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Someone in media production posted on Stormfront that their entire crew was wiped by an AI company (archive.ph)
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Someone in media claiming their entire staff waw wiped out by an AI company called passion Q.Ai

For context I work production in local news. Recently there’s been developments in AI driven systems that can do 100% of the production side of things which is, direct, audio operate, and graphic operate -all of those jobs are all now gone in one swoop. This has apparently been developed by the company Q ai.

For the last decade I’ve worked in local news and have garnered skills I thought I would be able to take with me until my retirement, now at almost 30 years old, all of those job opportunities for me are gone in an instant. The only person that’s keeping their job is my manager, who will overlook the system and do maintenance if needed. That’s 20 jobs lost and 0 gained for our station.

We were informed we are going to be the first station to implement this under our company. This means that as of now our entire production staff in our news station is being let go. Once the system is implemented and running smoothly then this system is going to be implemented nationwide (effectively eliminating tens of thousands of jobs.) There are going to be 0 new jobs built off of this AI platform.

There are people I work with in their 50’s, single, no college education, no family, and no other place to land a job once this kicks in. I have no idea what’s going to happen to them. This is it guys. This is what our future with AI looks like. This isn’t creating any new jobs this is knocking out entire industry level jobs without replacing them.

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If you go to the Q.Ai site it lists 3 founders - all from Pissreal isntrael

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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 26 points 6 hours ago

This is complete bazinga brain behavior by the owners making the decisions, they're just obviously a bunch of snake oil salesman scamming each other. As others have mentioned, no-one wants to watch AI generated slop, so this is just going to destroy a bunch of value.

It's insane that media is basically doing a mass rollout of Elsa Spiderman content.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 hours ago

Death to the US media empire

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 25 points 6 hours ago

ecoterrorism

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 27 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Only possible upside is that the growth of this garbage slowly kills US soft power as they keep producing shit that nobody wants to watch.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The writing has been on the wall for a long ass time

It’s really fucking hard to warn people about this because 1) if you post about it online you’re essentially just talking to yourself and 2) people irl think you’re being dramatic

Join the doomers!

Completely unironically, I was hoping that people would staunchly refuse any adoption of LLMs/AI (to the point where they threatened violence over it) and it would just die out like NFTs or the crypto bubble. But since it does have some utility, it looks like it’s here to stay.

Remember the outrage in response to the George Floyd murder? Why can’t we have that all the time?

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 11 points 5 hours ago

That outrage was in no small part fueled by the frustration and uncertainty of sudden changes brought on by COVID and four years of trump presidency. It was a perfect storm

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 25 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I should invest in rifles

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 24 points 6 hours ago

Theyre going to put us out on our asses. Every last one of us. Sure this tech is steaming hot garbage but in 10 years? 20? What about our kids?

This sad society needs to have a real conversation about what exactly is the future we are building. Shit is fucking bleak.

The luddites were right

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 16 points 6 hours ago

If you haven't already, yeah, you should

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 28 points 7 hours ago

jfc the comments cognitohazard

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 56 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

The tv channels are gonna get a shock when everyone tunes out because they do not want to watch the AI slop.

They think they can do this, but people do NOT like AI slop at all. People don't find it valuable and don't feel like their time is being well spent by watching something that someone else couldn't be bothered to make.

There is a very real calculation of value humans do internally and its basically "this thing is worth the labour someone put into it" and since there is no labour put into producing AI slop the vast majority of people value AI slop as fucking worthless.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I see everyone keep repeating this, but no, some will eat it up. And we just have to hope that group isn’t big enough for it to matter, though seeing how many people on IG like clearly AI-generated bullshit in addition to AI music being semi-popular online, I have zero hope

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If this were true ai books wouldn't be a huge miss that are achieving absolutely nothing, and ai games, and ai video, and so on.

The people that like this stuff are the people engaging with making it. Everyone else is saying "oh, ai" and moving on swiftly.

Freak instances of high quality content get some popularity for being unusually good, the reason they occur is because the rest is viewed as being notoriously shit. Those good ones have value because they are novel, they will not always be novel, when they are no longer novel then their value or interesting-ness falls off a cliff.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 18 points 7 hours ago

Yep, as someone in the reddit-logo comments mentioned, the production company got sold by an AI slop snake oil salesman. Nobody is gonna want to watch that shit.

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago

In the world of the "multi screen experience", people just want background noise that they can look up and smirk at once in a while.

On the other hand, I like watching cs2 highlights when I can't catch the game, but there are uploaders who automate the editing ("just show 1-second before and after each death from shooter's pov") and very quickly I can tell that it wasn't edited by a person because there is no flow or narrative of the pace of the match. Just "kill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, round end, next round, kill 1" etc.

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 33 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I just got a job as a video operator yesterday lmao

[–] Halloweenbean@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

This is awful but super useful for small scale content creators.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 38 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I thought you were talking about the actual Stormfront and imagined mecha hitler from wolfenstein

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, same--I was thinking "finally, someone doing something good with AI!"

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Haha reddit-logo

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 8 points 6 hours ago

It's hard to imagine the kind of dead-ender that's still on the actual stormfront when they've pushed the front lines so far into the normie internet

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

AI will legitimately and genuinely kill everything.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Skynet is going to tell humans that Q3 profits are going to be awesome if they set off all the nukes.

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

:Vault-Tec:

[–] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

In my industry it's clear that "AI" (LLMs) will be used to do a large amount of work that's "good enough" compared to real humans, leaving a small number of workers who will use these tools to do as much work as larger teams used to do without them

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

graeber crying from the grave, since it's not like the displaced will have UBI and the chance to foster creativity and human flourishing.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 23 points 6 hours ago

The options are the profits being shared to create that kind of society or dystopia where the owners keep it all and everyone else is destitute and it’s looking like the latter is the clear winner :/

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago

I have a business I opened a few years ago after freelancing for a decade in an industry that is gonna be completely replaced by ai within the year 🙃

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