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It's also known as "commodification of labour", and AI is just the latest and greatest tool to do it. Luddites complained that the trajectory of technology was
by Xelynega 23d ago
It's also known as "commodification of labour", and AI is just the latest and greatest tool to do it.
Luddites complained that the trajectory of technology was to allow less skilled workers to mass produce goods via machines owned by factory owners, as opposed to helping skilled workers build up and use their skills while passing them on.
Now we have a lot of money and time focused on LLMs owned by a few companies, making it easier for them to monetize low skill labour(prompting versus art/research/artisanry)
- int_19h 22d ago> Luddites complained that the trajectory of technology was to allow less skilled workers to mass produce goods via machines owned by factory owners, as opposed to helping skilled workers build up and use their skills while passing them on. And their complaint was valid from their perspective, but the end result of that process is that now you can have functional and pretty clothing for pennies. It's true that a lion's share of the gain was pocketed by people who owned the mechanized looms. Now imagine how much more of an advantage it would have been without those people. Same thing here. We can - and should - get rid of all the megacorp leeches. But the benefits of cheap automation remain regardless, and it's still the same equation - removing the gatekeeping harms those who relied on it to keep the products of their labor priced high, while benefitting everyone else.