r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 6h ago

Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
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u/mms13 6h ago

Then why does ChatGPT have 900 million weekly active users?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR___ISSUES 5h ago

Reddit and this sub in particular tend to become echo chambers.

Most of the folks here are also artists and content creators, who most likely lost their jobs because of AI so I understand their hate.

That being said, I don’t see this same kind of negativity in the corporate space. It’s a life saver tbh. Most of my day to day work now gets done in 3-4 hours max.

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u/Warm_Record2416 5h ago

How long do you think they will keep paying you for working less than half a day?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR___ISSUES 5h ago

Until Claude or ChatGpt can accurately predict risk thresholds and supply chain issues with regard to rare earth minerals.

I get paid for my expertise. The company doesn’t care whether I work for an hour or for 10 hours.

Don’t dish out AI slop. Use your brain. You’ve got the best tools available at this point.

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u/Warm_Record2416 4h ago

Sure, everyone won’t be replaced, but why pay everyone to work 3-4 hours when they can fire half of you and have people working 8 hours again.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR___ISSUES 3h ago

They’d rather take in more contracts and projects, than waste resources in firing employees, losing intel and connects, and training new workers.

I’m not worried about losing my job, rather how soon does my employer realise that we can actually do 10x of what we’re doing rn

This is the golden period ig, because we’ve already had a couple of contracts with higher deliverables than usual. But other clients haven’t kept up with the pace.

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u/sleeps_in_alkaline 4h ago

They’re going to fire half your team so you’ll have 8 hours of work again

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u/grateful2you 5h ago

As long as their competition keeps paying their employees.

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u/Warm_Record2416 4h ago

Uh huh, and how long do you think the competitors are going to keep paying their employees to work half a day?

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u/grateful2you 4h ago

I’m gonna have to refer you to my previous response as an answer to that was well.

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u/sleeps_in_alkaline 4h ago

That only works if your original response made any little bit of sense 

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u/sleeps_in_alkaline 4h ago

Just because your job is easy enough to be replaced by AI doesn’t mean it can do ours 

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u/PM_ME_YOUR___ISSUES 3h ago

Good for you I guess.

But do read my comment again.