#losing jobs to robots

[starscreamingg]

Detroit Become Human and why does this game decide that the problem in society is individual people treating androids poorly because those androids are choking them out of the workforce and NOT the corporations and governments who deliberately designed the androids to do this

[cushfuddled]

Hi! Just a reminder that AI is not some all-powerful entity beyond human comprehension. AI is not going to take your job because it’s better at your job than you are, or because it’s “oNLy gOinG tO GeT BeTter” in the coming years.

AI is going to take your job because it can do a shitty enough IMITATION of your job that your boss can use it as a credible excuse for firing you.

And then when your boss “finds out” the bot doesn’t work without constant human intervention (what a shocker!)…they can hire your actual replacement at a MUCH LOWER SALARY—because this won’t be as hard as YOUR job! It’ll “just” 🙃 be polishing the meat slurry the company bots shit out on a conveyor belt.

This is why companies are so dead set on stuffing AI down our throats despite the backlash: If not because they were unlucky enough to take the scam at face value, then because they plan to ride the hype until the bubble bursts, or because they smelled a way to replace you—not with a robot, but with a human babysitting a robot. They need the public to buy this premise of the omnipotent “AI” overlord because otherwise they can’t pretend firing you is just an unfortunate side effect of innovation. It’s not. These programs, before they were unleashed upon the commercial scene, were designed with human supervision in mind. You always need a professional in the room to check a bot’s work. Thank you for your time and fuck this capitalist hellscape 👍

[neenarchive]

getting fixated on a character as an artist will make you really good at drawing one random specific thing about them

[ask-the-secret-weapons]

⚠️- "Okay- Okay! Uh- can you..let him go please? He's not a replacement!".

Piper trying her best while marmalized pt. 2

[fishyartist]

“Hey fishy how’s the job hunt going?” I’m drawing ponies and I’m thinking about real sonic character mello bee (from the Archie comics; died from an lsd overdose caused by a laced chili dog)

[salemoleander]

Yknow I've heard a lot of (generally very valid) complaints about the writing of Fallout games, but man. Why did no one tell me that Fallout 4 kinda fucks

I just dove into the memories of the man who killed my husband, who I killed in turn, and discovered in another life I could've been him, made the same choices, because of the same grief and fear and lack of agency. And all of that was experienced inside the synthetic brain of a man who considers himself the mechanical ghost of a long-dead detective, who volunteered without hesitation to help because he considers himself profoundly expendable.

I think some pieces of the story and world can feel rushed, or reward blunt violence too much, or lean a bit trite- but there's a LOT of pieces that are shockingly compelling, and (for all its faults!) make me want to make something even a tenth as good

[cliff-and-the-kid]

13. someone they have conflicted feelings about

Sierra... isn't sure where she stands with her dad, at this point.

Does she love him? Yeah, of course, he is still her parent, and they had- she's pretty sure they had good times together, when she was little. There's a credit card that gets paid off each month with no questions asked, and people hired to make sure their house and yard are taken care of, and every time a parent-teacher conference is requested, he attends, either in person or over the phone.

...but there's a pretty wide gap between someone she loves and someone who is there for her.

A gap that's been getting steadily more obvious, the longer Sierra spends with Cliffjumper.

[vrabbiit]

guys if i actually just straight up wrote a fic abt the security breach gang being turned into humans fuckin. 2014 style. who would read that

[1990danieljohnston]

just saw a snippet of an article titled "is the AI boom over?" and even though I didn't read it I sure hope it is! working for a full year with AI made me realize I don't wanna work with AI and I hope AI dies a fast but painful death. in my time at work I read maybe way too many articles about the ethics of AI and how it should be regulated. the truth is, unless every single company tries its best to do it, there's no actual effective way of doing it. the AlphaGO documentary is a good example on how AI can ruin a person's life under the guise of an "innocent" experiment. the people behind that AI probably weren't doing it with the intention of hurting a man who spent his entire life learning to play that game, but they did. and it was painful to watch. I hope AI dies quick and people realize the "helpful" tool it is portrayed to be is actually making us dumber and lazier

[starscreamingg]

WHEN TRANSFORMERS ONE RELEASES IN THEATRES THE AUTISM WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE CONTAINED. EXPLODES

[sickgraymeat]

.-.

[libertys-lovers]

I’m so sorry barista G.I…

[beaft]

"even if you don't get paid for it you should still put in the extra mile because it's important to show Loyalty To The Company" if the company could hire a robot to do your job they would

until i am proven wrong, i will continue to believe that there is no such thing as a large company that views its employees as people

[winterspellsfrozenkit]

One thing I wish was understood a bit better about Twisted Wonderland.

Everyone in this game has trauma or personal struggles and it's NOT a competition of who has it worse. Honestly, sometimes I wish everyone's traumas were discussed more in depth in the game like we get with each person who Overblots, but we don't have time for it. With the Overblot boys, their trauma is shoved directly into the spotlight and we hear exactly how their situations make them feel. But the rest of the cast, ALL of them, have personal struggles and/or trauma. This is just a small list of some of the issues each non Overblot student has.

Ace masks the fear he feels in a lot of situations, and he's got an inferiority complex on some level. Notice how he bullied the player and Grim in our first interaction? That is a sign of someone who is looking to feel better by pushing someone else down because they don't feel good about themselves.

Deuce grew up with a single mother who had to work multiple jobs to make ends meet, which causes him to worry about her, and he was a delinquent in middle school, which made his mom, the one person he worries over, cry. He lives with those regrets, but he's still got those old habits and he agonizes over the fact he's not academically where he'd like to be and his behavior regresses when in heated situations.

Trey has severe trauma at being screamed at for FIVE HOURS over giving Riddle ONE slice of tart, so much that his vitals are severely affected at the thought of Mrs. Rosehearts and he's heavily conflict avoidant.

Cater has had to move all the time and as a defense mechanism, refuses to be honest or get close to people because he doesn't want to get attached only to be ripped away from them.

Ruggie lives in EXTREME poverty when not at school. He struggles to make ends meet and he has to work so hard in a system that is DESIGNED to keep him in poverty, because many beastmen still prefer segregation in the Sunset Savannah.

Jack has one of the healthier mindsets, but he still struggles with being open and honest about his feelings, which makes it hard to have friends, and he struggled with watching Leona, someone he's idolized, fall short of what he believed of Leona.

Jade and Floyd are implied to have grown up in some form of crime family and both seem to have handled the fact their lives could be in constant danger differently. Both like things being interesting, but Jade seems to prefer seclusion and control, while Floyd enjoys scaring people off and having as much fun as he can before he goes.

Kalim is someone who has had multiple assassination attempts on his life, even from his own family. He masks behind a smile, but he's afraid to trust people, and when he DOES TRY to talk about it, it gets brushed off because he has money. Also, he has to deal with the fact Jamil has been undermining his ability to progress by not treating him as if he's capable at all.

Epel has been teased and bullied on how he looked to the point where he started instigating fights to ensure he wouldn't be teased. He also has to fall in line with what Vil wants because he made the error of picking a fight with Vil and getting his butt HANDED to him. To further add, Vil is NOT NICE about it when Epel resists, with one example being Vil grabbing him by the ear and pulling hard as a form of punishment.

Rook has deal with the fact that for being someone who is super perceptive and can notice details, he didn't realize Vil's feelings around Neige, likely because he was blinded by his own admiration for both of them and that's a bitter pill to swallow.

Ortho has to deal with being basically created as a replacement for dead Ortho Shroud, trying to figure out if he's just really a robot made by Idia with really good AI or more than that, and dealing with the fact he loves his brother so much, but his brother doesn't take care of himself and it's disheartening to watch Idia's self-destruction.

Lilia has so much war trauma, losing his loved ones, having been exiled, and so much other crap. Even so, he forced himself to put the war and his trauma about it in the past, where it belonged for the sake of his two sons who both lost so much to war, which is something Baur/Baul could NOT do which was to Sebek's detriment.

Silver has had to live with the idea that his adoptive father would likely outlive him, then is faced with the fact that his father is basically abandoning everything about their life in Briar Valley before he learns that his biological parents were the enemies of the person he serves and cares about, Malleus, and the only father he's ever known.

Sebek has grown up with internalized racism/speciesism against humans thanks to his upbringing and he basically rejects half of his heritage with how he treats his father. He does not even realize how hurtful his comments are until he's faced with those remarks being directed at him by a younger version of his grandfather.

And this isn't everything each student has to face. This is just broad strokes. Yana Toboso wrote a story about flawed people who all have gone through really hard and difficult things because that's the point. As Toboso said in a 2023 interview:

“Happy endings in Disney works come from righteous actions and love, but I believe that the villains are characters who do not get saved during the story. That is why, through this game, I want to portray the message that even if you get beat up all the way to a bad ending, you can grow from it and live your life without feeling discouraged.

Acting lame, obstinate, without hesitation, being open and honest—it’s not as bad as it sounds. 

I would like to paint a positive picture of living honestly with yourself and not worrying about others.

In today’s society there are so many people who live in fear of failure and are always walking on eggshells, but nobody’s flawless. It is exhausting to try to live your life so that no one will hate you.”

Everyone, even people you don't know or do not like, have gone through things that shaped who they are. Sometimes, how we've adapted to handle the bad things that happen will force us to hit rock bottom. But you don't have to die when you hit rock bottom.

You can have terrible things happen to you and have maladaptive strategies to handle your experiences, but you aren't stuck that way forever. You can learn how to change your habits, learn to be okay with yourself, and work at being better than you were the day before.

Human growth is not linear. It's a bunch of taking steps forward and backsliding and learning and making mistakes over and over again and accepting failure, not as a testament to your character, but as part of the process of growth... and that's something all the students have to learn, not just the Overblot boys. Because all of them, every single one, are handling their own personal issues, even if it isn't shoved right in our faces.

[houndsrending]

Ok you know I am still kind of mad about every artist suddenly talking like we're tiny corporations when AI art started getting big. I remember you fucks talking about you theoretically not getting a commission in favor of AI art like you were Losing Money like youre fucking walmart or something. Come on.

[torpublishinggroup]

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