Do you have to pay a "retoucher" the same as an illustrator? Do you have to pay a "recoder" the same as a developer? The point is to invent "new" jobs without the prestige or protection of existing jobs.
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These sorts of articles don't quite seem to understand that this is the point. Everyone knows GenAI doesn't *work* - as in, it can't actually do even what is claimed it can do - but the point is to hurt labour. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
sep 1, 2025, 10:32 am • 7 1 • view
they also don't seem to grasp how demeaning these magical bullshit jobs sound. Like a psychologist who trains the AI's interpersonal skills when they would actually rather practicing therapy (this job would never be real but its the kind of shit they love coming up with)
sep 1, 2025, 12:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Title insurance. They used to hire full time lawyers to examine and opine on real estate title and supervise closings. Now they advertise for a high school grads and is hourly, at rates that amount to around $56k. 1/2
sep 1, 2025, 12:27 pm • 2 0 • view
And there are serious fraud problems that the new hires don't understand. Management wants it that way. 2/2
sep 1, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
My favourite AI story remains the Reddit user who was very impressed that AI let him generate 40,000 lines of code for a new SaaS product, but does anyone know of any websites where he could hire a coder to make it work?
sep 1, 2025, 10:36 am • 30 6 • view
I also like the recent security issue with NX, where some incompetently generated code added a security flaw that was exploited to embed malware in their software... which relied on the presence of both "agentic" AI command line tools to exploit and crypto wallets to steal from on marks' computers
sep 1, 2025, 10:41 am • 6 0 • view
Because, what a surprise, the Venn diagram of crypto bros and AI bros looks suspiciously circular
sep 1, 2025, 10:42 am • 8 0 • view
www.politico.com/newsletters/... "and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto" == Also the very strangely named ChatGPT 3.5 (half of what?) which appeared just three weeks after the FTX collapse. Just in time to rush something half baked to market.
sep 1, 2025, 11:06 am • 0 0 • view
ah! skill issue, he forgot to add "... and do it without errors" in the prompt
sep 1, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
The joke is they arent even hiring retouchers (yknow given all the slop imagery you see floating around) Which isn't surprising, if you're not using AI cause you want to hire somone...even if they cost less
sep 1, 2025, 12:20 pm • 2 0 • view
its entirely possible there's AI imagery that flys under the radar because somome has bothered to edit it...but if Sabrina carpenters marketing team is too lazy to photoshop a bunch of sticker designs...I'm leaning to towards scenario A
sep 1, 2025, 12:22 pm • 3 0 • view