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by karim79 25 days ago
Are your tokens earning dollars and do they translate into a sustainable form of income? Honest question. I know people who have been laid off and their answer seems to be "use AI make stuff and go forward for the win". All the while actually paying these AI companies to train on their thoughts or slop or whatever it should be called now.

I think there is some mass confusion happening right now (psychosis even) and things are getting scary.
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hirvi74 25 days ago
You bring up a point that I have been wrestling with in my mind.

> "use AI make stuff and go forward for the win".

If anyone with AI access can do this, then what real value can one produce? For example, if one makes a nice little FizzBuzz widget, then why pay for their widget when I can just make my own? Sure, there is a cost to buy/time to recreate analysis to be had, but it's easier to recreate software now more than ever.

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karim79 25 days ago
Exactly. Now not only does fizzbuzz exist, but there are at least 10k variants of it with all the colours and flavours you can imagine. I honestly don't know what to make of this. We can literally ask a machine monkey to make something millions of times. Does the human touch now come from the approval process? Where is the humanity? Gosh I wish it were 2015 or before, again. Thanks Attention Is All You Need, you really helped.
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