You’re welcome to play video games with shitty fake AI voices, but myself and tons of other folks definitely won’t be.
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BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
While we’re at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.
and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 month ago
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
You won’t even notice when it’s done right. We’re still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.
You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven’t used it.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 month ago
It’s not a hard one to dodge. I’ll be fine.
termus@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Steam requires devs to place it right before the system requirements if they use it. Pretty big print, pretty easy to find. You can see it plain as day on the Black Ops 6 page.
ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Thanks for your comments. Say, what industry do you work in? How’s your retirement fund looking?
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I automate business processes across multiple industries (not using AI currently)
My retirement fund looks crap, I’m worried about all of this too but it’s still a terrible idea to try to retain a job when it’s no longer necessary. Just tax the company a little bit less than they saved, and pay people to go enjoy their lives.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 month ago
The problem is that this isn’t happening. Instead it’s greedy board members trying to find ways to exclude every creative artist so that they can hoard all of the wealth for themselves.
Marx predicted that automation would allow the worker to live a more leisurely life when they were maintaining the machines, vs doing the work manually. This is a nice premise, but it turned out to be wrong. Instead, the workers get replaced entirely and third parties come in to occasionally fix and maintain those machines. Automation is not a bad thing by any stretch, but the point of creative work is to retain humanity and emotion. Using AI voices and artwork is counter to that. At that point it’s no longer artwork and is simply a husk to drive revenue and nothing else.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I think you just identified the actual problem, while shying away from identifying it as such. People shouldn’t take issue with ai, they should have issues with capitalism.
IMHO, the point of creative work can be debated, and you’re more than welcome to only be interested in non-ai work, but obviously that differs person to person. Some people might think that creative work is there to be enjoyed and if it brings joy then it’s valid. Plenty of people can enjoy AI work, even if you’re not one of them.
If what you’re fighting for is jobs for creatives, then I think it’s a bad argument. Nobody should be fighting for more things for capitalism to demand from anyone. Creatives should do their work separate and apart from the threat of capitalism, like everyone else. Anti-AI rhetoric serves to make people look like luddites while distracting from the actual problem - capitalism.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s only not happening because companies aren’t going to do it on their own, the government needs to force it to happen, and the people need to force the government.