HN isn't the only community to write for. While most people here seem to be unsympathetic to such job concerns, unconventional articles do hit the front page from time to time.
The get rich at any cost type like to post on these articles at a higher rate I think. When you read a larger and broad range of HN posts you see a substantial part of the population here has concerns about this.
I would as well. It isn't that I'm unsympathetic, it is just that we haven't outlawed technology that put others out of work, and I'm curious why we would decide as a society this time should be different. If there are good reasons I want to know.
Putting people out of work is one thing, that's bad enough and societies should take care to guide change and support those affected.
The danger behind AI and other manipulative technology is that it erodes trust. We already have serious issues with trust in media, and not just the obvious cases of Russian/Chinese propaganda, but also stuff like kids getting anorexia from extremely photoshopped advertising.
Add AI on top and no one can be certain about anything anymore. Say someone distributes a fake "recording" of the US President calling for glassing Moscow, or the Serbian President declaring war on Kosovo? That has the potential to actually cost lives on a massive scale.
Yeah, all that is bad, but those consequences are already here aren't they? Restricting further research just means it will be done in clandestine government labs like chemical or biological weapons except with equipment costs orders of magnitude lower. I can imagine policies that would save the jobs of voice actors, but none that would prevent the wave of deepfake propaganda that is coming.