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I'm not standing in your path of success, fiscal reality is. If you want your utopia future by all means, but you need to actually come up with a solution.
Making naive comments online isn't a stance, it's just declaring to the world you don't know what you're talking about.
I know what I want. I don't have to care that you think you should stand in the way of people creating new things. If they're not copying your work then it's not a problem. If they buy your book and use it to train an AI that is ethically fine. I don't support the growth of intellectual property laws.
And I don't buy for a second that the world is a better place with artists all fighting to be the next best seller or financially stable painter. The world will turn people will create and I'll argue until I day I die that the best content ever is the stuff nobody is looking to profit from. That's the stuff that is actually created from a place that's pure creativity
So the best books are the ones that never get published? The Best music is free on Soundcloud? The best movies are freely available on Peertube?
Your realize that in order to achieve greatness in a field it takes time, if artists can't live from their art because anyone is free to just make copy of it and to sell it and keep the profit to themselves then instead of making art they'll have to find another job instead.
You might believe that AI will replace them, but AI doesn't understand what it's doing it just regurgitates stuff until the person asking for it finds it good enough. It lacks the will to generate emotions in the viewer or listener.
Yea, I believe those are the best.
Bull fucking shit, you know as well as I do that your point doesn't make sense.
My point makes sense. What doesn't make sense
"The best art is the one created by people who get no recognition for it"
Do you also believe the best houses are built by people who have no training in how to build them?
"Stop paying artists and people will keep creating"
They will, they won't be able to spend the time required to become masters at it unless they're already rich enough not to have to spend time working. It's also the same thing here, let's stop paying plumbers, people who like doing plumbing will just continue doing it. Let's stop paying garbage people, someone will keep doing it because they like it... Oh wait, no they won't.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project
People deserve a form of compensation for their work if we want to live in functioning societies. If we go back to living in small tribes then sure, people will just do what they must without compensation because it's required to survive, but then human population would be in the millions instead of billions and we wouldn't be here to talk about it because the technology wouldn't exist anymore.
They are compensated. But they shouldn't be compensated if their work is used to train AI.
And that's the problem right there
AI is being used as a stand-in to bring in new laws and shape the current mindset. One that keeps everything for sale and builds artificial scarcity. They went after starving artists and creators first. Same tactics that were used to turn people on the right against immigrants. Fear, anger, repetition.
Go look at the old posts and articles. Then compare them to the stuff that was circulating during the anti-immigrant wave. It’s the same blueprint. The media was used the same way. Make people think there’s a crisis. Then give them something to hate.
AI isn’t the problem.
You'll keep saying that until you end up jobless because a computer can accomplish your tasks in a good enough way, not as well as you, just well enough, then because it suddenly affects you you'll be angry about it.
It does affect my job. And no I won't end up jobless. My job will change and I'll adapt. I'll be able to do more at my job with AI and then expand on the work it does. It's symbiotic not parasitic
Again, until your boss feels he doesn't need you and can just rely on good enough shit regurgitated by AI.
Again like I said earlier 'they'll take yer jobs' is more about spreading fear and panic. The panic is never truly justified.
The Jobs will change. Bosses will always try to get rid of employees in favour of profits. Immigrants, sorry I mean AI is not a big threat.
People always ask why trumpets are the way they are. Look at yourself and the fear of this new thing and truly evaluate all the social media headlines and posts and comments it took to bring you here. It's the same process. Same shit different day. The media pushed this fear. That's how insidious they are.
Dude, you're the one saying it's ok to replace paid artists with AI, you're the one saying it's able to do their job, you're the one saying that it can take people's job, you just don't feel concerned because you can't imagine you'll be the one being affected, you're the one sounding like a Trumpist "It's ok, it will only affect others and they're the people who I believe done deserve to make a living off their work!"
I'm done, this is idiotic.
I never said to replace them. I just don't care if they make a living if they don't care about ending information scarcity
It must be nice to go through the world and be so sure of something so utterly stupid. Who cares about reality, I have FEELINGS.
Seriously you've completely failed to listen to literally anything that I said. Give me an example of a novel that was Self-Published that is better than anything that was commercially available.
By definition anything that's good enough to make money makes money.
Give me anything published that actually matters in your day to day life. Give me any piece of created work that if it didn't exist, you just couldn't function.
What is your judgement of what is better or not. I'm trying you that in my life the stuff I've seen the random person create on their own often surpasses the person trying to pursue a career
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