This is inevitable; the oligarchs want more power, more wealth, more control (and a lapdog Govt to make it happen).
When you can’t create, can’t make, can’t build the only thing left is to steal.
socratic-meth on
> The real reason behind ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ ads appearing on the Tube
The reason for any deliberately provocative advert like this is to make people talk about them. Good job for playing into this Metro!
Any-Memory2630 on
“we were aiming for ragebait” says company receiving raging comments.
Let’s not play into this, it’s just marketing
Anony_mouse202 on
Don’t see why this is any worse than “stop hiring luddites, use weaving machines”
Technology happens, people need to adapt to it.
MAMAMOBROWN on
It’s digusting how little humanity exists these days. Why didn’t anyone think about how upsetting this would be for the thousands of people walking past every day?
dvb70 on
It’s certainly quite interesting how enthusiastically some are about us running towards the edge of the cliff.
While I appreciate the potential benefits AI might bring the lack of long term thought on where this is taking us is jarring. Mostly we are hearing CEO and government types regurgitating sales spiel about how amazing AI is but where are the voices talking about protecting peoples ability to earn a living? What happens to all of these companies who want to do without employee’s when no-one can afford to buy the products they sell?
What AI is showing us more than anything is the CEO mindset of just wanting to get as much money for themselves in as short a time frame as possible with no thought to long term consequences. We can see where this is going. It’s bloody obvious and yet those cheering for us to run towards this cliff edge are receiving very little pushback from anyone.
Diligent-Suspect2930 on
“‘We didn’t expect people to get so mad,’ Jaspar said in a blog post.
‘The goal of the campaign was always to rage bait, but we never expected the level of backlash we ended up seeing.
‘Looking forward, we’ll likely tone down the messaging to be more in line with what we actually believe rather than just clickbaiting..!”
Maybe the CEO should ask the AI what some of those words mean because he is clearly baffled why he got exactly what he’d asked for
zone6isgreener on
No it hasn’t. The Metro is just running a free advert trying to get it to go viral.
CommunityFear on
It’s so frustrating. At my workplace we’re working on a new system that will cut down on admin. I will be brutally honest; I am drowning with work right now, I have no time to carry out post project work and we could badly do with a new member of staff: either someone of the same position or an admin assistant however it eventually dawned on me that the new system might be AI as it’ll automate a lot of our pre and post project work. Not sure if counts as AI but it literally will take away the need for an admin which makes sense from a business stand point but it also takes away a job from someone who might need it to actually gain experience and get to our level (semi senior to senior/me levels in the team).
If all businesses start doing this, how do we expect younger people to gain experience and become contributing members of society? I suppose if we look at typing pools/typists which are becoming obsolete in today’s environment but where will these people start from if junior admin roles are going to become obsolete also.
I appreciate what I’ve said is different to the “I am mark and I am an AI” but it’s worrisome. I also don’t want to always stay at this level, I had hoped I could eventually step down into an admin role when I’m old but that doesn’t seem likely now.
WebDevWarrior on
OK, if they want to claim AI is an **employee** as opposed to simply a **tool**…
Lets have the government tax any income it generates equal to an employee, prior to the remainder being allowed to be entered into a businesses profits where it can be further taxed.
See how long these clowns want to pretend like their shill marketing bullshit is human-equivilent when they are having to put their money where their mouth is.
voideal on
Ironically it’s the labour force that create the AI tools that will soon force them into slumber.
hime-633 on
This is all fine.
TFL just has to factor in the commuter revenue from AI employees versus bog-standard flesh-and-blood type.
Oh, wait.
Comrade-Hayley on
Capitalism truly is the human equivalent of a death spiral
philipwhiuk on
They have gotten this reaction every time. They know exactly what they are doing – their CEO has given the same comment every time
apple_kicks on
AI companies: dont be afraid, the AI is only here to assist not replace
Then they advertise the product like this
MDK1980 on
I’m just surprised that they allowed the ad next to it.
whatsgoingon350 on
AI as a tool can work it can make jobs easier and people more productive but as a replacement, it will not work.
Edit: Just wanted to add if your business has employees who provide a service that can be replaced with AI why would I use your service when I could easily use AI myself.
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This is inevitable; the oligarchs want more power, more wealth, more control (and a lapdog Govt to make it happen).
When you can’t create, can’t make, can’t build the only thing left is to steal.
> The real reason behind ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ ads appearing on the Tube
The reason for any deliberately provocative advert like this is to make people talk about them. Good job for playing into this Metro!
“we were aiming for ragebait” says company receiving raging comments.
Let’s not play into this, it’s just marketing
Don’t see why this is any worse than “stop hiring luddites, use weaving machines”
Technology happens, people need to adapt to it.
It’s digusting how little humanity exists these days. Why didn’t anyone think about how upsetting this would be for the thousands of people walking past every day?
It’s certainly quite interesting how enthusiastically some are about us running towards the edge of the cliff.
While I appreciate the potential benefits AI might bring the lack of long term thought on where this is taking us is jarring. Mostly we are hearing CEO and government types regurgitating sales spiel about how amazing AI is but where are the voices talking about protecting peoples ability to earn a living? What happens to all of these companies who want to do without employee’s when no-one can afford to buy the products they sell?
What AI is showing us more than anything is the CEO mindset of just wanting to get as much money for themselves in as short a time frame as possible with no thought to long term consequences. We can see where this is going. It’s bloody obvious and yet those cheering for us to run towards this cliff edge are receiving very little pushback from anyone.
“‘We didn’t expect people to get so mad,’ Jaspar said in a blog post.
‘The goal of the campaign was always to rage bait, but we never expected the level of backlash we ended up seeing.
‘Looking forward, we’ll likely tone down the messaging to be more in line with what we actually believe rather than just clickbaiting..!”
Maybe the CEO should ask the AI what some of those words mean because he is clearly baffled why he got exactly what he’d asked for
No it hasn’t. The Metro is just running a free advert trying to get it to go viral.
It’s so frustrating. At my workplace we’re working on a new system that will cut down on admin. I will be brutally honest; I am drowning with work right now, I have no time to carry out post project work and we could badly do with a new member of staff: either someone of the same position or an admin assistant however it eventually dawned on me that the new system might be AI as it’ll automate a lot of our pre and post project work. Not sure if counts as AI but it literally will take away the need for an admin which makes sense from a business stand point but it also takes away a job from someone who might need it to actually gain experience and get to our level (semi senior to senior/me levels in the team).
If all businesses start doing this, how do we expect younger people to gain experience and become contributing members of society? I suppose if we look at typing pools/typists which are becoming obsolete in today’s environment but where will these people start from if junior admin roles are going to become obsolete also.
I appreciate what I’ve said is different to the “I am mark and I am an AI” but it’s worrisome. I also don’t want to always stay at this level, I had hoped I could eventually step down into an admin role when I’m old but that doesn’t seem likely now.
OK, if they want to claim AI is an **employee** as opposed to simply a **tool**…
Lets have the government tax any income it generates equal to an employee, prior to the remainder being allowed to be entered into a businesses profits where it can be further taxed.
See how long these clowns want to pretend like their shill marketing bullshit is human-equivilent when they are having to put their money where their mouth is.
Ironically it’s the labour force that create the AI tools that will soon force them into slumber.
This is all fine.
TFL just has to factor in the commuter revenue from AI employees versus bog-standard flesh-and-blood type.
Oh, wait.
Capitalism truly is the human equivalent of a death spiral
They have gotten this reaction every time. They know exactly what they are doing – their CEO has given the same comment every time
AI companies: dont be afraid, the AI is only here to assist not replace
Then they advertise the product like this
I’m just surprised that they allowed the ad next to it.
AI as a tool can work it can make jobs easier and people more productive but as a replacement, it will not work.
Edit: Just wanted to add if your business has employees who provide a service that can be replaced with AI why would I use your service when I could easily use AI myself.