<story><title>I am a model and I know that artificial intelligence will take my job</title><url>https://www.vogue.com/article/sinead-bovell-model-artificial-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>Cashiers are on their way out. You can walk into any Walmart and see two people in line for 10 minutes because of the 50 available registers only 2 are open. Walmart wants to drive people to use the self checkout.  I hate it because invariably something goes wrong and you have to compete for the sole person manning that section.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Just earlier this week, I was talking with a colleague about all the hidden jobs that no longer exist because of software.   And these are not jobs that dramatically went away all at once, like a team of longshoremen being cut in the movies.&lt;p&gt;Think of all the teams of bookkeepers (yes, actual people who penciled numbers in books) who were obsoleted by Excel being able to let a store owner do a calculation&amp;#x2F;scenario by himself that would take accountants a week to do.&lt;p&gt;Think of all the secretaries whose work disappeared (or were no longer needed in proportion to the growing economy) as soon as personal calendar software and meeting invites became common.&lt;p&gt;Graphic designers &amp;#x2F; publication layout experts you would pay because you didn&amp;#x27;t have desktop publishing software.&lt;p&gt;There are more jobs lost silently to these kinds of developments than any factory being shut down dramatically. (for the US at least)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dimitrios1</author><text>Self-checkout only stores is exactly what hell looks like. I hate self checkouts with a burning passion, if not for the sake that I got duped as a consumer to work for the company, while paying the same price on my goods, but for the fact that they aren&amp;#x27;t faster, they certainly aren&amp;#x27;t friendlier, and generally cause a certain level of frustration or anxiety for the consumer.&lt;p&gt;If you care about accessibility and not being ageist, they are terrible for people with disabilities or the elderly. You will almost see no old or disabled person using a self checkout line.&lt;p&gt;As a show of more anecdotal evidence, a recent large grocery store chain in my large populated city of 2+ million people experiment with going self-checkout only failed so bad (lost so many customers and people were complaining), they hired cashiers again to basically scan people&amp;#x27;s groceries for them at the self-checkout line. Now they are stuck with the worst of both worlds.</text></comment>
<story><title>I am a model and I know that artificial intelligence will take my job</title><url>https://www.vogue.com/article/sinead-bovell-model-artificial-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>Cashiers are on their way out. You can walk into any Walmart and see two people in line for 10 minutes because of the 50 available registers only 2 are open. Walmart wants to drive people to use the self checkout.  I hate it because invariably something goes wrong and you have to compete for the sole person manning that section.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Just earlier this week, I was talking with a colleague about all the hidden jobs that no longer exist because of software.   And these are not jobs that dramatically went away all at once, like a team of longshoremen being cut in the movies.&lt;p&gt;Think of all the teams of bookkeepers (yes, actual people who penciled numbers in books) who were obsoleted by Excel being able to let a store owner do a calculation&amp;#x2F;scenario by himself that would take accountants a week to do.&lt;p&gt;Think of all the secretaries whose work disappeared (or were no longer needed in proportion to the growing economy) as soon as personal calendar software and meeting invites became common.&lt;p&gt;Graphic designers &amp;#x2F; publication layout experts you would pay because you didn&amp;#x27;t have desktop publishing software.&lt;p&gt;There are more jobs lost silently to these kinds of developments than any factory being shut down dramatically. (for the US at least)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vangelis</author><text>Cashiers at least know how to bag. Most people using self checkouts move at speed of a sloth on ketamine.</text></comment>