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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away

310 sats \ 8 comments \ @Kayzone 24 Nov AI

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53 sats \ 3 replies \ @DEADBEEF 24 Nov

Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile

As someone who works in software development this pretty much describes all software that powers the modern world. I’m far less trusting of computers now that I’ve “seen how the sausage is made”

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 24 Nov

Yep. This is why I don't trust self driving cars.

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kayzone OP 24 Nov

Your response is well noted. Thanks!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kayzone OP 24 Nov

Thanks for sharing your opinion.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 24 Nov

“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile,” said Adio Dinika, who studies the labor behind AI at the Distributed AI Research Institute, about people who work behind the scenes. “In my experience it’s always people who don’t understand AI who are enchanted by it.”

I agree, and I can confirm that just by looking at the people around me.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 24 Nov

The issue as to me is that people need to understand what a tool is and how to use it.

There isn't a massive risk I'm using AI if you understand what it is and isn't. The thing is, people have been lied to about what it is.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 24 Nov

That's one heck of an oxymoron - what you work for can't work for others!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 24 Nov

I'm sure there's a market for consumers that value accuracy over time. Like asking an important question and letting the model compute for a few minutes to get a more accurate answer instead of spitting some BS out in a few seconds.