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66 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 17 Nov \ on: Is AI being shoved down your throat at work? Here’s how to fight back. AI
I think that it is good to push back on non-excellent solutions, but you can only do this if you have a better solution. Much of the activist examples given in the piece are pressure-only tools. These only work short term, while you have momentum, but when it turns out that you have no real solutions, or incomplete/bad ones, you will lose your points.
Thus, organizing for the pressure alone ("don't <x>", like a retarded climate activist gluing themselves to a painting, landing strip or highway) will under no circumstance have real long term benefits. Even in places where they might get a sympathetic overlord to act on their complaints, the moment the overlord is exited, either through elections or otherwise, these non-solutions will be the first to be thrown out.
Have to do the actual work, and no, complaining isn't work.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 17 Nov
I’ve gotta agree with you, half-solutions aren’t real solutions, they’re just short-term fixes. This is still just the beginning, and better solutions will definitely show up.
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 17 Nov
What I worry about is that for example, what I understand about the author's situation would be for example hyper-personalized ad copy. The author feels threatened by AI writing the copy because either they do that now, or they don't have systems / methods for proper tracking, or they just don't like the idea... whatever.
Now, why would your boss listen to you if this actually works? If these hyper-personalized ads have actually better conversion rate, why not1? Like isn't that the whole goal of the ad business?
Let's say you start a union and together you find a way to make your employer lose the opportunity to have higher performance. This means your employer will be outcompeted. Especially in the ad business which moves extremely fast. You save your paycheck now, maybe for a couple of years, but eventually you'll sink the ship. All for some moral incentive that AI is bad? If it's more than just a dislike, there already is a solution. If there is a real issue, then you don't need a union. Just need to solve the issue... so why is the pressure tool needed?
The more I think about it, the more I read the article as: how to keep your job despite being wrong, at the cost of the business

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  1. Note that I personally hate ads, but then I just remove them on my end, and I gladly teach others that are annoyed by them to do the same, so idgaf about some company wasting money tbh. ↩
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 17 Nov
I’m gonna have to reread the article because I probably didn’t get the full picture!
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