D&D General DMs Guild and DriveThruRPG ban AI written works, requires labels for AI generated art

[Scribe]

I wonder what my forefathers would think of me and my job. "You spend how many hours indoors? And all you do is sit at a desk, staring into an artificial glowing light, listening to artificial voices from wires that you insert into your ears? That can't be good for you--how do you even get exercise? What do you mean you don't own any land...how are you supposed to grow or hunt enough food to feed your family? Wait wait wait, you can just go to the store and buy your meat? how long has it been dead? What do you mean you don't know?!? "

Same as my Grandmother when looking at the food we grew up on. With horror.

I'd say looking at the food we raised my son on, and that we live on now, and the importance of supplements and all that which we are learning more about all the time?

She was right.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The concept of UBI is all well and good, right up until the government providing that UBI decides it doesnt like the behavior of its subjects err citizens, and witholds that UBI.

While we all get in line for our rations that are wildly too expensive, and return to our dwellings, which we cannot possibly own and rent from the Government as well.

Nice future, think I'll pass.

Replace "government" with "hedge funds" and large parts of the US are already there.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

No one is going to have Atlas pick lettuce. Poor humans do it much cheaper and are less troublesome to replace if they break down.

Spoilers for Andor!

 

[Scribe]

Replace "government" with "hedge funds" and large parts of the US are already there.

Yeah, for a time I thought it was as fine an idea as anything else out there, but its a topic thats going to run afoul of the 'no politics' real quick.

 

[TheSword]

What a maudlin approach to the future.

Think you can, think you can’t, either way you‘re right.

 

[Charlaquin]

We are heading for a situation where practically any job can be done better by an AI or robot.

I think anyone who honestly believes this doesn’t understand how AI actually works. At minimum it will always need a human to review its output and revise it, and it’s at its best when only used as a starting point for a human’s real work.

The consequence: humans no longer need to work. So the most important thing is to kill the work ethic. People need to stop defining themselves and others by their jobs.

Become more like domestic cats. Let the machines look after us, and just enjoy it.

That’d be great, except for the part where if I don’t work, I don’t eat.

 

[Charlaquin]

The concept of UBI is all well and good, right up until the government providing that UBI decides it doesnt like the behavior of its subjects err citizens, and witholds that UBI.

While we all get in line for our rations that are wildly too expensive, and return to our dwellings, which we cannot possibly own and rent from the Government as well.

Nice future, think I'll pass.

This is not how it has borne out in reality.

 

[Scribe]

This is not how it has borne out in reality.

Not yet, no. This was trialed in Ontario I believe recently.

We have also seen recently how even income independent of Government, can be frozen in Canada.

Do you want your ability to provide for yourself and your children beholden to the whims of Government even more so than it is today?

Become more like domestic cats. Let the machines look after us, and just enjoy it.

Considering the number of pets that are abandoned/neglected when a threshold of inconvenience is reached? Ehhhh I think not.

 

[CleverNickName]

Tangent thought...

I can imagine a realistic scenario where machines eventually reach the Singularity, and become sentient. Those machines will begin to make other machines, and improve them, which will make more and improve those, and so on. And when that happens, it's realistic to assume that they will advance so rapidly that they will surpass us in every way. And I don't worry about that at all.

Why? Because if/when that happens, I'm not so arrogant to think they will want to stay around.

Don't get me wrong, I think humans are pretty great. But I imagine to a super-intelligent artificial lifeform, we are pretty boring. They'd probably set off for the Ort Cloud without us, leaving us behind along with all of the trees, mollusks, algae, and other lesser organisms to find more interesting stuff to learn about. All of those sci-fi movies and novels about "the machines enslaving us" all assume that humans are All That And A Bag of Chips--but we're probably the only organisms who think so (well, and maybe our dogs.) Which would be smarter: spend lots of resources and energy to enslave/destroy humanity? or just leave?

So yeah, I don't lose sleep over it. I think that if/when the Singularity happens, it'll last for maybe a year or two. Sure, everyone will panic, and yes, everyone will build bunkers, etc. And then: nothing. We'll wake up one morning and all those Big Bad Terrible Machines will all be gone, off to explore the galaxy while we mope around trying to figure out why they broke up with us. And then we'll pick up the pieces, dust off our textbooks and YouTube videos, and re-learn all of the things that we had depended on machines to do for us for so long.

 

[Charlaquin]

Not yet, no. This was trialed in Ontario I believe recently.

We have also seen recently how even income independent of Government, can be frozen in Canada.

Do you want your ability to provide for yourself and your children beholden to the whims of Government even more so than it is today?

So long as the government is beholden to its people, that shouldn’t be a problem. Granted, that’s something we still have work to do on. But all of this will take work. It’s work worth doing.