AI Killed My Job
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Workers' stories about how management, executives and clients are using AI, and how it's impacting them. A @bcmerchant.bsky.social reporting project, edited by Mike Pearl. Submit your story here: [email protected]. Tweets by MP, unless signed.
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aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
QTing the best post of all time so I can pin it
alexblechman.bsky.social
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
Is this what a Google results page told you when you searched something about the feasibility of starting kids on Tolkien very young?
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
The job “Being Hitch (from the Eponymous 2005 Movie)” is safe for now
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
This reminds me of classes in like 1995 where I was taught how to use Altavista to find a random Geocities page about George Washington Carver written by ????. In retrospect I’m so glad classroom time was devoted to this
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gentledoofus.bsky.social
I gave my students a very impassioned plea against using AI for their work at the beginning of this semester. Now some of their major assignments are coming in, and not only is their work coming up clean on every AI detector, it's also very good stuff. There's hope out there.
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
No I mean, now having heard it I’m 10,000% in agreement
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
AI has not gotten even close to annihilating the profession of radiology as predicted.

If you’re in medical imaging and you have a story about how it *has* degraded your work life, please email [email protected]
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
much to consider
alexblechman.bsky.social
Are paintings art? They’re just rectangles of arranged pigments capturing thoughts, emotions, beauty, and truth. I mean, they’re fun to look at but “art” I dunnow
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
the president is about to get booted from the vampire diaries fanfic community
factpostnews.bsky.social
Trump: I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person and I don't like some of the ships you're doing, aesthetically.
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
One study found that “AI coding tools actually made software developers slower, despite expectations to the contrary, because they had to spend time checking for and correcting errors made by the AI”

www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/d...
AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs
: Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely moved
www.theregister.com
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
Humble request for @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: Please take a little break from vetoing pro-worker legislation
bcmerchant.bsky.social
These bills are not radical. Whether or he signs them will reveal a lot about the possibilities of legislating AI in California, and beyond. Newsom has after all vetoed pro-worker and risk-mitigating AI bills in the past, siding with Silicon Valley over unions and AI safety groups alike.
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
If there's anything I believe from Elon Musk's self-mythmaking, it's that he read Foundation and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He may have read none of the other books he's claimed to have read, but those? Zero reason to doubt it
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
Only people can do jobs, period.
Three things explain this. First, while models beat humans on benchmarks, the standardized tests designed to measure AI performance, they struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions. Most tools can only diagnose abnormalities that are common in training data, and models often don’t work as well outside of their test conditions. Second, attempts to give models more tasks have run into legal hurdles: regulators and medical insurers so far are reluctant to approve or cover fully autonomous radiology models. Third, even when they do diagnose accurately, models replace only a small share of a radiologist’s job. Human radiologists spend a minority of their time on diagnostics and the majority on other activities, like talking to patients and fellow clinicians.
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
Medical workers involved in diagnostics: you are not the problem! This technology is bad!

Tell us your story. (Yes we can keep you anonymous) [email protected]
techmeme.com
Why AI isn't replacing radiologists: models underperform in hospital settings, AI use faces legal hurdles, and the job is much more than image recognition (The Works in Progress Newsletter)

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aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
Lynch saw things in a weird way. Look at what he did with early digital video in Inland Empire. It's possible he *might* have done something with AI that no one else could have ever thought of, because he's David Lynch and the rest of us aren't. Unfortunately he's dead, and slop is still slop
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
This is happening because there's a famous quote about AI being good that's attributed to Lynch. I think a rule one could take from this is that it's ghoulish to use a recently dead person as a mascot because you have a hunch they would agree with you. Lot's of potential applications for this...
mjgault.bsky.social
this led me into a horrifying rabbit hole where I found another community where Lynch serves as an avatar for "Pro-AI" artists
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
"The Trump administration agency that manages the government’s real estate holdings, procurement and technology services is partnering with Elon Musk’s xAI [...] federal agencies will now have access to Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fast."

Very cool!
www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump admin reunites with Elon Musk in pursuit of AI dominance: 'Benefit of the country'
The General Services Administration has announced an agreement with Elon Musk's xAI to implement artificial intelligence into the federal workforce and "transform" operations.
www.foxnews.com
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
You are: 18.19% of all Americans with jobs. We are: collecting your AI stories. You know where to find us.
A chart showing that healthcare is the biggest biggest piece of pie in the jobs pie chart
aikilledmyjob.bsky.social
Someone in the healthcare industry emailed, unsure if their experiences with AI counted because they do not work in a clinical/hospital setting.

Yes! These experiences count! Clerical workers, insurance workers, or anyone, anywhere in the healthcare world drop us a line at [email protected]