Comment on The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoThere are also financial incentives to oppose the adoption of content generating AI. As the spinning jenny replaced hand spinning and electric trolleys replaced horse drawn streetcars, there was always strong financially motivated opposition. How is it different this time?
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Because at some point we will automate people completely out of jobs, and then they will have nowhere to go. Our system isn’t set up to handle that.
People are already struggling to find jobs with a liveable wage.
dorkian_gray@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Won’t someone think of the poor scribes that the printing press will put out of a job?
Look, I get the arguments, but they are wrong. Even “stealing content” is completely wrong. It’s taken down, shuffled around, and recombined. It works pretty much the same way as human learning, just with fewer layers. The people who oppose AI are afraid of it, because they don’t truly understand how it works. Case in point ^
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Yeah, that’s pretty much what I was thinking of. Let’s say your borrow a bunch of books from the local library and read them in order to refine your writing skills. Later, you’ll write a book that is more or less inspired by all of the books you’ve previously read. Do you owe something to the hundreds of authors you got inspired by? Even if you bought those books, do you think the other authors would could still demand something extra because clearly those books weren’t really used for mere entertainment. Instead, they were used to train a new writer.