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[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 183 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Nah, they're not "getting psychosis", AI is revealing their psychosis. We're talking about people used to convincing themselves that infinite growth is possible in a finite world, that fascism is a solution, that they made themselves with no help, that they deserve to be paid hundreds of times more than their most basic employees, that being a billionaire is ethical, etc etc. And we used to accept all that for a contract and a salary. They're breaking the socio-professional contract with AI, now.

CEOs, HRs, the corporate world in general HAVE ALWAYS BEEN 100% PSYCHOTIC. Why do we think capitalism and the workplace are so alienating in the first place? Why do we think they need to invest millions, if not billions, in PR, medias and propaganda? The upper you go, the batshit crazier things get.

[–] Gap@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Respectfully: no.

Psychosis is something that builds over time with many factors and AI is one that can definitely be one of the contributing factors. It can be the one that pushes someone over the edge into psychosis and that may seem as "revealing" it but the psychosis could have been avoided without.

This line of thinking feels dangerous to me.

[–] angband@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

That "build-up" you are talking about, that's called business school followed by entry level management or internship, where modern managers brush over learning their business, in favor of seeking efficiency purely in terms of dollars in/dollars out, in opposition to any other metric.

[–] Gap@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Idunno man, sounds like you're trying to shift the blame from AI inducing psychosis in people towards the people affected by it

(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12712562/)

[–] angband@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

No, like the article said: "it's not as if the current industry problems are unprecedented, or came out of nowhere. Since the advent of modern capitalism (and likely a long while before that), those in charge have often misunderstood, underestimated, or dismissed the hard work that goes into labour they don't understand."

This and a tendency to abuse workers have always existed. Management isn't the victim here, the AI has just removed the limiter, such as it was.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting the 'line must go up' mentality only emerged after the advent of AI?

[–] Gap@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

No.

I'm mad about the misrepresentation of psychosis

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

Ah, ok. So for my next question, why is seeking infinite growth not a psychotic delusion?

[–] angband@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

a state of distorted reality, marked by disturbances in perception and thought, disorganized behavior, and negative symptoms

Ticks those boxes

[–] brookenium@feddit.online 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You've hit the nail on the head with the Infinite Growth statement. Most companies see AI as the next way to cut bottom line costs and hit those annual goals. It's an ouroboros that most companies haven't seen the end of yet. Eventually they'll be left with no talent (arguably the most valuable thing a company can acquire) and uninteresting products nobody is interested in.

How do you train newbies into useful employees when you let AI handle the easy stuff. Where's your pipeline of promotions so you're developing your next generation of developers? Once the shit starts to hit the fan, you'll see them crumble and ask how we got here. Human talent takes YEARS to cultivate and is extremely hard to buy, especially when competition builds from reducing the supply when people stop going into these fields for lack of entry-level jobs.

[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 20 hours ago

Its Cronus devouring his children. Feeding on the young for short term sustenance

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

It really is an ouroboros pretending there is no problem nibbling on the back of its own head after consuming everything else

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's near the bottom but Tarn Adams notes the same thing, that it has been happening far longer than just starting when LLMs became popular.

"It's been going on forever. That was before AI—or this form of AI," Adams says, before lamenting: "They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior, and they misbehave sometimes."

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm always amazed at people who can't understand that EVERY system is finite.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We've gotta be almost out of bullshit by now.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Eventually the sewer pipes become clogged and can't carry any more.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 points 22 hours ago

Well, the amount of bullshit is limited by the number of sources producing it (whether occasionally or frequently, accidentally or intentionally) and their respective capacities. Between human fallibility and the invention of machines to automate bullshit production, I fear that this limit may be much higher than either of us would like.