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Who here still thinks AI is garbage and worthless and won't take jobs?
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:08 pm
I was posting a lot about this at the beginning of the year and most here poo-poo'd AI as garbage and kept explaining how it could never take their job.
Now that we are 6+ months later and AI continues to spread how is everyone feeling about it's future?
Now that we are 6+ months later and AI continues to spread how is everyone feeling about it's future?
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Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:10 pm to sidewalkside
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I was posting a lot about this at the beginning of the year and most here poo-poo'd AI as garbage and kept explaining how it could never take their job.
It will take some jobs. It will create others.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:11 pm to sidewalkside
At first I was reticent to use the AI but these days I find it to be very useful.
I like to use it as an advanced internet search tool. Instead of having to peruse thru voluminous search results, the AI is able to provide a consolidated answer and links to the sources.
It's been helpful to me recently.
I like to use it as an advanced internet search tool. Instead of having to peruse thru voluminous search results, the AI is able to provide a consolidated answer and links to the sources.
It's been helpful to me recently.
This post was edited on 8/12/26 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:11 pm to sidewalkside
It's not worthless, but it's not nearly as good as some people breathlessly pretend that it is. And it will take some jobs, but the idea that it's going to take high level jobs (attorneys being my personal favorite) anytime soon is hilarious to me.
But people like receptionists, clerks, assistants, etc? Yeah, those people are in trouble in the short to mid term.
But people like receptionists, clerks, assistants, etc? Yeah, those people are in trouble in the short to mid term.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:12 pm to sidewalkside
It is in its infancy, this is the worst version we will see, It will take jobs. If a large law firm needs 5 junior attorneys to do research and briefs, the firm will eventually get to the point it only needs one or two to double check the work of AI.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:12 pm to sidewalkside
Much like the PC on everybody's desk, it will create more work.
The output will be of a higher quality and quantity.
The output will be of a higher quality and quantity.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:16 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
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will take some jobs. It will create others.
While true, it won't create as many as it eliminates
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:18 pm to sidewalkside
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how is everyone feeling about it's future?
AI creators and execs, at least in the short term, will price it so high that the cost benefit of replacing a living work force with AI won't offer the ROI CEOs will want. Especially with the pricing models the AI companies are rolling out to Corps.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:21 pm to sidewalkside
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Who here still thinks AI is garbage and worthless and won't take jobs?
I hope it takes your shite posting privileges.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:24 pm to sidewalkside
New tech rarely lives up to the hype (VR, EVs, etc.). For AI there's a LOT of potential but there are still some fundamental issues (like "hallucinations," for example).
I think general AIs will always be slop-ish (too much GIGO) but over time I think silo'd AIs in things like law and accounting are going to start making headway.
The problem people aren't considering (yet) is how the reliance on it will eventually stymie expertise in those fields, eventually causing those fields to become dependent on AI for more and more aspects. An analogy for this could be how it should be a reeeeeeeally knowledgable textbook but instead becomes considered the expert (meaning eventually never being questioned).
I think general AIs will always be slop-ish (too much GIGO) but over time I think silo'd AIs in things like law and accounting are going to start making headway.
The problem people aren't considering (yet) is how the reliance on it will eventually stymie expertise in those fields, eventually causing those fields to become dependent on AI for more and more aspects. An analogy for this could be how it should be a reeeeeeeally knowledgable textbook but instead becomes considered the expert (meaning eventually never being questioned).
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:25 pm to sidewalkside
I love AI but I also think it will take jobs.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:25 pm to sidewalkside
It will probably take yours since you seem not to understand it and refuse to adapt and use it to better yourself
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:26 pm to sidewalkside
It makes so many mistakes it's laughable. It contradicts itself, it says "you were right to push back" when you call out the clear mistakes, then it will promptly repeat the same mistake.
It seems to guess at what you want to hear until you leave it alone.
If prompted correctly, it can do some cool things in terms of generating images and video. But it's pretty hit and miss otherwise.
It seems to guess at what you want to hear until you leave it alone.
If prompted correctly, it can do some cool things in terms of generating images and video. But it's pretty hit and miss otherwise.
This post was edited on 8/12/26 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:27 pm to sidewalkside
We are going to look back at the flood of AI slop marketing materials and cringe.
I purposely go out of my way to avoid anything that is immediately identifiable as AI. It shows me that whoever is putting together the event or idea doesn't care about presentation. What else do they not care about?
I'm not saying don't use AI to generate. I'm saying once you have prompted a few times and have something unique, at the very least go trace it in illustrator to make a proper vector.
I purposely go out of my way to avoid anything that is immediately identifiable as AI. It shows me that whoever is putting together the event or idea doesn't care about presentation. What else do they not care about?
I'm not saying don't use AI to generate. I'm saying once you have prompted a few times and have something unique, at the very least go trace it in illustrator to make a proper vector.
This post was edited on 8/12/26 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:31 pm to RidiculousHype
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It seems to guess at what you want to hear until you leave it alone.
Oh boy, I’m cooked.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:34 pm to Joshjrn
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And it will take some jobs, but the idea that it's going to take high level jobs (attorneys being my personal favorite) anytime soon is hilarious to me.
Experienced and competent attorneys today will use it to be more productive while hiring fewer new attorneys.
AI might be far away from becoming a lawyer, but it's already able to replace what most 1-3 year associates are good for.
As a managing partner, are you more inclined to pay a few grand a year for AI tools, or invest several hundred grand into a fresh associate who you have to train (and there's significant risk that they leave your firm for another once they've been trained up enough to be actually valuable to your firm).
Firms that used to need 10 attorneys for their workload will now only need 6 or 7.
It's going to be weird, because you talk to the upper level partners or managing attorneys and they gush over how much better AI can be over a fresh grad and how they can be so much more productive with AI handling the "grunt work". When you ask them what happens when they and everyone with their experience level retires with no "young" people to replace them (because they were never hired and given the opportunity to gain that experience) they have no answer.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:35 pm to sidewalkside
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was posting a lot about this at the beginning of the year and most here poo-poo'd AI as garbage and kept explaining how it could never take their job. Now that we are 6+ months later and AI continues to spread how is everyone feeling about it's future?
I’d like to see AI go to a plant job hungover and look at TD all day like these Low-T lounge baws
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:36 pm to Bard
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New tech rarely lives up to the hype (VR, EVs, etc.).
What was the hype that EVs didn't live up to?
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:38 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
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It will take some jobs. It will create others.
The problem is that it will eat far more jobs than it creates.
Posted on 8/12/26 at 3:39 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Experienced and competent attorneys today will use it to be more productive while hiring fewer new attorneys.
AI might be far away from becoming a lawyer, but it's already able to replace what most 1-3 year associates are good for.
As a managing partner, are you more inclined to pay a few grand a year for AI tools, or invest several hundred grand into a fresh associate who you have to train (and there's significant risk that they leave your firm for another once they've been trained up enough to be actually valuable to your firm).
Firms that used to need 10 attorneys for their workload will now only need 6 or 7.
It's going to be weird, because you talk to the upper level partners or managing attorneys and they gush over how much better AI can be over a fresh grad and how they can be so much more productive with AI handling the "grunt work". When you ask them what happens when they and everyone with their experience level retires with no "young" people to replace them (because they were never hired and given the opportunity to gain that experience) they have no answer.
"Associates" are to large firms what paralegals are to everything else. I don't disagree that larger firms are going to cut back on associates, but the reality is that "low level associates at big law firms" is, what, high single digits as far as the legal profession? So cut them in half, watch them all go to smaller firms where they can litigate immediately instead of spending a few years in the bullpen, and nothing has really changed, outside of the big law balance sheet.
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