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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9768086" data-attributes="member: 11760">Yeah, that's what's been happening to people in every other industry for decades now, which elicited "huh huh, learn to code" responses from the tech industry. Which now turns out to have been short-sighted as career advice goes.Just because they got to you last doesn't mean they weren't always coming for you.Dude. You work with code. For the vast majority of the world that does not, the value of AI is much, much lower than the Silicon Valley CEOs, who are both in a tech industry bubble and have a financial stake in all of this, will ever concede.And it's a wildly destructive use of it. Actual human content producers were already struggling financially. Killing off traffic to those sites -- down 80% since the introduction of search engine AI "assists," by some measures -- isn't going to usher in some new golden age. It's going to mean that even more search engine results are just AI slop and the value of the internet as a whole is going to plummet.The tech oligarchs are throttling the goose that laid the golden eggs in front of our eyes and will nope out to their compounds in Kauai once it's done.Ideally, Google and company will realize that this is an extremely short-term strategy and pull back from the brink in time.</blockquote>