i’m sure the “immigrants are taking our jobs” crowd will be as outraged about this right? right?
Let me ask my favorite pundit if I should get mad at his boss or the brown people…
I know you’re just making a joke but we need to just face the facts that it’s all based on outright racism. There is no other logically consistent explanation at this point.
Of course not. AI aren’t immigrants.
Hmmmmm.
What if the AI company is from overeas?
Still durk-da-der!
that aren’t that smart are they?
i’m sure the “DEI makes everything half assed” crowd will be as outraged about this right? right?
Followed by “why does no one want to work anymore!”
And then the good old “why is nobody buying our product?”
I seriously don’t understand the end game here…
These people are stuck with this mentality of “labor is one of the biggest expenses a company has so we need to eliminate it” like ok… and that labor goes and buys a product, if not yours because it’s “luxury” then someone else’s. The owner of that company spends their money on your luxury products, but they only have money because labor bought from them and now you only have money because of that labor…
No labor, no money for anyone… It makes no sense.
Experts understood this decades ago, and helped to build a system based around everyone having at least some money to spend. The unemployed kept the economy grinding, too. Seems to be forgotten lore now.
I seriously don’t understand the end game here…
CEOs only think in 5, maybe ten year plans, after that they sell out and sip drinks on their yachts. They don’t care about what will happen after they nail their bundle.
Bold of you to assume they think 5 years out. I’d be surprised if most of them thought even 5 quarters out.
They never count their own labour as a cost.
Maybe it’s time we start counting bosses as a labour cost, and employees as a labour gain.
Simple. It’s not only about how much they have, it’s about how much we don’t have.
They also hate that the plebeians can do things they can’t, and they want the ability to do those things themselves, immediately, but without having to put in anything as low-brow as effort or practice.
Up until now, they had to settle for paying lots of money to get those things and keep them for themselves—witness the art gallery scene—but this poses them two problems: they didn’t actually make it, and worse, they had to part with their precious money to get it.
Now they think AI will let them make anything they want, do anything they want, and never have to pay artists or workers, so they can keep even more of their precious money.
And then “why is no one returning to office”?
And then “why are people shooting
usCEOs in the streets in broad daylight?”Edit for clarification
That 2nd picture really hits. You have a person sitting on a curb in a defeated posture, invoking images of someone who is down on their luck possibly unable to find work, while behind them is this ad featuring a blank almost soulless face depicting an “employee,” who presumably is the reason the curb sitter cannot find work, being praised for not ever needing or wanting work/life balance (you know, things like sleeping or not working)
It’s such a bleak and dystopian scene presented in such an average everyday setting.
Cyberpunk is one of the most prophetic literary genres ever.
Left wing wants solarpunk. Right wing wants cyberpunk. Best we can do is probably Mad Max.
cyberpunk seems to have too many personal freedoms for the (us) right to enjoy
Nonsense! You’ll be free to replace your arms for a job, or to travel to the asteroid belt for a job, or to live forever in the computer for a job!
aye, but being able to change your gender is a step too far for the us republican party
With dorks like musk who like the vibe and completely miss the point working as hard as they can to implement it, I feel like it’s somewhat of a self-fulfilling genre
Musk isn’t missing the point, he just relates more to the super evil mega corp CEOs than the punks. The “point” of cyberpunk doesn’t effect him because he’s not a worker.
all Sci fi is about the present not the future.
Cyberpunk traces its roots as far back as the sixties but really cemented itself in the late 70’s and early 80’s. The fact that their collective vision of the 2020’s was so damn close to reality is really damn freaky.
There is a somewhat unknown cyberpunk comic called “2020 visions” written in the late 90s that basically perfectly predicts COVID-19.
I read it for the first time during COVID times without knowing what I was getting into and it was pretty damn strange.
Wow, straight out of some videogame. Disturbing.
You’d think they would try to be a little more tactful.
Their are aiming this at CEOs, there is no sich think as been too tactless
Corpo assholes trying to break the AIs out from the Blackwall. Owning the entire world isn’t enough I guess.
Ironically I really hoped this image was AI generated
Me too, but the company is real and I found a story about their ad campaign in San Francisco. I also didn’t see any obvious traces AI in either image, and AI generally isn’t good at making text in images.
the company is real
Given the state of LLMs, their security (or lack thereof), hallucinations, and sociopathic responses, I don’t suspect that company is going to last long.
All it takes is one of their “AI employees” to cause a colossal fuck-up for a client company, like losing a large sum of money or introducing legal liabilities.
Yup. AI will ultimately do more for those using it to maximize worker productivity than those trying to replace labor. There will always be new uses for workers, as unless there’s some conspiracy to cull the population, it’s a huge resource that causes problems if underutilized.
Then they hire “AI cleanup specialist” contractors for a fraction of the cost of a competent full time employee. Everyone loses
the CEO wins as does NVIDIA, therefore not everyone loses
Yeaah, fuck humans! What good are they, anyway!
Meatbags.
In 2025, billions are spend to add AI into everything. In 2030, billions will be spend to remove AI from everything.
so, it’s a multi billion dollar market?
god this is so awful.
also its complete falseness
u shud hire humans. most companies which tried to replace jobs with LLMs or whatevr failed, and had to re-hire.
LLM is a massive burning money pit that doesn’t work as advertised and it’s supposed to save money on skilled labour when?
It’s a pipe dream that cannot pan out for basic economic reasons, yet the rich don’t accept this because they aren’t smarter than everyone else.
They’ll need a universal basic income to preserve enough genetic diversity so that the AI-owner elites don’t habsburg the human species to extinction. Neoliberal ideology, however, states that it is immoral for people to be given something for nothing, and granting all of humanity ownership of common wealth, and thus making the basic income a dividend, would set a dangerous precedent that could undermine the actual owners. As such, the humans kept alive in the name of genetic diversity will have to be put to useless makework.
Okay… But you don’t get to complain about how “no one wants to work anymore”.
