[yifanl]

I'm resigned that it was all inevitable, but also just upset that we spent all this effort learning to automate away the parts of life that are actually interesting first.

How did people decide that writing and art and music and theatre were the things that we needed to automate out? Especially with these fields, it's not even about removing drudgery - the very process of creating is the interesting part!

[thefurdrake]

It has also been super gross to me to watch these infant technologies be thrown at removing humans from creative tasks. The whole point was supposed to be to automate the mundane, boring bullshit so we could do more things involving higher thought, not less.

[seoulmetro]

This is how industrial factories work though. Instead of things like pottery, food and such being crafted it's now just bog standard and crappy. There are benefits in bog standard and crappy though.

[thefurdrake]

There are no benefits to bog-standard, crappy replacements for genuine human-crafted creative products.

Period.

These tools should be applied to solving real problems. Instead, they're being used to solve nonproblems like "how can creatively-bankrupt but affluent parasites extract more money from human creativity while paying as few other human beings as possible?".

It's gross, and it's also pathetic, because the models aren't even /there/ yet. They're certainly gonna get there, but I can't help but feel my future is being robbed at the behest of people who want to remove humans from humanity, rather than remove humans from mundanity, and all we're going to end up with is a pile of statistically-average mediocrity.

[seoulmetro]

No one decided that. Those are just the things with the most quantifiable datasets to absorb and also not quantifiable enough to have to provide sources for their origins.

[brayhite]

I’m gonna strike a guess that the more interesting part is also the most expensive part. Replacing that means saving money.

[Charlie_26]

I don’t believe it’s the inevitable yet. What if it’s shit and you don’t want to see hundreds of AI extras? Never mind an AI Tom Cruise (who won’t be getting any academy awards if he’s entirely computer generated).

[alpaca128]

It's only a question of time when the AI extras seem real enough that most people won't notice (especially in fast-paced scenes etc).

The only hope is that people aggressively vote with their wallets against this, but I don't think this would last long.