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tarkin2 • yesterday at 9:26 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

So far I've seen

- AI make a number of programmers redundant and their work is replaced with code of dubious quality and uncertain ability to maintain. The same is true for QAs and designers.

- young and old replace human friendship, and fostering their social skills, for conversations with their AI bot

- people avoid using their brain or practicing their skills in favour of asking some LLM

- people's work stolen, with the possibility of an AI subscription in return

- the laws on hacking and thief ignored

- a school of dead girls blamed on AI

The main benefit I've seen so far is that, since Google turned the web into a SEO hellhole, using AI to search is much nicer than wading through javascript-heavy, heavily-tracked, websites for a morsel of information. And there's some nice free translation and OCR tools now.


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skybrian • yesterday at 3:00 PM

How much of this is due to selective attention on the problems rather than the benefits?

It’s just one person’s story, but I thought this was pretty good:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/our-ai-midwife

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xorcist • yesterday at 10:08 AM

At least the SEO gamification was obvious and you could choose to avoid the noise. The AI-oriented SEO is just as bad and a lot more sinister.