The week in AI, September 1-7, 2025 \ stacker news ~AI

But... what about our jobs?But... what about our jobs?

Last week's main discussion was about jobs, which unsurprisingly lead to this week being about... jobs (and careers, and corporate adoption.)

@stack_harder asked: Is college still worth it in the era of AI? and stackers in majority countered that higher education has been a mirage for a longer time and that this isn't an AI phenomenon, yet @Scoresby shared that Generative AI is reducing the number of junior people hired. Is there a chance stackers are just wrong? @kepford shared The Blue-Collar Boom: AI's Impact on the Workforce. But this in turn was weakened again by @k00b's share: US manufacturing has lost 42,000 jobs since April. Can the world make up its mind please? Uncertainty all over the place!

@hn reposted You don't want to hire "the best engineers", which makes sense, because Zuck bought them all a couple of weeks ago with up to 100M shittokens signing bonuses. Should AI Get Legal Rights? was shared by @0xbitcoiner, which would be awful: that would allow the #@%! bot that took your job to unionize. You'll never have a job again!

Doomers may rule the narrative outside SN, but there was good news on the topic too: OpenAI is building an AI jobs platform that could challenge Microsoft’s LinkedIn, @Coinsreporter shared. This is great because now we can segregate job offers: AI's go to OpenAI's job platform, and human career chasers just stay on LinkedIn. Also, AI adoption actually falling now for many firms was shared by @zuspotirko.

Good news too for all the former thought police that were fired at Twitter and Meta: OpenAI needs you! OpenAI employees review your chats and may refer to law enforcement, @Scoresby shared. Isn't that the perfect job? You can now get paid to do deep privacy invasion and be a snitch at the same time! I for one will make sure to make build some completely inappropriate language in my code bots.

More questions:

More Friction:

Sources?Sources?

There was a side-discussion about what sources are used by AI: 10.4% of AI Overview Citations are AI-Generated was shared by @0xbitcoiner and @guerratotal shared a nice graph depicting Where AI gets its facts says it all. @realBitcoinDog taught ChatGPT all of ~AI only to catch it red handed in anecdote theft in ChatGPT - “If there’s an SOP you’re SOL.”, except it turned out that the bot stole a stolen anecdote.

@Scoresby shared the news that AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit, which is fine, because there is now a benchmark for Challenging LLMs with Interpreting Nonsense with Depth, shared by @optimism, so we can just feed LLMs slop from now on and then they'll eventually get to profound insight, just like a sarcastic stacker would.

Explainers and guidesExplainers and guides

ModelsModels

ResearchResearch

ToolsTools

Application and adoptionApplication and adoption

Reports & OpinionReports & Opinion

Safety & SecuritySafety & Security

Government & DegensGovernment & Degens

Big TechBig Tech

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 8 Sep

You've seriously put a lot of effort in this post. Thanks

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 8 Sep

which makes sense, because Zuck bought them all a couple of weeks ago with up

That damn Zucker

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 8 Sep

Lmao I still laugh at the bot stealing a stolen anecdote