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I know how jobs are being “lost to AI” some and it’s not because of super competent AI or anything. It’s a hijacking of our rights and space by people who are selling out their colleagues and employees to those creeps in tech..

This is a false narrative about merit etc. I evaluate myself as a very mediocre scientist and pass at least the most basic Dunning Kruger metric. The problem is all the people who are gaming the system with bs and think they are awesome.

It is true that in science and medicine there is a real elite and a medium elite. But there are also people doing slipshod, lightweight shit and getting away with it and fucking over other bottom of the barrel types like yours truly. I am mediocre but at least I am not daft enough to represent slipshod and lightweight bs as awesome! They are the douchebags that shill for rubbish that awful and stupid GPT thing.

I feel indignant. The tech press is bs and it’s all such bullshit. Damn sleazy bottom feeders.
My experience so far of hearing about AI implementation is people telling me it’s heavily promoted and largely useless. It’s promoted by people who don’t do research themselves and are not students.

This is fucking Brawndo taking over society. When will be stop gullibly taking those creeps out of Si Valley at face value. The odds are heavily tilted in their favour and they promote emotive narratives that shut off people’s brains re evaluation of their actual credibility.

The problem is the real elite (e.g. Steve Chu) are not “good at business” (ie mostly scamming the public by now) nor at PR. And this moronic crowd - Zuck, Musk, Altman (that guy is such a douchebag and his mouth is open in most of his pictures)-they are not geniuses. They are douchebags. But they do know how to steal, lie and deflect. They are no different from Elizabeth Holmes. She was just worse at it.

I am not saying good AI couldn’t exist etc. There is legitimate stuff in tech. Take quantum computing. But most of this sleazy wealth transfer destroying scientific research or other jobs in the US is driven by GPT like junk I’d bet. Those people are full of shit.

Also, I hope no one ever sees this outside DU. I can’t help venting here sometimes -you guys are all I have ;-/..

But I don’t want to formally be to science what Taylor Lorenz is to journalism…lol..

The worst part about the shithole where I came across the rise of these junk technologies is that they probably cynically figure that many of us affected by their bs will just go on to become whatever the fuck an influencer is or leverage AI politically etc.

That’s why these people are unfit to work in anything related to human behavior or psychology. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the personalities of actual scientists as opposed to those tech creeps of Google, Facebook etc.