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So there's an infinite pyramid of "who learned what from who", and payment flows upwards along the hierarchy, all the way back to people who are long dead, and then down to their descendants who presumably inherited their "knowledge rights"?

You can't be serious. Thank god our world doesn't work like that.




It's not about who learned what from whom, it's about superstar economy. If you serve all customers and leave nothing for the rest, it will be a problem.

What do you think why writers and actors have included AI in the reasons of their strike?


> What do you think why writers and actors have included AI in the reasons of their strike?

Because they are about to become obsolete, and they believe that screaming as loudly as they can is going to stop that.

Their chances of success are roughly the same as if they were protesting against the law of gravity.


The fun part about being a strong believer of AI and actually understanding its capacities is being able to tell when people are completely blinded by hype.

AI will not make writers “obsolete”, that is utterly absurd. Would you say reality TV made tv writers obsolete? No? Oh well.

You get what you pay for. That includes what you pay for as a producer…


> AI will not make writers “obsolete”, that is utterly absurd.

Of course. And those so-called "computers" won't make human calculators obsolete. After all, they are as large as an entire room, and by the time they are ready to receive input, a human with his slide rule has already computed three and a half entire logarithms!

Human creative professions have 5-10 years left, if they are very lucky.


> Human creative professions have 5-10 years left, if they are very lucky.

So in that sense do developers have ~2 years left? Code is much more rigid than acting or creative writing and AI seems to be getting there first. I mean if the all-powerful AI can make modern movies than clearly it can handle writing all code right?


Call me crazy, but the AI generated Seinfeld brought me more entertainment in the last 6 months than anything Netflix has produced in the last year.

I think they're _very_ worried and rightfully so. I assume it would be very difficult to cancel an AI.


Maybe you can elaborate more on why you are more entertained, then some producers from Netflix can take note and improve.


Not as obsolete as their bosses/owners have long been.

We make our own rules. We decide what to allow and what to value. If technology changes something, it's because we let it.




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