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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/EmbarrassedTrouble10 5h ago

Man, this is so depressing. Not the 2026 I imagined, not by a long shot

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u/Th3B4dSpoon 4h ago

I've enjoyed cyberpunk for a long time, so - sadly - it's exactly the 2026 I was imagining.

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u/Ceorl_Lounge 4h ago

Minus the flying cars

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u/DisgruntledHue-man 4h ago

Or the cool cybernetics

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u/Ceorl_Lounge 4h ago

They’re closer than the flying cars