Cory DoctorowHow the #WritersGuild sunk #AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers
For the #AI sector, a 148-day news-cycle about how AI threatened writers’ jobs was a gift from the heavens
The real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an #AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders
Charlie Stross@pluralistic I think they should fire their shareholders and reallocate their shares to the workers.
alexandernikiOh, smells communism
@alexanderniki @pluralistic Employee-owned corporations aren't communism. (And indeed, the largest department store chain in the UK is employee-owned.)
Employee-owned corporations aren't communism. Your idea of firing shareholders (whatever «firing» means) and giving their shares to random people is.
@alexanderniki you really don't get irony, do you?
@cstross
looks like I really don't :)
looks like I really don't :)
LisPi@alexanderniki @cstross @pluralistic Random people is a weird way to characterize the actual people doing the labor.
@lispi314 @alexanderniki @cstross @pluralistic You heard it here first folks, Publix is literally communism