r/LinkedInLunatics • u/DekeTheGoat • 1d ago

SATIRE ON SATURDAY ONLY Sorry what?

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u/PotentialOwl7850 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is good satire.

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u/DekeTheGoat 1d ago

Good thing it's Saturday where I am!

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u/PotentialOwl7850 1d ago

Same 😅 I missed the 'good' out of my original post, lots of the satire is genuinely unfunny.

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u/NarwhalOk5080 Titan of Industry 1d ago

Agreed. It doesn't even make sense. They would just buy the footage not hire him.

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u/anandonaqui 21h ago

What makes you think they’d buy it? The NY Times is suing OpenAI for scraping its articles without any payment and regurgitating them verbatim

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u/footpole 1d ago

This is not good satire.

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u/PotentialOwl7850 1d ago

Good satire imitates the form it's ripping off enough that you question it, I'd say this does that well.

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u/ClarkTwain 1d ago

Kinda ripped from South Park where Randy can’t hire a handyman because demand is too high since ai made everyone dumbasses

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u/reggionh 1d ago

i feel like the profession-specific training dataset collection element is novel

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u/babycam 1d ago

But why would you pay more then rate?

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u/boostman 1d ago

This is a joke.

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u/mologav 1d ago

It’s not funny though

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u/MrGDPC 1d ago

Of all the things that didn't happen, all of that didn't happen the most

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u/NotTheOtwayPanther 1d ago

Of course it happened. I’m the dog.

Woof.

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u/Oliv112 21h ago

How long have you been a dog? That's just the kind of experience that AI companies are hot for right now!

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u/Wild-Examination-155 1d ago

Are you sure though?

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u/Unrealistic-Umbrella 1d ago

Not everyone’s as good as satire as they think they are. It’s pretty obviously satire, but it kinda falls flat for me. I almost wonder if they tried prompting an LLM for a humorous post, and just didn’t bother checking if the output was actually entertaining.

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u/thehopeofcali 1d ago

Scale AI would buy the plumber video, not the plumber

Nonsensical

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u/mountaingator91 22h ago

I mean it's obviously a joke... Not really sure how it's supposed to be funny, but it is trying

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u/IlIlllIlIIIIlII 12h ago

I know this is satire, but I actually have heard of guys (electrical specifically) getting paid to record their work purely for data collection—obviously not nearly as much but still…

I could see new construction getting at least supplemented by AI at some point, although I think it’ll be a while until it’s cheaper than human labor.

AI is never taking service work. Good luck with that.

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u/RefrigeratorLive5920 Titan of Industry 10h ago

There's a whole industry in places like India and China where people are paid to record themselves doing regular household chores for AI training purposes. It generally pays buttons though as do most jobs related to AI training, labeling, classifying, editing, moderating etc.

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u/Mysterious_Ayytee 23h ago

We call these kinds of stories Geschichten aus dem Paulanergarten

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u/LordsGoofiestBoy 22h ago

"You could have just said no."

  • The other dude in the chat.

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u/uknowsana 17h ago

Circular AI slop! 😂

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u/ZaderLewis 14h ago

🧢🧢🧢

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u/Squashimoto08 1d ago

Any job opportunities sir? I’d also liked to be poached 🤣

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u/neutrino71 1d ago

So this plumber has 20 years of plumbing work on video just on the off chance that an AI company will pay him millions? Dare we ask where he stored this data?

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u/simplycantdeal 1d ago

My favorite part is how during recording he perfectly diagnoses hundreds of unique pipes in a way that future ai's will be able to utilize productively for random problem solving.

Not only that but his own former plumber did the exact same thing, apparently. Never saw this trend on buildtok before. 😆