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I don't blame the artists for being so prissy and pissed off about AI taking their lunch. It'll come for me too, I pride myself on being able to write, and Claude Opus is close. Scarily so.
But it'll also come for my actual job too, and sooner than I'd like. After all, I write for fun and public validation. But I do need to eat too.
Sadly, their approach is wrong, not that I blame them. Most artists are already quite commoditized, and even the ones with an established niche won't have it uncontested much longer. What we should all prepare for is actual UBI, even a minimal one because motherfucker, I don't care how many PhDs you've got, it's coming for you too. And if you've got that many, you're probably partially responsible for it to boot. But in the meantime, I chuckle, but do feel bad for them, I too was surprised that AI demolished the creative arts first, and recently I saw some rather creative mental gymnastics on Twitter about the limitations of current AI, which can be best summed up as "See, humans are still better than LLMs at cold, inhuman logic".
We're in for a rough decade. May it end well nonetheless.
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