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WebMaka t1_jdkgq60 wrote

A lot of jobs depend on, or are outright based on, bullshit generation. As it turns out, ChatGPT is really really good at generating bullshit. So everyone whose job basically is bullshit generation is terrified at the prospect of being replaced, and rightly so - given how loyal modern companies are to their employees, there may be a lot of people getting fired once ChatGPT gets a few hundred/thousand/million more "generations" of improvements under its digital belt.

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bogglingsnog t1_jdlarts wrote

As if we didn't have too much bullshit already, feels like we're going to be drowning in it in a few years.

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SidewaysFancyPrance t1_jdnuhar wrote

Thanks to short attention spans and humanity's astounding ability to adapt to new circumstances, CEOs are embracing the "random bullshit, go!" method of distracting and deflecting in order to dissipate any accumulating pushback against their decisions. They just need to ride it out. Generative text AI is a nice, cheap, controllable way to help with that. It's designed to sound good but not actually mean anything, and is easily disavowed if it acts up.

Look at how quickly everyone's gotten over the fact that Twitter has been turned into a megaphone for narcissistic billionaires and Nazis. We've all just sort of accepted it as the new normal. Sure, lots of people are still mad and thinking about it, but it's no longer enough people to effect any change.

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WebMaka t1_jdnzmm5 wrote

> Sure, lots of people are still mad and thinking about it, but it's no longer enough people to effect any change.

Yep, as long as enough people are all wrapped up in wedge issues and identity politics and kept in a perpetual state of "we versus they," there won't be enough critical mass to fight the real fight: "the rich versus the rest."

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