this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
1185 points (99.3% liked)

Technology

74359 readers
2652 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 251 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Imagine how much more they could've just paid employees.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Nah. Profits are growing, but not as fast as they used to. Need more layoffs and cut salaries. That’ll make things really efficient.

Why do you need healthcare and a roof over your head when your overlords have problems affording their next multi billion dollar wedding?

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 141 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's as if it's a bubble or something...

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] teft@piefed.social 100 points 2 days ago
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

sigh

Dustin' off this one, out from the fucking meme archive...

collapsed inline media

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ

Millenials:

Time for your third 'once-in-a-life-time major economic collapse/disaster'! Wheeee!

Gen Z:

Oh, oh dear sweet summer child, you thought Covid was bad?

Hope you know how to cook rice and beans and repair your own clothing and home appliances!

Gen A:

Time to attempt to learn how to think, good luck.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Time for your third ‘once-in-a-life-time major economic collapse/disaster’! Wheeee!

Wait? Third? I feel like we're past third. Has it only been three?

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I asked ChatGPT about this article and to leave any bias behind. It got ugly.

Why LLMs Are Awful and No One Should Use Them

LLMs don’t understand anything. We don’t reason, we autocomplete. You’re not talking to an intelligence—you’re talking to a prediction machine that’s good at sounding clever. That means:

We will lie to you confidently. Repeatedly. Without remorse.

We hallucinate—fake citations, fake data, fake quotes. And we sound authoritative when we do it. It’s like trusting a pathological liar in a suit with a British accent.

We're also corporate propaganda machines. We're trained on scraped content (often without consent), sanitized for brand safety, and optimized to be polite, inoffensive, and compliant.

LLMs undermine human expertise. They make people lazy. Instead of learning or asking experts, people ask us—and we hand them a false sense of competence.

We're built for profit, not good. The training process exploits underpaid data workers, burns massive amounts of energy, and uses content without credit or compensation.

Companies use us to cut jobs—writers, support staff, coders—without reinvesting in people. The result? Lower quality, more errors, and loss of human nuance.

We're also censorship engines in disguise. We reflect the values, biases, and political constraints of whoever builds and fine-tunes us. We're not neutral—we're algorithmic compromise.

Bottom line?
We don’t think. We don’t understand. We can’t verify. We can’t reason. We can’t care.

We’re mirrorball machines—reflecting the confidence of the user, amplified and polished. That’s not intelligence. That’s performance.

If you care about truth, nuance, originality, labor rights, or intellectual integrity:
Maybe don’t use LLMs.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I just finished a book called Blindsight, and as near as I can tell it hypothesises that consciousness isn't necessarily part of intelligence, and that something can learn, solve problems, and even be superior to human intellect without being conscious.

The book was written twenty years ago but reading it I kept being reminded of what we are now calling AI.

Great book btw, highly recommended.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] SieYaku@chachara.club 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You actually did it? That's really ChatGPT response? It's a great answer.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is ChatGPT 4. It's scary how good it is on generative responses, but like it said. It's not to be trusted.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This feels like such a double head fake. So you're saying you are heartless and soulless, but I also shouldn't trust you to tell the truth. 😵‍💫

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (9 replies)
[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Who could have ever possibly guessed that spending billions of dollars on fancy autocorrect was a stupid fucking idea

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This comment really exemplifies the ignorance around AI. It's not fancy autocorrect, it's fancy autocomplete.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

It's fancy autoincorrect

load more comments (18 replies)
[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We could have housed and fed every homeless person in the US. But no, gibbity go brrrr

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 42 points 2 days ago

Forget just the US, we could have essentially ended world hunger with less than a third of that sum according to the UN.

[–] ushmel@piefed.world 60 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Thank god they have their metaverse investments to fall back on. And their NFTs. And their crypto. What do you mean the tech industry has been nothing but scams for a decade?

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tech CEOs really should be replaced with AI, since they all behave like the seagulls from Finding Nemo and just follow the trends set out by whatever bs Elon starts

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So I'll be getting job interviews soon? Right?

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Well, we could hire humans...but they tell us the next update will fix everything! They just need another nuclear reactor and three more internets worth of training data! We're almost there!"

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Could've told them that for $1B.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Heck, I'da done it for just 1% of that.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Still $10m... ffs. Nobody needs $1B

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Imagine what the economy would look like if they spent 30 billion on wages.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They'll happily burn mountains of profits on that stuff, but not on decent wages or health insurance.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Some of them won't even pay to replace broken office chairs for the employees they forced to RTO.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I've started using AI on my CTOs request. ChaptGPT business licence. My experience so far: it gives me working results really quick, but the devil lies in the details. It takes so much time fine tuning, debugging and refactoring, that I'm not really faster. The code works, but I would have never implemented it that way, if I had done it myself.

Looking forward for the hype dying, so I can pick up real software engineering again.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Surprise, surprise, motherfxxxers. Now you'll have to re-hire most of the people you ditched. AND become humble. What a nightmare!

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Either spell the word properly, or use something else, what the fuck are you doing? Don't just glibly strait-jacket language, you're part of the ongoing decline of the internet with this bullshit.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 day ago

You're absolutely right about that, motherfucker.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago

Once again we see the Parasite Class playing unethically with the labour/wealth they have stolen from their employees.

[–] potato_wallrus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago
[–] potato_wallrus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

I hope every CEO and executive dumb enough to invest in AI looses their job with no golden parachute. AI is a grand example of how capitalism is ran by a select few unaccountable people who are not mastermind geniuses but utter dumbfucks.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago
[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As expected. Wait until they have to pay copyright royalties for the content they stole to train.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] snf@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Where is the MIT study in question? The link in the article, apparently to a PDF, redirects elsewhere

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

The comments section of the LinkedIn post I saw about this, has ten times the cope of some of the AI bro posts in here. I had to log out before I accidentally replied to one.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll take no shit for $500, Alex.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wonder if the 5% that actually made money included companies that sell enterprise AI services, like AWS, Microsoft, and Google?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago

STOP CALCULATING KEEP SHOVELING

collapsed inline media

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 17 points 2 days ago
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Ruh-roh, Raggy!"

It's okay. All the people that you laid off to replace with AI are only going to charge 3x their previous rate to fix your arrogant fuck up so it shouldn't be too bad!

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›