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- Hacker News
- 2025 AI CEOs: "AI is gonna wipe your puny little job off the map and you better adapt or die, bitch."
2026: "OwO I'm just a wittle guy, why does everyone hate me? Trump come save us from the open models"
- What's not to love about a flawed and unreliable technology that aims to kill jobs?by jqpabc123
- Same thing can be said about other versions of early tech; internet services were horribly unreliable and out to kill travel agent and others jobs
Oh right I am sorry... forgot this is HN... you meant to express concern about your job replacing
My bad
by b1gTekken - … while concentrating immensely more wealth and power in the hands of a few weird and depraved people.by anon373839
- and people! (autonomous drones)by alksdeef
- You forgot - it also aims to consume lots of power and water and hardware to keep it from others. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.by jleyank
- “We’re going to eliminate half of white collar jobs” is a pretty terrible sales pitch.
Sure, it gets investors all hot and bothered but for some odd reason, the average person isn’t quite as excited by the same pitch.
- > “I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies, including Anthropic, is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world. That is totally on us,” he noted.
I'm not so sure how big of an effect that had. I don't think most people believed any of those promised to begin with, so not delivering on them isn't the major problem.
I think the big problem is that the major impacts the technology has had for ordinary people have been negative ones, and there isn't any clear reason to think that's going to change anytime soon. And I don't think that's a problem that messaging can fix.
by JohnFen