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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

OTOH people who aren't in the entertainment industry will use generative AI to make original films they otherwise never would have been able to. It seems like a great tool for individual creators who aren't able to produce images by themselves. Yes, they won't hire artists to do this, but they wouldn't have anyway, and we'll get to enjoy their work, which wouldn't have existed otherwise. I don't think we should demonize a very promising technology because we don't like how some people are using it.

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

This is really the of stuff dystopian scifi.

A somewhat cliched saying comes to my mind when reading this article.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” [1]

Hopefully, there will eventually be pushback against this techno-feudalism and oligarchy. For what it's worth this seems to always happen in history. Ruling elites (in our case oligarchs and their promoters; the media, economists, politicians) consolidate their power and start to become disconnected from reality.

As a side note, it's funny that AI-generated videos have themes of dystopia and rebellion against the system.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just when we think it can’t get worse, some rich asshole has to laugh and say “Hold my beer and watch me enshittify even harder.”

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We also need to start mocking people who watch AI slop.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People don't deliberately sit and watch ads.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tell this to every person without an ad blocker installed

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