AI was sold as a tool to liberate humans from boring work. Somehow we got the opposite: humans lose creative jobs while machines mass produce disposable content nobody asked for. What an inspiring future: fewer artists, fewer writers, fewer careers, and an infinite ocean of algorithmic sludge.
My boss constantly says, “Use AI,” and after a whole day of prompting I have a large body of work that basically isn’t mine and I receive zero satisfaction from it.
I’m being told to use AI more and more too and I’ve managed to get by without selling my soul to it but idk how long I’ll be until I get let go just because I’m not dumping hundreds of thousands of slop code daily. I’ve been hearing more and more coworkers talk about how they haven’t written any code in weeks and are now just checking up on their agents occasionally and it’s filling me with actual existential dread and depression. I’m positive it’ll all come crashing down but if it’s not soon then maybe I’ll drop the career I’ve wanted nearly my whole life and take up farming or something because watching vibe coding infect the whole software field makes me want to shoot myself
I genuinely think I’d have preferred no-code shit to have taken over instead of this because at least that takes some actual thought and effort to use
I feel like the more I use AI at work, the more I feel like it’s replacing the things I actually enjoy doing, leaving me with the leftovers.
That’s “zero or negative value algorithmic sludge.” Nobody wants to pay for it, often having it around devalues the experience, the platform you’re trying to sell it through and devalues all other products on that platform. There is some small minority able to squeeze money out of this I guess so they keep doing it.
As someone who plays live music, the live gig scene is on the up, I think because people are sick of the slop and want assured human connection.
I can see mixed medium performances like Cloud Cult becoming more popular as we move into the AI future.
I recently learned Netflix and other streaming providers now create content with the assumption of being a “second screen”. They repeat plot points and dumb it down so that people scrolling on their phones and only halfway paying attention can still follow along. We’re down a bad path in general and AI sure isn’t helping. Maybe the next step is AI summaries so people don’t even have to watch the AI slop content in the first place?
Stranger Things Season Five is the most blatant example of this. It’s absurd.
AI summaries of videos are already a feature on Youtube so you don‘t miss or even watch anything!
Honestly I think the real takeaway is how much media was already just slop used to sell ads to begin with.
Yeah, I’d wager many of the people losing the jobs over this weren’t producing much of value in the first place.
One year later… “Why doesn’t anyone want to pay for our slop tv show/movie/book/song/videogame? I wonder if our company can get a bailout from the government?”
That’s exactly what I foresee. I hope us taxpayers tell them to kick rocks because they were the dope that used that brain rot tool.
It’s always the fucking suits who get the lion’s share.
“with similar job loss intensity and duration occurring only during the major economic recessions of 2001 and 2008“
Oh, yeah, we’re in a Recession, and we’re en route for Great Depression 2.0. Entry-level has been hard hit too, and https://youtu.be/9HFBShWH0pY?is=_YG0vb1KgNwT4mFa
Sometimes if you want to work you have to put up with some (unjustified) shit. It’s been this way for 50 years or probably even longer.
If I had a button that would drop a nuke on silicon valley, I would press it in a heartbeat. We would be so much better off
One of the worst stretches so far!
Yeah, I work on film and shit is bleak out here
Creative industry was already creatively bankrupt by pandering to all these weird fetishists online
I know, my fetish of good plot had me almost ousted from the family…
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