A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? - Lemmy

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While the idea behind AI was that it would automate manual tasks and help workers focus on more value-added activities, some workers fear it will outright replace them — and that’s already happening

Yeah, it already happened to the journalist that would have written this article. I find it a bit funny that the picture caption is just the prompt they used to generate it

First it was funny, then sad…
oh no, that em dash…
I use the em dash constantly, and have done for years, so finding out it’s a big “this was written by AI” indicator makes me sad — I’m not an AI user, I just like the way it looks!
Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.

You can do the things all GenX people learned on typing class, the double hyphen.

Also, we double space after periods. That’s a hard but of muscle memory to get out of my head.

Source: Me. A in typing. 1984.

The double space automatically ages you. Ageism….
If it’s any consolation, it’s heavily biased in the training data for a reason, you’re not alone