💌 Newsletter #012 - AI + Job Market = Cognitive Dissonance 2 ▲ Technically Good ✨ 2 hours ago · 6 min read1157 words · Culture · hide · 1 comments ✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: AI & the job market: The cognitive dissonance of "Oh no, recent grads used AI in college!" vs. "New hires will absolutely be required to use AI once on the job"; Job applications from people that aren't real; and why is replacing human labour with AI so expensiiiiiive 😩 <insert crocodile tears here> 🌞 Good News!: Librarians are still cool; AI overview opt-out is becoming a thing; and lawsuits may be happening. 📯 The Post-Script: Reading Karl Bode's excellent piece on how the AI Hype Reckoning is Upon Us. Mashup of two images by Markus Winkler & Tyler Prahm on Unsplash, cropped & glitched. 📟 Short-Form ContentChatbots ("AI") Damned if you do, damned if you don't: Bosses are "horrified" as "AI native" grads hit the workplace. Only to then, uh, require them to tokenmaxx once they've been hired, as they will be ranked among their peers in terms of how much they prompt the chatbot? Make it make sense. That's cognitive dissonancemaxxing, if you ask… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Ike @ike@pkm.social 1 hour ago [-] The issue with college students using AI isnt that they might use it to learn, its that they might use it to NOT learn.They should absolutely know how to use AI tools if they expect to go into a field where it will be required of them.They absolutely should not be using it to write their papers for them or so their homework.We don't teach elementary students math by giving them calculators - they wouldn't learn basic arithmetic!
