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Absolutely, in that AI is just the newest fad in neoliberal employee abuse.
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Whatever the output gains promised by LLMs, their initial productivity surge is erased over time, and replaced by heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.” -
Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.@QasimRashid
It's a way to say that they believe in innumeracy. -
I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store. -
I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.@lritter @gleick Well, it was more or less inevitable.
The fact that he did ugly things with accounting, like literally making sure for decades to run at zero profits while making sure to grow as fast as possible, is another thing. Strictly speaking, legal, but only possible because he managed to sell it to the investors.
But yes, it killed the competition.
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I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.@gleick
Sorry, as an European he never was a good guy.Amazon was convenient and still is, for buying foreign language books, but convenience does not make it ethical.
And me personal I was always sceptical of concentration benefits. As these bluntly lead to monopoly and that leads to extortion games to the disadvantage of the consumers, that's a given natural law, like apples fall from trees downwards.