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In reply to the discussion: I was just informed from my boss and HR that my entire profession is being automated away. [View all]Delphinus
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AI will not have to become Skynet to kill us.
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I was just informed from my boss and HR that my entire profession is being automated away. [View all]
usonian
Tuesday
OP
with ai fake music wont need real musicians and songwriters anymore. no royalty payout for spotify nt
msongs
Tuesday
#1
The other day, someone here was arguing that "AI will replace as many jobs as it takes away."
PeaceWave
Tuesday
#3
Of course, have yet to hear who will buy the products & services companies offer . . . ..
hatrack
Tuesday
#40
And this in the age of high inflation, ever more expensive rent, and an incoming fascist regime...
DSandra
Tuesday
#9
There's evidence Spotify's already starting to do that. Ted Gioia has written about it, and he and
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#4
It's that good ONLY because companies like Udio and Suno stole all the music they could and are
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#19
I think it's three books a day uploaded to Kindle, or it was the last I heard, but of course that still
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#85
Unions can only fight things with the threat of strikes messing up the business...
regnaD kciN
Tuesday
#26
I may be off a little but my understanding is only about 6% are unionized.
TheKentuckian
Tuesday
#39
Just more reason to hope for the aliens to stop screwing around and finish us off already.
PeaceWave
Tuesday
#8
Some times it's so bs backwards I feel like I'm in a science experiment
questionseverything
Tuesday
#12
This is where capitalism needs to be reigned in. Ideally, as we are replaced by AI and machines, we should work fewer
Doodley
Tuesday
#10
Thanks for posting this, usonian! I skimmed some of those replies. Very different tone from what
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#11
There's already plenty of evidence that genAI has plateaued and will never reach the AGI/ASI level
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#66
"Watched over by machines of loving grace" ? Dang, I forgot which SF author said that and whether it's a preface quote..
electric_blue68
Tuesday
#122
Well, it depends on whether you view Brautigan's poem as naively utopian, which seems to be
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#134
I think there are definite benefits in science and medicine to some types of AI analyzing vast amounts
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#67
Exactly. I remember hearing about a conference for AI scientists where someone (from OpenAI, IIRC)
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#68
I dread the prospect of "Apple AI" streamlining the most trivial of digital chores,
usonian
Tuesday
#82
Those of us who write and self publish are already seeing things get bad with "AI".
mucholderthandirt
Tuesday
#44
I'm all in favor of tech that helps writers, and there have been many such changes. A writer Stephen King's age
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#70
TY for this abbreviated history, current happenings involving the physical actions of writers writing, editors, etc...
electric_blue68
Tuesday
#123
I've encountered AI fans who think text generators should be viewed as just one more tool for
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#131
I guess u better start making charcoal so you can ground your own ink...
electric_blue68
Tuesday
#133
So your writing circle created fan fiction? I've heard of pros getting started that way. And your art
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#135
Ty. I didn't know about the 19th+ century books. Interesting! I found it in '86 at a Philly SF Con...
electric_blue68
Wednesday
#159
Of course. The AI companies released AI tools they knew would be used for cheating and fraud because
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#72
There's some indication it will get worse, in what's called model collapse. Some people, mostly at AI companies,
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#79
Just found out via The Verge that Microsoft is the company planning to train AI on HarperCollins books:
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#111
Again, this is all based on theft of IP. You don't even need to enter lyrics. Just a few words to suggest lyrics.
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#27
Nothing is entirely original. We learn from others who came before us, that's how humanity works.
mucholderthandirt
Tuesday
#45
No, AI isn't making anything new, and it doesn't learn the same way as people. What it produces
highplainsdem
Tuesday
#52
Yes, it will churn stuff out instantaneously. It's still unethical to use. I don't find those paragraphs
highplainsdem
Wednesday
#150
Please don't expect anything resembling truth from chatbots. They're mindless mimicry of reasoning
highplainsdem
Wednesday
#149
I'm sure that candle makers felt the same way about gas and electric lighting and I'm sure the coal miners are currently
cstanleytech
Tuesday
#73
That's because the candle makers adapted to the situation just as people can adapt to the existence of AI.
cstanleytech
Tuesday
#116
AI is like a toddler watching an older kid playing with building blocks that tries to mimic what it saw.
cstanleytech
Tuesday
#130
An AI grows much like a human in that they absorb knowledge and learn from but the AI is just faster at it.
cstanleytech
Tuesday
#75
Yes, and we wouldn't have microplastics on top of Everest or in fetal bloodstreams
hatrack
Tuesday
#74
I never said change was perfect but nonetheless things do change no matter how much we might not like it.
cstanleytech
Tuesday
#93
Not the point - this is not inevitable, like the procession of the equinoxes or aging . . . .
hatrack
Tuesday
#117
And it was a choice of the wealthy to support the change to electricity which most did to stay wealthy.
cstanleytech
Tuesday
#119
It's one thing to replace the horse and buggy - re: the quantity and the time it took to do it,
Tadpole Raisin
Tuesday
#31
There are a lot of jobs at risk through computer automation, I know - I implement the systems
Amishman
Tuesday
#41
The safest place to be is anywhere there are no hard rules and/or lots of on-offs and exceptions
Amishman
Tuesday
#81
They're aluminum printing plates that work like the ones you make on a plate frame
jmowreader
Tuesday
#125
I'm back. Looked up some stuff... wow, you got thrown into the deep end of the pool!...
electric_blue68
Wednesday
#137
I *did* paste ups, and mechanicals 76 - mid '80, some graphic design, and illustration. Then off & on; *rare* ...
electric_blue68
Tuesday
#126
I still say that old.reddit is a legit site. When I go there I'm automatically logged in just...
LAS14
Tuesday
#112
I hope they do. I'm looking forward to the genAI bubble bursting, and the sooner the better.
highplainsdem
Wednesday
#151
AI has exhausted all the training data of the entire planet and is now feeding on its own output.
usonian
Tuesday
#110
who needs local news? they didn't do their jobs, people are dumb it's over
Nimble_Idea
Wednesday
#143