[coliveira]

US Ai companies are fixated on low value activities, that's the problem. Creating more garbage for the internet or summarizing text is useful, but not that fantastic or transformative. I have a new version of MS Word where at the start screen it will suggest a bunch of BS topics that it can generate for me. What is the benefit of this other than the appearance that I'm doing real work? Most companies will be inundated by this nonsense created by people who are now 5 to 10 times more "productive" because they use Ai, and corporations will pretty much stop doing any real work.

[stackskipton]

This already becoming a problem at my company with Gemini. Certain paper pushers are using LLM to fluff up emails so more people have to use LLMs to read them with predictable hallucination on either side resulting in missed deadlines and customer service problems.

[noir_lord]

An inattention arms race - sure it'll end amazingly with no societal harms.

[BeFlatXIII]

> What is the benefit of this other than the appearance that I'm doing real work? Most companies will be inundated by this nonsense created by people who are now 5 to 10 times more "productive" because they use Ai, and corporations will pretty much stop doing any real work.

In the pre-AI days, how much of that 1x work was real in the first place?