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The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That's going to crush Gen Z's career path.

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[–] Obsession@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fucked up part isn't that AI work is replacing human work, it's that we're at a place as a society where this is a problem.

More automation and less humans working should be a good thing, not something to fear.

[–] Cheers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

But how will the rich people afford more submarines to commit suicide in?

[–] jerebear205@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My gawd, zoomers are so effed. I have loads of internships but I'm sure getting a job will be so hard. My internship right now encouraged me to apply for a open job but my application was denied due to lack of experience! Granted, I still have a year left of school to do but still its government they take months to hire and by then, I'll be close to graduating! I dunno, I'm just going to hold out hope and wish someone will hire me.

[–] Buckeye@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure your industry, but there’s a much clearer pipeline from corporate intern to offers than government from my experience. I spent a lot of my time early career in government and I ended up wishing I hadn’t because it took so long to hear back on anything and the pay sucked. But I had equivalent jobs available to me outside of the government. If you do as well recommend trying to get another internship in the private sector - I know my company requires us to have a job open you can offer to a successful intern before you can get assigned an intern and we get judged on our conversion metrics.

[–] Dnn@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bullshit. Learn how to train new hires to do useful work instead of mundane bloat.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

100% if an AI can do the job just as well (or better) then there's no reason we should be making a person do it.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Part of the problem with AI is that it requires significant skill to understand where AI goes wrong.

As a basic example, get a language model like ChatGPT to edit writing. It can go very wrong, removing the wrong words, changing the tone, and making mistakes that an unlearned person does not understand. I’ve had foreign students use AI to write letters or responses and often the tone is all off. That’s one thing but the student doesn’t understand that they’ve written a weird letter. Same goes with grammar checking.

This sets up a dangerous scenario where, to diagnose the results, you need to already have a deep understanding. This is in contrast to non-AI language checkers that are simpler to understand.

Moreover as you can imagine the danger is that the people who are making decisions about hiring and restructuring may not understand this issue.

[–] exbot@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The good news is this means many of the jobs AI is "taking" will probably come back when people realize it isn't actually as good as the hype implied

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not quite. It's more that a job that once had 5-10 people and perhaps an "expert" supervisor will just be whittled down to the expert. Similarly, factories used to employ hundreds and a handful of supervisors to produce a widget. Now, they can employ a couple of supervisors and a handful of robot technicians to produce more widgets.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem is, where do those experts come from? Expertise is earned through experience, and if all the entry-level jobs go away then eventually you'll run out of experts.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Education. If education was free this wouldn't be a problem, you could take a few more years at university to gain that experience instead of working in a junior role.

This is the problem with capitalism, if you take too much without giving back, eventually there's nothing left to take.

[–] tagliatelle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You don't get experts from education. You get experts from job experience (after education).

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You definitely don't get experts from unemployed people, or from people working to the bone doing menial labor for minimum wage.

Education is a broad term, that could include apprenticeships where you do get real work experience. And education would have to change a lot in all areas. The point is, the government can support people to gain that experience, the problem is that right now it isn't. It's common to exit just a bachelors degree with crippling amounts of debt.

[–] tagliatelle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And it's viewed more positively in the society to have a bullshit Bs or Ms than a (usefull) trade degree

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I wasn't commenting on what type of education is better or worse than another. The point is that we need to support people through education.

[–] 6mementomori@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago

tbf, if 99.9% of the jobs are replaced by ai, there won't be a reason to work at all anymore. since you don't have to pay the ai a wage, let it rest, give it vacations, etc. costs of basic needs may go so low that they could be redistributed for free. But that's communism!!! Cringe!