AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

[Henadic Theologian]

It’s wild that anyone who cares at all about artists and writers of any kind would support this tech.


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I challenge this in court, the AI is still using their work and is there for a theft of wages. If the AI did the whole thing by itself that would be different. It's also not the original agreement.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Memoir writers are the least of it.

Radiologists, lawyers, accountants, all sorts of folks working white collar jobs had better watch their backs.

If there's anything in your job that is boring and repetitive, someone is going to try and automate it. If you're lucky, it'll just be those portions of your job, but realistically, lots of companies will be "ambitious" and try to automate far more of it.

And just because they can't automate it in 2023 doesn't mean your job is safe in 2025. The rate of AI advancement is accelerating rapidly.

So now they can now feel what the blue collar workers felt when robotics took their jobs at factories and other industries? Where were the white collar workers complaints when self checkout took cashier jobs.

AI means the Healthcare system might become more affordable, divorces might not end in poverty from legal fees and so on.

This is awesome news, because the working class benefits, I love these new AIs for once the rest of us stand to massive benefit.

Better, more accessible, more affordable Healthcare, legal aid, accounting, etc..., awesome.

I'm on team AI.

 

[Scribe]

Where were the white collar workers complaints when self checkout took cashier jobs.

My wife and I wait in line instead of going through the self checkout, because that keeps people in jobs, which keeps money going through the community.

Thats the part the short sighted dont see.

There are only so many shovels to go around, and when nobody has money, who even gets to hire the guy with the shovel?

Race to the bottom, Capitalism 2024.

 

[Li Shenron]

Once everyone’s replaced with AI and robots, I wonder who they think will be able to buy all the products these companies are selling?

There will be only premium/luxury products, which the big owners will sell to each other.

 

[Dioltach]

I've been hanging out on various forums for fiction writers lately, and the feelings are twofold.

On the one hand, there's some concern. This is mostly among people with a fairly generic style, or those who use writing tools to enhance their writing.

On the other, there's quite a bit of derision. People sometimes post snippets of AI-generated text and it's woefully soulless. Even if the "writer" spent hours defining and refining the prompts, it's formulaic and predictable - except where it's unpredictable by throwing in confused metaphors, or includes details that contradict earlier information.

Maybe AI will get better. I don't know. But as a translator, I've been hearing machine translation companies claiming for 25 years that MT is "nearly as good as human translation". I've yet to see it make any significant strides.

 

[trappedslider]

includes details that contradict earlier information.

when I used chatGPT a few months ago to better my setting information like character details it pointed out an error that contradicted some pervious information in another section and asked how I wanted it handled.

 

[delericho]

AI means the Healthcare system might become more affordable, divorces might not end in poverty from legal fees and so on.

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

AI will indeed lead to massive releases of wealth - right into the pockets of those who control the technology.

 

[delericho]

I wish I was surprised by the OP, but there's been a clear direction of travel for some time now. And, try as we might, I don't think we're putting the genie back in the bottle - this revolution is probably inevitable, so the question is more one of how we adapt than of how we prevent it.

The answer to which seems to be that the very rich get richer, while an ever-increasing proportion of us become the poor in that saying.

 

[dragoner]

AI isn't the problem it is who controls it. I watched a charlie rose interview with gates a long time ago and he said as much, it is about who controls it.

 

[Umbran]

Sure, maybe company icons and trash films will be mass-produced with AI. But until AI has a new technique in its "creative" process, it will not be able to make anything we consider masterpieces.

They aren't looking to create masterpieces. They are looking to produce work that will sell at a high profit margin. So, that criticism will have them crying all the way to the bank.