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Generative AI copilots could promise 'a workplace utopia' (fortune.com)
1 point by iam_a_user on June 7, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Yeah - no.

What is going to happen is company owners, shareholders, C-suite executives are going to consume those productivity gains.

And workers will be laid off where possible, and the remaining workers will be expected to deliver more output every single year ad Infinitum

Make no mistake, AI improvements will negatively affect every single worker. Workers do not get any benefits.

Before you say “but now I can code a website faster!” Yes, you can - but your pay won’t rise, and now the expectation has shifted to higher outputs.

We are all just rats on a wheel, and the wheel is getting faster.

“Utopia” - I invite you to look up the meaning.

Copilots are more dystopian than anything




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