> Video games, for example, used to require teams of artists and programmers. With code and art generation, a single individual has never had more capability to make something by themselves.
That may be so, but precisely because of this, a lot of us are gonna be left up shit creek if our indie game doesn’t go viral. The big companies don’t need so many of us any more. Inequality is going to increase dramatically unless we start taxing and redistributing what we all contributed to these massive AI models.
ChatGPT was trained on the contributions of all of us. But it will be used to make many of us redundant at our jobs. MidJourney will likewise increase inequality even as it has the potential to greatly enrich all of us.
If we continue down our current neoliberal path, refusing to give people universal health care, or basic income for anyone not disabled or over 65, and keep calling any redistributive efforts “sOcIaLiSm”, our society will lurch towards fascism as people decide genocide is the only way to make sure they have enough resources for them and their family.
That may be so, but precisely because of this, a lot of us are gonna be left up shit creek if our indie game doesn’t go viral. The big companies don’t need so many of us any more. Inequality is going to increase dramatically unless we start taxing and redistributing what we all contributed to these massive AI models.
ChatGPT was trained on the contributions of all of us. But it will be used to make many of us redundant at our jobs. MidJourney will likewise increase inequality even as it has the potential to greatly enrich all of us.
If we continue down our current neoliberal path, refusing to give people universal health care, or basic income for anyone not disabled or over 65, and keep calling any redistributive efforts “sOcIaLiSm”, our society will lurch towards fascism as people decide genocide is the only way to make sure they have enough resources for them and their family.