alt Hacker NewsI'd say it's because we're tasking ourselves with dumb stuff. No one half-asses building a shelter that keeps their family alive, or throwing a new favorite bowl on the pottery wheel. But instead of that we're writing posts for Facebook etc etc so we can (???) profit. So of course we want bots to do this all this dumb stuff, and of course we get dumb results.
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SchemaLoad • yesterday at 11:36 PM
We just need bots to read all these facebook posts and then we can put the phone down and go back to doing something real.
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dwattttt • today at 12:03 AM
Play silly games, win silly prizes
satvikpendem • today at 3:31 AM
David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs in action.
BenRather • today at 12:05 AM
Oligarchs gotta pay rent on those data centers somehow.
The serfs will till and sow the server fields!
For some things, yes. But I'm half-assing some really cool stuff right now. Made a scraper to pull my city's meeting minutes, agendas, recordings, made transcripts. Regex for "Flock", found every mention, passed those files into a cheap model (DeepSeek V4), had an understanding of who in my city is down with building the surveillance state and who isn't. I've got research on everyone, and had emails drafted for each one based on what they said. Quotes and figures and all. I lightly polished each email and fired 'em off. Already got some replies back. Plenty more in the quiver too (pulled and analyzed CSVs of FOIA'd datasets).
If they're gonna spy on me with AI cameras, I can oppose them with AI research. :)