Yeah this is all bit click bait. That broken rust song topped the digital sales charts, which is basically tracking Apple Music downloads. No one buys music anymore. They topped it with 3000 sales at a dollar each.

I’d be much more interested to see them forced to report how many of these jobs are being outsourced and concrete stats on what products or AI tools are actually replacing jobs.

A lot of these companies that are invested in AI, are saying that AI is the reason for layoffs, yet it seems like they’re not pointing to statistics or actual products that are replacing people yet. Their language seems to imply the layoffs are them hedging their bets for the coming tide, that will be any day now… trust us.

An AI that was advanced enough to automate this much of human endeavors, would start to blur the line of agi. And at that point, what are the moral implications of enslaving an intelligent entity, artificial or not? If such tasks can be automated via thousands of purpose built ai’s that are not “conscious” then I suppose it’s ok?