• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    And it’s a landlord’s job to collect rent. It’s Elon Musk’s job to maximize shareholder value.

    It’s ok if you watch out for numero uno. I’m not expecting more. But you are wrong to think that this doesn’t affect you. You can’t opt out of society. You won’t be able to avoid products with licensed voices. Your taxes will be paying for enforcement against “pirates”. And most importantly, every new privilege for the rich and famous changes society. With every step, the elite becomes more entrenched and the bottom more hopeless. It’s a matter of enlightened self-interest. If we only reject what directly hurts us individually, then the elites will simply build themselves a new feudalism.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 hours ago

      And it’s a landlord’s job to collect rent. It’s Elon Musk’s job to maximize shareholder value.

      Are you really conflating people who make their living based upon their acting skills and likeness with landlords?.. Wow.

      I am asking this in good faith as a neurodivergent individual:

      Could you please clarify where you’re coming at this from?

      Is it that you feel that actors and other creatives are less legitimate as workers than others?

      Is it that you think that LLMs could be a path towards AGI that could save humans from themselves?

      Is it something else entirely?

      Myself, I am coming at it from the perspective of someone who has worked in the tech industry for a while, and is familiar with the underlying technologies and how hyped they’ve been. I additionally personally know several professional actors, SAG-AFTRA and non-union, who have been materially impacted by AI and corpo bad faith in recent years (especially streaming services and game companies). On top of that, as a millennial, I have experienced significant financial setbacks due to unfettered corporate greed and know many peers who are much worse off than myself because of price gouging and stagnant wages.

      My main motivations in AI conversations are undermining hype and ensuring that people take ethics into consideration, while looking at technologies that do have some actually interesting use cases and could lead to other interesting things.