• vimdiesel@lemmy.world
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    This is the best possible outcome. No one wants that AI generated shit while actors and behind the scenes people make starvation wages.

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      Speak for yourself. If you can’t tell the difference, who cares how it’s made?

      I certainly don’t. If we can replace labor with robots, we should.

      Those people can still act if they want to. Nobodies stopping them.

      Hey, there may even be a crowd of people who only watch stuff made by humans. That could be you.

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        So if we’re going to have AI replacing Actors, Animators, VAs, Writers and everything there’s going to be a lot less people to pay and ticket prices will go down by 90% right?

        The whole population will benefit from AI and not just people who already make way too much money like it happened with pretty much every other technological innovation right?

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          Just like WallStreet, the ultimate goal is to also replace audiences entirely with AI sentient viewers. That way they can create millions of viewers who will be pre-primed to want to watch the same pieces of media several hundred times. They can even view the movie at 500% speed so they can do so in a shorter timespan than meat viewers. OpenAI will be the first company to offer culturally insensitive and politically neutral 100% synthetic audiences to feed your Hollywood releases. For just cents per 1 million viewers/hour you too can release a blockbuster. This includes Twitch and YouTube audiences!

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          1 year ago

          Bro you are waaaaayyyyy overly optimistic on who AI is gonna benefit :) . It won’t be the 99% in the end.

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            1 year ago

            That was sarcasm, I thought the “Right? Right?” was enough to give it away lol

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          The whole population will benefit from AI and not just people who already make way too much money like it happened with pretty much every other technological innovation right?

          Humanity benefited from the invention of the printing press. Humanity benefited from the industrial revolution. Humanity benefited from the invention of computers. Humanity will benefit from AI too, greatly so. This is not what is up for debate. Some people made fortunes from it, but does that matter when you compare it to how much good it brought about?

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            Did it really benefit that much from it though? We can now be infinitely more productive while working, but are still required to work the same work week and have the same purchasing power, if not less in some countries. And the products made with that work cost pretty much the same, even though it costs much less to produce them.

            Very rarely a technological innovation actually ended up improving common people’s quality of life, and the ones that did were due to being improving of the end product in nature.

            AI doesn’t improve the end product (rather, currently it worsens it), it just improves the efficiency. And like with the Industrial Revolution, people will get paid the same, will have to work the same amount of time, and their end products will cost the same. CEOs will benefit from it and no one else, if history says anything.

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                Just from a quick Google search. Skip to the end if you want raw hour comparison.

                I’ll gladly accept a huge AI implementation if it means cutting even 20% of current working hours while keeping the same salary, but I’m really skeptical on that.

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                  That’s not what I’m debating. What about healthcare? What about acces to education? What about infant death rates? What about travel? What about not having to worry about starvation? Clean water directly into your home? Hot water too? Electricity? Have these not improved the quality of life greatly? You must not know history if you think your average peasant was living a better life preindustrialisation.

                  I’m not sure what work you’re doing at the moment but you seem pretty burned out by it. Maybe it’s time for a change

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                    That’s not what I’m debating either. All of those are due to technological advancements that improved the end product. AI doesn’t improve the end product, just the process.

                    When the end product improves, the one who benefits from it is the customer, and the manufacturer if they manage to sell it at a higher price than before.

                    But when the process improves and the end product is the same, it just takes less money/time to make it. So the only way common people would benefit from it is if manufacturers decided out of goodwill to either raise salaries, reduce working hours, or decrease the price of the end product. And that barely ever happened in history.

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          So your argument isn’t against AI, it’s against studios. Or your argument is against us, and our complacency when it comes to corporate or profit overreach.

          I don’t see how you could take that as an argument against AI in general. Stanley Yelnatz wasn’t wrong for looking for the shorter shovel.

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            Sure, just like my gripe is mainly with school shooters rather than with guns, and with crazy billionaires rather than with social media.

            But since you can’t realistically regulate the users to a healthy level, you have to regulate the tool. Because, just like those other two things, the benefit it brings to regular people is minuscule compared to the harm it can do.

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          Err… no. I just don’t agree with what the crowd is saying in this regard.

          Don’t they have an agenda?