In the midst of so many scenarios being sold to us foretelling a future where AI redefines (often by destroying) everything, here is how things are looking at the moment.
AI sellers are saying AI will destroy plenty of jobs by being better than the humans who do said jobs.
The same people are also saying that if you don’t learn to use AI, you will be left behind.
Thinking that all is not lost and to save their chances at employment, people do learn and use AI, only to find that the companies thet told them to use AI don’t hire them because they are using AI.
In fact, so many people are using AI and applying for jobs, that companies are now using AI to filter applications, do job interviews, and hire people.
The people who are applying for jobs often find themselves facing an AI interviewer and they are getting tired of talking to AI. Besides, it turns out, AI hiring mechanisms often hold the same kind of biases that humans do. AI models are trained on data created by biased humans and on patterns of bias that emerge from how the real world works at present. An early example of this was Microsoft’s Tay chatbot, which quickly turned into a racist holocaust-denier after spending some time on Twitter in 2016.
But it’s not only biased data that turns AI racist. More recently, billionaire AI company owner and known racist Elon Musk deliberately fed his AI Grok conspiracy theories to turn it into something that would agree with him more often.
Back in the job market, developers who have jobs and use AI to do those jobs say that use of AI makes them more productive and efficient. But studies show that they are actually much less efficient and productive than before.
A popular AI narrative is that AI will do the tasks humans shouldn’t have to do so that human can focus on higher pursuits like art, writing, and music. But what is happening to the higher pursuits themselves? AI companies are actively stealing, plagiarising, and violating copyrighted works of art, writing, and music created by human creators and human creators engaged in those higher pursuits are having to spend time and money to sue the stealing AI companies.
Massive AI companies are building tools that are being billed the future of the internet, but these very same tools are filling the internet with meaningless garbage. More than half the internet is now non-human bots that are telling people to kill themselves and deleting companywide databases. This is a bother for everyone except the owners of the social media companies who, in addition to not doing anything to curtail the spread of slop, are encouraging it by creating even more bots and allowing the use of slop machines on their platforms. Meta CEO Zuckerberg even thinks he can build you a friend according to your needs.
On top of that, even though billions are being poured into AI companies by investors, the companies themselves are actually not making money.
These malfunctioning tools are being advertised as the future of work and the world despite the fact that the projected rate of growth has been showing clear signs of stagnation for several months now. OpenAI’s GPT5, which was once touted as the herald of an inevitable AGI, has proven underwhelming and stale.
But ask any AI devotee about it though and all you get in return is faith. It may not be able to do it right presently, but just you wait. One day it will be able to do everything. Humans will be obsolete. Mwahahaha! Oh, and if you doubt this or oppose this, you are being selfish. The singularity is all that was, is, or will be. All hail the singularity!
After stagnation started to slow things down, talk of AGI slowed down with it. The new teacher’s pets were Agents – tools that can do things for humans without supervision. However, they seem to suck right now, and seem to be failing to perform very basic tasks.
Now the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman himself is admitting that there is an AI bubble even as he looks to have his company valued at $500 billion.
Stay tuned for more.
