RT @JustineBateman
Watch this #WGA strike carefully.
Understand that our fight is the same fight that is coming to your professional sector next: it’s the devaluing of human effort, skill, and talent in favor of automation and profits. @WGAWest@WGAEast#Humanism#AI
@rbreich It isnt just greed. There is also change in environemnt.
Shows now come in orders for 10-13 episodes instead of the 24 episodes of the 80s and 90s (and oftren over 30 in 60s). So less work for writers.
Also, when going to Netflix, there are no longer residuals when itr goes in reruns, syndication and VHS/DVD. So need to work multriple shows to make same amount of money.
Large Language Models may be able to pass academic tests supposedly, but it cannot pass subjective prompts. It cannot improvise, remember, or even reason. It's a text calculator, only guessing the most likely words to come next to answer a prompt. And even then, it can't get the ending right when it hallucinates.
This isn't to decry the strike, rather, to point out how stupid management types have become to even suggest this is better than the classic epithet of sticking 100 monkeys in a room full of typewriters and bananas to expect Shakespearean prose over a given length of time. The monkeys might have a shot here.
The 'automation' part of this statement is where you have to be careful. Automation comes, and is almost always unstoppable.
The question it creates is, what endeavors still remain in a field as it encompasses automation, and how does one compensate and provide the means to a meaningful existence to those who are displaced by that automation.
Pardon the term of fiction here, but the future is always a 'brave new world,' and as we create policy to deal with it, leaning liberal is necessary to keep from destroying the fabric of civil society.
Just look how leaning conservative is absolutely decimating the civility of today's society!
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