• englishlad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is why governments need to get involved legislationing profits from AI work. Shareholders can’t be the beneficiary of lower costs from AI when it means workers lose their jobs. There needs to be an AI specific tax, to support people losing their livelihoods.

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      1 year ago

      I think they are doing the right thing before AI gets firmly set in as the “norm” and that laws are put in place that movies have to use human actors, or they get labeled properly as AI movies so we can skip them if we don’t approve of AI taking over the industry.

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        1 year ago

        so we can skip them if we don’t approve of AI taking over the industry.

        Spoiler alert: Nobody will give a fuck, people will watch AI movies, and human actors will lose their jobs.

        The only question is, shall we tax AI usage and implement UBI? Or watch as entire industries full of people will be laid off? And HOW to tax AI usage? Just implement huge taxes on dividends, stock buybacks and annual salaries and bonuses > 10 mill?

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          1 year ago

          Very true. The amount of luddites in this thread are amazing.

          It sounds like angry old people telling at a car in the horse era. It’s happening whether you like it or not. Taxing it as a special case is ridiculous, especially since it just means you move your operations to a friendly jurisdiction that won’t tax you.

          Happened with a large portion of Hollywood moving to Canada awhile back.

          It will happen with AI. Embrace it and find a way to make money with it. Fighting it won’t do any good.

          This is what separate successful people from failures. Most people are failures because they can’t envision a way to adapt so rail against progress. Those that see an opportunity instead of a problem are the ones they are going to succeed.

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            1 year ago

            the car replaced the horse, the plane replaced the ship, we still drive, we still travel.

            My prediction is that AI will replace the PC like it replaced the typewriter, like it replaced the quill.

            People will still write and act, but it will be a faster process.