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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

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  1. handoflixue · · focus · HN ↗
    It's wild how much weight "they're destroying jobs" has.

    I dare say that car manufacturers are aware of their impact on the horse and buggy industry. Calculator manufacturers wrecked the livelihood of mathematicians and accountants.

    Technology is in the business of putting people out of work, by inventing better ways of doing things. Or rather, any time you invent a better way of doing things, that's fundamentally going to disrupt all the businesses built around older technologies.

    1. sdcfgy · · focus · HN ↗
      It’s not putting people out of work. It’s making jobs miserable by removing creativity and control from them.
      1. literalAardvark · · focus · HN ↗
        This has not been my experience with AI.

        And one of the chief complaints about AI is that it is fundamentally an interpolation engine, which is to say uncreative.

        At this time we still need to steer it, which is what the discussion about "taste" is about.

        Though I suppose we'll need better terms for various kinds of "taste" soon enough if it's to become economically trackable.

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