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The most widespread ramification I think is just a continued disintegration of shared trust in the public square. If you replaced your art team with an AI I wo

The most widespread ramification I think is just a continued disintegration of shared trust in the public square. If you replaced your art team with an AI I won’t give you my money. If you lie about it then you’re just a scumbag. If your professional artists are using AI for their own work à la how I use it to generate code, I’m less bothered, particularly if they’re iterating on their own artistic inputs. It’s just a matter of principle. Some of the evilest people on earth are the ones who own, operate, and directly benefit from the commercial proliferation of these tools. They commit crimes against us but see no consequence for which national-level politicians they’ve been sure to own. They’re aggressive in how they buy and corrupt local governments against the wishes of their constituents and the burden of responsibility is diffused because it’s not Anthropic buying your city council, it’s some other corp who focuses on building and operating power sinks that ruin entire neighborhoods and drive up their natural resource costs. The reasons to hate AI (the industry as opposed to the technology) are impossible to ignore unless you keep your head buried firmly in the sand. If one’s moral compass suggests that building a business on deceit is okay then I suspect they don’t particularly care about all of the externalities anyway.

galangalalgol 1mo ago
If the difference between me getting to enjoy some solo developer's vision or not is whether they use the ai, I'll ignore it. Not everyone who can create a great gameplay experience can code, draw, or create music, and the margins can preclude having three different people. The problem you are pointing out is that ai is allowing a repetition of "Engels' pause" where capital accrues all the benefits of automation. Back then the unrest was resolved with workhouses and shipping people to Australia. Also shooting them in the streets. It is hard to predict how that will end up this time.
lotsofpulp 1mo ago
>If you replaced your art team with an AI I won’t give you my money. If you lie about it then you’re just a scumbag. Does this mean reducing number of employees on art team to zero is bad? >If your professional artists are using AI for their own work à la how I use it to generate code, I’m less bothered, particularly if they’re iterating on their own artistic inputs. Does this mean reducing number of employees on art team to a number greater than one is acceptable? >It’s just a matter of principle. I am having trouble understanding the principle. If I interpreted correctly, then what is special about reducing number of employees to 0 rather than reducing them to some other amount.

galangalalgol 1mo ago

If the difference between me getting to enjoy some solo developer's vision or not is whether they use the ai, I'll ignore it. Not everyone who can create a great gameplay experience can code, draw, or create music, and the margins can preclude having three different people. The problem you are pointing out is that ai is allowing a repetition of "Engels' pause" where capital accrues all the benefits of automation. Back then the unrest was resolved with workhouses and shipping people to Australia. Also shooting them in the streets. It is hard to predict how that will end up this time.

lotsofpulp 1mo ago

>If you replaced your art team with an AI I won’t give you my money. If you lie about it then you’re just a scumbag. Does this mean reducing number of employees on art team to zero is bad? >If your professional artists are using AI for their own work à la how I use it to generate code, I’m less bothered, particularly if they’re iterating on their own artistic inputs. Does this mean reducing number of employees on art team to a number greater than one is acceptable? >It’s just a matter of principle. I am having trouble understanding the principle. If I interpreted correctly, then what is special about reducing number of employees to 0 rather than reducing them to some other amount.