Comment on The activist who’s taking on artificial intelligence in the courts: ‘This is the fight of our lives’
luciole@beehaw.org 10 months agoMoreover, Luddites were opposed to the replacement of independent at-home workers by oppressed factory child labourers. Much like OpenAI aims to replace creative professionals by an army of precarious poorly paid microworkers.
frog@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Yep! And it’s not like a lot of creative professionals are paid all that well right now. The tech and finance industries do not value creatives.
Juno@beehaw.org 10 months ago
“Starving artist”
frog@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Obviously I can’t speak for all countries, but in mine, an artist and a programmer with the same years of experience working for the same company will not be getting the same salary, despite the fact that neither could do the other’s job. One of those salaries will be slightly above minimum wage (which is currently lower than the wage needed to cover the cost of living). So… yeah, there are literally artists using food banks right now.
Juno@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Meritocracy is a myth used to control people.