Except thumbnail artists exists and can be incredibly meaningful to the success of a video. AI has stolen their work and now directly compete with them. It might be a small part of the whole production of a video, but theft still went in to the box, and less money for the working class comes out.
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riskable@programming.dev 4 days ago
What does “AI-pilled” mean? Complaining about a generated wallpaper seems rather nitpicky to me when YouTube does that for everyone now. As in, that war has been lost.
In fact, complaining about AI-generated cover images in general seems rather nitpicky. The actual content wasn’t AI generated, just a tiny little advertising detail.
I dunno: It’s like people complaining about “kids these days.” “Instead of spending a few hours working on a proper clickbait cover image, kids these days are using AI!”
HereIAm@lemmy.world 4 days ago
riskable@programming.dev 3 days ago
Don’t call it theft. Theft is what happens when the original owner doesn’t have that thing anymore.
Nothing was “stolen”. AI just lowered the value of generic “thumbnail artists” and probably increased their value as artisans for those willing to pay for a premium service.
That’s what generative AI does: It makes stuff of mediocre quality that’s “good enough” for the masses. However, if you want something better than that, you have to pay a professional.
My hypothesis is that Baumol’s Cost Disease combined with AI is going to result in the collapse of capitalism. Where bespoke service work (e.g. hiring a thumbnail artist) is going to become more expensive over time while generic stuff that doesn’t need to be high quality is going to become cheaper and cheaper, to the point where it’s basically free. We’re almost there, actually.
dosboy0xff@infosec.pub 4 days ago
It’s not a term invented by critics of the AI craze, but rather proponents (who apparently don’t realize just how insane it sounds). First time I heard it was when an enthusiastic coworker sent this article to me in an email. He was completely serious. Made some off-hand remarks that sounded borderline cultist about people who are “completely misguided” about AI. He’s been sending out emails about AI for a couple years now and I realized that I’ve been watching a case AI psychosis gradually unfold.
riskable@programming.dev 3 days ago
Wacky!
Dookieman12@piefed.social 4 days ago
“AI-pilled” means you.