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highplainsdem

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4. It's the world's most expensive waste of time. With the added bonuses of ripping off the world's IP,

Reply to mwmisses4289 (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 12, 2026, 07:00 PM

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wrecking education, harming the natural environment and the information ecosystem, dumbing down users, worsening inequality and setting up a financial catastrophe.

But if you ignore all the work that went into training it and prompting it, and all the errors in the output, you hafta give it an A+ for how fast it spits out those results.

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AI is cutting hours of office work, but also creating a new kind of busywork [View all] highplainsdem Friday OP

Imagine... This sounds ever so much like the early days of the internet! Ford_Prefect Friday #1

It isn't the data set. It's the fact AI is nothing but a fancy autocomplete with no real intelligence. highplainsdem Friday #2

If you're having to spend an hour making you're AI output usable, that's not being very productive, is it? mwmisses4289 Friday #3

It's the world's most expensive waste of time. With the added bonuses of ripping off the world's IP, highplainsdem Friday #4

The study is very interesting... reACTIONary Friday #5

I agree that the high achievers are cheating themselves - IMO by using AI at all, but at least they spend highplainsdem Saturday #6

After looking into the study a little closer... reACTIONary Saturday #7

Wow. And they gave their AI agent a first and last name? I wonder how typical that is, and if AI highplainsdem Saturday #8

Not only do they give it a name, it is the name of.... reACTIONary Saturday #9