# Talk me off the ledge: Will AI destroy my industry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [March 30, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879 "2023-03-30T13:27:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/81 "2023-04-04T03:14:14Z")
Daycare ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/82 "2023-04-04T16:55:10Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > What I’d like to know is whether there is an industry that AI won’t destroy eventually. [![](https://iecn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/La-France-ne-veut-pas-de-la-prostitution-dans-son-PIB.jpg) ](https://iecn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/La-France-ne-veut-pas-de-la-prostitution-dans-son-PIB.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/83 "2023-04-04T17:02:56Z")
Cross a Realdoll with an AI with a suitable robot and if you can get the price right I’d expect you’d sell more of those to men that the entire motorcycle industry sells motorcycles plus maybe half the hot cars sold. It’s a big number. All the fun and none of the headaches / expenses / heartaches. I suspect a lot of guys would go for that. And with suitable tweaks to what the AI wanted in a “mate” I imagine women would buy a lot of these too. Imagine a BF who did read your mind and didn’t need “breaking in”. I could easily imagine something like this precipitating a near-schism between the sexes and an absolute cratering of the birth rate. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/84 "2023-04-04T17:17:00Z")
Have you not seen Westworld or Bladerunner? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/85 "2023-04-04T18:31:35Z")
The lesson I took away from those stories is that treating androids like disposable workers, sex slaves, and victims for murder hobos does not portend well for humanity. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/86 "2023-04-04T19:00:18Z")
Yes, but it more than likely destroyed the sex industry for actual human sex workers. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/87 "2023-04-04T19:05:35Z")
For awhile at least. _Vagina dentata_ for realsies for the win. CHOMP! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/88 "2023-04-25T15:27:32Z")
There goes the campaign ad industry! > **[Republicans slam Biden re-election bid in AI-generated ad](https://www.axios.com/2023/04/25/rnc-slams-biden-re-election-bid-ai-generated-ad)** > > Video features likenesses of Biden and Vice President Harris with imagined reports of crises. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/89 "2023-04-30T05:30:05Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > What I’d like to know is whether there is an industry that AI won’t destroy eventually. [![](https://iecn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/La-France-ne-veut-pas-de-la-prostitution-dans-son-PIB.jpg) ](https://iecn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/La-France-ne-veut-pas-de-la-prostitution-dans-son-PIB.jpg) The drive-in restaurant industry? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/90 "2023-04-30T18:54:28Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > “Bought again”? When did North America _not_ buy things made in China? And why buy it if it’s of such low quality? I assume you are not old enough to remember before Nixon went to China and trade opened. We bought things made in Japan before that. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/91 "2023-05-21T20:36:20Z")
I read something that reminded me of this thread: > **[Seanan's Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/716496222766202881?source=share)** > > favorite thing ab chatgpt is that if it doesn’t know something it’ll just start fucking lying. like blatantly fucking lying. > my dad teaches english classes and he just got a final paper with this... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/92 "2023-05-21T23:29:40Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > I read something that reminded me of this thread: It occurs to me that ChatGPT may inadvertently increase the number of available low-skill workers: the idiots that try to pass off papers like that and flunk out of college. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/93 "2023-05-21T23:53:26Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Please tell me why my job (and my whole company, full of people with whom I love working) won’t be obsolete this time next year. Because it will take 2 years, maybe 3. But you and your job is obsolete. As obsolete as a telegraph, as obsolete as a fax machine, as obsolete as a personal check. And as obsolete as a message board. ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/94 "2023-11-23T09:56:58Z")
At my job they were having a sensitivity training for all the low-echelon employees like me. The administrator said there’s no way AI would be able to find context for the documentation we write about our team members with developmental disabilities whom we coach. ‘So Teresa was mopping the floor at Walmart. She suddenly confided in whispered tone ‘My jenny’s bleedin’ like a stuck pig. Good thing I got extra pads.’ Me:’ Nice planning Theresa. [laughing on the inside].’ No AI could make sense of that probably. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/95 "2023-11-23T12:47:36Z")
I mean, this is _pretty_ close? [![](https://i.postimg.cc/vmD3BXXM/Screenshot-20231123-074447.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/vmD3BXXM/Screenshot-20231123-074447.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/96 "2023-11-23T12:52:03Z")
[![](https://i.postimg.cc/9F59w1XV/Screenshot-20231123-075041.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/9F59w1XV/Screenshot-20231123-075041.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Arjuna34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/97 "2023-11-23T13:12:33Z")
I think it missed that connection since it’s mostly phonetic (vagina → 'gina → jenny), and that kind of spoken slang isn’t captured well in its textual training. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/98 "2023-11-23T16:41:21Z")
Suggesting sarcasm in the response is another swing and a miss. Like many things where you need it to be as accurate as possible, at the very least any AI interpretation would need a human proof-reader. As also evidenced by needing to prompt the AI to understand “Jenny” in context. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/99 "2023-12-21T19:46:42Z")
Bad news for folks in the 1970s maze game industry. > **[My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world's toughest...](https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/my-jaw-hit-the-floor-when-i-watched-an-ai-master-one-of-the-worlds-toughest-physical-games-in-just-six-hours)** > > This AI plays Labyrinth better than you, or any other human ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/100 "2023-12-21T19:57:31Z")
How the hell do you write an article like that and not have a human record for comparison? Maybe I missed it, but, for those interested, the human record is 15.95 seconds, and the AI beat it at 14.48 seconds (though that article says 14.8 seconds – that’s not what we see in the video.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879.md?page=6)