• Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Technology making labour obsolete is the goal we should all be wanting.

    Attack capitalism not the technology.

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        6 months ago

        That’s kind of the point though isn’t it? It’s not the car’s fault we can’t afford the gas. We need to stop arguing about the ethics of using AI and start arguing about the ethics of the people using it unethically.

        There is a person in that studio that suggested using AI, there is a person who gave the go ahead to do it. Those people need to be the problem, not the toy they decided to play with.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      In practice, capitalism will use technology to subjugate others instead of allowing technology to free us from work.

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      6 months ago

      yea, see i just don’t like how we first automated creativity instead of like, idk, manual labor???

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            6 months ago

            And do you wash your clothes in a bucket, wring them out in a mangler before beating your rugs with a stick to get the dust out of them?

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              And I don’t make my own paints either when doing art. I still agree with the basic original point:

              It is disappointing that we’re currently automating creativity far faster than manual labour. I’m angry that my art is getting automated away faster than my folding of laundry.

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                6 months ago

                The original point being:

                yea, see i just don’t like how we first automated creativity instead of like, idk, manual labor???

                emphasis mine, but this is just incorrect. Technology has been reducing the need for manual labour (or rather increasing the amount of useful work done with manual labour) since the wheel and the plow.

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                6 months ago

                It’s not; you’re just looking at the beginning of automating creativity when labor automation has been going on for over a hundred years. The introduction of new tech is always more disruptive than refining established tech. Besides which, VA is particularly sensitive to disruption because every VA does essentially the same job- one AI can be programmed to speak in thousands (millions?) of different voices, whereas one manual labor job doesn’t necessarily require the same actions as another.

                Also it’s funny you complain about laundry, given how much doing laundry has been automated.

        • Don_alForno@feddit.de
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          And people still have to lift heavy shit, crawl around in dangerous spaces and generally harm their health to make a living.