C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog @Urban_Hermit "CEOs find out they don't actually work"
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
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I don't suppose anybody has a gift article for this? -
C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog excellent, we finally have a reason to replace C suite with GenAI
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog we had a similar questionaire in our company (initiated by C-suites) and there was no option to select "no time saved or time lost"... the choices were just less than 4h, 4-12h, 12-16h and more than 16h. they were not asking how much time we actually save. it was a trick question. kind of like "how much do you love big brother?"
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This is a great point. It is only asking about time saved, when it should ask how much time is wasted as well.
@sauc3 @GossiTheDog won’t go down well with the people selling stuff and upping prices because of the AI….
It certainly wastes my time with people sending me absolute nonsense blatantly generated by AI.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog that's because the C-suite talks mansplaining bullshit, unlike the rest of us.
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@GossiTheDog so what this really says, is that AI could probably replace C-suite roles easier than it could replace worker roles
@dee @GossiTheDog I like this take
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
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When this all finally crashes and burns it's gonna look like Kepler on Earth. -
@sauc3 @GossiTheDog won’t go down well with the people selling stuff and upping prices because of the AI….
It certainly wastes my time with people sending me absolute nonsense blatantly generated by AI.
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I refuse to believe that "AI" is inevitable. I think the more people that resist, and point out the problems, the more likely it will go away.
I don't disagree with you that the powers that be are pushing "AI" and aren't going to give a fair shot to both sides of the discussion. But I'm not willing to just give up and accept that it's inevitable.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
I don’t have the link handy, but I believe some research paper is found that workers who think AI is saving them times say they think AI save them 20% of their time.
The research shows that it’s wasted 20%.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog C-suite execs were already bullshit generators. Of course a bullshit-generator machine would save them time.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog i imagine c-suite, who write and receive lots of boring emails that don't get read are saving a lot of time as much of what they do is non-essential to business.
Workers, however, who produce all the value of a company are not experiencing the same thing.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog What this actually shows, is that it’s the managers who are replaceable by chatbot, just saying!
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog love to see an option of lost time.
I have seen people use AI and then another person has to redo the work because the AI was wrong.
Total time save was negative 30 minutes.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog To be Fair... C suites sit and talk out their arse all day every day, so naturally they see AI as being a time saver, practically stealing their jobs.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog I’m old enough to remember all sorts of new tech that was going to make our jobs easier so we could do less bullshit time wasting work…like email, the net, etc. tl:dr, we now just have the same amount (or more) of different work
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog That "think" is doing a lot of work too.
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog If degenerative neither-A-nor-I* saves them time, it's because those parts of their jobs are performative bullshit that should be removed entirely, not automated or otherwise optimized. This extends to those "jobs" which are entirely performative to boot.
* it's more degenerative than generative in consequence; it's not artificial but stolen labour; and it's not intelligent, since inference is not cognition. Calling that "reasoning" is a euphemism to end all euphemisms...
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C suites think GenAI is saving loads of time vs the actual workers, who don’t.
@GossiTheDog Well and now for the hard data and not some anecdotes and surveys.
We only have this now-old research: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
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@GossiTheDog If degenerative neither-A-nor-I* saves them time, it's because those parts of their jobs are performative bullshit that should be removed entirely, not automated or otherwise optimized. This extends to those "jobs" which are entirely performative to boot.
* it's more degenerative than generative in consequence; it's not artificial but stolen labour; and it's not intelligent, since inference is not cognition. Calling that "reasoning" is a euphemism to end all euphemisms...
@ulfr @GossiTheDog Generative AI isn't completely useless, but the AI bros are so intoxicated by their own machines that they can't understand their limits, and the managers are trying to shoehorn AI into everything out of fear of missing out, just like with any other technology they don't understand. What's actually useful about those models can be distilled into far smaller, faster, more efficient, tweakable, open source, open weights models that run on a consumer machine locally without any computing centre or network connection. Whatever functionality those small models are missing can be added using LoRAs.
Training those insanely huge commercial models like GPT is prohibitively expensive and would never have happened in any economy that had any serious growth possibilities left. The reason why those techbros all desperately want to believe that the big AI breakthrough is now is because there isn't any market left on Earth that's still growing sufficiently to allow big investor capital to rake in the profits. There are too many people with too much money trying to make even more money on a planet running on empty.
They're also putting all their money in AI because they know that Capitalism is about to die after having been on life support ever since the 2010s, and they had always seen it coming; for them, cyberpunk is not a dystopia but a utopia since they believe are to be the rich cyberlord bastards ruling over a cyberfeudalist world from the tops of their arcology pyramids. But in order for that dream (nightmare only for the poor bastards who don't get to live in an arcology) to come true, they need AI. They need their obedient robot slaves to keep the peasants under control, and they need their artificial gods that are somehow still under their control so they can collect rent from the commoners for accessing their artificial gods. They want to stay rich even after the capitalist system is dead and buried, they want their companies to own everything so all the people have to be their slaves. They want to keep running the economy even if 99% of all humans die, and for that, they need intelligent robots that can build other robots.
