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All those writers who'll soon be out of job and/or already are and basically unhireable for their previous tasks should be paid for by the AI hyperscalers to wr
by baq 2y ago
All those writers who'll soon be out of job and/or already are and basically unhireable for their previous tasks should be paid for by the AI hyperscalers to write anything at all on one condition: not a single sentence in their works should be created with AI.
(I initially wanted to say 'paid for by the government' but that'd be socialising losses and we've had quite enough of that in the past.)
- bondarchuk 2y agoAI companies are indeed hiring such people to generate customized training data for them.
- neilv 2y agoIs it the same companies that simply took all the writers' previous work (hoping to be billionaires before the courts understand)?
- shadowgovt 2y agoYes. This was always the failure with the argument that copyright was the relevant issue... Once the model was proven out, we knew some wealthy companies would hire humans to generate the training data that the companies could then own in whole, at the relative expense of all other humans that didn't get paid to feed the machines.
- passion__desire 2y agoThis idea could also be extended to domains like Art. Create new art styles for AI to learn from. But in future, that will also get automated. AI itself will create art styles and all humans would do is choose whether something is Hot or Not. Sort of like art breeder.
- vidarh 2y agoThere are already several companies doing this - I do occasional contract work for a couple -, and paying rates sometimes well above what an average earning writer can expect elsewhere. However, the vast majority of writers have never been able to make a living from their writing. The threshold to write is too love, too many people love it, and most people read very little.
- baq 2y agoTransformers read a lot during training, it might actually be beneficial for the companies to the point those works never see the light of day, only machines would read them. That's so dystopian I'd say those works should be published so they eventually get into the public domain.
- ckemere 2y agoRooms full of people writing into a computer is a striking mental picture. It feels like it could be background for a great plot for a book/movie.
- left-struck 2y agoHave you heard of Severance? This has a vibe extremely similar to that show.
- EasyMark 2y agoLots of books have had plots where a person is training their replacement.
- trilbyglens 2y agoHave you ever read american history? Lol.
- nkozyra 2y agoPeople have been paid to generate noise for a decade+ now. Garbage in, garbage out will always be true. Next token-seeking is a solved problem. Novel thinking can be solved by humans and possibly by AI soon, but adding more garbage to the data won't improve things.
- tveita 2y agoWho programs the tapes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)
- jfultz 2y ago_Thank you_. I read this story probably around 1980 (I think in a magazine that was subsequently trashed or garage-saled), and I have spent my adult life remembering the bones of the story, but not the author or the title.