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Don’t worry, AI won’t take our jobs.

But it might take our planet…

Mil Hoornaert
Ai-Ai-OH
Published in
4 min readJun 13, 2024

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A group of AI robots standing in a line
A group of AI robots standing in a line ~ Generated with AI by the author

Some people seem to believe AI is actually capable of doing good work, and they fear it will replace our jobs. Trust me, it won’t. Not in the next 10 or 20 years, at least.

Though it sure is evolving fast, we are simply not yet at the extreme levels.

Most of us have already tried using ChatGPT and probably found out it was crap. Unless you ask an easy, one-answer question, you will have been given a crappy result.

An AI chatbot
An AI chatbot? ~ Generated with AI by the author

The way the AI writes is very bad, and the answers themselves are wrong 70% of the time. I’ve only really had frustrations using AI like this.

The only AI that has been good to me is generative image AI, like Leonardo AI. These allow you to generate AI images (which I clearly like doing) and are quite good at it. But even these are still unable to do a lot of basic things.

I once asked one to make an image of someone eating chocolate or of a mattress on the floor. It couldn’t do any of those…

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Mil Hoornaert
Ai-Ai-OH

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