavily influenced by special interest, what would they say? Would the agree or tell you it's not politics it's common sense
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Techbros will have workers do anything but work from home.
People all over the world make good livings at jobs you've never heard of, or imagined existed. Jobs that will not be done by machines anytime soon.
Maybe not though. If the biggest companies in the US are discovering AI is more expensive than paying US based employees, AI is certainly more expensive than paying employees in most other parts of the world too.
I got subpoenaed once and the stenographer used one of these.
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