I was thinking the same, they play with numbers so that the unemployment rate looks better than it is, discouraged workers, those who haven't looked in the last 4 weeks (which could for a variety of reasons, illness, family issues, taking time to retrain, transportation problems, etc.), or a parent who has to stay home because childcare is insanely expensive and they'd spend more on it than they'd make (yes, it actually can happen). And people giving up looking for working or just retiring a bit early because their career it shot (I'm thinking AI replaced jobs) isn't a good thing.

Also, there's the issues of being underemployed, or taking jobs at a lower wage than they would normally, etc. So while they may be 'employed' their situation has degraded compared to the past.

This seems to be the de facto way companies are operating now, my only hope if enough people just say no thanks (or f*ck off ! more appropriately) that they will back off, but I'm not optimistic. Doctorow's book actually does a really nice job using case studies to outline how the path the enshitification process happens, Facebook / Meta is pretty much the poster child for it.

Anything with software now, be it a dishwasher, a car, a watch, these asshole companies are either using your data for their benefit, or charging you to access features that should simply be included (or in some case are actually already there but turned off unless you fork over $x per month).

that us Gen X'ers played as kids, only more expensive, with higher stakes and when it goes all wrong -- instead of us all laughing like we did as kids, you lose clients, or people get fired, or someones loses money, etc.

All of these massive LLM companies were built on stealing copyrighted materials and other prior work to train their models (and then profit from it without paying for the data/images/etc), so the whole thing is hilariously thick with irony. "Hey, you can't steal the sh*t I stole!"

Now where did I put that teeny tiny violin...

I watched the trailer, sure the visuals looks 'nice', but I wasn't blown away. The AI component is problematic imo.

Maybe it was the way to trailer was put together but it feels like it's very a much a scripted, on the rails experience, which doesn't really interest me. Though it seems a lot of high budget 'pretty' action games are this way now.

I thought the YouTube comments were interesting, they felt AI to me, every one a positive one liner, really? Thought it's the official TombRaider channel, so heavily censored and curated I'm sure. If you look at other comment sources, it's far from pure glazing...

Probably trying to earn some brownie points after forcing Fitbit users to their much hated & maligned Google Health app, with no option to keep the original app.

https://www.droid-life.com/202...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...
https://www.androidauthority.c...
https://kotaku.com/google-fitb...

I used their CPX (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333) in some introductory programming/electronics classes at my school. They're a cool company in my experience, run by nerds, affordable, and big supporters of education & teachers.

I've never heard of Flux.ai, but they can Flux off if they're messing with Adafruit...

so the promo headline is fake too

"Despite what some chatbot or Murdoch-owned newspaper told you, Hell Grind, the 95-minute farting-demon movie generated by AI, did not premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, as the Wall Street Journal reported this week. Per Futurism, Hell Grind was “not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program,” according to a festival spokesperson. Though outlets like Screen Daily and the Journal say otherwise, the film screened at “an industry event organized by third parties in Cannes,” the city, not the festival. "

https://www.avclub.com/ai-movi...

or just used to make the visuals? Because the 'plot' seems like derivative slop with ideas/scenes I've seen 100x, which would be exactly what AI was trained on.

I didn't even watch the whole thing honestly, it felt more like a CGI cutscene promo for a video game with some contrived stupid ass story.

Study after study shows kids do better in school, are more engaged, and more social when phones are out of the picture. 'Social' media is exactly the opposite, it's isolating and anxiety inducing for a lot of teens.

I think there's a lot of adults I know who might be better off too. I definitely have some friends / colleagues who waste so much time on it, and it mostly just seems to make them anxious or irate -- but as far as the platforms are considered, who cares as long as they're 'engaged' with it...

Same. I've always wondered why people with insane amounts of money keep working. I understand wanting to keep busy with hobbies, projects, personal interests, travel, etc., but man, life is short, if I could chill and enjoy a life of leisure, absolutely I would.

"I think there's considerable evidence this AI bubble is going to pop" Citations please? I've read lots of speculation, but where's this evidence you claim?

I think many of us may wish there's a bubble that may pop, but 'if wishes were fishes..."

There IS evidence that job losses are occurring, it's not just hypothetical, just because you say "I'm not seeing..." perhaps in your immediate world, evidence is to the contrary (just a few I found)

https://www.goldmansachs.com/i...

https://econofact.org/factbrie...

https://www.adpresearch.com/ye...

I'm late in my career, only a few years left -- and almost all of my jobs have been through connections with people I actually know or have worked for; so I'm not worried.

I think LinkedIn was 'ok' when it started, then it turned into spammers, bots, clueless headhunters, obnoxious self-promoters with made up titles/terms, people trying to be 'influencers' (hate that term, more like hucksters), etc. To use Doctorow's term, it got totally 'enshitified', I don't miss it at all.

I deleted all my data and closed my LinkedIn account years ago (their security was [is?] atroious).

I was surprised to see that people sometimes put salary history in LinkedIn, seems like a bad idea to me for various reasons. Thinking about this situation, you are tipping your hand to prospective employers.

Though, I guess people could lie and pad their salary to say they made $X + 15000k for example. I don't know if a prospective employer can ask your current employer what you make? I'm guessing this varies from state to state, and even country to country?