the instant and society-wide push to generative AI has been extremely instructive to show that the CEOs of every single corporation and institution spend every day extremely furious that they have to pay people anything at all to extract value from them - ThreadSky

markpopham.bsky.social • 87 days ago

the instant and society-wide push to generative AI has been extremely instructive to show that the CEOs of every single corporation and institution spend every day extremely furious that they have to pay people anything at all to extract value from them

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PBS Kids is currently teaching my daughters how to use generative AI to make art if anyone wants to know what parenting is like these days

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gothamexpat.bsky.social•87 days ago

Yep. We may have an acute technology infection, but it is made so much more serious by our underlying condition of late-stage capitalism.

arcus.bsky.social•87 days ago

Ironically, one of the few jobs that would be perfect for replacement with AI is CEO. It’s typically about calculating trends and making business decisions based on them. The workers could have an AI for that, while they continue to produce value.

misterrora.bsky.social•87 days ago

Also that they think like lemmings.

“I just read an article about INSERT POPULAR TOPIC, we need to devote a lot of resources to this immediately!”

At one job, my CEO got in a tizzy about removing the office supply room because we should move to “just in time.”

krissy.bsky.social•87 days ago

Amazing

greenfairies.bsky.social•86 days ago

My work did a training about how we (individuals) should use AI in our day to day and kicked it off with “it’s not because it’s the shiny new thing!” And then the whole training was “it’s shiny! And new! And you should try it!”

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•87 days ago

This is news ?

where the fuck you been the last 50 years ?

isakcoffee.bsky.social•87 days ago

Remember company towns? One of the end goal of capitalism is company nations. Closed systems of perpetual poverty for the employees, maximum ROI for the employer.

duendeonfuego.bsky.social•87 days ago

shanley tucci you are a good cook and a font of wisdom

accountabilabuddy.bsky.social•87 days ago

It's all a bitter irony since "CEO" is the job most easily and directly replaced by a chatbot, but will of course be the very last job subjected to such treatment.

rosewind.bsky.social•87 days ago

I went to a 2hr “in conversation with” thing with Dominic Cummings the other day (it was live streamed so I wasn’t in the room with him):

He was talking about:

“Agentic Capitalism”—making money without involving actual humans

It was pretty horrible—but also, he came across as utterly deluded

markpopham.bsky.social•87 days ago

No matter how nice they are, no matter what their statements say, every time they see you or hear about you they think "god I wish I could fire that person and replace them with a computer"

mcthrill.bsky.social•87 days ago

The end goal is to have zero employees and everyone is required to rent the product to live.

noahbossier.bsky.social•85 days ago

How do they have people rent it with the movies and shows

gamehawk.bsky.social•87 days ago

In fairness, the really nice ones are thinking "I could make their jobs much easier" and are just too clueless to think "but what would they be doing then?" Never underestimate the damage a well meaning boss can do!

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