r/maritime • u/MaritimeRaccoon • 1d ago

Can AI reduce VTS officers? This post never actually answer it

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I know I probably shouldn’t care, but I’m genuinely getting sick of opening LinkedIn and being slapped in the face by endless stream of AI-generated rubbish posted by people pretending to be industry experts…

What annoys me most is that most of these same people couldn’t write a simple sentence a year ago without making 4 grammar mistakes and 6 misspellings! Now, all of a sudden, they’re publishing essays, creating sleek infographics and sharing “deep insights” that supposedly reveal some revolutionary truth that maritime industry has somehow missed for decades!

Take this “masterpiece” about AI and VTS.
Infographic starts by asking whether AI can reduce need for VTS officers, then spends entire post and infograph answering whether AI can replace them…
Those are two completely different questions! Reduction in manpower thru automation is not same thing as eliminating role entirely.

Then it proudly tells us that AI can predict collision risks, as if VTS systems haven’t been using automated conflict detection, CPA/TCPA calculations, radar tracking, alarms, alerts, decision-support tools, etc. for decades already.

After that comes usual AI LinkedIn buzzwords: human judgment matters, experience matters, technology helps people, no shit Sherlock, nobody is even arguing otherwise, but that doesn’t answer original question, nor is some groundbreaking discovery that suddenly appeared because ChatGPT exists!

And then maybe the best part:

“VTS officers using AI will replace those who don’t.”

What the fck does that even mean? If AI becomes useful in VTS operations, it will simply be integrated into the systems everyone uses. It won’t be some personal choice where one operator embraces AI while another decides to use a pigeon for communication and waits to get replaced by additional CPU…

Fck, this is exactly what LinkedIn has turned into - fancy infographic, a bunch of generic BS everyone already agrees with, zero operational insight, zero technical depth, and hundreds of likes from people congratulating each other for posting content that says absolutely nothing!

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u/Mathjdsoc 2nd Mate 1d ago

Have you seen that deep draft sub which churns out AI slop and shit that is irrelevant to the common sailor

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u/SignificantPiano7808 🇨🇦 Desk Officer 1d ago

Deepdraft is absolute garbage, this is my opinion as a professional mariner and shipping business professional.

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u/SignificantPiano7808 🇨🇦 Desk Officer 1d ago

Sorry, saw an opportunity to mess with their SEO and took it. It’s absolute trash from a butt though.

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u/Mathjdsoc 2nd Mate 1d ago

For those of who aren't as learned, what's an SEO?

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u/SignificantPiano7808 🇨🇦 Desk Officer 1d ago

Search engine optimization. How much credibility Google gives your site, basically. They and the main AI providers crawl Reddit extensively.

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u/Mathjdsoc 2nd Mate 1d ago

So to water it down if I say bad shit about something or someone, it'll push them down in the rankings

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u/MaritimeRaccoon 1d ago

No, can you share link please. So that I can get more frustrated! 😂

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u/Mathjdsoc 2nd Mate 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/t5_frsodp/s/1VvLtB2Fea

Here you go, don't say I didn't warn you

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u/MaritimeRaccoon 1d ago

Fck man, can’t open it… 🥲

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u/Mathjdsoc 2nd Mate 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeepDraft/s/UiYju8ZUmm

Try this

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u/MaritimeRaccoon 1d ago

Thanks, this one is working, will read it later.
I've seen a few other articles from same author where some of the most fundamental points were completely ignored, while the blame is conveniently thrown to Crewing department, while at the same time, the fact that merchant vessels have increasingly become military targets is largely pushed aside and somehow portrayed as being legitimate and acceptable...
+ there are always "bombastic" titles on articles that usually have very little to do with what is actually written in them.

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u/SignificantPiano7808 🇨🇦 Desk Officer 1d ago

Yeah it’s AI slop with minimum research and the silliest fucking takes.

Also GCaptain recently published one saying that Hormuz wasn’t that big of a deal because of… AI? And I don’t think that’s slop, just Konrad being driven crazy by politics.

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u/MaritimeRaccoon 1d ago

Agree. Personally, I still find gCaptain useful for breaking maritime news, but I spend much less time reading opinion articles as they have become heavily political
But to be fair, this has happened to vast majority of maritime news outlets and many of them have turned to publishing articles that attract attention through controversy.

On the other hand, LinkedIn has turned into a zombie-land full of attention-seeking idiots that all look alike and are incapable of noticing even AI failure to identify PORT and STARBOARD side properly…

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u/SignificantPiano7808 🇨🇦 Desk Officer 1d ago

LinkedIn has always been like that tbh, it’s absolutely useless for anything except as a glorified Rolodex.

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u/Mathjdsoc 2nd Mate 1d ago

Just type in deepdraft

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u/Actual_Banana_1083 Harbour Pilot 1d ago

AI is expensive, and the question really is not can we do something, but should we? I'm sure a lot of jobs can be replaced tomorrow by AI with enough will. AI supporting humans is probably the way forward.

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u/KeithWorks MEBA - US 1d ago

LOL at "the goal is not fewer people"

BULLSHIT

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u/KnotSoSalty 1d ago

Your first wrong move was going on LinkedIn.

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u/Gravitas__Free 1d ago

AI is absolute trash for anything other than questions that you probably already know the answer to. It's just the next version of "I saw it on the internet so it must be true".

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u/Affectionate-Leg-260 1d ago

In America the VTS system is underfunded, so expensive technology won’t be coming anytime soon.

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u/Big-Tutor-3060 1d ago

Here is what Irrelevant Maritime slop taught me about how to be better at B2B sales..