• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    42 minutes ago

    So they thought it would be free forever, and are surprised by the usage based pricing? I wonder what will happen when ai companies need to be profitable and increase prices accordingly

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      6 hours ago

      People who get paid exorbitant sums for doing exceptionally little probably try to avoid that concept

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        They are usually the ones setting up the too good to be true situations, so they probably never thought they would be on the receiving end of one.

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    9 hours ago

    I replaced all my software team with agents which can work 24h a day on the product and now none of the software works and I’m out $600000 waaaaaa

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    10 hours ago

    This has been the case ever since things that seem great, like google cloud computing…and your little project just bankrupted you because you left a tap open over the weekend.

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    13 hours ago

    It’s funny because they do this to other people; they just never thought it’d happen to them. FAFO 🫡

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    Here’s a real a cost saving prompt:

    “Translate the contents of every single document in our databases into as many languages (including dead and constructed fictional languages) as possible.”

    Now you can fire the one Hispanic guy you hired because you assumed he could speak Hindi.

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    Anyone who fell for this grift deserves it and much worse.

    People, usually who have never done the job, still love to argue that it can compete with software devs and infra engineers.

    The sad part they don’t see (or maybe care about) is while it can’t currently (and absolutely not llms) they’re pushing a narrative that we should automate everyone and everything which is dangerous and moronic.

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      The people who have never done the work love more than anyone else to talk about how the work should be done better and cheaper.

      Broadly this sentiment stands for most professions.

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      Well, we should automate everything that can be automated - for the benefit of everyone. Last part is something not seen on worldwide scale ever, just yet

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        I understand the argument for automation being used where appropriate to benefit us and allow us the freedom to focus on other things, however, I’m skeptical due to the social behavior already occurring from the powers that be expressing the desire to enslave us, if not just kill us, using the mere concept of AI as justification.

        And funny enough, pushing this hard will only leave a bad taste regarding any mention of artificial intelligence or automation. Whereas if these people just fucked off they might have been able to sell whatever usefulness it has in the correct places.

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          It happens every couple of decades with AI. Since it’s a broader field than most people think, we have a pretty long cycle of a new development looking exciting, people getting way too excited and optimistic, the development being exactly what it was promised to be, and then people getting disappointed and avoiding anything with the AI label. Then we decide that because we’re used to this new thing, it can be used in stuff as was originally appropriate but it no longer qualifies as AI, because “that’s not AI, it’s just ___”.