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| CaptainExplosion said: The problem is they're glorifying soulless trash instead of concept art from actual hard working human artists whose livelihood is at stake because of small minded overpaid CEOs who wanna fuck over the little people. This also shows how full of shit The Game Awards are. |
If the goal is to protect jobs at all costs we should go back to making agriculture and manufacturing 100% human based instead of mechanical
Stop using emails and quitting phones and go back to writing letters, this way we can keep jobs for Postmen
AI is just a tool. People will lose their jobs every time a new technology is discovered and became mainstream. This is just the history of industrial revolution repeating itself. It sucks for artists, but it is what it is
I work as a programmer. A lot of what I do, especially when it involves automation, ends up replacing other jobs. Supermarket cashiers, gas station attendants, bank tellers… all of them have been affected by automation
That's not very different from what AI is doing now to designers and concept artists
Should I be unemployed so more people can have jobs?
It's an interesting ethical discussion, no doubt. But there are more than enough problems in the world to keep almost everyone productively employed. We don't need to take steps backward in technology just to preserve jobs
A better solution than freezing technological progress to simply protecting jobs is to offer strong social safety net and providing high quality and acessible (preferable public) education, so people can learn a new occupation
