• thepotatoe@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Is this because they have less human interaction or is it because using these tools (that potentially cost coworkers their jobs) they see a future that could also cost them their job etc.

    It just doesn’t add up, why would working with AI tools opposed to any other software tool cause more drinking, it’s not like they are that fundamentally different. It’s still a tool.

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      1 year ago

      I’d be interested to see how they isolated use of AI from, well, everything else that’s happened in the last three years.

      We are more stressed, burned out, socially isolated, broke, and pessimistic than ever.

      The findings do make sense I think, if AI is replacing interpersonal collaboration and already dwindling social contact within that larger context, combined with the knowledge that (in my case, anyway) the very tool you’re using also poses a threat to your own financial future.