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People in animation, film, games, and tv who are being replaced by ai. Heck epic games fired 20% of their workforce, including artists, to replace them with AI. I think those people have a pretty valid reason to be bothered
Epic games says the layoffs were due to economic slowdowns, not AI. Not that I subscribe entirely to what a CEO might say, but there is no evidence that is true. While I do agree that there are some people in animation, film and tv that are being replaced due to ai, I would also say that AI is creating opportunities for others to create careers to the same degree or even greater.
They fired a thousand people, somehow missed the deadlines they didn’t change, and then suddenly said they had to use ai. And this is for something like Fortnite that prints money. Guess what, the CEO manipulated you.
And I’d like to see your evidence of ai creating opportunities for union healthcare provided by the employer…..which is what people are losing. And these are plans an individual literally can’t get, you have to be part of a large group for access to them.
I'm not saying that AI creates those types of opportunities. What I'm saying is just like the industrial age created demand for people who understood how to build and maintain machines, AI is creating demand for people who know how to use and understand AI, or even creating entirely new demand for new technological discoveries.
It's not perfect, and I don't think it's awesome to see anyone lose their job and lose their way of life, but that's more a symptom of capitalism than AI.
So first off not the discussion but also just as a “human to human” piece of advice:
When someone loses their career and is upset by everything that means you don’t have to push back. You can stfu instead. Sometimes not saying anything at all is better than saying “sure that’s awful but…”
Fortnite doesn’t print money like it used to. It has been declining for years and the company’s attempts to diversify have failed. The CEO explicitly denied it was AI driven.
I am so sick of people blaming individual, team, or company level failures on this technology.
I agree that some companies are regretting some layoffs, but I wouldn't attribute it to AI. Our economy is slowing down based on weak economic growth. Layoffs typically happen due to that.
I actually think in the long run AI might cause more layoffs than it does currently, however I think it adds opportunities that didn't exist before to a greater degree.
Like this is a guy who successfully sued Doritos for making a proto-deepfake in 1990 -- I doubt the guy would need much prompting (har har) to talk shit about Claude or whatever
The irony is that the original quote ("The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering") is already relevant to the arguments over AI-assisted art -- turning it into a meme guaranteed not to land with anyone who isn't already terminally online is itself BAD WRITING
How is it unsolicited? If they're meaning it popping up on their social media feeds, then 90% of what I see is unsolicited. You just have to ignore what you don't like and move on.
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