this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
582 points (99.0% liked)
Fuck AI
5446 readers
937 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Bosses aren't oblivious, AI isn't for the workers benefit. They need the workers to use the AI, so it can improve and begin to replace them.
That's part of how they're oblivious - mass adoption won't actually improve LLMs beyond a certain point, and we're long past it. The tech is fundamentally limited in what they can actually do, and instead of recognizing the limitations to work within them they're pretending we're gonna have AGI.
No but they dont need mass adoption, they need their workers to figure out a way the tool can replace their work. Plenty of people will work to replace themselves unfortunately. Whether it works out or not doesnt matter, those types of businesses will just try the next "tool" that replaces labor when it comes along too.
Whether it works or not matters to the investors. If it doesn't work they've sunk a lot of money, labor, and time into a boondoggle. They want to replace labor, but they want profit too. Businesses aren't just infinite money machines that can keep throwing shit at the wall until something sticks, eventually the investors pull out when they don't see the returns they expected.
That said, it's up to us to make sure the bosses don't ride this out on golden parachutes.
When the economy collapses we need to put them all in prison.
Sure that's all bad for AI in the long term, and maybe a few bosses in the short term, but the workers that are being targeted for replacement won't stop being targeted for replacement. People should be abandoning companies that are doing this, but most don't have the luxury to just quit their jobs. I think we focus far too much on the tools we use to replace people and not enough on the people who want to use tools to replace people. We could just stop supporting those people.
Okay, but that goes back to what I said before, the bosses are oblivious to how poor this technology actually is and are sleepwalking into a disaster. They're trying to replace their workers with something that can't replace them and this will have serious consequences, not just for the AI companies, but for the entire economy.
That's why we need to make sure they don't escape on their golden parachutes.
In the meantime, the workers could organize and demand the bosses stop trying to replace them.