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If an "artist" or "thinker" stops because of this, I question their motivations and those labels in the first place.
by brvsft 2y ago
If an "artist" or "thinker" stops because of this, I question their motivations and those labels in the first place.
- bayindirh 2y agoAfter Instagram started feeding user photos to their AI models, I stopped adding new photos to my profile. I still take photos. I wonder about your thoughts about my motivation.
- brvsft 2y ago[flagged]
- esafak 2y agoThey might be motivated to pay their bills. Weird people.
- brvsft 2y agoRight, people were trying to 'pay their bills' with content that was freely shared such that AI could take advantage of it. Weird people. Or we're all talking about and envisioning some specific little subset of artists. I suspect you're trying to pretend that someone with a literal set of paintbrushes living in a shitty loft is somehow having their original artwork stolen by AI despite no high resolution photography of it existing on the internet. I'm not falling for that. Be more specific about which artists are losing their livelihoods.
- esafak 2y agoNumerous kinds of artists are feeling the squeeze. Copy writers, stock photographers, graphic designers, UI designers, interior designers, etc.
- PlattypusRex 2y agoI guess it's their fault for not being clairvoyant before AI arrived, and for sharing their portfolio with others online to advertise their skills for commissions to pay for food and rent.
- ceejayoz 2y agoEveryone tends to have "be able to afford basic necessities" as a major motivation. That includes people who work in creative fields.
- Drakim 2y agoSeveral of the agricultural revolutions we went though is what freed up humanity to not spend all of it's work producing sustenance, leaving time for other professions like making art and music. But it also destroyed a lot of jobs for people who were necessary for gathering food the old inefficient way. If we take your argument to it's logical conclusion, all progress is inherently bad, and should be stopped. I deposit instead that the real problem is that we tied people's ability to afford basic necessities to how much output they can produce as a cog in our societal machine.
- LunaSea 2y ago> I deposit instead that the real problem is that we tied people's ability to afford basic necessities to how much output they can produce as a cog in our societal machine. Yes, because if you depend on some overarching organisation or person to give it to you, you are fucked 100% of the time due this dependency.
- PlattypusRex 2y agoThe net result was positive in that new jobs were created for every farming job lost, as people moved to cities. If AI replaces millions of jobs, it will be a net negative in job availability for working class people. I agree with your last point, the way the system is set up is incompatible with the looming future.
- Drakim 2y agoThe jobs in the cities weren't created by the new farming techniques though, those new farming techniques only removed jobs by the millions like you are saying AI might do.
- consteval 2y agoConsidering you're not much of an artist or thinker yourself, I'm not sure your questioning has much value.