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pro tip for AI enthusiasts who want people to stop being mean to them: maybe stop talking about how it's going to take everybody's jobs all the time (and if you really do believe that, then 1. consider how that'll come off to the people whose jobs will be lost and 2. become a UBI stan)

I tell such people that my job involves accepting personal accountability and contractual liability for the things I say being accurate, something that the AI boosters have been notably slow even to acknowledge as a legitimate job function, let alone to claim to be able to replace

"hey Claude, I thought you said this would be HIPAA compliant." "You're right. I said that. I made it up. I take responsibility. Blah blah" "Okay, so you're liable for damages now, right?" "Haha! This service is just for fun. You're still on the hook if you take me seriously."