AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

[Henadic Theologian]

A whole lot of these “AI is awesome really” takes seem to utterly fail to take the current reality of economics into account. Unless you have a great job with great benefits, you’re SOL and out-of-pocket on healthcare. AI won’t help you. The people with the money will continue to leverage their wealth to make more. They will never allow programs they’ve poured billions into to serve the poor for free. AI is a cost cutting measure. It will be used to replace workers. To save the corporations billions. Not benefit the poor. It’s wild that anyone would think greedy corporations would suddenly turn humanitarian.

Yes, AI in utopian sci-fi works that way. And maybe someday we’ll live in a utopian sci-fi future, but we sure as hell don’t live there now.

I'm Canadian, with OHIP, so my POV on AI is likely very different from Americans.

 

[Scribe]

I'm Canadian, with OHIP, so my POV on AI is likely very different from Americans.

Healthcare, as a Canadian myself, is literally the last of my concerns with AI.

 

[Zardnaar]

Think it's because we hang out on a creative forum and now it's potentially hitting them vs the last 40 odd years when manual type jobs were automated.

No one seems to have issues with Amazon or buying cars from companies using robotics. Or your PC/phone one uses to type here.

I'm not pro AI it's somewhat amusing how people are selective in what they care about.

Any solutions we can't early talk about here so one can really only complain.

 

[Scribe]

Any solutions we can't early talk about here so one can really only complain.

I dont think thats quite accurate. What solutions exist that are remotely realistic, to a scenario where massive numbers of jobs in sectors dominated by educated people, where the cost of living is already borderline impossible to maintain on a single income, are lost to the lowest common denominator of companies and governments pushing AI?

 

[Zardnaar]

I dont think thats quite accurate. What solutions exist that are remotely realistic, to a scenario where massive numbers of jobs in sectors dominated by educated people, where the cost of living is already borderline impossible to maintain on a single income, are lost to the lowest common denominator of companies and governments pushing AI?

Viable solutions involve politics either regulation or more extreme measures.

Either is essentially banned here beyond vague " they should do this" type sentiments.

 

[Scribe]

Viable solutions involve politics either regulation or more extreme measures.

Either is essentially banned here beyond vague " they should do this" type sentiments.

I mean...I guess, but I dont think I've seen "Governments will need to bring in monthly guaranteed income." get mod flagged.

 

[Zardnaar]

I mean...I guess, but I dont think I've seen "Governments will need to bring in monthly guaranteed income." get mod flagged.

Sort of but that falls under "vague get well sentiments". Big problem right now is cheap housing. Pretty much everything else is derived from that.

 

[lynnfredricks]

Viable solutions involve politics either regulation or more extreme measures.

Either is essentially banned here beyond vague " they should do this" type sentiments.

I think while there seems to be no intellectual property protection for the output gives us a very short moment to consider other factors.

I predict that once appropriate lawsuits are pursued, we will see some additional protection. For example, any training derived from non-permitted learning materials should be considered a violation of copyright law, and therefore if AI creators want to keep their AIs active, they will either have to license appropriately or, have some way to remove that training (and in absence of that, shut down).

There's also the issue of compromised AIs and plain language descriptions of logic programmed to override any training.

 

[Scribe]

Big problem right now is cheap housing. Pretty much everything else is derived from that.

lol, my immediate response to that proves your point, so I suppose thats that.

 

[trappedslider]

(and in absence of that, shut down).

and that's what a number of folks want.