It’s so funny when ppl flex about using AI, but they’re describing a basic task for a (more efficient) technology that already exists. Oh wow, you transcribed a meeting? You translated a document? You used text-to-speech? You retrieved a digital resource? You … made a template? 😮 wow 😮 - ThreadSky

annethegnome.bsky.social • 19 days ago

It’s so funny when ppl flex about using AI, but they’re describing a basic task for a (more efficient) technology that already exists.
Oh wow, you transcribed a meeting?
You translated a document?
You used text-to-speech?
You retrieved a digital resource?
You … made a template?

😮 wow 😮

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lacafedora.bsky.social•19 days ago

Also the niche for using AI to do anything leans hard into timesaving, which itself is appealing because everyone is overworked and underpaid, doesn't have the skills, and can't afford the time or money to hire an actual person to do the the task. It's tech replacing people yet again. This is what—

lacafedora.bsky.social•19 days ago

Capitalists do: consolidating work under a new technology, disenfranchising workers, and absorbing the wealth displaced by the rearrangement of resources. And workers have less contact with each other in the new configuration, making it more difficult to resist future efforts to do this further.

annethegnome.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yeah! There’s something here too about allowing ppl to draw on the collective without interacting with or contributing to that collective — it’s this very anti-social way of accessing information as a commodity. It’s a mirror of the highly individualistic and productivity-obsessed culture 🥲

annethegnome.bsky.social•19 days ago

Even when trying to research how ChatGPT affects people’s cognitive abilities, you have to wade through papers and papers of how it may or may not increase productivity. Coders code faster! Maybe even better! they’re not learning but their knowledge doesnt affect the quarterly profits, so who cares?

annethegnome.bsky.social•19 days ago

People are getting answers faster than even! They work faster! But they losing the ability to seek and vet information. But information literacy doesnt turn millionaires into billionaires, so who cares? We can wring more profit out of the workers, even while their minds rot.

annethegnome.bsky.social•19 days ago

They’re thrilled they can finally sacrifice our minds for profit the way they have sacrificed labourers bodies for millennia.

data-64.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yup, and an awful lot of those answers are just incorrect too. Unless they're in the first 2 results in a normal Google search, anyway, I've found there's a really high chance the ai is just lying

annethegnome.bsky.social•19 days ago

Reminder about this paper from Microsoft, which is pro-AI, finds that the critical thinking at work is ✨inversely related✨ to confidence in AI 👁️👄👁️

Ppl who know what they’re doing & are confident in themselves find significantly less value in these tools

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf?ref=404media.co

annethegnome.bsky.social•19 days ago

Flexing that you use AI is just bragging that ✨you don’t understand your job✨

annethegnome.bsky.social•19 days ago

From a less judgy note, I see the popularity of these tools as a marketable, profit-driven solution to our information literacy not meeting our current needs. Increasing information literacy requires public investment, and doesn’t make anyone rich. People don’t even know about the free resources—

annethegnome.bsky.social•19 days ago

that exist because they aren’t being *marketed* and we spend our time ducking and weaving around ads & addictive feeds instead of actually *seeking* information.

At first, I was annoyed that my local library had a marketing department, but now I get it. We have to fight for attention 😫

darkestadam.bsky.social•19 days ago

I get this so hard my experience with the internet went from an active one to a passive/reactive one.

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