AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

[Art Waring]

https://www.inc.com/howard-tullman/the-ai-hype-machine-is-running-on-empty.html

Despite years of hype, gen-ai has yet to realize any significant ROI, with news that OpenAI will potentially end up bankrupt by the end of the year. With losses totaling 5 billion$ this year alone (with sources stating that it costs more than 700,000$ to run GPT daily).

Spending billions on chat bots that are prone to BS'ing isn't exactly the miracle product they have been promising. What are the tangible, real world benefits to be gained by tech that can't reliably answer basic logic questions? (look up the "Alice In Wonderland" problem).

Returns From AI Projects 'Dismal', Survey Finds - Register

AI has yet to pay off for firms trying to make it work, plus the cost of projects has raised many times and there were concerns about the accuracy of responses

www.asiafinancial.com

 

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Geez, that's a huge tonal difference in those two headlines.

European news:
"Video game actors are concerned about generative AI reproducing their voices. "

American news:
"Actors are being prohibited from working on your favorite games."

the two articles are looking at different things on the issue...BBC's article doesn't bother to mention that some games aren't covered by the strike nor that picket line that started today outside Warner Bros. Games.

For once kotaku is giving me more info than a non-video game news site.

 

[CleverNickName]

the two articles are looking at different things on the issue...BBC's article doesn't bother to mention that some games aren't covered by the strike nor that picket line that started today outside Warner Bros. Games.

For once kotaku is giving me more info than a non-video game news site.

I was just comparing headlines/taglines. It's interesting to note what each news agency considers to be "attention-grabbing" on the same issue.

 

[Necropolitan]

Look, despite what some doomsayers and people with basic facts are saying the AI revolution that will lead to a bright, happier, ice-cream filled future is right around the corner and we can't let unreasonable complaints like "You need to pay creators to use their work!" or "You're doing the 'Torment Nexus' thing again, please stop!" get in the way of that.

AI is taking power out of the hands of the evil entitled people who actually do the work and thus expect to be paid for it and putting it into the hands of immensely wealthy individuals, malicious operatives, and scam artists where it belongs.

Just ignore the artists being put out of work by mishmashes of their own stolen creations, the innocent people having their lives ruined by fake images, voice recordings, and videos of them, and all the other obvious problems with AI and instead focus on the good things.

After all isn't an easier way of making images for your D&D characters worth all that pain and suffering?

(That's sarcasm BTW)

 

[CleverNickName]

@Necropolitan , a guy on Reddit shortened that whole post to "if you didn't want to be poor, you shouldn't have been an artist."

Except he wasn't being sarcastic.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

Despite years of hype, gen-ai has yet to realize any significant ROI, with news that OpenAI will potentially end up bankrupt by the end of the year. With losses totaling 5 billion$ this year alone (with sources stating that it costs more than 700,000$ to run GPT daily).

If I beleived in a higher power I would pray to see them go bankrupt as fast as possible.

 

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"then don't" there now we don't need responses

It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically

Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.

www.vox.com

 

[borringman]

Spending billions on chat bots that are prone to BS'ing isn't exactly the miracle product they have been promising. What are the tangible, real world benefits to be gained by tech that can't reliably answer basic logic questions?

The irony is that the current incarnation of "AI" was developed to create an artificial society to control at low cost, and it turns out their "AI" is even more resource-intensive and difficult to control than real people.

For now. They've successfully integrated it into society, at least at the corporate level (my god executives are idiots), and the plan all along was to make society dependent on it, quality be damned. Once they get that "too big to fail" pricing power, everyone's going to feel it when they squeeze.

 

[Scribe]

"then don't" there now we don't need responses

It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically

Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.

www.vox.com

You missed the obvious one.

 

[Art Waring]

The irony is that the current incarnation of "AI" was developed to create an artificial society to control at low cost, and it turns out their "AI" is even more resource-intensive and difficult to control than real people.

And lets not forget the disastrous cost to the environment (Gen-AI's required use of water evaporates that water completely, while human use typically "re-uses" water as it returns to the system). Not to mention the ever-increasing strain on the power grid. It is simply unsustainable (and as of now, extremely expensive as you say).

For now. They've successfully integrated it into society, at least at the corporate level (my god executives are idiots), and the plan all along was to make society dependent on it, quality be damned. Once they get that "too big to fail" pricing power, everyone's going to feel it when they squeeze.

Akin to cognitive dissonance, corporate executives are "all in" on gen-ai, but they have no working knowledge or technical expertise, and this results in increasingly unrealistic expectations from the C-Suite, which then results in employees burning out in increasing numbers.

AI is causing employees more work, not less, as they try to keep up with unrealistic expectations.

According to a new study from the Upwork Research Institute, 96 percent of C-suite executives thought AI would "boost productivity." In reality, the employees forced to use that AI are struggling to realize those gains. The result? One-third of those surveyed plan to quit in the next six months. Who could have predicted this?

According to the study, 81 percent of "global C-suite leaders" have increased productivity demands on their employees over the last year, resulting in the majority of those employees either feeling overwhelmed or burned out.