To all the top comments making analogies about destroying jobs; horses, buggies, calculators... what?! You are awful people. We're not talking about shit jobs, these are peoples creative passions, livelihoods, and life long careers. It looks like OpenAI had nothing to fear. Fuck you.
What if I was a genius and managed to provide enough supply for the entire Earth at 1% of what other people charge, how would that be different? All those creatives, lawyers, engineers will also lose their jobs. Why are they entitled to a job in the first place? Why I can’t do it for cheaper?
So, what are you arguing? If a group of people like their jobs, society should disallow disruption to that group? Why? It seems to me that we may reach a point where machines can replace humans for most tasks, and I don’t think we should try to make that state of things illegal. We should instead try to solve the economics of it in a way that benefits all.
Where is the line for a job that needs to be preserved at all costs because its someone's livelihood and a job that is ok to be destroyed by the advancement of technology. The "computers" your computer replaced were presumably quite proud of their talents and their livelihoods. Coal miners have been fighting for the livelihoods for decades now, but we happily applaud the advancements of technology that make coal mining obsolete. 2D animation artists were devastated by modern CGI and the advancements brought on by computer animation. "The Little Mermaid" employed well over 300 people in the animation related aspects of that movie[1]. Encanto employed over 500 in its CGI work[2]. Should we have banned CGI and prevented 500 jobs to preserve 300 because they were there first? We can absolutely acknowledge that peoples livelihoods can and will be affected by the advancement of technology. But the appropriate response to that isn't trying to stop the advancement of technology or artificially propping up dying jobs. It's finding way to help people make livelihood changes where they can, and helping them continue to afford living where they can't make those changes.
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