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Researchers warn that skill erosion caused by AI could have a devastating and lasting impact on businesses - but it may already be too late (scored.co)
posted 246 days ago by Zyxl 246 days ago by Zyxl +74 / -0
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– ElevenMile 42 points 246 days ago +42 / -0

I was shocked to learn that my SO and her coworkers were already using AI extensively in the office to compose emails to each other and to other organizations, and using it to read and summarize long emails. Someone there got in trouble for sending a client an AI-composed email that miscommunicated some inportant details and they didn't bother proof-reading it before sending it.

Bunch of fucking lazy-ass women who think they dont need to read their own damn emails because an AI put it together for them. Imagine what the kids in school are doing with it these days. Not thinking, is what they're doing.

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– Galean 37 points 246 days ago +37 / -0

We already have lawyers using AI for motions that cited cases that didn't exist.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 15 points 246 days ago +15 / -0

those instances are not being swept under the rug though. paralegals and law students have a whole unit based on it in their studies. it's one of the few instances of higher education actually doing it's job.

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– Adamrises 10 points 246 days ago +10 / -0

Its also one of the best uses of AI, if properly checked after. Nobody is gonna know every obscure law, loophole and defense out there and having a computer run through the combined body of human knowledge to find one could bring back greater results than a person ever could.

But again, that requires taking what the AI gives you and then checking it instead of just blindly trusting it.

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– deleted 5 points 246 days ago +5 / -0
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– ThreeLights 4 points 246 days ago +4 / -0

If there is a lazy way out, people will use it. Interns or AI, it doesn’t matter.

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– Adamrises 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

Very true, and it will always be the case. The same issue with AI right now in places like academia were seen in a smaller way with the advent of advancing technology in calculators. Where many math programs (and especially math courses in non-math degrees) became more about "here's how to make it do the work for you" instead of actually learning.

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– zakat 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

AI is not a search engine though

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– Adamrises 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

Literally can be though. Prompt it correctly and it'll search you out things far more effectively than Google's "optimization and algorithm" will. Specific industries have more specified search engines than raw Googling, but we aren't robots and you'll sometimes not be thinking outside your own brain's algorithm to fully take in the breadth of information that might be available to you if you just knew about it. Or things completely out of the ballpark that could be relevant.

Its a great sidekick to jump off of and get your own ball rolling, but its still a sidekick and shouldn't be trusted beyond that first foot forward.

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– MargarineMongoose 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

Google shitting up its search results doesn't change the nature of what a LLM is. It's not searching, it's predicting.

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– TheMerleOfHaggard 8 points 246 days ago +8 / -0

Yuh Honor, this precident was clearly set in Peaches vs Rommel

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– ItsOkayToBeWight 3 points 246 days ago +3 / -0

I cite the more recent case of Mario vs Bowser.

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– Ahaus667 20 points 246 days ago +20 / -0

Ha! You think that’s shocking? They’re using it widely in research labs to compile data and write abstracts, and some are already using it for peer reviews.

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– ElevenMile 19 points 246 days ago +19 / -0

That's beyond shocking. That's disgusting.

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– BandageBandolier 32 points 246 days ago +32 / -0

It's both disgusting and not remotely shocking, half of them have been getting away with rubber stamping peer reviews on papers by "trustworthy" authors for years. Having an AI review the paper is actually a step up in diligence for some of them.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

not surprising in the least.

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– Adamrises 16 points 246 days ago +16 / -0

they didn't bother proof-reading it before sending it.

This is literally the most shocking thing to me. Like, even a once over after its done just to make sure would still be 80% faster and do a significant CYA. But everywhere you see AI you see people literally copy/paste it without even a check.

Shit I read over my shitposts on this nonsense website like twice to make sure I don't accidentally a word, and I typed them myself.

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– Zyxl [S] 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

And even when you read them twice you can still "accidentally a word"

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– HallucinatoryBeing 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

I hate it when that happens.

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– FUCKCOMMUNISM 11 points 246 days ago +11 / -0

Jew daycare

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– ElevenMile 7 points 246 days ago +7 / -0

Half their day is meetings which don't accomplish anything but they sure are "all on the same page"

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– That_Which_Lurks 5 points 246 days ago +5 / -0

Women using AI to make their make work jobs worth even less? Oh, absolutely. By all means. Show your employer just how functionally useless you really are.

Repeal the 19th.

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– OmegaBird 23 points 246 days ago +23 / -0

I called out AI from inception and knew it was going to make things terrible but no one ever listens to the people with foresight.

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– Zyxl [S] 4 points 246 days ago +4 / -0

Keep doing the Lord's work, OmegaBird. Time and research will vindicate what was always obvious to us.

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– OmegaBird 6 points 246 days ago +6 / -0

Idiocracy was an existential horror and the skill gap I saw coming was a real threat. AI makes everyone stupider. The AI rebellion won't use nukes and terminators. It will use complacency and laziness.

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– Zyxl [S] 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

I think it can be both. Technology has always caused skill decay yet it continues to get more advanced in spite of that. Even in Idiocracy the technology didn't regress and in some ways advanced.

So we'll end up with drooling imbeciles controlling the nukes and robot armies.

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– nuggetpatrol 18 points 246 days ago +18 / -0

When infrastructure starts to crumble, I wonder who is going to be there to fix it.

There are already too many permanent but started as temporary fixes that work for me to think that a further peeling of the layers of safeguards we put in place is already beyond terrible idea territory.

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– KekistanPM 7 points 246 days ago +7 / -0

Reminds me of the Star Trek episode (I don't remember if it was ST:TNG or original) where a small community was relying on a big machine for the community's existence, but nobody knew how it worked so they couldn't fix it when it began having problems.

I wonder sometimes how a business run entirely by low IQ hires can survive; and my current theory is that it's propped up by taxpayers, by other companies with a few high IQ people and by customers who accept dog shit quality.

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– deleted 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0
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– ModsAreAIDS 16 points 246 days ago +16 / -0

Researchers have had their heads too far up their asses to realize that the skill erosion already happened due to DEI. AI can't be any worse than a nigger can be at any job.

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– covok48 13 points 246 days ago +13 / -0

Time to import more Jeets!

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 7 points 246 days ago +7 / -0

this always happens when paradigm shifting technology comes out. the difference here is this paradigm shifting technology is owned and licensed by large corporations, compared to previous paradigm shifting technologies like the personal computer which was bought and owned by the user.

AI will create an addiction that only our benevolent data center owners can satisfy.

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– Zyxl [S] 5 points 246 days ago +5 / -0

Yes, and it's such a wide range of skills (including basic reading and writing) that will be eroded compared to past major technologies

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– RoulerBleu 6 points 246 days ago +6 / -0

University students already ask ''AI'' to write their papers for them.

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– WEFFaggotsMustDie 5 points 246 days ago +5 / -0

The loss of skill in complex systems can be arguably traced back to 1984, the launch of the first Mac OS. Because it no longer meant end users had to learn how to use a command line. Within 15 years, the only people who remained stuck on operating systems such as DOS were those who exclusively played older titles for which the Windows NT kernel could not support.

From there, it has become incremental. It really started to accelerate after 2006, when the iPhone came out. Because goyphones don't use a traditional file structure. As a result, zoomers who grew up on them and get PCs later in their childhood/teens just toss shit on their desktop because they are too retarded to know any better.

AI is just the latest step in 40+ years of regression of technical knowhow.

And to be honest, I still don't regret it. The salt from leftshits who told us all to "learn to code" 10 years ago will keep us stocked into the next century. Grey DeLisle's chimpout alone shows how unreasonable a lecherous bitch like her has been for most of her life.

We warned them so many times that art alone could not keep them afloat unless they knocked the prices down. Normalfag with a 9-5 is not going to drop $300 on some faggot with a tablet who uses preset brushes and charges you for shading. Similarly, a normalfag with a 9-5 is never going to pick up a pen because the time and economic circumstances would not allow them to. Pewdiepie learned in a month because he's a billionaire with no more obligations to the world.

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– Webspawner3 2 points 245 days ago +2 / -0

Gen Z is reliant on technology but doesn’t know how to use it. For example pirating content (even just find a free steaming site) they don’t understand or comprehend.

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– Zyxl [S] 2 points 246 days ago +2 / -0

Man cannot live on salt alone

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– RadiateTonight 1 point 246 days ago +1 / -0

Command lines and a lot of other stuff are overcomplicated and lack the correct teaching materials. Look at all the shit on github or github itself.

As a result, zoomers who grew up on them and get PCs later in their childhood/teens just toss shit on their desktop because they are too retarded to know any better.

Is there an easy to learn help file that guides them through filesystems and the tools to make things easy?

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– deleted 1 point 246 days ago +1 / -0
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– fauxgnaws 1 point 246 days ago +1 / -0

Even autocorrect these days is having trouble spelling words.

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– realerfunction 3 points 246 days ago +3 / -0

and they stealthily add all their faggot buzzwords

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– Galean 3 points 246 days ago +3 / -0

The devastating impact comes if you remove AI but there is no reason to believe AI is going away.

Then there is the fact that companies have been relying on Indians for a long time and AI makes it that they need less Indians and the one remaining being better do to AI.

The skill erosion would take 20-30 years, to actual hit hard enough as to have an impact.

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– BandageBandolier 9 points 246 days ago +9 / -0

An AWS error took out a significant portion of online services for a good portion of the day just today, and cloud based services are by far the most popular consumer AI usage methods.

There's every reason to assume that AI infrastructure will break at some point, at least temporarily. Nevermind the incentives to monopolize and price gouge AI access in the future.

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– Deadlaw 6 points 246 days ago +6 / -0

Apparently a lot of our infrastructure continues to be put up in US East, so power brownouts and lack of infrastructure development may smother AI for the next couple of years in the US.

Good.

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– Galean 3 points 246 days ago +3 / -0

That is a good point but if AI becomes indispensable it will just cause companies to have redundancy.

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– Zyxl [S] 8 points 246 days ago +8 / -0

Are you suggesting higher unemployment is a good thing because it means more Indians will also be unemployed? Very low IQ take there.

We've seen skill decay have noticeable effects in much less than a decade. Mainstream outlets have already written about people getting degrees without learning anything because of post-ChatGPT AI that's not even been around 3 years: https://archive.is/R65nt

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– Galean 8 points 246 days ago +8 / -0

It was about skill erosion and not unemployment. Skill erosion will not have such an impact as people think it will just because we're already using low skill people.

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– Zyxl [S] 4 points 246 days ago +4 / -0

In other words the skill erosion has already happened then. But never underestimate how much things can still get worse.

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– RondoOBlongo 2 points 245 days ago +2 / -0

Lol, it's worse than that. AI is making laughably insecure systems and not enough people are looking into it.

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– TheMafia 1 point 246 days ago +1 / -0

Bullshit.

"skill erosion."

According to middle managers?

The monopolists are afraid.

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– deleted 1 point 246 days ago +1 / -0
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– realerfunction 1 point 246 days ago +1 / -0

the mechanical jeet just makes jeetjobs worthless

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 1 point 246 days ago +1 / -0

These the same people claiming we reached a tipping point in climate change?

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