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I don't know if you'll be fine, however, AI is not the root cause for your suffering.
True. AI is just the latest step in capitalism killing even more of humanity and nature and humanity’s nature in the endless pursuit of greed for the wealthy few.
All these people worried about AI, are just worried economically. Your skill is still yours, and your talent is genuine and irreplaceable. Let companies use AI. The free market will take care of it.
Not only that, the true value of artisan art, manually made by humans will skyrocket.
Vote with your wallet, don’t buy off companies that use AI.
Screw voting with your wallet; consumer-based solutions will never work. Unionize your workplace instead.
Hell fuckin' yeah! Y'all best slap an email to the IWW and get that ball rolling so you'll be able to join the general strike planned for May 1st 2028 (May day).
Just got an update, it’s moved to 2030. 2028 was clashing with some prior commitments of dear leader.
I can't find anything referencing 2030, so I assume you're joking (or something is whooshing over my head).
For others reading, May 1st 2028 is still on, plan around it and try to get any contracts you negotiate to end on that day (but strike with the rest of us even if not).
Oh you’re were being serious
You actually think one general strike 3 years out is the way to go hey?
There really is something very cute and cuddly about Americans coping with totalitarianism.
That some deep sarcasm
Heavy statement to say to someone that would lose its life job over dystopian machines, I have friends that are in this cartoon, one with a kiddo. What to say to them ?
I'd say: It's your boss that fired you, not the tool.
You see, it's not the internet censorship tool that prevents you from speaking your mind, it's the people that control it!
You can dislike the tool.
AI was built on stolen work, and will not create a generation of future artists that simply has a new tool available. It'll create a generation of workers that create profit for the wealthy class by generating garbage until it's somewhat presentable. Meanwhile, AI will starve out because it will run out of data to learn from.
Generative AI is the current fad of the tech bro world and it's what everyone clings onto because if everything goes well (for them), they can get future generations hooked and make stupid money. Meanwhile, media literacy will further decline, and with it the ability to look up anything on the internet, making it even more easy for the masses to be controlled.
"It wasn't the bullet that killed you, it was the gun." C'mon, dude. You're being obtuse.
"It wasn't the gun that killed you, it was the person who pulled the trigger." C'mon, dude. You're being obtuse.
Hi there, NRA. Didn't know you did small-time socmed.
Not everyone who supports gun rights are right-wing idiots.
Who was it again that said "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary"?
You're right but the right wing idiots are the ones perpetuating that kind of obviously flawed argument and not one of the armed socialist flavors.
But sure, go off
More "it wasn't the gun, it was the one who pulled the trigger", which is a true statement. We don't blame guns for murder. We blame the murderer.
Same we said to typesetters, switchboard operators, elevator drivers, milkmen, travel agents, video rental employees, lamplighters, computers (the job), horse farmers, coal miners, etc. You learn a new skill, you get a new job and carry on.
I'd say vote/rebel/protest for Universal Basic Income or any other form of economy where you aren't forced to work or die.
While I wholeheartedly agree that universal basic income should be a thing, I still think it’s deeply problematic that unthinking machines replace people specifically in fields of artistic expression.
While AI can produce pretty convincing images in many styles, the actual expression of experience, feelings and general humanity is gone. Even disregarding the hardship of the artists being replaced (or assuming UBI will be a satisfying solution for them), that loss in itself is a good enough reason to be skeptical.
The main reason for the existence of art is to share human experience, and to be able to experience the world from another perspective than your own. This is a hugely important role in society that is very easily overlooked, and one that is completely lost with naïve use of AI.
The problem isn't AI, it is capitalism.
I'd love for those artists to receive a Universal Basic Income so they can keep drawing whatever they want however they want. Don't even need to be paid for it.
Them making creative work is enough of a contribution to society. No need to put a monetary value on it.
I want to upvote harder. When the arts have died, humanity’s soul will follow soon after! Being forced to choose between having food to eat or a place to stay and pursuing creative interests is soul-crushing.
UBI & eating the rich can’t come soon enough.
I hate Buddhists.
Let's replace them with AI