Members of SAG-AFTRA and the National Association of Voice Actors united at San Diego Comic-Con to address artificial intelligence and how it can harm creators.
Members of SAG-AFTRA and the National Association of Voice Actors united at San Diego Comic-Con to address artificial intelligence and how it can harm creators.
Why should the government step in for a private business? Especially if it’s one that can be done better and more effectively without humans in the loop? Other jobs get automated - weavers, construction workers, and more. We shouldn’t surrender to Luddism.
Because we need a safeguard for people? We should as a society alleviate suffering. We shouldn’t surrender to dehumanizing, or ignoring them. Although as your comment suggests, we shouldn’t give a shit either way
Find out how to do AI generated content without infringing people’s personality rights, infringing people’s intellectual property rights over their creations, and exploiting workers, and we won’t have a problem.
I question the proposition that any creative work is done “better” without humans being involved. Cheaper, faster? Yeah, and that is why executives are all for it. But it’s not better. Expression and communication are important aspects of art. To substitute that with thoughtless automated content slop is no improvement.
It’s not like cheap t-shirts which, as long as you are clothed, the aesthetics and craftsmanship is a secondary consideration. The aesthetics and craftsmanship of media are everything in it.
We can’t forget that even the original Luddites only wanted to protect their livelihoods and working conditions, and though they were defeated, those fights didn’t end with them. Because it isn’t about hating technology. It’s about the right for a decent life. Unfortunately the benefits of automation are inequitably distributed. Executive profits soar, but the people which used to be employed in those roles struggle.
It isn’t even Luddism from artists to demand approval and compensation when it comes to having their work and likeness used to train AIs. These AIs we see today relied on massive disregard towards smaller creators’ intellectual rights to get off the ground. It’s telling and revolting how considerations towards intellectual property only seem to matter when the affected parties are massive media companies.
Humans need jobs in order to be able to pay for things and keep the economy running. AI is going to cause job loss on a scale we’ve never seen before. These people are not going to simply retrain into a new career and find new jobs. Those hypothetical new jobs are soon going to be automated away as well.
The economy and how we view income generation needs be rethought entirely. We’re headed towards a society where most people will not be working meaningful jobs, if they have jobs at all.