☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@decryption" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>decryption</span></a></span> “Why would you outsource the most critical part of writing, your intent and your meaning, to a machine, because you think it understands you? The machine will never understand you. It's a goddamn machine, made by humans that hate what you do for a living and wish to commoditise your craft.”</p><p>Cost.</p><p>For JB, faster time for *product* to market, time is money, more profit. For the type & style of writing this works. Much like commercial art is cost sensitive, JBs commercial writing is not going to be the next PKD novel. Something to read, generate a topical idea or two, old articles becoming <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/kipple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kipple</span></a>. </p><p>This narrative is being played out in all manners of ‘human related work’; Writing, illustration, scripting, translation, software development, administration, etc.. Why? My thesis, the ‘powers that be’¥ are finding ways to reduce the human touch to reduce cost. At the same time reducing head counts. Zero hour workers. </p><p>Read through the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Whitecollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whitecollar</span></a> tag to get idea of how this reduction of workers is being reported in the press. </p><p>¥ November 2022, “Major investor calls on Google owner to ‘aggressively’ cut staff and pay” <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ChristopherHohn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherHohn</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TCI</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a> <<a href="https://ioc.exchange/@peterrenshaw/109725442924625839" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ioc.exchange/@peterrenshaw/109</span><span class="invisible">725442924625839</span></a>>.</p>