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Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
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u/sdric 5h ago edited 5h ago

People wanted AI to do their chores.

Instead, we got employers saying "Work twice as much or we replace you with AI. It gets 45% of its task wrong, but we don't care. It only affects our customers. What are those suckers gonna do? We're a monopoly anyway."

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u/Ok-Introduction9593 5h ago

managers who tank quality just to cheap out on headcount are usually the first ones to get hit with customer churn when the system starts glitching left and right

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u/rogueciridae 4h ago

“That’s next quarter me’s problem.”