Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans

• clearleaf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are there any that are real in the sense that they contribute something of value to society?

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even doctors are liable to be replaced by AI. I don’t know what counts as “something of value to society” to you, and frankly that’s the sort of argument that is never worth having. But generally speaking, it doesn’t get much more valuable for society than doctors.

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    • meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If an AI can outperform a human doctor, isn’t that a good thing? We should always strive to improve survival for patients - it’s not about doctors jobs but patient survival and long term health outcomes.

      I would love for doctors to become AI if the AI improves our growing health inequities and inequalities.

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      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Part of the issue is that this rush to transition to AI is not done to increase quality of work, but to sav time and costs. If the point was to improve the treatment, keeping a human doctor plus AI might result in better outcomes. But AI or no AI, a for-profit medical system won’t elliminate health inequalities.

        It’s also worth keeping in mind not all forms of work are actually enhanced by AI participation. Journalists aren’t aided by language models that regularly hallucinate false informations.

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    • clearleaf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Being a doctor would be a real job, but the only jobs I’ve seen actually getting replaced are things like clickbait content farms, scams, marketing, exploitive gambling-centric video games, and other spam. Unlike being a doctor it’s never been hard to shit that stuff out into the world. And since these neural networks aren’t actually that good, I’ll believe they can replace doctors when I see it.

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      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You haven’t heard of good writing and good artwork being replaced by AI?

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      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll believe they can replace doctors when I see it.

        And when that day comes we’re not going back.

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