Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by eek2121 63 days ago
As someone who had actual passive income (small amount, a few hundred USD/mo) prior to my life being ruined by a medical accident: I agree (I killed my site because it was the right thing to do, I could not generate content for it because I couldn't function, so I did not want to waste the time/money of my users).

One thing the author does NOT see, however, is that the local folks doing all the hard work like mowing lawns, building furniture, etc. are in absolute panic over "AI" because their niche little lawn mowing/car washing/house cleaning business has been determined to be irrelevant by ChatGPT, etc. Oh and before you ask, there are folks claiming they can solve that exact thing, and those hard working folks are buying those products, hoping it will solve their downtrend in internet leads.
1 comments
Marsymars 63 days ago
> One thing the author does NOT see, however, is that the local folks doing all the hard work like mowing lawns, building furniture, etc. are in absolute panic over "AI" because their niche little lawn mowing/car washing/house cleaning business has been determined to be irrelevant by ChatGPT, etc.

How does what ChatGPT thinks about lawnmowing matter? Like, specifically, who's going to be mowing the lawns if it's not the people who are currently doing it?

link
pas 63 days ago
the robotaxi-ification of any and all movable capital goods is coming... ([insert intense Helms deep music!])

so some guy with a robot, Elon Mows, of course initially it will be just kids from India remote controlling the robots, but ... the AI is coming!

(okay, it's likely about leads and advertising, the negative sum game, and OpenAI wants to have an ad-supported free tier)

link
redwood 63 days ago
Sounds like he means the methods that they used to use to advertise to find customers online have broken
link
Marsymars 63 days ago
Yeah, I get that, but I'm asking why that matters in the aggregate. Presumably there are still the same number of lawns that need mowing. Like, is chatgpt going to result in a significant change in who is mowing those lawns, or the frequency of lawn mowing, or the composition of yards?
link