Maybe Elon Musk was actually ahead of the game as he got rid of huge swathes of Twitter staff.
Now Meta are laying off thousands of staff.
It is logical, really. Software like GPT4 is showing itself to be extremely capable of simulating human beings. So why not use it to replace social media moderators? Even if the software is extremely expensive it doesn't need pensions, holidays, tea breaks, sleep time, etc. and saves the corporations thousands of "skilled worker" salaries.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It also lacks the humanity of distinguishing simple opinion from hate-speech. Software companies already rely too much on incompetent algorithms that frustrate users.
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And...conceptually....it's terrifying!
@pamagain It is indeed. Remember when spinning and weaving machines replaced thousands of manual, home-working spinners and weavers?
Not you personally, of course, but our forefathers were terrified. Things were bad for a long time, but now textiles and clothes are cheap and plentiful and the standard of living gradually rose with the arrival of yet more mechanisation.
Maybe, just maybe, a hundred years from now people will wonder how we ever survived without Artificial Intelligence to boost our productivity and write novels, assisted by GPT's successors, about the horrific conditions of we "work slaves".
(For the record, this piece was not written with any AI assistance. 
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