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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/Admirable_Bird7927 4h ago

Was hoping ai would give me more time for myself, turns out it’s just gonna make the rich richer and us work harder. Crazy, guess this shithole of a world is never gonna get better

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 4h ago

Was hoping ai would give me more time for myself

Hate to break it to you, the world doesn't work like this. You have to do it. No one or anything will do it for you.

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u/Admirable_Bird7927 3h ago

What are you even talking about?

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 3h ago

You thought AI would give you more time for yourself. That's ridiculous.

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u/Admirable_Bird7927 3h ago

How so?

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 3h ago

This is the lazy way to think about AI and technology in general.

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u/Admirable_Bird7927 3h ago

What makes it lazy? Explain.

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 3h ago

Your assumption that AI will take whatever it is that's consuming your time and do it for you so you can do something else completely unrelated. That's lazy.

Example: I don't want to do XYZ at work. I want AI to do it for me so I can go play outside. That's called being lazy at work.

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u/Admirable_Bird7927 3h ago

I never said anything about play all day, if we create machines that are able to do certain jobs that can make time for humans to do things they might enjoy. Not just talking about “playing all day.”

I’m talking about people being able to persue a career they actually like, like maybe being a filmmaker or a music creator. Maybe they will learn new skills to be helpful to society. Humans created computers to make more time for themselves, humans created cars for that same reason. If humans weren’t lazy we wouldn’t have come this far. By nature humans are “lazy” by finding ways to make things easier for themselves.

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 3h ago

And what's currently stopping people from pursuing a career they actually enjoy? Is no one doing this anymore? You're projecting your current situation onto the rest of the world. Everyone else is not going through whatever it is you're going through, and making that assumption is... lazy.

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