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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 85 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"How can we make the mac and cheese any cheaper?"

"Fake cheese?"

"Shrinkflation?"

"Make the pasta out of saw dust."

[–] brem@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Edible box?"

"...yeah, just like John's wife.."

"Dang it, Steve. We're trying to save money & now we have to call Human Resources back in"

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who do you report HR AI to after the HR AI spent 50 million tokens on turning the meeting notes into a fanfic "to boost morale"?

[–] gnate@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

"John's Wife and the Night Visitors"

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 5 points 2 months ago

You report them to accounting. You should make a script to ask it random questions on loop all day.

[–] Malatesta@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We just had a meeting where HR told us to use the new AI in our payroll app before coming to see her. The GM mumbled "why are we paying for HR then?" Probably not a smart move on her part actively pushing for AI to replace her.

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 2 points 2 months ago

Exactly. She should be making an effort to show how bad it is haha.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

“The chatbot has judged thee unworthy.”

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's roughly where we are heading given the current situation

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised it's not already true.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

The retail markup is probably the largest part of the orice

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"We don't make it cheaper, we just deploy a big expensive PR campaign that tells people it's cheaper, and publicly disparage and defame anyone who calls us on it, and spend millions to lobby Congress to make it illegal to contradict corporate PR."