Automation makes the common worker both unreliable (relative to a computer) and not cost effective. Its been the death of massive swaths of jobs and careers over the last two-ish centuries, because technology doesn't stop. Its a rather large and complex web of philosophy, economics and the like that isn't super black/white on what's best.
But the problem is that the AI conversation right now is about automation coming for the arts, who considered themselves above and immune to such risks. Its why they said "learn to code" when it happened to miners, because they felt above such things.
So they are whining extra hard and trying to drag everybody into their fight, while they don't shed a tear for everyone else who got fucked by automation.
Its the same problem as always.
Automation makes the common worker both unreliable (relative to a computer) and not cost effective. Its been the death of massive swaths of jobs and careers over the last two-ish centuries, because technology doesn't stop. Its a rather large and complex web of philosophy, economics and the like that isn't super black/white on what's best.
But the problem is that the AI conversation right now is about automation coming for the arts, who considered themselves above and immune to such risks. Its why they said "learn to code" when it happened to miners, because they felt above such things.
So they are whining extra hard and trying to drag everybody into their fight, while they don't shed a tear for everyone else who got fucked by automation.
Amusingly, artists who did learn to code, at least enough to work their own AI art systems, are sitting pretty.
They've dumbed down 'the arts' so far that an AI can do it.