Over and over AI is being deployed as a way to avoid the high cost of human mental labor.
You'd rather have a bank of servers huffing clouds of carbon into the air than just paying some people to solve the design problem.
I know hiring programmers to work on UI isn't glamorous, and the work is slow, the results aren't flashy, but we just can't keep on skipping this step or wishing that some cocktail-shaker full of matrices and stolen data will paper over the issue.
@futurebird
Brutal irony is that "AI labor" is only cheap because it's a market capture gambit. Nobody is paying real cost of using #genAI tools.
Once genAI vendors think everyone's locked in on AI-driven business processes they'll jack up prices to closer approximations of what it actually costs. Any apparent* cost savings will have been temporary.
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*pretty sure imagined cost savings are a human hallucination, resulting from failure to examine the actual business processes being replaced.
@FeralRobots That’s how you end up with some guy in Delhi watching the camera feed of a guy shopping in San Francisco trying to keep track of what items he’s picked up and left the store with — and it’s called automated no checkouts. Automated? No. Mental outsourcing.
And after all if he knew a person was watching him. giggling at his indecision over which bag of chips to grab that would ruin the magic. And it’d be pretty creepy too.
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