What's The Next Big Pop Cultural Push?

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I did not.

I’m a basic cable dude with no streaming services. We have Amazon Prime, and I’ve never even watched anything through that service that wasn’t selected by someone else.

…typically by using THEIR Prime account.

Prime citizen please await while Prime agents are dispatched to your Prime House.

 

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right now it's currently

 

[Bohandas]

Let's compare that to today. In our current economic predicament, many people, young people especially, feel as though they will never be able to do things like purchase their own home, pay off their student loans, and their wages have not kept up with inflation over the years. Now someone comes with a new technology that will drive down wages and it top it off it "learns" from examining the work created by actual human beings. Do you at least understand why some people are unhappy?

If they're poor they should be in favor of a technology that drives down prices.

 

[Bohandas]

Look, there’s a whole series of Lego versions of movies out there. Minecraft or Fortnite versions of movies or TV shows wouldn’t be much of a stretch.

They could remake all the MCU movies as Lego. And then do the DC movies with Mega Bloks!

 

[MGibster]

If they're poor they should be in favor of a technology that drives down prices.

And if it drives down wages and the quality of the product as well?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

If they're poor they should be in favor of a technology that drives down prices.

You've made a reading error.

He said drives down wages, not prices.

AI doesn't drive down prices. Waymo isn't cheaper than Uber, it's more expensive. Some AI solutions may be cheaper than employing a human, but that saving is absolutely not, under any circumstance, get passed on by any kind of corporation to customers. It just gets pocketed and sent to some ultra-rich guy's offshore bank, with some of it going to the AI company to speed up climate change as much as possible.

And if it drives down wages and the quality of the product as well?

It's kind of irrelevant because it demonstrably doesn't even drive down prices. And has no capacity to lower the prices of the major stressors in society either - food, housing, health care.

 

[MGibster]

It's kind of irrelevant because it demonstrably doesn't even drive down prices. And has no capacity to lower the prices of the major stressors in society either - food, housing, health care.

I just had a bowl of virtual strawberries this morning!

 

[Bohandas]

You've made a reading error.

He said drives down wages, not prices.

AI doesn't drive down prices. Waymo isn't cheaper than Uber, it's more expensive. Some AI solutions may be cheaper than employing a human, but that saving is absolutely not, under any circumstance, get passed on by any kind of corporation to customers.

NovelAI is a hell of a lot cheaper than hiring someone to write a story for you. Artbreeder is a hell of a lot cheaper than hiring an artist. Suno and Udio will generate over a hundred songs for the price of one album from Bandcamp (though they do have the downside of not allowing shock rock lyrics; but that just means that there's still a niche for singers made of meat to fill; as long as the people who run these services are still a bunch of squeamish pandering cowards there will always still be a place for human artists)

 

[Older Beholder]

… as long as the people who run these services are still a bunch of squeamish pandering cowards there will always still be a place for human artists)

What does this even mean?

 

[Deset Gled]

What does this even mean?

It means this darn thing doesn't work at all!