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The whole point of automation is to reduce the necessity of human labor. Automation is not a bad thing itself but people view it negatively as it does impact th
by jerojero 4y ago
The whole point of automation is to reduce the necessity of human labor. Automation is not a bad thing itself but people view it negatively as it does impact their livelihoods and that's understandable.
This is a big issue, because I think these sort of tools and technique should be absolutely welcomed. Reducing the barrier of entry and the effort required to produce these works of art is a good thing. And I'm not here to call artists greedy, not at all. But it seems like our socio-economic system is becoming at odds with innovation when it comes to automation. Specially AI that benefits from all the public work that is available!
In any case, this is not really a problem that Netflix needs to solve, this is a problem that we need to tackle as societies; what should we do about it? This is not really an answer I have but I think it's something worth discussing. I do feel like this debate has been mostly unproductive in that there's a side that says "we want this" and another side that says "but you're stealing from artists" without ever really going into the fundamentals of why we wouldn't want automation to be a thing.
- quantified 4y agoAutomation was followed by a reduction in the price of goods. Probably too early to show up in Netflix's subscription price, and of course to keep growing profit there's no guarantee that any user of artistic automation (artomatics?) will drop prices at all. Let's note that the use of computers for modeling and illustration instead of ink and hand has already made things possible that were too expensive before. We've already started down the path, though this was an industrial-sized leap. Art has had an element of creative desire on the part of the artist for ages, and seeing your potency replaced by a robot is not going to go well emotionally.