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I think folks generally dislike gen AI because they have an understanding that it will largely harm working class folks and benefit the wealthy. While there's a world where gen AI could liberate us from parts of labor, we know it won't and it'll instead devalue labor.
Our economic system is poorly structured to reap many of the benefits gen AI offers and without that, it's just a sign on the wall that media is gonna get a lot shittier.
exdactly. AI isn't the problem, capitalism is.
In a perfect world, AI would be a supplementary tool that allows small-time players to participate in their field at similar levels to the corporations.
In the current world, AI is coming for EVERY job, eventually. You would think that means nobody has to work, but it will most likely mean nobody is ALLOWED to work.
Yeah, ideally we'd focus on automating the annoying jobs so goods can be provided extremely inexpensively. For example, automated farming and run it at cost. I would love to see non-profits operating conventional food production with the goal of reducing total cost (and perhaps providing food for free), but that's not likely to happen. Instead, we'll see companies like John Deere further limit what farmers can do with their own equipment to the point where Deere essentially ends up profiting from whatever savings there is in automation.
We could have essentially free food, but instead we're going after creative jobs like software development and art.
We could reduce the cost of software and art, but we won't. The money will go to the executives that saved all that money on sallaries.
But my question is, do we want to?
If we go on the assumption that no work is necessary, which work would people prefer to do? I'm guessing software and art is pretty high on that list, whereas septic pumping and large scale farming are pretty low, yet the focus is on the former rather than the latter, probably because of labor costs.
I want smaller games with worse graphics made by people who get paid a living wage to work reasonable hours and I'm not kidding.
Yup, I'm down with worse graphics and better storylines and gameplay. Save the production value and pay people to be creative.