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The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly. Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (7 children)

What job were you doing that AI can do it?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It was fairly basic, just analyzing audio tracks and extracting the dialogue from them to text. Simple stuff for AI now.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I think your job might be safe. AI has been doing speech to text for over a quarter century. It's been bundled with Windows since XP. And nobody uses it because it has all the same problems that modern AI has.

    https://youtu.be/kTefnhbg0Ig

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Well yeah it has but it really sucked at it till things like Whisper came along. You really had to train it to specific speakers and even then you'd have to manually go over everything.

    Now running the heaviest whisper model and then an LLM to fix obvious mistakes and you have the same quality a human contractor would deliver. Except it can do a day's work in 5 minutes.

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