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by watwut 6 days ago
> Your own job, assuming you're in the software industry, is to automate and eliminate people's jobs. How many jobs do you think it has eliminated?

Looking at my career, literally none. For real.

> Is it ethical to do your job without thinking about and discussing its impacts?

I am not saving the planet nor people. I am not social worker, doctor nor anyone like that. But, I am not harming them either.

> At least Anthropic is talking about it. I never heard of, for example DeepSeek's position about the impacts of their products.

No, DeepSeek is not trying to create FOMO and fear based sales. DeepSeek is not pushing insulting ads on me and scary ads on my CEO. I dont even think they are all that much more ethical as a business necessarily, but oh my god, they managed to avoid the most off-putting propaganda in places where I see.