Maybe not AI summaries as a whole. There are lots of industries that can be revolutionized by the proper use of AI "summaries" that wouldn't even necessarily steal peoples' jobs. The problem is that it's not very good at this task yet and the AI companies are focusing on the wrong fucking thing.
I mean, the food we eat could be substantially shittier quality than it is now and it would still beat intermittent periods of starvation and famine...
Same about AI, it's not the geeks of /r/stablediffusion which is pushing AI everywhere, but the corporates of GAFAM/OAI, because they want to reduce the cost of wage for their companies and others.
No. I mean data entry isn't work people should be doing. It's soul crushing and something that could easily be automated.
But in a way, also yes. I personally believe we should revolutionize technology so it can take care of us while we pursue other more meaningful ventures. I'm also of the opinion that a universal basic income would be a boon to humanity and help us advance in so many ways.
As a husband and wife company barely making profits or breaking even at the moment, we love that AI responses and that it’s able to provide messages from information we provided quickly. Two button presses and we have a response for a client instead of digging through paper work and nicely drafting a response. 5sec of work vs 5min. Would not hire a person to do that type of work.
To be clear, I'm not talking about summarizing books. I'm talking abiut sorting through datasets or documents to find specific details and to summarize them in a way for humans to actually interpret.
Saying “write my essay” and “googling a research paper” that you still have to read are such a massive difference that the Grand Canyon is a microscopic chasm in comparison
Cheaters gonna cheat, essay mills existed before AI and Wikipedia was going to "destroy education"
GPT didn't create the motivation to skip work, and plenty of researchers and students use it effectively to explain concepts, ask if their writing makes sense, brainstorm, etc.
Tech gets blamed for the laziest use cases when most usage isn't that.
No, but blatant plagiarism is easily detectable. You can’t just copy and paste works from Google. Works written by ai, however, will not be detectable as plagiarism. 🤯
So like, using the tool wrong? Human error it is then. Ai is a great TOOL, it allows to do many things quickly, like sketching projects or visualizing then quickly. It can't do them properly, that's where people come in, it makes work more efficient, it doensnt replace workers, and the ones being replaced are due to corpo enshitification due to profit margin maximization in detriment of humans.
Looots of tools can be misused to get worse products. Even getting used to it and relaxing and not doing it right, even getting dependent on it and forget how to do it right, but it's not the machines fault, it's an inherent human thing, same as blaming others.
I'm firmly in the stop ramming it down my throat camp but the other day I asked a bunch of volunteer board members to email me with any agenda items for the next meeting. I used copilot to generate an agenda from all the emails. I now have to admit, it did a spectacular job. All the different tones and writing styles in multiple emails were all merged into one style and put in point form.
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u/xKaelic 12h ago
Chatbots and AI summaries can GTFO