All of this is true, and in addition, when we stop using AI art, it stops using water and electricity, but if we stop using human artists, the human still exists and has needs that must be met.

It seems so simple and yet people keep trying to make it so freaking complicated.

It’s the AI in medical insurance that’s literally killing people. Older and chronically ill people are disproportionately impacted. _My god_we need to regulate AI.

The other thing is that human-created art evolves and changes and develops over time. AI “art,” if it becomes dominant, will just be the same thing over and over because it’s always created from a dataset that’s static except for the inclusion of increasing amounts of its own pastiches.

Thanks for underlining the importance of "non-work." Are there any comparative measures of AI reproduction costs, without externalities of course

socialism when?

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