No, this is not a Black Mirror episode.
- ParsnipWitch ( @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ) 34•1 year ago
A typical point that I severely miss from most discussions about AI is what it means for future artists or, in this case, future actors. And therefore what it means for us as a society.
By taking the art from the artists, regardless of whether it’s an actor, illustrator, author, etc…, the way it is done currently, we will see much fewer people who will even try to learn these skills, or share them. At some point there won’t be anything new anymore.
- effingjoe ( @effingjoe@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Maybe I’m overlooking something, but isn’t the actual change that doing these things will no longer be a viable way to earn a living?
- 0xtero ( @0xtero@kbin.social ) 31•1 year ago
Copyright needs reforms, it’s broken as fuck.
The music and film industry have been exploiting this for decades and changing the entire model to a system where artists don’t hold copyrights or get compensated for their work, content or (soon) bodies. Art does not enter the public domain anymore. Greed is all there is.
Burn it all down.
- Bipta ( @Bipta@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Copyright law? Oh you mean Disney Protection Law?
- delawen ( @delawen@kbin.social ) 19•1 year ago
We are doing all the AI thing wrong. We were supposed to be replacing hard repetitive manual work with technology. Not replace the art creation.
puts on Obi-Wan’s beard
“Technology, you were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the need for work, not join them! Let us focus on culture and enlightment, not leave us with the hard manual work!”
- Kyval ( @Kyval@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
We were supposed to be replacing hard repetitive manual work with technology.
That already happened, for the most part, 30-40 years ago in manufacturing and industrial applications. Factories employ a fraction of people they did before the 80s.
- ParsnipWitch ( @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
There is still a lot of hard manual (and underpaid) work left that AI and robotics sadly did not replace. Instead it seems to go for the jobs some people actually might enjoy first.
I feel online platforms like the Fediverse are a conceivably bad place to discuss this, though. Because I assume a lot of people here do work in technical jobs they often enjoy at least a bit.
But a huge chunk of people works in delivery, in warehouses, at assembly lines, as cleaners, in construction, the not so nice parts of elderly care, etc. etc.
- delawen ( @delawen@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
Don’t worry, this is only a problem until they can fully generate actors from scratch. It’s just a matter of time.
- Supernova ( @Supernova@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
So much this, creating actor’s looks and personality from scratch to fit the demographics is an Hollywood exec wet dream.
- LennethAegis ( @LennethAegis@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
“I’m thinking, muscular, gruff looking white man who loves his kids”.
- tackykcat ( @tackykcat@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Alternatively, it might be a way to introduce AI blackface. The consumers want diversity? Fine they’ll generate a queer POC, and naturally fuck it up because AI datasets are already biased towards white people
- mPony ( @mPony@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Years ago a music studio generated an Asian pop artist. (I can’t provide details about it because when I web-search for it I get a hundred results telling me how I can do the same thing myself.)
It’s already been done, it’s _being _done now, and we’re not far away from it being relatively undetectable. - donuts ( @donuts@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
The little secret of AI is that it can’t generate shit from scratch. It relies on a large and diverse training dataset in order to make anything at all.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) 10•1 year ago
To put it in perspective they want to have a background actor on set for one day, scan them, then use that forever and not just for that movie. And only pay them for one day of work.
- Guadin ( @Guadin@k.fe.derate.me ) 4•1 year ago
That’s fine. Than we will only buy one movie and get all the other ones for free, since we already paid for one…
- wave_walnut ( @wave_walnut@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
I think viewers need to be prepared to never pay for a film that contains AI-generated assets that steal actors’ looks.
- donuts ( @donuts@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Working people need to all be ready to reject a new wave of AI-powered exploration, the scope and scale of which we have never seen before.
- Mandy ( @Mandy@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
And nothing of value would be lost
- deaf_fish ( @deaf_fish@lemm.ee ) 0•1 year ago
I mean, yeah, no kidding. If my employer could get my skills at a fraction of the price, I would be out of a job before lunch.