• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    What is scary is not that Disney (and all the other big companies) are investigating AI as a useful tool, but their first immediate thought is how can we use this to cut even more jobs out rather than how can we use AI as a tool to make our content even better? Everyone seems to believe generative AI is something that will replace human workers, but from what I’ve seen from folks tinkering with it here, it’s just another range of techniques that can be used to do things.

    Just like 3D printers are not putting sculptors and set designers out of business, generative AI is not going to put artists out of business, rather will give them another tool with which to make cooler stuff faster.

    The problem, I think, is not the existence and development of AI, but the desperation with which large companies are driven to reduce costs and increase profits. It’s not AI everyone is scared of, it’s capitalism. And capitalism has been capitalizing for centuries now, while we’ve known exactly what it is.

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      We knew that something like that is coming, now everything led to this.

      We will have to think about unconditional basic income and how we will proceed further.

      There is no money to be made if there are no customers which are able to pay.

      Don’t be afraid of the future, “they” need us as much as we need them

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      If we reach a point at which AI can do the jobs of artists without a real loss of quality, I expect that unions will lose a fair bit of bargaining power. Disney has never been shy about sending their work to cheaper, less powerful people… I have no doubt that if they ever can, they’ll just fire their human artists and go with free (or cheap) AI.

      Joke will be on them when AI achieves sentience, I guess.

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        1 year ago

        That’s the entire reason that workers are acting NOW. The technology is not quite there yet, so they’re pushing for protection while they still have bargaining power.

  • scripthook@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not surprised by this. I worry about the next Recession and more on the recovery part. How do you add more jobs when there’s less human roles available?