alt Hacker NewsWe are witnessing the greatest ripoff in world history. First they illegally scrape the entire history of human text, art, video, then they create products to replace humans, next the wealth of those fired humans is transferred to wealthy VCs and large businesses.
And all the while these crooks are claiming it's so humans can focus on more important things. Yeah right. If we're lucky, AI won't improve and there will be a huge backlash, like outsourcing in the early 2000s. If AI gets better, actually good enough to do most work currently done by humans, well then probably something really ugly happens.
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zamadatix • today at 3:16 PM
A "The Monkey's Paw" version of "I wish copyright law would be handled differently".
I know some would label this view as "Luddite" with derision, but learning some of the background of the actual Luddites, the parallels are hard to ignore. If you're interested, 99pi did a solid episode recently [1].
Yes it's ALSO to a promote a book, but still... there's a lot more to it than just mindlessly raging against a new technology.
[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/552-blood-in-the-mach...