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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
All of these are just symptoms, though.
Capitalism run amok is the cause. Everyone wants things cheaper, faster, and better, so naturally things will be invented and utilized that accomplish that.
AI isn’t the first thing and won’t be the last thing to accomplish this. I find the whole conversation around AI kind of silly because it’s really never addressing the actual problem.
AI has a lot of good or extremely promising uses. It has the potential to make society a whole lot better. But it’s also going to make it a whole lot worse so long as this current stage of capitalism has rich people demanding vendors deliver the same or better quality for 1/2 the price and the choice is to use AI or go out of business to people who will.
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Everyone wants cheaper because wages have fell so far behind inflation that people struggle to afford even what they used to, let alone what their parents used to afford. Quality for most consumer things has just obviously been going down. It's why people are so still so excited about electronics and video games, because those are the few things that actually get better without becoming more expensive.
When people have money they buy quality. Rich people don't shop at the cheap stores.