Notices by Odin Halvorson (indubitablyodin@sfba.social)

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Find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

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"IF THE SITUATION WAS HOPELESS THEIR PROPAGANDA WOULD BE UNNECESSARY".

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Unfortunately nobody can remember the password to the system that has those records. So we have to get IT involved, which means running through more detailed security resets to make sure other systems aren't compromised. It should take a couple weeks.
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"Well, WAS. The office of Patriot Act compliance would be assigned to whichever employee had just left our library. And gosh, it's just such a mess around here, you know."
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"The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request.

Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting. "
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"We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee."

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* "We figured, what's the fun in just telling them there's nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause.

* We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act."
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* "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

* We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."

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"Worth thinking about how long Tolkien goes on in Return of the King about despair being a weapon, and presenting defeat as a forgone conclusion being a deliberate and effective tactic"

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Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has rapidly entered the workplace, with companies promising increased productivity and efficiency.
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The Real Gains from AI: Why Employees, Not Corporations, are Reaping the Benefits https://indubitablyodin.medium.com/the-real-gains-from-ai-why-employees-not-corporations-are-reaping-the-benefits-44e48b01b280?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Default-NonImage

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I think I have an idea why. The AI Adoption Landscape

The tendrils of AI are seeping into many professional sectors. Studies from both the EU and the United States reveal a significant percentage of workers are actively using AI tools to improve their workflows.
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However, I recently read an article that noted that despite the widespread adoption of AI tools, many corporate leaders are getting frustrated. Even though workers are self-reporting AI use, the suits at the top aren’t able to pinpoint where the promised productivity gains are going.
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As Mollick (2024) notes, workers are reporting significant time savings on routine tasks, allowing them to work more efficiently.
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A study of American workers in August 2024 found that a third of respondents had used generative AI in the previous week alone, with ChatGPT leading the pack as the most popular tool, followed by Google’s Gemini (Mollick, 2024).
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For example, 65% of marketers, 64% of journalists, and 30% of lawyers in Denmark have reported using AI at work.
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Similarly, the Denmark study revealed that AI users felt their work time had been cut in half for 41% of their tasks. The frustration for the people at the top of the capitalist ladder is that these productivity gains don’t seem to be making the people at the top richer.
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For example, consultants using GPT-4 were able to complete tasks 25% more quickly than without AI, and early GitHub Copilot users experienced a 26% productivity boost in their coding work.
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Or perhaps, they should force their workers to attend work in-person (despite studies showing that in-person work is damaging to workers and costs companies more).
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