I agree. The goal of AI is to reduce payroll costs. It has nothing to do with ID...

teruakohatu · 2025-12-25T23:43:38 1766706218

If workers (i.e. me) choose to use it without it being imposed on them, is that a morally bad thing in your worldview?

I was trying to use an obscure CLI tool the other day. Almost no documentation and one wrong argument and I would brick an expensive embedded device.

Somehow Google gave me the right arguments in its AI generated answer to my search, and it worked.

I first tried every forum post I could find, but nobody seemed to be doing exactly what I was attempting to do.

I think this is a clear and moral win for AI. I am not in a position to hire embedded development consultants for personal DIY projects.

RHSeeger · 2025-12-26T00:12:21 1766707941

You've pretty much described the "what it is for" for a large percentage of industrial inventions. Clearly, however, the world would be worse off without many of them.

blibble · 2025-12-26T00:32:36 1766709156

would the world be worse off if facebook and google had never existed?

I doubt it

RHSeeger · 2025-12-26T06:57:51 1766732271

The fact that there exist things created in the pursuit of money that are of questionable benefit to society... does not, in ANY way, negate the fact that there are MANY things created via the same motivation that are a benefit to society.

broretore · 2025-12-26T03:00:58 1766718058

would the world be worse off if instead of google it had been blooglie or hooli that succeeded?

i don't know