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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's funny to me all these people saying AI will change everything. I've tried really hard with it, and I find it makes everything worse. Flat, dead, slop-filled. The agents are inauthentic and inaccurate. Research and chat is unreliable. Sure, it helps me code, but you still need to know how to code--i.e. logically how programs work. I think this is more about the end stage financialization of our economy. Because no one makes anything anymore, the only way Amazon et al can increase their shareholder returns is to get more and more leveraged--either by cutting people or borrowing more / juicing their stock. I guess, net-net, I wouldn't advise my kids to get into tech because I think the whole tech facade is going to crash down, not because AI will take their jobs. Most people I know hate AI.[/quote]

I generally agree with you...however, there is a decent amount of "slop" work performed by humans that AI can replace.

Let's face it, most commercial advertising is some form of slop.  I think many of us find it mostly pointless and ineffective, but sometimes it's good to advertise a new product or a sales promotion or whatever.  Do we care if the new Toyota commercial is created using AI actors and a crappy script...not really, as long as it's clear that they now offer 0% financing starting this day and ending that day.

Most corporate press releases are slop.  As a public company, you have to put them out...but does anyone care how well your press release is written publicizing your quarterly financial results?  No...though the numbers do have to be correct.

Seems we are finding a lot of popular music is slop because the big news item in country music is that some AI-generated song is the #1 country music song.

So, AI is great replacing relatively expensive slop with cheap slop.[/quote]

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