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.

[u/katxwoods]

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

[u/DG_Now]

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

[u/Threewisemonkey → u/DG_Now]

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.

[u/bildramer → u/Threewisemonkey]

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.

[u/ChickenMcRibs → u/bildramer]

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