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[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Honestly from my experience with corporate healthcare the real problem is that every mission critical message is wrapped in ten layers of feelgood bullshit.

I worked at a place where when they introduced a text paging system with priority flags, the actual meanings and expectations of those priority flags was buried in 30 slides of "remember to be nice to your coworkers, ok kiddos?" then there was one SINGLE slide with, "a green fyi flag needs no answer but there is a read receipt, an orange urgent flag requires an answer within 30 minutes, and a red critical flag requires the resident to be on the unit within five minutes."

When someone asked me three months after taking that course if any of the flags meant anything I had to figure out which module it even was in because the title (as stated) had NOTHING to do with this single piece of important information the 30 slide presentation contained. Then I had to scroll through to almost the end (not the actual end though because that would have made even a little sense) and take a cropped screenshot of the slide to print out and COLOR IN MYSELF WITH HIGHLIGHTERS to make a peice of relevant wall signage to keep by the secretary desk.

Technology is evolving like DNA. 99% of these proteins do nothing except you can't actually take any of them out because they might do one thing sometimes maybe that will result in the baby not growing a foot or not being able to make insulin. So instead of clarifying things and cutting back we're just adding more alarms, more forms to fill out, more presentations to watch and more documentation to read and now that we can't keep up we're not reducing complexity at all in fact now we're making robots to help us get confused faster which means things can and "should" get more complicated which means we need more robots and-

I had a coworker ten years ago literally just stroke out at work. I get it, tbh.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Tech bros are the kids that copy-pasted their essays off wikipedia

Starting to think a bunch of them are college dropouts just cause they were lazy

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

My leading theory is there are many, many, people who are semi literate and don't realize. They think reading is just kind of uncomfortable and slow, and don't understand why anyone else would. Maybe they're reading each word out loud in their head, sounding some of them out. You wouldn't find a lot of people like that on a text based platform like this.

But for someone like that, an AI summary or video is probably a relief.

I took some dubious online reading speed tests the other day and it said like 350wpm, but the average is like half that.

Personally, I think the solution would be to invest in education, but there's no quarterly money in public good.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The scary thing is that AI summaries are often inaccurate. I have an open book licensing exam that I am required to write every 5 years. I put one of the questions into a search engine hoping to find a study that would contain relevant information - the search results came up fine, but the answer listed in the AI summary was blatantly wrong.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago

My leading theory is there are many, many, people who are semi literate and don't realize

Theory

54% of Adults read below a 6th grade level. There is no theory.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics

[–] bonkers54@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I read at way above average speeds. I burn through series like The Dark Tower. I still don't want to read most garbage sent my way.

It's so easy to have AIs gather stuff for you these days that I read more, not less.

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[–] arcine@jlai.lu 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Save time !? Unironically, no thanks.

If there's one problem with how we work nowadays, it's that everything is too fast. Everyone would gain a lot if we could just take time and do things well.

We need to be given time to take time on things though. For the folks who are lucky to have one hour of unallocated time per day, any extra time spent on any task can easily cut that unallocated down to nothing and start cutting into things like sleep time.

At the same time though, I've never been so short on time that I've needed a misinformation bot to sumarize things for me. The above was more just a general statement about people doing things too fast. People often do things fast because they don't have a choice.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Yes thank you.

I’d accept “as fast as industry can progress” if the industry in question was something addressing climate change, or poverty, or reducing war. Otherwise what’s the rush?

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] arcine@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago

This is exactly how I work as a software developer. Unfortunately this may make me unemployable in industry... Fortunately, I don't care, I'm headed for research !

[–] cat@aussie.zone 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Me and my partner love to send paragraph long messages. When this happens, meta ai is so kind as to give me the option to summarize it for me. As a brain dead AI worshiper, this has saved me a lot of time and enabled me to do what I really love: increase share holder value.

(reference: https://www.messenger.com/help/1252371032471628/?cms_platform=android-app&helpref=platform_switcher)

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

My partner and I (.)

You forgot the period! Revolting.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks like a boob. Here are two of them as they should be:

( . )( . )

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 77 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Lots of real world examples of course, but sci-fi has covered how lack of access to writing, reading or knowledge is an essential ingredient in dystopian control societies. Bit of brave new world, 1984, and some animal farm thrown in.

The 2010 play Futura by Jordan Harrison is highly recommended though don't think it's been produced anywhere in a while.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But of brave new world, 1984, and some animal farm thrown in.

Funny how you didn't mention Fahrenheit 451, since that's literally how the dystopia in the book came to be.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can just suggest it as an addendum instead of implying that it's a deliberate omission by starting with "Funny how..."

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Wasn't meant as insinuating a deliberate omission. Put you're right. The tone was a bit agressive, sorry.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

🥇

Learn from this Lemming friends great attitude!!!

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Fahrenheit 451 is often left out but arguably the most important piece.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Had to look that word up. Thought it was a typo. Purposively. I'm going to try and use that in a sentence today irl.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Do not be surprised when someone corrects you to 'purposefully'.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago

To be fair, they are very close in meaning.

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[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Horses and humans. For a long time, the oligarchs and wealthy classes in every country bred, fed and maintained their equine populations. They earned a living by providing a service to the wealthy, which was transportation. Horses became specialized in certain things like fighting in a war, pulling carriages, etc... and some more than others were more highly valued and traded as workers to other companies (wealthy families and businesses)... They needed horses to do all this work so they expanded the horse population. By the 1900s, it was massive. The horses themselves were worth so much money because of the labor they provided the wealthy classes. Then the automobile was created and suddenly the wealthy didn't need the services anymore. It didn't take long for the world equine population to drop substantially never to recover.

This is what the wealthy want AI to do to you

[–] SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
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[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

I have worked at the grocery store, and remember many of the produce codes by heart. I practice them, its a silly fun thing for me to do in my mundane life. I stopped using the self check at my shop because they upgraded to AI involvement. However, they had one lane open the other day and I was in a rush, so I used self check.

The fucking Ai scans fhe produce it sees and gives yoy options to pick from. All pictures. I cannot put the item code in myself anymore, I have to select the photo based on what it thinks is on the register. Im not fucking dumb. this is shit is so dumb. I fucking hate it.

[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

"banana"

puts avocados in the bag

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago

With a 9 prefix for organic!

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Everyone needs to read Cory Doctorow NOW. ANY BOOK. Should be required reading for all humans.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Whatever he tries to warn is lost on those who chose to ignore and try to put food on the table.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 13 points 4 days ago

I've had an AI "summary" of a 6 word sentence that was like 20+words. It's absolutely goddamn insane.

[–] jeniferariza@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The irony of needing a summary for a critique about shortening attention spans is kind of perfect 😅

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 points 3 days ago
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