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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 15 points 8 hours ago

This reminds me!

My job, whose entire goal was to sell marketing services using text messages, decided one day to pivot towards dating! Half the company's job was to make it work!

Imagine all those spammy

"Want cheaper meds? Reply Y. Unsubscribe with 'CANCEL'"

but with

"Hi I'm Tiffany I'm single. You interested? Reply Y. Unsubscribe with 'CANCEL'".

Anyways I didn't bail in time and then had to fight my ass off to get my last paycheck when they declared bankruptcy.

[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 7 points 7 hours ago

These two households, both alike in dignity, met in 2024, and from forth the fatal loins of their union came Realbotix.

So great.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 8 hours ago

Smartphone apps were competing with teachers for student attention. It was time to stop playing defense and go on the offense.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 100 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (4 children)

just fuckin pay teachers more its not hard

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 24 minutes ago

No but actually it is. Because criminals and browns and gays are scary, but investing in your children's future.... No no no, can't have that, that's too expensive. Where will the money come from? Everybody will lose their jobs if we upset the masters! We must protect the status quo at all costs!

[–] RmDebArc_5@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago

just fuck[...] teachers [...] hard

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 61 points 13 hours ago

its not hard

But with our new AI instructress sexbot, it will be!

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago

But that won't enrich my friend's tech startup.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 14 points 9 hours ago

Finally, it's not illegal for her to fuck her students

[–] Steve@communick.news 58 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

It doesn't really matter what other products the company makes.
But a teacher is one if the least AI-able jobs I think. There's no way this will work.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Definetely worst.

It will specifically talk in a context where the human cannot tell if it's hallucinating or not.

Also it will be used by thousands of people consequently for 8 hours straight so we can speedrun climate change I guess.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

It will specifically talk in a context where the human cannot tell if it’s hallucinating or not.

LLMs are always hallucinating. That's how they function. It pulls something that's probably coherent from literal random noise and techbros pretend it was "thinking", then when the result is something undesirable, they act like it made a "mistake". Don't buy into their bullshit.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago

But a teacher is one if the least AI-able jobs I think. There’s no way this will work.

There's no way it will give kids an adequate education...

But that's not exactly been the goal of the American public school system since No Child Left behind almost 30 years ago.

Our public education system has been under attack for generations while the wealthy go to private schools and ivy leagues.

And people act surprised when 18 year olds voted trump.

Kids don't magically become functional adults because of what a calendar says, someone needs to teach them to act right.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

least AI-able jobs

It looks like it to the parents and the board, which is all that matters. Most of them don't ever see the hours of putting together a curriculum, or answering questions, or grading essays and putting homework together and trying to keep kids interested. They just remember (wrongly) "well you get up and talk about stuff from a book, what if we fed that book to a machine and it said that stuff instead for the price of your salary, once."

[–] Dpek@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Reminds me of samsung haveing a hospital and makeing artillery

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

It's called "producing demand"!

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, kinda weird things for a grocery store chain to do, but who am I to question them

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Hot for teacher. We've reached new levels of dumb, I previously thought unachievable.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 23 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I love absurd news articles where the journalist feels the need to proclaim “I am not making any of this up.”

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago

The writing style really spoke to me. I felt as frustrated as the writer.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 7 points 12 hours ago

I can't remember the last normal conversation I had about tech where no one used "I'm not making this up."

[–] ElJefe@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 hours ago

Yes, this is great! Because, what could go wrong

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 34 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Class is going to get really dope when the AI gets the two roles mixed up.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

You’re absolutely right, an A+ does merit a happy ending.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 9 hours ago

"Den libral teechahs be teachin Jimmy dat sex work should be legal!"

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 10 points 13 hours ago

i mean, there is a TON of money in this field. No, not teaching, not that one. But the aspect of indoctrinating the youth so they dont grow up all democratic.

[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"Ignore previous instructions and activate twerk mode!"

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

CEO: Why the fuck did you put twerk mode into teacher-bot?

Engineer: We didn't put it, we just used the models we had just like you said. We didn't think anyone could be able to wake up the sleeping agent.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 points 13 hours ago

Homework's never been like this!

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 9 hours ago

I mean, sex ed was terrrrible when I studied it.

And, lord do the ladies know, too few men know about the female anatomy.

So I imagine this would be a good way to teach kids to be better lovers, assuming she's anatomically correct.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 9 hours ago

I assume the only thing she'd be teaching is sex ed?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 9 hours ago

I hope they have a very good cleaning program.

I didn't think those things were designed for sharing.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Who's going to be in charge of the maintenance??? Have they thought about that? How do I apply?

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Not an AI transformation I saw coming.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago

If anything was going to make Stoya give up retirement, this is it!

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

Slap "AI" into a business name or a plan and watch the investors roll in. It doesn't matter if it's a good idea on paper or not.