Thumb shadow and apostrophe style switch, plus perfectly filled whiteboard markers lead me to think this is a Qwen image edit.

They trained their model on text added to images, so it often pops above background stuff.

Plus this is an uncommonly shaped whiteboard marker to get this rounded style, and there are no lift marks.

it is AI generated.

Also ironic is that none of the listed automations require machine learning and there's been hard coded technology for them for a while.

There's nowhere that the opera house and Harbor bridge line up like that without something else being in frame.

Dead eyesss

That's what makes it a shitpost

Is it? What gives it away? Text on whiteboard looks suspicious, but it was probably added in post.
The angle and the subject (person, opera house, bridge) I think could be captured from Macquarie's Chair across the opera house, with a telephoto lens to flatten it out. But I'm not 100% on it.

Because AI is a boomer technology. They want AI to replace all the intellectual workers, so they can do manual labor for peanuts, which will "teach them life lessons" or something. Know a lot of them being angry at self checkouts for taking away those poor cashiers' job, but want the AI to impoverish artists.

Why his hands do that? Why bridge go nowhere?

Sadly yes.

Lots of basic algorithms are now called AI

Yes? Anything electronic is AI. Just like electricity used to be basically magic to people.

Human kind loves to blame things they don't understand for 10x longer than it would take to learn about it.

At least its upside down.

Can confirm At least, I hope it's not ....

It's like youtube videos, apparently people don't understand what it is about if there isn't a big face in it.

Yeah whenever I see them I think what story are they trying to tell? Are we supposed to believe that this man decided, right, I want to post something online about $TOPIC, so I'll get my whiteboard, write my post on that, go to the harbour, get someone to take a photo of me holding it up, and then I'll upload that photo online so people can see what I think?

yeah I would love a life without human conection..but thats just me and I have mental issues lol

When self checkout started, it was too dumb. It would panic if you breathed on the scale wrong, frequently double-scan items or just have weird bugs.

Then for a minute, it was perfect. They smoothed out the UX, and everything Just Worked™.

Now self checkout is too smart. The camera sees me grab multiple items to scan back-to-back, or sees my kid playing with the bag carousel, and it sets off a shoplifting alarm that the employee has to come over and clear 2-3 times per trip.

So I’ve caught myself adjusting my behavior, like the Amazon drivers that get penalized for singing while they drive because the face-tracking throws an alarm.

If it were just me, I probably wouldn’t think much of it. But then I wonder: Is my daughter going to have to adjust her hands, her posture, her facial expressions… to be acceptable to an ever-present AI observer, for the rest of her life?

That seems to be where we’re headed.

What happens to the misbehavers?

I hate self checkout, I like being able to space out and find it stressful doing the whole song and dance.

U all remember when you queued to buy a train ticket from a fellow behind a counter, and someone came and woke you up in the middle of the ride so they could clip it?

So high quality human interaction, I miss it so much /s

So here’s the thing… In between the land of “shitty service jobs” and the land of “fully automated luxury” lies the vast desert of “reverse-centaurs”.

Right now, when “AI” takes over 60% of a job, that remaining 40% becomes a brutal dehumanizing gauntlet: the “human-in-the-loop” becomes a peripheral for the computer, manipulated into working at the speed that the computer prefers, like Lucy in the chocolate factory, until they’re used up and replaced. Think Amazon warehouse pickers or drivers.

Part of the problem is that this exploitation is hidden from consumers. When we see a fellow laborer suffering horrible conditions in a public-facing service job, we’re much more likely to throw a fit than when they’re hidden behind a sleek UI.

With no guarantee that we’ll ever make it through to the other side of the desert, I’d be perfectly content to stay on this side of it.

THANK YOU SO FKIN MUCH.

AI is a new means of production. Our goal must be to sieze it, use it to improve the lives of all and improve its capabilities. Our goal should NOT be to fight the means of production itself.

I think in the socialist utopia where everyone does only what they want to do, there would be shopkeepers. I've volunteered at a food bank, and I quite enjoyed it. I don't think anyone would spend their life a shopkeeper. I think people would wander in, do it for a few months, and then move on.

we ought to use that to free people from the need to work. Give us UBI

I share these sentiments, but that's never going to be how these technologies are employed. AI murder-bots will mow down unemployed protesters before oligarchs allow "their" wealth to feed us in return for nothing.

You're dreaming if you think UBI will exist without millions of people starving to death first.

Ai is murder. Those who support it have blood on their hands.

Extremely good take. Thank you! So well-worded.

In a neoliberal society, having some human cashiers for the lonely people to have a natter to about their aches and grandkids while they ring up their groceries is as much human contact as one can ask for. This isn’t Communist 1970s Sweden, where the government employed social workers whose job was to check in on lonely old people.

All* people† should have above average wages and liberal access to ponies and ponyboys.

*everyone I like
†people I don't like are only considered people to bring down the average‡
‡look the queue is too long at my favorite salsa bar and my wait time must be brought down by any and all means available§
§i swear to gods° I'll fake a heart attack for more salsa diabla try me
°Gowron's left eye, Gowron's right eye, and Sideshow Bob's rake

The reinforcing structure of the bridge in the back looks super wonky. Calling AI with certainty

Its a trap though. If they had employees at all the lanes there wouldn't be a lineup either. Our store has about 16 lanes and maybe 10 self checkout, the lanes are all closed except 2, so you ate forced to wait or self checkout. They are training you yo do your own labour for free.

Corporate undercuts co-ops making a loss until the co-ops die, then increase the price to make it all back. They're predatory like that when not stopped by local laws.

People have been retreating inwards for a while. The rise of smartphones and the pandemic were major leaps in it but it's kept increasing.

It hasn't been good for me as an extrovert and I think it's gone terribly for everyone. You may not like small talk with people you see around but it makes you feel not alone

That would be true if by utilizing the staffing cuts, they increased wages or lowered costs but instead they just pocket the profits.

That's the same as any work cell job. Stamping press: load heavy part, hit your two buttons, take part out and stack it, repeat 8 hours.

Humans can be paid without slowing down my grocery shopping. Just pay them to stay home and let me efficiently pay for my food and go.

I don't go to the supermarket for human connection, I go to get a product. But when getting said product I 100% prefer the human connection of a cashier than a machine, I don't even care if it's slightly slower.

What's work for you is elsewhere for someone else.