ai denial spotted in the wild
Edit: Imagine having characters that are not played by a real person. Your movie won’t be ruined just because the actor is controversial. Just an example.
Well, as someone who works in film, this actually does affect me. This is a very real and very imminent threat. I would love to have no work and be able to survive. But that’s not the world we live in. And I think that being cavalier about letting massive corporations’ AI amass all the power they want while we all use it for fun is incredibly foolish. This isn’t the vanguard of the revolution. This is the elite creating a system that doesn’t replace us so we can live free. It’s about creating competing software that can do the fucking creative work. (a.k.a., those of us that found something we can stomach doing for our living in this backwards ass system.)
How can anyone—especially people in antiwork—be supportive of AI built by the most massive and dangerous tech companies going after the artists that have managed to make a living creating that art first? How is the concept of AI the good guy here? Writing, digital art, acting? Literally some of the only creative endeavors we have to survive on in this fucking capitalist hellscape.
Did you see the deadline article, where an executive said the current negotiating tactics for the writers is “wait until they start losing their apartments?” And you’re…supportive of this?
Also: your last argument is about…the ongoing profitability of films? Not about human enjoyment or surviving in a capitalist dystopia or the human experience of creating and appreciating art, but…the vampiric studios’ ability to continue profiting after an actor gets canceled? The fuck?
And I think that being cavalier about letting massive corporations’ AI amass all the power they want while we all use it for fun is incredibly foolish.
Open Source FTW
This isn’t the vanguard of the revolution. This is the elite creating a system that doesn’t replace us so we can live free. It’s about creating competing software that can do the fucking creative work. (a.k.a., those of us that found something we can stomach doing for our living in this backwards ass system.)
This is why fast transition from the current world to post-work world is important. If the transition will be slow it will be very unpleasant for everyone. And again, open source FTW.
How can anyone—especially people in antiwork—be supportive of AI built by the most massive and dangerous tech companies going after the artists that have managed to make a living creating that art first?
Open source FTW and we need to push the governments for UBI and such as a transition to post work world.
How is the concept of AI the good guy here? Writing, digital art, acting? Literally some of the only creative endeavors we have to survive on in this fucking capitalist hellscape.
Uhhh, you can still write and draw whatever you want, it’s just that the art will be available to more people. More people will be able to create characters, worlds, images etc. more easly which is very cool.
Did you see the deadline article, where an executive said the current negotiating tactics for the writers is “wait until they start losing their apartments?” And you’re…supportive of this?
Why would I support this?
Also: your last argument is about…the ongoing profitability of films? Not about human enjoyment or surviving in a capitalist dystopia or the human experience of creating and appreciating art, but…the vampiric studios’ ability to continue profiting after an actor gets canceled? The fuck?
Bruh, just bruh… The argument was about not having a fictional character tied to the real world person which will allow you to disconnect from the real world and immerse into the medium even further.
Your clinging to open source as some life raft just isn’t as buoyant as you might think. The leaders of AI are still Meta and open AI, both of which have talked about closing their code.
And look at the mastodon vs. Threads scenario. Mastodon was more established, federated, and free. But FB decides it wants to eat Twitter’s lunch, and threads becomes the fastest growing app in history.
If the two assholes behind both twitter and Facebook decide they want to “disrupt” the current sharing of code, they both have their hands on the lever the close those floodgates and hoard the AI advancements. Look how far AI has come lately. And we’re still in the early stages.
If in the next, say, two years, (which is an incredibly long time in tech), both open AI and meta’s AI both close up shop to protect their primary driving force (profit…and they absolutely will as soon as they want), the open source revolution you’re clinging to will more or less become irrelevant. Look how much the internet changed from its early days. And social media is similar. As soon as the power is realized, the market is cornered and money talks. How can you imagine anything different will happen this time?
You read this article, it was saying very clearly this tech was attempted to be used for evil. AND ITS STILL BRAND NEW. They were trying to screw all future actors out of their faces and voices. And these are still very early days.
I just don’t have any faith in favorable laws being written to protect us, I don’t have faith in the companies with their hands on the trigger, I don’t have faith in our current world ever transitioning to a post-work world. How can anything in the past…forty years make you think this is possible without revolution? Look at every single trend.
I dunno where you are located, but in my country, thinking we can get the government to seriously look out for us in the face of massive paradigm shift is…foolish. And in your country, maybe that’s possible, but this tech will hurt a lot of people because of the state of politics in a lot of the world. Capitalist mindset just won’t let go so easily.
