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by bluefirebrand 1 day ago
How many of those people are just feeling like they have a gun to their heads? Use the AI or become unemployed and unemployable?

"People use AI so this must be a revealed preference" is such a bad argument when people are feeling so precarious

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>How many of those people are just feeling like they have a gun to their heads? Use the AI or become unemployed and unemployable?

in the context of answering the implied question of the parent (everyone hates it so why do they keep doing it?), it does not matter at all.

Of course it matters

If a large proportion of people are only using AI because they are being threatened with unemployment if they don't, then there's going to be massive resentment building up

You may think that doesn't matter, but it does. History has shown over and over that you can only keep a lid on massive social resentment for so long before things break