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>>dredmo+(OP)
I've been finding that the strangest part of discussions around art AI among technical people is the complete lack of identification or empathy: it seems to me that most computer programmers should be just as afraid as artists, in the face of technology like this!!! I am a failed artist (read, I studied painting in school and tried to make a go at being a commercial artist in animation and couldn't make the cut), and so I decided to do something easier and became a computer programmer, working for FAANG and other large companies and making absurd (to me!!) amounts of cash. In my humble estimation, making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done. Art AI is terrifying if you want to make art for a living- and, if AI is able to do these astonishingly difficult things, why shouldn't it, with some finagling, also be able to do the dumb, simple things most programmers do for their jobs?

The lack of empathy is incredibly depressing...

>>meebob+kc
This has been going on for 250 years, and humanity still hasn't quite grasped it.

The steady progress of the Industrial Revolution that has made the average person unimaginably richer and healthier several times over, looks in the moment just like this:

"Oh no, entire industries of people are being made obsolete, and will have to beg on the streets now".

And yet, as jobs and industries are automated away, we keep getting richer and healthier.

>>Burnin+Qk
Collectively, sure. How did that go for the people who's livelihoods got replaced though? I've had family members be forced to change careers from white-collar work after being laid off and unable to find engineering jobs due to people decades younger taking them all nearby. I saw firsthand the unbelievable amount of stress and depression they went through, and it took them years to accept that their previous life and career were gone.

"It'll massively suck for you, but don't worry, it'll be better for everyone else" is little comfort for most of us

>>thedor+tm1
Especially when promises and plans to use some of those windfalls of progress to help those harmed by it, seem never to see much follow-through.

Progress is cool if you're on the side of the wheel that's going up. It's the worst fucking thing in the world if you're on the side that's going down and are about to get smashed into the mud.

>>yamtad+up1
> Especially when promises and plans to use some of those windfalls of progress to help those harmed by it, seem never to see much follow-through.

The poor are economically better off than at almost any point in history; actual food poverty is almost unknown, objectively people are living in better houses than ever before, and so on. It just doesn't seem like any of that makes poor people any happier or poverty any less wretched, somehow.

>>lmm+Bu2
I don't mean the poor, broadly, I mean people who were doing OK, but then aren't, after some major advance in technology or some change in economic policy. For the older ones, especially, "here's some money to retrain" (which they might get if they're lucky) doesn't compensate them for the harm they're suffering so that the overall pie, if you will, can grow.

For people caught in that kind of situation, progress sucks.