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  • got sent this image

    wonder how many more of these things we’ll see before people start having a real bileful response to this (over and above the fact that a number of people have been warning about exactly this outcome for a while now)

    (transcript below)

    transcript

    title: I gave my mom’s company an Al automation and now she and her coworkers are unemployed

    body: So this is eating me alive and I don’t really know where else to put it. I run this little agency that builds these Al agents for staffing firms. Basically the agent pre-screens candidates, pulls the info into a neat report, and sends it back so recruiters don’t waste hours on screening calls. It’s supposed to be a tool, not a replacement.

    My mom works at this mid sized recruiting company. She’s always complained about how long it takes to qualify candidates, so I set them up with one of my agents just to test it. It crushed it. Way faster, way cheaper, and honestly more consistent than most of their team.

    Fast forward two months and they’ve quietly laid off almost her whole department. Including my mom. I feel sick. Like I built something that was supposed to help people, and instead it wiped out my mom’s job and her team. I keep replaying it in my head like I basically automated my own family out of work.













  • “reported development” wat

    I’m not sure I fully understand your comment here (it almost seems as though you’re posting this as a “very recent” thing)? which is confusing because the body of work and implementations go back years. the current works around standardisation and such (as well as extending in specific protocols) is all around setting baselines

    also, following on re diz’s comment, to my knowledge the most recently fanfare’d quantum attack on an rsa-family algo was a whole whopping 22 bit integer. keep in mind that for this field, difficulty scales exponentially with every bit. and 2048/4096 rsa usage has been commonplace for a fair while even before ecdsa/ed25519/chacha/poly/etc all started picking up in popularity (which is also like 2014+). I have no good insights on the qubits development world to guess how far off we are (perhaps blake might have a guess here), but it feels a significant way off