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I am starting to see this age of internet-for-robots-by-robots as our second chance to detach from those devices and start living irl again.

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Just the pesky matter of figuring out what humans will do for money, and then we'll be free to run in the meadows like we were meant to

Maybe in the short term, but I think ultimately there are lots of things Humans want (AI or no AI), and that means there's a lot of value to create in the world still. Which means there will still be jobs, just maybe not as much in the churning-out-websites-and-"content"-business.

Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to flippant about the potential for destroyed value here. Many industries (like journalism*) really need to figure this out faster, the advertising model might collapse very quickly when people lose trust that they're reading Human created and vetted material. And there will be broader fallout if all these bonkers AI investments fail to pay off.

[*] Though for journalism specifically it feels like we as a society need to figure out the trust problem, we're rapidly approaching a place of prohibitively-difficult-to-validate-information for things that are too important to get wrong.

Physical crafts and some niche software still. Once robots are given opposable thumbs and large motion models get enough data, there will be nothing left. The tech is already there, just the matter of time. I'm counting on the human race to keep direct funding to software slop and delay that future, but damn China.

I'm interested in computers. What's the point of meadows without computers.

The subtext is the one technology capable of potentially rallying, unifying, and mobilizing the working class across the globe is lost in this design. Probably intentionally. A shame we couldn't rise up and do something about wealth distribution before the powers that be that maintain the world's status quo locked it down.

I’m definitely watching less YouTube because so much of my feed is now AI generated garbage. I only watch new videos from known human creators. My exploration of new creators is way down.

AI kills the mobile, kills the social networks, maybe killing humans in the process :).

I really wish, but I doubt that. I will definitely move to that direction though. I am a professional software engineer, and seriously considering doing another job.

not because AI can take over my job or something, hell no it can't, at least for now. but day by day I am missing the point of being an engineer. problem solving, building and seeing that it works. the joy of engineering is almost gone. Personally, I am not satisfied with my job as I used to do, and that is really bothering.

on the commercial web, consuming content is labor and the cheapest there is ... seeing it being replaced by AI is exactly what is expected.

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