It's only a problem if we live in a society where people's perceived value, and thus capability of living a healthy, full life, is tied to their productivity to produce profit for an increasingly shrinking pool of people and organizations.
Which is what we have, hence the problem.
Yes, AI has the potential to screw things up royally. But do not mistake its' exacerbation of symptoms as the true illness.
When you click a button in Unity or Roblox or whatever to generate a new texture, the thing that gets generated comes from a model that could not have been built without using IP. But because it all got chucked into a blender and turned into an anonymous slurry -- and because AI is a politically important growth industry -- the people whose work went into the slurry will not benefit, at all. They'll never see a dime, while the companies selling the slurry will get billions. A lot of those people are the exact ones whose job will be replaced, which is extra painful when you know it was your own work that was used to replace you.
Although in a sense it's pointless to bring up because that milk is already spilt, and it ain't gonna get back into the container.
- Technological advance
- Political and economical fallout once AI starts replacing a meaningful amount of jobs, and quickly
Me? I'm scared. That's it.