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That's the point, yeah? AI will convert a lot of things from demand-pull to supply-push. That's where the hype is. It's going to lower pay for a ton of people.

by muzani 2y ago

That's the point, yeah? AI will convert a lot of things from demand-pull to supply-push. That's where the hype is. It's going to lower pay for a ton of people. That's where the hate is. That's why there was a writer's strike last year. That's why artists have been boycotting everything made after 2020. People aren't disgusted that the AI solves a problem, they're disgusted because they linked their identities to the way a problem is solved. Taxi drivers are still disgusted by Waze, Uber drivers less so.

c1sc0 2y ago
“Linked their identities to X” is the key behavior to understand here. A lot of creative people have linked their identities to activities that are low on the food chain for AI. The close-minded creatives will resist AI because it threatens the identities they built for themselves, the open-minded ones will embrace AI as a tool to increase their creativity.