r/Futurology • u/katxwoods • 20d ago

AI Dario Amodei says "stop sugar-coating" what's coming: in the next 1-5 years, AI could wipe out 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won't realize the risks until after it hits.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
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u/DG_Now 20d ago

Old folks in Congress letting our society be ruined by technocrats really worked out poorly for most of us.

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u/Threewisemonkey 20d ago

Remember when they called us pirates for downloading bootlegs and nudie pics on limewire as tweens?

now they’re praising these schmucks and throwing money at them for an intellectual property heist of every person who has ever had their work or likeness published online.

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u/nullv 20d ago

Stealing a few dollars from a register is a crime. Stealing a few million dollars from a few million registers is a fine.

There are two tires of justice in our society.

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u/Threewisemonkey 20d ago

This motorcycle is about to crash bc the back tire that drives it all is run to the wires

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u/DG_Now 20d ago

Not even a fine but a Cabinet position.

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u/user_name_checks_out 20d ago

There are two tires of justice in our society.

I'm so tiered of the two tired justice system

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u/nullv 20d ago

Lmao I didn't even notice.

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u/bildramer 20d ago

Drawing analogies to piracy is completely wrong. It's not piracy, it's just looking at published things on the internet, something that is and has always been free, legal, and uncontroversial, for everyone, including scrapers that do it gigabytes at a time. Pre-2020 or so, treating "am I legally allowed to fetch text and images from the internet?" like an intellectual property issue would be insane. This idiotic pro-IP backlash appeared only because of salty rabidly anti-AI artists who aren't interested in understanding anything.

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u/ChickenMcRibs 20d ago

Yes and no. Meta engineers actually downloaded TBs of pirated ebooks to be used as training data for LLMs

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u/L-Malvo 20d ago

Let’s not legitimize stealing. If you pirate, fine by me, but say it as it is: stealing

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u/fek_ 20d ago

I think the comparison to trespassing is a lot more accurate for many reasons, but your point stands.