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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Because that’s a harm to society and economy.

It’s gutting entire swaths of middle-class careers, and funneling that income into the pockets of the wealthy.

If you’re a single-person startup using your own money and you can’t afford to hire someone else, sure. That’s ok until you can afford to hire someone else.
If you’re just using it for your personal hobbies and for fun, that’s probably ok
But if you’re contributing to unemployment and suppressed wages just to avoid payroll expenses, there is a guillotine with your name on it.

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Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Please don’t use the “but it creates jobs” argument.

Me shitting in the street also “creates jobs” because someone has to clean it.

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- PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It feels like you’re directing that at me, but I agree with you, so I’m not sure what tone that was written in
  
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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I think what matters if you would’ve otherwise hired someone. Otherwise I can’t see it making any impact.

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- PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I don’t agree:
  
  Before if you chose not to hire someone, you’d be competing against better products from people who did hire someone. Hiring someone gave them a competitive advantage.
  
  By removing the competitive advantage of hiring someone, you’re destroying an entire career path, harming the economy and society in general.
  
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  - Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    A lot of AI use I’m personally seeing is shit most wouldn’t spend money on or stuff where instead of paying for a stock photo they just generate shit and be done with it. Would they have ever paid someone to do the work and especially would anyone have agreed to do such small work that’d never pay anything reasonable, most likely no.
    
    Before if you chose not to hire someone, you’d be competing against better products from people who did hire someone. Hiring someone gave them a competitive advantage.
    
    I guess I don’t believe in quite as much in the invisible hand of capitalism. I rather think it’s a race to the bottom with companies buying some cheap slop to use on their webpage or whatever from a stock photo company and now people pay AI companies for it, if anyone. Can’t see the big impact of that sort of shit being replaced.
    
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    PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I also think capitalism is a race to the bottom, but I believe it is so because it subverts the value of labor. It’s shit like AI that makes it a race to the bottom.
    
    shit most wouldn’t spend money on or stuff where instead of paying for a stock photo they just generate shit and be done with it.
    
    Then pay for the stock photo. There, an artist is being paid for their work. But realistically the little stuff you’re talking about is the occupation of entire departments in megacorps.
    
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