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    1. Over the last few months, various academics and AI companies have attempted to predict how artificial intelligence is going to impact the labor market. These studies, including a high-profile paper published by Anthropic earlier this month, largely try to take the things AI is good at, or could be good at, and match them to existing job categories and job tasks. But the papers ignore some of the most impactful and most common uses of AI today: AI porn and AI slop.

      Anthropic’s paper, called “[Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence](https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/3f7fd9d552e66269bdb108e207c5d80531d04b8b.pdf?ref=howtoreadthisch.art),” essentially attempts to find 1:1 correlations between tasks that people do today at their jobs and things people are using Claude for. The researchers also try to predict if a job’s tasks “are theoretically possible with AI,” which resulted in this chart, which has gone somewhat viral and was [included in a newsletter by MSNOW’s Phillip Bump](https://www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-answers-to-five-questions/?ref=404media.co) and [threaded about by tech journalist Christopher Mims](https://bsky.app/profile/mims.bsky.social/post/3mh4cs4yi4s2f?ref=404media.co). ([Because everything is terrible](https://www.actionnetwork.com/lifestyle/will-ai-replace-your-job?ref=404media.co), the research is now also feeding into a gambling website where you can see the apparent odds of having your job replaced by AI.)

      In his thread, Mims makes the case that the “theoretical capability” of AI to do different jobs in different sectors is totally made up, and that this chart basically means nothing. Mims makes a good and fair observation: The nature of the many, many studies that attempt to predict which people are going to lose their jobs to AI are all flawed because the inputs must be guessed, to some degree. 

      But I believe most of these studies are flawed in a deeper way: They do not take into account how people are actually actually using AI, though Anthropic claims that that is exactly what it is doing.

      Not included in any of Anthropic’s research are extremely popular uses of AI such as “create AI porn” and “create AI slop and spam.” These uses are destroying discoverability on the internet, cause cascading societal and economic harms.

      Read more [https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/](https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/)

    2. Due_Butterscotch4930 on

      The real disruption is not AI replacing jobs. It’s AI replacing the value of human content

    3. The_blinding_eyes on

      When the dust settles, all these LLm’s will have really accomplished is the death of the internet. They might help a few people in some niche way, but the internet will be dead, and the LLM’s training data will be dead too.

    4. I’ve lost track of how many YouTube channels I’ve blocked because it’s all low quality ai slop.

    5. DjScenester on

      Good. Maybe people will realize how awful the internet has become.

      So many bots and scammers.

      We need an internet 2.0

    6. DeadMoneyDrew on

      LinkedIn has become an even bigger shitfest than it already was prior to ChatGPT being released. Nothing is real any more.

    7. SereneOrbit on

      I hate to say it guys, but there needs to be a ‚clear internet‘ based off ID’s so you can prove you are a human being.

      We’re out of challenges that bots can’t solve but people can. CAPTCHA will not work any more.

      You can still go ID-less anywhere else, but not on ’normie‘ socials. And a broad crackdown on bots in general. This is the collapse of civilization type shit.

    8. It’s both things, but the new AI agent boom we’re about to experience is going to accelerate job cuts in a way that’s going to make shitposting not such a high priority.

    9. lol, AI isn’t destroying the internet, corporations are changing the tool to fit their needs.

      Don’t forget when Pinterest ruined google searches.

    10. Soft-Development-491 on

      Im so fucking sick of influencers/content creators that I hope it does destroy it. There was a civilization pre internet and it didnt suck like it does now. It needs to be scaled waaaaaaay back.

    11. ImOldGregg_77 on

      AI is destroying spcial media and political ebtertainment. Honestly, let it die. The internet will still function.

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