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Are there any genuine benefits to AI? (self.technology)
submitted 9 months ago by fiddlestix to c/technology
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I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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[–] Meron35 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Maybe you only do an "odd bit" of mundane writing and the image/music generation is a gimmick, but a lot of the modern world is mundane and pays people lots of money for mundane work. E.g. think of those internal corporate videos which require a script, stock photography and footage, basic corporate music following a 4 chord progression, a voiceover, all edited into a video.

Steve Taylor is most famous for being the voiceover for Kurzgesagt videos, but more generally he's a voiceover artist that features in lot of these boring corporate videos. This type of content has such high demand there is an entire industry dedicated towards it, which seems well suited to AI.

https://youtu.be/vDb2h1-7LA0

This does raise further ethical/economical issues though, as most people in these creative industries actually require income from this boring work to get by.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This does raise further ethical/economical issues though, as most people in these creative industries actually require income from this boring work to get by.

That sounds more like a problem with capitalism than AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This, tbh.

Let's get a ubi or something going

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