• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    So we can assume that in the future, only slob written by LLMs will be available. I mean, who would be willing to spend hundreds of hours writing a book when even huge corporations that earn billions from it won’t pay the author a single dime?

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      The trick is not to pay a dime to read it. Even producing Ai slop has a cost. If no one pays for that it must leave a negative.

      Stop buying. Or If you have to buy old stuff second hand. There’s already a surplus.

      Alternatively piracy is clearly condoned here so again don’t buy.

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      Why should this development stop at books? There are already generated books available, mostly children’s books (no one’s thinking about them now).

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        This development will certainly not end with books - countless other creative and intellectual achievements have long been affected. That is precisely the problem with generative models, whether they involve text, code, video, images, or whatever else. All of this boils down to the fact that the already precarious situation for everyone who creates value by themselves is continuing to deteriorate. Professional work in all these areas will undoubtedly become even more precarious in the future, with artists, designers, and writers, who were already in a difficult position, now being joined by industries such as software development and administrative work.

        Please don’t get me wrong: I am anything but a technology pessimist, but the business model of the so-called AI companies is so exploitative and their owners so unscrupulous that, given the status quo (cloud models), I can hardly imagine that this will lead to even halfway fair working conditions or remuneration models for people who create value in the form of intellectual achievements. I mean, this post is a vivid example.