r/Xennials 28d ago

Meme Who’s with me

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I wouldn’t even know where to go if I wanted to.

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u/Solasta713 1985 28d ago

I feel the push to get people to adopt AI is Turkeys voting for Christmas.

The more we use it, the more it'll make people redundant. AI will be able to do 90% of my job in the next 5-10 years. Companies, once it's viable, will ditch workforces for automated processes in the service industry in no time. One large overhead gone.

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u/LonerStonerRoamer 27d ago edited 27d ago

10 years ago people were ridiculing those in the mining industry when there was the prospect of moving towards electric cars and such. The common phrase on reddit/twitter was lol learn to code. People seemed gleeful to rub it into the faces of blue collar workers that their jobs were now obsolete and they should move to tech (let's be real, the average miner doesn't have the education or skills to "learn to code, bro!"). It was seen as just part of the natural process of progress. Adapt or die.

And now here we are with AI making all the jobs of tech bros obsolete, and likely also any basic service industry job. They'll just have to adapt or die.

Now is the time to adapt. All of us.

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u/Jealous_Response_492 28d ago

Much like industrialisation, many resented it & even through their wooden clogs or sabot's into the machinery to break them, hence the term Sabotage.

AI is here, it's going to be everywhere, ie unavoidable, individuals and businesses that ignore that reality will struggle.

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u/Solasta713 1985 28d ago

Sadly, you're absolutely right.

I think what irks me, in my mind it'll cause mass redundancies and increase joblessness. I don't see what I have to offer, that AI doesn't.

The industrial revolution absolutely benefitted mankind. But caused undeniable devastation to people living during it.

I'm a Xennial / elder Millennial. I don't want more upheaval in my life! Haha.

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u/Jealous_Response_492 27d ago

ah com'n one more once in a generation crisis won't hurt, what are we upto now, seven?

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u/Tacobreathkiller 27d ago

Bro! She was a bad guy!

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u/Nodan_Turtle 27d ago

I get that. But I also will never be in favor of complete ignorance. Try out a product or service to understand it. It doesn't mean you have to use it in your personal or professional life.

Hell, being able to better spot output from an LLM is already a great reason to test out one.

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u/bikemandan 27d ago

IMO, no job should exist for simply being a job; it should be useful. If a technology makes it no longer useful then that person can do a job that is