2026: the job I studied for still exists, but I don’t know how to do it because I outsourced my learning to an LLM, and keep getting let go during probationary employment periods
AI gonna go on unemployment and take all the benefits from the rest of us
That already happens, doge used LLMs to decide which programs to cut.
Had a guy tell me today that he’s becoming a graphic designer to change paths and I just didn’t have the heart to tell him.
graphic designers have been out of work for almost 18 years. the job market was flooded by mediocre no talent hack designers. this drastically dropped the annual salary to basic minimum wage.
now, those same “improved” mediocre designers are losing their jobs to AI.
if the guy can’t read the writing on the walls, he won’t learn until it blows up in his face.
I partied and hung out with about half the Graphic Design/ Digital Animation majors in college. I know exactly 0 who work in the field right now.
It was good while it lasted though. I got a little taste of those heady days of yore. Oh, the headers we saw. The logos, the banners. Dare I say it: the featured carousel images. 🥲
2022: haha look this thing is writing greentexts about bottomless pits!
2026: the job i am studying for is now essentially a gacha game
Welcome to crapitalism
As someone how had to work simple office jobs his half life, I welcome you to the jungle. Oh wait you’re overqualified, good luck with unemployment benefits.
I’m sorry you’re not paid to think, you’re paid to hit enter when the LLM wants to do something sketchy and take the blame when it blows up in our face.
I am paid to think. I think I do have some luck with my current job. Registration of incoming goods/samples for a testing lab. When robots will be able to do this, no one will have a job left.
Robots need not necessarily be able to do your job to replace you unfortunately
? As long as people eat the lab will get samples
Me thinks students who didn’t use LLMs in school will be more valuable than gold after the bubble pops
Even if we ignore the scifi horror of outsourcing our collective intelligence to an AI and assume such a hypothetical AI can solve every problem and essentially do every job for us, it would need to build a society where working for an income is no longer required, which is absolutely not what’s happening lol.
Leather jacket Huang and Scam Altman just want to make morbillion dollars in a race to become the first trillionaire. They don’t or refuse to recognize the long term effects of destroying the very fabric that makes their businesses profitable just like every other investment gamble has. If no one has a job, they don’t have money to spend on product and services from your businesses, or your business clients’ businesses.
Alas, line must go up.
True, and I don’t see how we make that leap. Nobody is going to give that type of tech and investment over to humanity for free.
(also, I thought Musk had already hit 1 trillion, but not quite yet. The high end of his estimated net worth is 988 billion, so give it a month or two.)
