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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:49 JST Cory Doctorow

How the #WritersGuild sunk #AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c?sk=28d4f52322040150651fea37a303b342
#labor #automation #critihype
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  LisPi (lispi314@mastodon.top)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:36 JST LisPi
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  @alexanderniki @cstross @pluralistic Random people is a weird way to characterize the actual people doing the labor.
  
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  alexanderniki (alexanderniki@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:41 JST alexanderniki
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  Employee-owned corporations aren't communism. Your idea of firing shareholders (whatever «firing» means) and giving their shares to random people is.
  
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  Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:42 JST Charlie Stross
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  @alexanderniki @pluralistic Employee-owned corporations aren't communism. (And indeed, the largest department store chain in the UK is employee-owned.)
  
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  Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:43 JST Charlie Stross
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  @pluralistic I think they should fire their shareholders and reallocate their shares to the workers.
  
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  alexanderniki (alexanderniki@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:43 JST alexanderniki
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  Oh, smells communism
  
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  Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:44 JST Cory Doctorow
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  The real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an #AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders
  https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c?sk=28d4f52322040150651fea37a303b342
  #NoWarButClassWar
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  1. The studios fought like hell for the right to fire their writers and replace them with chatbots, but that doesn’t mean that the chatbots could do the writers’ jobs. Think of the bosses who fired their human switchboard operators and replaced them with automated systems that didn’t solve callers’ problems, but rather, merely satisficed them: rather than satisfying callers, they merely suffice. Studio bosses didn’t think that AI scriptwriters would produce the next Citizen Kane. Instead, they were betting that once an AI could produce a screenplay that wasn’t completely unwatchable, the financial markets would put pressure on every studio to switch to a slurry of satisficing crap, and that we, the obedient “consumers,” would shrug and accept it. Despite their mustache-twirling and patrician chiding, the real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders.
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  Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:47 JST Cory Doctorow
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  #AIEthics vs #AISafety
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  #Tescral #Distraction #PumpAndDump
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  Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:48 JST Cory Doctorow
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  For the #AI sector, a 148-day news-cycle about how AI threatened writers’ jobs was a gift from the heavens
  https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c?sk=28d4f52322040150651fea37a303b342
  #critihype #EvilSorcerers
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  1. For the AI sector, a 148 news-cycle about how AI threatened writers’ jobs was a gift from the heavens. It’s not just that there’s no such thing as bad publicity — it’s that this bad publicity was very good for AI’s narrative of being the most powerful, amazing and transformative technology since fire, or possibly language. Here’s how that works: “If the writers are convinced that AI can write scripts so well that they will all be out of a job in five years, then you should absolutely invest in AI technology, because it is obviously incredibly powerful.” And here’s how that works: “If the writers are convinced that AI can write scripts so well that they will all be out of a job in five years, then you should absolutely buy an enterprise site-license so that you, too, can fire all of your workers and replace them with a chatbot.” The term of art for this kind of bad publicity is criti-hype, wherein a critic is suckered into repeating the booster’s own claims, but as criticism.
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  @lispi314 @alexanderniki @cstross @pluralistic You heard it here first folks, Publix is literally communism
  
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  Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 07:00:46 JST Alexandre Oliva
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  hey, that gave me a great idea! why don't we all start using AIs to decide what stocks to invest on, when to buy and when to sell? we'd all get very rich very fast, right? :-P
  
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