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TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black

AI Design Logic

Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.

Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.

Guy: Wow, look what I made!

    • jtrek@startrek.website
      1·
      4 months ago

      That’s one of the core injustices of capitalism.

      Rich person says “Build a thing”

      Workers design, research, and build the thing.

      Rich person keeps the profits.

    • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      That’s why they don’t see any problem with replacing workers with AI. They think AI will do X better than humans do just like machines could build X better than humans could at the beginning of the industrial revolution.

      But the cost benefit analysis often proves to be quite the opposite in the long-term, despite deceptive short-term gains. But a short-term gains seem to be all that businesses seem to care about.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      A thought experiment you could take further.

      The chef didn’t even make the dough. That came from a Cisco truck, from a factory maintained by a team of maintenance workers. The base was good, but made better because the chef added some flour and oil to it.

      Pointless observation, but…many people contribute to most things we only associate to one “maker”.