Freelance Solidarity Project

“A big reason that the AI hype machine has been in overdrive, issuing apocalyptic claims about its vast power, is that the companies selling the tools want to make it all feel inevitable …. Conveniently, most of these discussions eschew questions such as: Whose future? Whose future does AI really serve?

The answer to that is ‘Big Tech’ and, to a lesser degree, ‘your boss.’”
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-05-11/column-the-writers-strike-is-only-the-beginning-a-rebellion-against-ai-is-underway

Merchant: The writers' strike and the rebellion against AI

Artists, journalists and screenwriters are leading the fight against employers who would seek to replace them with the products of ChatGPT and other generative AI software.

Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2023 at 5:22pmWeb
Show threadFreelance Solidarity ProjectMay 12, 2023

“‘[T]here is … the very real fear — which the WGA strike is so successfully highlighting — that much of the work that digital media workers currently do, both as freelancers and in staff roles, is likely to be first on the chopping block once these LLMs get robust enough,’ [FSP member @AlexisKG] Gunderson says. ‘Which, in too many cases, they already are.’”

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