Posted on 11/10/2025 12:22:40 PM PST by libh8er
AI has earned a name on You Tube, where it’s being generated exponentially.
I didn’t make up this name, but it’s very desriptive.
AI YT Videos are called “SLOP”.
Most layoffs at Big Tech have been organizational — gutting less important teams in order to divert funds to buying nVidia chips for AI. So in a way AI _is responsible for job losses, but not in the way people think.
Hollywood hardest hit
shrugs. so far it’s a glorified non-deterministic search engine with a language processor slapped on the front. basically it’s a energy/money hog search engine that you can point in different directions with the right prompts.
My organization has fired a bunch of people claiming AI will make the rest of us more productive. How it is supposed to do that they have yet to say.
Oh, yeah? Mrs. Othniel is a translator from one language to another of medical and legal documents, mostly from overseas. The whole industry of translation has taken huge hits from AI. Sometimes she gets things that AI has done, and she’s asked to cleanup the garbage translation. She has used AI a few times, just in a very restricted way.
Here’s what’s going to happen: Someone somewhere will have a court ruling overturned because the AI did something wrong in the appeal, indictment, or whatever. Then ALL the cases involving AI will be called to question, and it’ll be a huge mess. Another scenario is where a drug study (which Mrs. O has done dozens) is done with AI, and a mistake is made, and someone dies. While tragic, that might be a wake-up call to industries where a human touch is better applied than machine.
Mrs. O hasn’t had a big translation job in almost a year. Neither have the translators she keeps in touch with on various sites. Nobody in this sector has work, and dependence on AI is to blame.
New job field: cleaning up the screw-ups of AI.
And the AI is not concerned with a potential meeting of ex-employees in the company parking lot.
German officers captured on D-Day thought it would be a short war. The American ships were not unloading any horses.
AI is just a tool, a very versatile one at that.
But you have to know how to use it to fit your profession.
A chemist can ask detailed questions about polymers or genetics and find answers quickly, but ask him to use it to find case law for a lawyer and he would be unable.
Otherwise you’d just need one CEO to run an entire company, performing every task himself. That’s not going to happen.
“Most layoffs at Big Tech have been organizational — gutting less important teams in order to divert funds to buying nVidia chips for AI. “
And big tech involved in AI has to hire the AI techs so, in a way, AI is responsible for jobs gains.
“shrugs. so far it’s a glorified non-deterministic search engine with a language processor slapped on the front. “
You know nothing about AI.
That’s pretty good.
“basically it’s a energy/money hog search engine that you can point in different directions with the right prompts.”
If it is just a search engine, please explain how that enables self-driving cars?
“basically it’s a energy/money hog search engine that you can point in different directions with the right prompts.”
If it is just a search engine, please explain how that enables AI to dicover new compounds and alloys?
My line of work is transcription so voice recognition advancements are on my mind a lot. Thankfully, the top products in the field make mistakes, some of them inexplicable, even when the audio and speakers are clear. In other words, they MUST be reviewed.
That’s funny, a college professor has reported that AI has reduced his research staff from 30 down to 6. Those 6, using AI, are faster and more accurate than his previous staff.
...and in my business, AI has helped us eliminate the need for sending projects out to a graphics designer. We didn’t directly employ the graphic designer, but we haven’t had to use him in months.
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