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@afkchris
bro the AI watching my screen recordings is gonna learn that 80% of my job is alt-tabbing away from twitter
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@APomplianoposted on X
People are going to freak out when they realize the large A.I. labs can train a model to do your job by simply feeding it a screen recording of what you do on a daily basis. The acceleration is coming.
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Community Sentiment Analysis
Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement
Sentiment Distribution
81% Engaged
54% Positive
27% Negative
Positive
54%
Negative
27%
Neutral
19%
Key Takeaways
What the community is saying — both sides
Supporting
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job displacement
and economic fallout — users warn of mass layoffs, unemployment, demands for UBI, and even civil unrest if large swaths of white‑collar work are automated. They repeatedly emphasize that making work visible makes it economically replaceable.
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A large contingent insists this trend is already accelerating — “it’s here,” “co...
A large contingent insists this trend is already accelerating — “it’s here,” “coming fast,” and enterprise pilots are predicted soon; several cite RPA, Microsoft tooling, and Goldman Sachs projections as evidence that behavioral cloning from screen recordings is moving from demo to production.
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screen recording
capture the real threat to corporate IP and worker agency, warning that employees may unintentionally train their own replacements and that companies can harvest workflows without compensation.
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Others point out practical limits and engineering friction — integrating recordi...
Others point out practical limits and engineering friction — integrating recordings with tools, auth, edge cases, and long‑running reliability are nontrivial problems that separate demos from robust production agents.
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judgment, context, creativity, and high‑stakes decision‑making
remain harder to reproduce and thus more durable.
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Many replies shift to strategy
adapt or be automated. Advice includes reskilling, learning to build or deploy AI, focusing on cross‑domain judgment, entrepreneurship, and work that’s hard to render into a recording.
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no compensation
for worker‑generated training data unless policy changes.
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Reactions are mixed between dread and opportunism — some celebrate massive produ...
Reactions are mixed between dread and opportunism — some celebrate massive productivity gains and new product opportunities, while others fret about demand collapse if consumers become jobless.
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Humor and skepticism punctuate the thread
popular quips about alt‑tabbing, fake work, and robots replacing mundane office rituals underscore anxiety but also diffuse it with gallows humor.
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transferable processes
rather than unique skill, so the competitive edge will go to those who design how AI amplifies human judgment rather than those who merely execute routine tasks.
Opposing
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watching screens can’t capture intuition, context, or the unseen steps
that make many jobs work—readers repeatedly note that decision processes, off‑screen thinking, and relationship work won’t be learned from recordings.
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agents trained on recordings would fail in unpredictable situations
.
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liability and reliability
concerns, the need for human checks, and domain failures (math errors, debugging, test proctoring) as barriers to full automation.
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human judgment and EQ are essential
.
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show working demos
rather than hypotheticals.
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booster for repetitive tasks
, but not a wholesale replacement for complex jobs, requiring human oversight.
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Tone ranges from jokey relief about personal job security to blunt dismissal of ...
Tone ranges from jokey relief about personal job security to blunt dismissal of the idea as hype or grift; there’s also resentment from practitioners who feel the proposal misunderstands how real work happens.
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Technical critics flag model and compute limits — LLM shortcomings, noisy datase...
Technical critics flag model and compute limits — LLM shortcomings, noisy datasets, and the need for specialized acceleration — arguing these make the leap from demo to deployment far from trivial.
Top Reactions
Most popular replies, ranked by engagement
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@vlelyavin
this assumes most jobs are learnable from watching half of what makes someone good is the stuff that doesn't show on screen
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@MichaelSuede
We’ll see about that. The idea that these models are going to direct themselves seem quite pie in the sky to me.
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@yoemsri
They've been doing this for years. It's called RPA (Robotic Process Automation). The difference is now the model can handle the edge cases where the UI changed slightly. The fragility is gone.
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@YepItsF_cked
ce in jobs & human activities & AI fucks up. It won't be replacing humans ever. It will just be another tool. Contributing to the community with your labor is one of our primary functions & brings us great joy. What the fuck else are we going to do? Like, why exist at all?
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@ir0nney
once they start mapping our mouse movements and idle time it will learn all the shortcuts we use to look busy too.
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