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I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

How is it different this time?

Mechanical inventions of the past were invented, designed and implemented by people who had a unique idea for how to better accomplish some task. If part(s) of their invention was already patented by someone else, then they would be required to either license that patent or find another novel approach.

Machine learning AI doesn't work that way. In order to produce any result (let alone a good one) it must be "trained" on a dataset of other people's works, or peoples faces, or whatever (depending on the desired result). All i ask is that people (artists, writers, musicians, etc) are fairly and regularly compensated when their copyrighted work is used to train AI.

Anything else is exploitation on an industrial scale.