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[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (53 children)

This is such a weird take.

Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don't mess up the words in your important email?

Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?

Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?

All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don't want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy "good enough" results in one area or another.

This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI's ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn't allow low-effort meme posts because it's such a brain rot circle-jerk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

The loss of skill requirements within trades and crafts is likely a major factor in the cascades of ineptitude we experience in our society. The barriers to entry also directly benefitted the quality of those spaces, and naturally flagged the incompetent (if you are incompetent and lack spell check, your mis-spellings served as a demonstration that you are not a skilled writer. Same for driving, musical recognition, engineering as well).

We've seen a clear decline in the general quality of all products, and I can't help but feel that the automation of skill is directly connected to that decline. This tweet seems to mirror that sentiment in its mockery. You don't have to think anymore about pretty much any of the process, you just get an output you can ship immediately. So it goes without saying that you can be without any skill and still have a footprint within spaces you have no merit to be in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

The decline in general quality of products is because corporate wants you to buy the same thing over and over again. Quality doesn’t matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Well said. I don't remember the exact headline, but I skimmed an article that said recent graduates are having trouble getting jobs because many entry-level tasks are being automated. This will be a huge problem in a few years because entry-level jobs are the training for upper level jobs. LLMs are not cut out for work that takes careful analysis and communication, and they are useless for tasks where accuracy matters. How do managers propose that we fill those jobs if they won't train entry-level employees?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What kind of evidence are you seeing that there is a loss in skill requirements and lowered barriers to entry?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Take a look at a newly constructed home sometime.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

That’s what decent folks call anecdotal evidence. I’m looking for something more definitive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I didnt realize that you can have chatGPT build homes.....talk about a dumb take

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