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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Even linkedin gets it

Mark Butcher

1) Sandra used AI to write a report
2) Bill used AI to summarise the report
3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report
4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions
5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report
6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation
7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared

No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers.

No business value was achieved

But but but AI adds business value

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cephyn @cephyn.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Replace "AI" with "intern" and the same is true. But somehow that's ok?

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Fae 🏳️‍⚧️ -> Furpoc @faemora.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This individual may get it, but it's worth mentioning that LinkedIn has embraced AI and incorporated it into its platform.

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JNetter she/her @jnetter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

AI sometimes gets it wrong. The more it’s reused and seen as correct, the more likely it will rewrite history and “be” correct.

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🦈🤖 Rogue, the "Bool" Shork 🤖🦈 @kroggol.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

AI is already making people dumber and dumber while still being touted by tech bros and "ceos" as the "future" of work. All "social" media owned by big techs should be massively boycotted and the dependence of them should be shunned.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

That’s what my AI program surmised too.

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inkpenavenger @inkpenavenger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Also kinda implies that those middle-management, read-and-write reports jobs are, in and of themselves, pointless. I mean, if two chatbots spewing gibberish at each other can do the job indistinguishably from the humans, it kinda seems like those jobs don't need to exist.

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Cley Faye 🐀 @cleyfaye.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Ok but how much resource did this zero-work-value operation consumed? I'm sure we're going into negative efficiency with these systems.

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Is this the echo chamber? @kilgorepstrag.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Reading can be a pleasure. Then you don't want to cede it to AI. But if reading/writing is stupid duty forced by circumstances it's wise to save your time - to have more time for pleasure reading.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I work in Oncology and AI it has fantastic niche applications in our field. But Big Tech isn't interested in small niches. Google stepped in recently with a Precision Oncology chatbot, it's a 2 page system prompt in Gemini. It's nuts. They're setting their reputation on fire for nothing.

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Joanna Pegum @londoner007.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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Blackbeardsghost @blackbeardsghost.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

To be fair to Bill and Sandra though, they dodged a pretty massive amount of some pretty boring sounding work. So there's that

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Suzanne W @booklady127.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Cautionary tale for sure

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Jason, the Okayest Painter @theokayestpainter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

And that's how you purple monkey dishwasher a Ship of Theseus.

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Lee @leemillar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I see this already where I work. Fucking idiots.

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Zylver 🐺🔞 @zylver.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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three men in suits and ties are sitting at a table talking to each other .

ALT: three men in suits and ties are sitting at a table talking to each other .

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 29/07/2025

It took a LONG time for LinkedIn to get it

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Star.✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @starlight.girlcock.cc · 29/06/2025

Low level jobs are being taken by machines and kiosks and ai is taking over mod level jobs. I really love the situation billionaires who hoard money put us in

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Stacked Automation @stacked-automation.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

good place 'jason figured it out?'.jpg

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Jessica Cheeri @cheerijessie.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

At Icarus Capital Management, the value can only go up

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Sara @delessuno.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

What are we even doing here?

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Rubén López @rubenlopezn.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Well a tool is a tool. Drills do not add business value if you try do drill holes into the air either. Use the tool for something useful, and there will be added value. Stop blaming the tool, this is a users and business and issue.

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Buck Sinclair 🇨🇦 Elbows up! @nowsentient.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

AI I this current form is complete bullshit & a waste of time, creating a generation of stupid idiots

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joshhunt @joshhunt.dev · 29/06/2025

Does this tell us anything interesting about the value 'work' in the first place?

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It does add business value. Just not to your business. Your business is just spending money on the AI tools so that the business providing those tools can make money...

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Mitchell @notesonthewayout.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

AI is a projection of many things in the working class of Americans but right now it feels to be a mix of unprecedented levels of burn out and existential disillusionment by what we’re even doing anymore and why we’re even doing it in this country

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HuMaNPeRSoN @hmnprsn.org · 29/06/2025

This is how we get the scenario in Cube.

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Muscle Monkeh @musclemonkeh.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Yes, but the CEO and executive leadership doesn’t know and doesn’t care.

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Neal Romanek @nromanek.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Mark Butcher really knows his stuff. A fellow worth following.

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

You did use the proper cover for that report though, right?

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Ji||| Ke|||y @jrkelly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Now imagine that the report is something critical: how are the repairs at the nuclear plant going; here's the latest laparoscopic surgery update; we're making these modifications to the braking module.

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bergietron10k.bsky.social @bergietron10k.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

And Sandra, Bill & Jane still collected their paycheck 😂

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Richard Dedor | Marketing Executive | Book & Coffee Lover 📚☕️ @richarddedor.com · 29/06/2025

This is my constant fear and why some perceive me as “slow” to adopt AI. I’m not slow, I’m just thinking through long-term business impact. #ai

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P Collirigger @pcollirigger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Take out the AI at each stage and as far as I can tell, there's still no business value created unless the report inspires action.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 29/06/2025

No one wants to work these days.

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Denice Preston @kilteddragon.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If Sandra wanted a report just for Bill, she should e-mail it.

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Ed Sea Doggy🍉 @futureed.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

What is the opposite of a "Linkedinlunatic?"

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Nothing scares me than AI potentially meaning most in the future will not be able to write a sentence on their own. It could very well kill off our creativity and more importantly our curiosity for good! The two things that make us human in the first place!

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Sally 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @newsupdates.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Ha ha. Ai is the biggest con since the south sea island bubble.

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Schrodinger's Leftist (he/they) @schrodingersleft.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This isn't business this is "busy-ness"

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Randy Legault @rjlegault.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... How AI is inflating a P/E bibnle across business and why the crash won't just take down the Mag7

hermit-tech.com

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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Bud Foxx 𓅃🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇬🇱 @profcstark.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Substitute "educational" for "business" and you have the same result.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 29/06/2025

That post also explains why a lot of LinkedIn doesn’t get it. bsky.app/profile/ejac...

Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦@ejacobslaw.com

A very successful friend of mine recommended using LinkedIn and explained that the goal is to have other people read your posts without reading any of theirs, and it perfectly captures what I loathe about it.

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Pawbert Simp @pupsixty.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

LinkedIn literally cannot decide whether AI is good or not, you'll see stuff like this then scroll down once and immediatly see "More people should use AI to craft the perfect CV" then the next post is "Recruiters hate that they are swamped with AI CVs" Just pick one!

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bostroemc @bostroemc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Who is Al? Is this Al as in Albert or Al as in Alfred?

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Sword Vixen, Still Standing @threetails.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Garbage in, garbage out.

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The Questionable Proverbs Bureau @planetbob.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Sandra entered the report Data for the AI to build on. It was prompted

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Rogue HCI Guy @roguehci.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Nobody ever asked who AI generates business value for. The only correct answer is AI companies.

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coconutlizard.bsky.social @coconutlizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Nope. It adds excess energy use so our prices go up and pollution. It is only more money for billionaires

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

My boss ran an ai analysis of a potential acquisition target. I did an analysis of the same target. That AI analysis was really slick-sounding but missed a major area of concern: a significant drop in volume in their major line of business.

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Adam Piontek @73k.us · 29/06/2025

And they effectively saved a jpeg over and over, the tech telephone game. This is all working out great /s

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giantlaserbeams @giantlaserbeams.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Now we’re just wasting time at work faster.

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Phil @fatboyfat.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Some of the responses are illuminating. Clearly serious people saying things like “AI helped me write more articles in the last month than I have in my career to date…” No reflection on whether they were any good, mind you. Maybe their audience used AI to read them?

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Reverend Crush 🔵 @reverendcrush.com · 29/06/2025

Not _everyone_ gets it on LinkedIn. It's why I spend most of my time here instead.

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James M. Ward @jmw86069.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

AI created the CV. AI screened the CV. AI created interview questions. AI prepared interview answers. When everybody is is super, no one will be.

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a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a clock with the words " and when everyone 's super "

Alt: From a movie, The Incredibles: A villain in a superhero costume standing in front of the superhero family, saying the line “And when everyone’s super, no one will be.”

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Another Angle @wandrer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This might be more of an observation about the report and its contents than AI.

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Echo Dextive @dextivestudios.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

And in the meantime, they are all LITERALLY killing their braincells and potentially setting themselves up for dementia in their 40s-50s. 🫠

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Largish Adult Son @largesseadultson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Unfortunately for every one of those there are a thousand that absolutely do not get it at all

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Afterlife Abecedarian @abecedarian.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This is how people tell you the report was bullshit to begin with

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Orni @ornithologistgames.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Its a weird time when even linkedin says something is crap.

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beauwhite3690.bsky.social @beauwhite3690.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This was the actual poll on a news program I watch on Saturday mornings: “Will AI kill all of mankind?”😳 Ummm, maybe we need to pump the brakes on this powerful invention that we clearly do not understand or control. Sure, China may get an edge. I fear AI wayyyy more than I fear China.🤷🏼‍♂️✌🏻❤️🇺🇸💔😢

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Bad News Nobody @dukeboitans.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

clearly Sandra, Bill, and Jane are redundant, fire them. let Sandra's AI talk directly to Jane's. better yet, fire everybody and let AI run the whole company. ez pz. /s

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MindlessGonzo @mindlessgonzo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The only business value is how much the electric bill's gonna cost.

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Hypergraphic @hypergraphic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Donald Trump downplayed Covid, too.

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Dr Steve Haw PsyD @drsquishy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

If the result was “We figured out any process AI can entirely take over is probably 100% unnecessary” that would be a benefit. However, learning from stupidity is not a common trait.

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♂️Mel Day Physics PhD IT CAS Library MSLIS (he/they)♂️ @mamday.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I mean the traditional way to discredit our economic system is slightly different www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comm... but I enjoy this version

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Synnyster Fusion @synnfusion.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

AI use is worthy of its fair share of criticism, but I'm not sure that outlining an obviously stupid and reckless overuse of AI proves that it can have no business value.

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TubaPeter dot com @tubapeter.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Are these Cake lyrics?

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Kevin Miller - YIMBY 🇮🇪 ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺ @happymillfam.com · 29/06/2025

Moral of the story Bill, Sandra,and Jane don't really want to do work given an easier option. Hope they used the reclaimed time to go to a nice beach and relax

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N Keyser @nkeyser.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

And it’s wildly inaccurate … except maybe point 1. If it added: Sarah conducted research. Sarah used Ai to summarize research into a report.

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Bolt ⚡️🦌 @threephasedeer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Also +50 kg CO2 emitted into the atmosphere

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Mark B @markbri25.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Nailed it

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Cameron J.Rooney @crooney.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The word “understood” is doing such a heavy lift.

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Seyed P. Razavi (aka Syd) @monkeyx.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Makes you think if the report ever needed to be written in the first. Maybe AI unveils the futility of the work people do.

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Nico @nico.fyi · 29/06/2025

But if Bill actually did the presentation, he would have had some understanding about the report. Unless he’s incompetent 😂 and jane should have also asked some questions during the presentation. So 80% chance that the outcome is the same even if they actually read the report. Or not 😂

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Fíona 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @fionaskywalker.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I don't understand why people would do something so half arsed. If a job is worth doing, do it right.

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Petra Heikkinen⁷ @pheikkinen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The last bit ‘But but but AI adds business value’ 😂😂🤣🤣

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Emmasrandomthoughts 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 @countessemilia.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

📌

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Guillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 29/06/2025

uh oh bad sign

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scosky.bsky.social @scosky.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Isn't this basically explaining bullshit jobs?

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bizarreman.bsky.social @bizarreman.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Sounds like an MBA.

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Anne @annemike.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

AI adds enormous stress on our environment while enstupidifying most endeavors. I would respect AI if it were used by a few thousand scientists. When I can't breathe outside, I do not need to see your drawings dance.

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ArtOfNAR @artofnar.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Back in my day, homework cheating didn't exist because we only had dial-up, and most plagiarism was easily detected with a google search, back in my day, when google search actually worked, back in my day, when we scooted ourselves on scooters.

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a green witch singing into a microphone with the words in the year 2000

ALT: a green witch singing into a microphone with the words in the year 2000

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Stuart Mills @stuartmills.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Yep, we call it efficient inefficiency: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

Efficient Inefficiency: Organisational challenges of realising economic gains from AI

Organisations are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI). Where AI performs productive tasks more efficiently than humans, organisations will…

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Jen Rosenberg @jendaby.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Except that @linkedin.com does NOT get it because they constantly harass people to use their AI job search, and more than half the crap jobs listed are for training AI so that the human workforce becomes obsolete.

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Cheyenne @pistachio-pesto.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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Fabiano A. @fatenas.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Bullshit jobs

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GORT @gort88.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Heads up: The HAL 9000 and SkyNet bugs that drove these fictitious AIs to kill humans have been shown to exist in current AIs. In controlled tests, AIs were willing to let a human die rather than abort the mission. Asimov's 3 rules must be MANDATORY code. [==*==] www.newsweek.com/ai-kill-huma...

newsweek.com

AI willing to kill humans to avoid being shut down, report finds

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has sparked growing concern about the long-term safety of the technology.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I’ve now seen HR software that gives AI features to basically let it perform the entire evaluation cycle: - goals are created by AI - evaluated by AI - manager can let their feedback be created by AI At that point, what was the goal of going through this whole charade?

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Pat Wallace @patwallace05.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

8) The report was full of AI hallucinations, citing fake figures, nonexistent results, and quotes that no one made.

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Wildcarde @wildcarde.farragoworks.com · 30/06/2025

And nobody from point a-b seems to have checked any of the outputs to make sure they are right

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Skipping Dip Shit @skipds.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Bill libelz!

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chillwave feminist @datagram.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Sandra, Bill and Jane all get laid off and their salaries are redirected to the AI service provider, cutting out the middleman of labor and increasing efficiency.

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partwave∴ @partickle.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

👀

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

@noethematt.bsky.social on my way to see you speak about this, and other AI things at this very moment

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Yeah, the machines are now just like us

"No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers."

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wadepbrown.bsky.social @wadepbrown.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It will interesting to see what will happen when the AI created report and subsequent documents are referenced in a legal case...

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Carl Waring @carlwaring.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Well if no-one read the report then that's a human failing. Nothing to do with AI 🤷‍♂️ EBKAC.

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mpulskamp.bsky.social @mpulskamp.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

AI is perfect for replacing management. 🤷‍♂️

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/06/2025

If everyone at the company is just pretending to do their jobs, AI lets a computer pretend to do the jobs instead. What AI really is is a signal that work didn't need to be done in the first place. At least until someone uses AI for something with customer or employee safety implications

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