The question is whether the ads will be separate, like banner ads (albeit probably informed by your discussions) or woven into the responses themselves, whcih would be bad bad bad.

Prove that.

Much of the so called market is a shell game; a casino and we're all forced to participate in since inflation is basically pegged below the stock market causing you to lose money if you don't invest. Our retirement funds are contributing to the greater problem as well... I've seen some asset games that are supposedly legal that make me question the whole system; I don't want to study it so I can grasp the complex inventions that are likely just financial obfuscation - just thinking how hard it can be to spot masterly done obfuscation in source code as an expert makes me believe that I don't have a chance at catching talented experts in that profession even with significant study; never likely enough for my lack of motivation but also possibly lack of talent in that subject.

We could apply sales tax and a minimum holding time for investments which would drastically alter the whole system and also create a billionaire tantrum that alone would crash things for a while since they can afford to let us starve for a while... hidden behind the curtain of what has become their system; they do own most of the public stock market; the rest is also almost entirely managed by their class. Not the majority can get anything forced thru the captured system where enough of them can be suckered to work against their own self interests; as demonstrated by Trumptard nation.

Crap new jobs. Pay continues to go down and we "subsidize" the wealthy in every other way as they steal from us in increasingly corrupt ways. But don't you dare mention the class war, our masters made that taboo! (class warfare existed since the darn of societies. As long as we have the fairness genes and whatever causes greed; the root of all evil, except in the USA where it's been good since the 80s!)

Eventually employers will realize they can't wait for AI jobs and will be forced to hire again; however, they will forever view them as temp jobs until the AI can replace them. Probably every chance they get they will trash the job and try out some new tool have it fail and rehire... I expect contract work to increase as a result since that is probably cheaper for temp jobs.

Next will be incredibly tight regulation on VPN access and use. Leading up to government-run vpns and a Chinese style great firewall.

This is a authoritarian power grab and once authoritarians start grabbing power they don't stop.

I don't think it's anything that can be stopped because voters are too distracted by the culture war bullshit.

The next step is to ban vpns. They will be more tightly regulated than guns.

Not that it matters because human civilization is collapsing but all this think of the children bullshit is just a power grab by authoritarians.

We can't do anything about it because we're too busy worrying about woke trans drag queens forcing us to say happy holidays while playing Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis.

Similar experience to when those jobs were sent to India... Except now they won't have as many Einstein visas because experienced Indians won't exist to bring over... Plenty of cracks for people to sneak bye until optimization fills all those up.

What is already happening in accounting and was before AI-- was that entry level jobs became more complex and more difficult. Better trained and pre-educated workers are required to do the more difficult jobs. So you needed a degree to start on the job, a certification etc. The entry jobs became the bottom of the mid level jobs which pushed everybody who was directly untouched upwards putting pressure upwards and wanting to get rid of the old expensive employees. Software was doing this decades ago in subtle ways already-- in the 80s onward you saw age discrimination grow significantly, which was largely tied to benefits and salary. Loyalty to the company was unimportant except to exploit. Now they bitch about nobody having loyalty and the larger problem of disgruntled employees, more security and insulting policies towards employees. No fair! MBAs are supposed to screw the company! Another thing that grew... and the Chicago School of Economics promoting foolishness under the scam that their ideas made the USA great (they didn't. and China ignored ALL that advice and instead copied what actually was done and grew more than anybody in the history of mankind. Ironic that the USA shunned what made them great and continues to do so.)

Are there other things not in the job description; sure.
Receptionists still exist but they have been unnecessary for a very very long time. Doormen as well who are similar. Nice to have if you can afford to have them but could they be replaced with procedures and policies? yes. Direct phone calls. Directory at the door. Buzz to enter secure entry. A "welcome" sign. For a nice personal experience, it's a luxury some want to have. Again, if you can afford it and have not optimized out every expense that isn't absolutely necessary.

A big problem are the owners who want to squeeze out everything possible to the limits of human tolerance and without the serfs rising up to behead them they will push everything towards that limit. Doesn't matter than the quality of life of most people is above that of a classic king; it's never enough for the greed addicts trying to fill the hole in their souls. Better that they get a drug addiction.

Mod parent funny and file it in the set of sets that do not contain themselves.

Not a bad FP branch, but no explicit mention of "moral education", which I think is a that crux of it. It's not just that they want them (= the masses?) to obey orders. It's not even that they want them to obey illegal orders. It's more that they want them too naive to know the difference between good and bad.

Poorly trained monkeys with nuclear weapons and rockets. What could possibly go wrong?

That's just using AI as a better search engine. Nobody is feeling compelled to go with its suggestions.

I used to think like you until I read the headline, "Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines Correct?"

You have a misconception about the experiment. The point wasn't to study the fungus itself but rather the point of the experiment was to see if and how much it would attenuate cosmic radiation.

I'd like to know what left-wing racism is. Curious, not important since both are not actually real things.

This is online; I hardly went out but stores and traffic looked almost dead. Plus we might get stats later on the return rates... AI helping buy stuff people didn't really want.

Even if AI makes shopping better; it won't for long. It's not so great NOW and the enshitification of it has barely even begun. I only hear of initial deals to increase engagement and integrate marketing - they've got to make actual money at some point even though it may never pay for itself at the rate they are spending.

Perhaps the most interesting part is that the AI only needs to learn enough to fool INVESTORS which is a far lower bar than any actual intelligence.