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OpenAI’s ‘productivity’ garbage is an age-old scam that’s long crippled Australia
Touting the economic benefits of AI is straight from business lobbyists' playbook, one used over and over again.
The only surprise is that it didn’t come with one of those risible titles from the Business Council’s succession of rinse-repeat reports, like “Seize the Moment”, “Living on Borrowed Time” or “Realising our full potential”. Only Mark Di Stefano in the Rear Window column was prepared to call bullshit(and point out the Labor connections helping Chatterji into ministerial meetings that many small and medium Australian businesses could only dream of — or pay a lot of money to a lobbyist for). This is the key point about Open AI’s report and the feting by the media and politicians of its spruikers: it is simply the same rent-seeking and influence-peddling that we’ve seen so often from the country’s biggest corporations over decades.
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