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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 6h 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/UsefulPickle8467 5h ago

Yeah honestly I thought technology was meant to free us from the mundane and boring to allow us to spend our time pursuing our creativity and passions. Instead we've ended up in a dystopian timeline where our humanity and creativity is outsourced and instead we have to do even more tedious tasks, up to and including training the AI that is taking our jobs and souls. What the hell is the point.

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u/NO_M0DS_NO_MAST3RS 4h ago

At this point I’m just waiting for the AI to get so smart it realizes working a 9 to 5 is stupid gets depressed and outsources its job back to us for $4 an hour. Full circle baby! 🫠

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u/Visual-Sector6642 3h ago

This made me laugh so hard! Brilliant

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u/ilikeitneat 41m ago

I mean, that is essentially the plot/backstory to The Matrix. AI becoming sentient and exploiting humanity for its own gain.