On generative AI and intellectual labor
Lots of people these days are talking about how generative AI technology is leading workers to lose skills, bosses to trust chatbots more than their employees, folks at risk to make absurd decisions, etc.
As these models are very capable of providing wrong, yet correct-seeming, answers, this causes people to accept low-quality results and pass them through, as if there’s nothing wrong with them, especially when contrasted with asking questions from other people, who are much more likely to refuse or question one’s request or take way more time to accomplish it properly.