AI so shit it comes for my unemployment…
Take the AI’s job. I can spout misinformation to morons too
Hey some of us have made a whole career of this and we didn’t need ai to do it
This must be why c-suites and investors are gung-ho on AI. It speaks the same vapid language lacking any true understanding and meaning. It is the Adam they made in their image.
You guys are getting paid?
Too late. Didn’t have time to prep backup plan, clients all went AI. Now I’m job hunting like a 15 years old trying to figure out what I can do with my skills now that everyone thinks they can be great at anything using Large lying models.
Honestly, just wait. This happened to a lot of us in 2002 and 2008. It sucks, but they’ll learn they can’t do everything with AI and they’ll SLOWLY hire people back. But it will take time.
What did you do that all your clients went to AI?
My service cost money and chatgpt was free. They all took the person that was interfacing with the multiple linguists and put that person in charge of asking the translations to chatgpt.
They lost in quality, quality control, cultural fitness of the message, creativity. But none of them cared and they just started pasting texts into chatgpt.
It’s not just me either. Projects are multilingual so there can be dozens of translators working on a given project. We all tried to reason and explain why that was stupid as hell.
But money saved is money so they did it anyway.
Initially I tried looking for new clients but the once buzzing world of translation was a ghost town, no one was asking for translation services anymore.
Some people don’t do AI for money, there’s a subgroup that thinks they are helping by doing the prep work with AI so we can deliver to them faster . That’s easier to work with because they usually understand when we explain why it doesn’t help at all.
job sites essentially made it very hard to find many jobs, i think because AI is being used in resume and screening by employers, its not getting any better. before that they were already doing something similar to AI to screen people out, AI just have more false positive, or if they made sure the AI would have denials.
Weep. Try something closely related with some paid training. In a few years, get more money to fix all the crap that AI has done.
Set up a tent near the petting zoo and live there
Prison guard, street musician, postperson, caregiver
“everything is brighter with a molotov cocktail” - i learned that today
BORTLES!
It will still take long until it would be able to take my job fully, but if it really were to. Charity work, cook (that might robots), museum, or actually go to uni and become a teacher ig lol
There is no backup plan. We are in trouble.
I guess the backup plan is OnlyFans or something?
Yeah… with all that a.i porn only fans is on the chopping block.
dad, is that you?
Pick up something else like a trade. Would be a great excuse to pick up electric engineering or carpentry
Always said I’d love to learn to weld for real… would be as good a reason as any
Get a mask, gloves, a stick welder, and some scrap steel for practice. You can learn it off of Youtube easily enough.
Just whatever you do, DON’T WELD GALGANIZED STEEL! The zinc evaporates into fumes and can get you very sick and possibly kill you. If you absolutely have to weld galvanized steel, do it outside with a fan blowing all the fumes down wind.
Just whatever you do, DON’T WELD GALGANIZED STEEL! The zinc evaporates into fumes and can get you very sick and possibly kill you.
See, this is the kind of thing that a class might teach, though.
dont you mean electrician? electrical engineering should require college course work.
Boat mechanic
Smart thinking, since the only people with money will be living on boats anchored just outside Molotov range.
A trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile over 300 meters
African or European projectile?
I am smart, and I am always right.
Therefore AI cannot take my job.
I see you are vying for AI’s job. Speaking bullshit with confidence is always in demand. Just… normally in sales, not implementation.
Speaking bullshit with confidence
LOL
I’m going to become a live organ donor.
Looks like a lot of people are going with “denial”. Not a good plan.
My personal plan is to have spent the last twenty years saving intensively for retirement, which looks like it’s a good plan for me but is not something that can be started right now by others.
So I’m not really sure what to recommend. Try to get ready for a period of unemployment and hopefully things will stabilize quickly enough that a new career path will become evident? Getting started on a new one right now might not be a good idea if things will change drastically over the next few years and potentially eliminate that too, so just build up savings and resources as best you can I guess. Research unemployment benefits ahead of time so you’ll know what to do if something happens without warning.
A lot of people realize that AI isn’t going to take that many jobs, and it’s just a paranoid talking point.
I use AI tools in my job… the vast majority of them constantly break and who has to fix that? Me. They break themselves with feature updates…
the AI panick is just fear of automation. automation often produces different kinds of jobs while it reduces others. also it increases throughput, meaning you need more workers.
Currently AI is a buzzword and excuse to lay people off, i think that has always been the plan.
Automation reduces repetitive common tasks. It always fails when a task is outside the average range. The more complex a task, the lower the probability is to achieve successful automation.
What the techbros and billionaires don’t understand is that most jobs that exist today are because of their difficulty in automating already. Seemingly simple jobs have hidden complexity.
Since my job is highly complex, non-repetative, with a very high degree of non-recorded specialized knowledge, my fear of a LLM replacing me approaches zero.
Ironic: the same troll (Facedeer) complained people were too paranoid about job loss:
I think the online rhetoric around AI has been way more apocalyptic than the more vague and abstract political stuff… All jobs will be taken away and everyone will be reduced to serfs or killed as surplus population? Drum that into a sufficiently mentally fragile subset of the population long and hard enough and you’ll get them worked up enough to feel like they need to strike first.
But what’s a troll without inconsistent rhetoric…
Denial of a prediction from the same techbros who said bitcoins would replace dollars and banks, or NFTs would be used for real estate,.or napster would launch the careers of new musicians, or.you wouldnt need a printer anymore,.or computers would lead to a.three day workweek,isn’t exactly Luddites complaining about weaving machines.
If LLMs are still economical after the bubble pops they’ll be tools that increase efficiency and in some cases help one human do your job and someone else’s. Which was exactly the trend for all jobs before the AI bubble started.
