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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by lawrence@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[+] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 261 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 101 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This is so important.

An aspect of post scarcity is that people shouldn't have to work. AGI might allow that; LLM is starting to fill some niches.

The problem is how it's being done. Rather than benefiting society as a whole, it's enriching a few. In an ideal world, people whose jobs are replaced should get a stipend. We should all be eagerly awaiting that time when our jobs are replaced and we get a paycheck - maybe a little reduced - but now we're free to pursue our interests. If that means doing your old job, only now it's bespoke, artisan work, great.

The other missing factors are free energy and limitless resources; but we're making progress on energy, but resources are an issue with no solution on the horizon. Plus, we're killing the planet by just existing, so there's that.

We have a lot of problems to solve but AI is part of the solution, except that it's being done wrong. And expensively.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (23 children)

but resources are an issue with no solution on the horizon.

We've got tons of resources, and the means the produce more. The problem is that's not going to make some people lots and lots of money, so they don't do it.

Scarcity is not a problem of "can't" right now, it's a problem of "won't".

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[–] youngalfred@lemm.ee 155 points 11 months ago (9 children)

What's a personal?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 135 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Came here to say this... Personal?

This strip was made by AI, wasn't it? WASN'T IT??!?!?!

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 64 points 11 months ago

It 100% is the new 4o image generation which appears very good in producing crisp panel comics with readable text exactly like this.

The most scary thing is all the people responding with denial, oblivious to this not being human made.

[–] choya@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It might be. The doctor ear has different colors. And each robot has a slight difference in shading and shape. An human artist will just simply copy paste all the robots.

[–] Daze@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

brown teeth lady

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[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nothing personnel

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 127 points 11 months ago (4 children)

"Personal?" Personal what?

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 106 points 11 months ago (9 children)

We will never know, because this comic was produced by AI.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And it made a glaring mistake? Who will verify these errors to ensure they don't occur? 🤔

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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm presuming "personal assistant" and it got cut off due to being itself AI-generated slop.

[–] sacredfire@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago

Maybe it’s supposed to be “personnel”? HR hiring processes is dominated by bots now.

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[–] deeply_moving_queef@lemmy.ml 72 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Credit to the original artist.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This... Almost looks like the op of this post used AI to translate and change the art style of this comic.

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[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Seems the translated variant misses a big point of the original artist too, notice how the gun slowly comes into view? It's trying to make a point that the replacement isn't quite organic, but rather forced on us. Probably would have been better to just translate the text in place and include the rightful credit.

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Why is lemmy filling up with AI posts? Its worse that this is on c/comicstrips

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It’s not a Lemmy thing, it’s a global phenomenon. Humans are using AI more than ever, and believe it or not, humans use Lemmy.

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[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

AI generated slop. Reported

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 27 points 11 months ago

As an automechanic, my job will never replace by AI, but instead we're fucked by low wages and the black box automobile has slowly become.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Any personals here?

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The rich will always have money to pay better people to make beautiful things for them

Just be useful to the rich and you'll survive

Just like they planned it

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

I wanted robots to do my menial unpleasant chores for me so I'd have more time to do art, writing, and analytics. I didn't want robots to do all the art, writing, and analytics so I had more time for chores & menial tasks 😭

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Everyone thinks their own line of work is safe because everyone knows the nuances of their own job. But the thing that gets you is that the easier a job gets the fewer people are needed and the more replaceable they are. You might not be able to make a robot cashier, but with the scan and go mobile app you only need an employee to wave a scanner (to check that some random items in your cart are included in the barcode on your receipt) and the time per customer to do that is fast enough that you only need one person, and since anyone can wave a scanner you don’t have much leverage to negotiate a raise.

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[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (10 children)

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

When I see these kinds of posts I just look over at the vibe coders and just laugh harder than any joke about ai taking our jobs

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The image looks like AI...

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[–] lawrence@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I am starting to think this is AI, but I am not sure. The irony.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Feels that way to me, too. What the hell is "personal"?

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (24 children)

Oh man is translation not possible with AI. You have no idea how little languages have in common. A lot of terms don't mean a thing, but combine concepts you don't have or associate to point at a thing.

My dad said, about learning a new language, ''cat means cat, not gato, don't translate'' and I think that holds up pretty well from my experience.

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 15 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I'm not mad at translation no longer being a viable career choice. I'm mad at capitalism making it so.

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[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man itl be nice when surgeons can be fully replaced with robots.

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