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Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'

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style99@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

What’s the point of bringing up “ethics?” The job only existed in the first place because of technology, and now people want to argue that there is a right or wrong aspect to it?

How about the poor candle makers or buggy whip manufacturers? Should we keep downgrading society just to keep a few “artists” happy?

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card797@champserver.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The term Luddite comes to mind.

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- novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Luddites were not anti-technology. They saw the progress of technology IN a primitive capitalist system and understood that technology would never benefit them, and always be used to subjugate them more.
  
  If technology only benefits 0.1% of the world, and lead to the world dying, does it benefit humanity at all?
  
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DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Downgrading because we want people to stay employed?

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- ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Then let’s go back to ploughing our fields by hand, surely that will create many new employment opportunities!
  
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  - Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Eh, we weren’t paying for that back in the day anyway.
    
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- Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  More importantly, the system we all accept (willingly or not) requires that people be employed to survive.
  
  It's not a matter of wanting to be employed, as needing to be employed.
  
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GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The concern is that the training and potentially production voices are not properly compensated or consenting

It’s not so much that a new tool is used, it’s that it exists due to the artistic product of people who aren’t profiting from the novel use

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