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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]highplainsdem
(52,367 posts)135. So your writing circle created fan fiction? I've heard of pros getting started that way. And your art
has to be quite good if you were asked to illustrate those zines.
I hope my great-nephew (grand-nephew is also correct) can find something he loves to do. But like you, I'm hoping for a rebellion against AI, for companies (and schools, and individuals) to regret using it, before too much damage is done.
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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