They’re suffering from success lol. Can’t believe anyone has taken OP’s post seriously.

This is nonsense. You are aware that they can shut down their servers at any time they want, right? Even though they describe their costs as “eye-watering” it doesn’t mean they can’t afford it.

As for there being an expectation of being free… lol. This is a very useful tool we’re talking about here. It’s only going to get better with time. They can and will monetise it and you’ll damn well like it!

The infrastructure for self driving cars already exists and doesn’t have to be created. Nor is ripping it all up to be repurposed a good use of time and money.

There’s also generally a trend that newer cities are designed to be more pedestrian, cyclist, and public transport friendly. At least more so than in the past.

Given that, I’m not really sure what the point of this post is.

I had the same issue where my post wasn’t visible until it was about 17 hours old. I contacted the mods but I never heard from them.

This is coming from an account that’s 5 years old with 48k karma.

It makes me not want to post at all, or put a lot less effort in if next to no one will see it.

I’m not advocating for anything to be banned. I’m advocating for empathy, and to raise awareness of the suffering of millions of people for no fault of their own.

How can you be so cold towards a group of people who have brought so much joy to the world?

Adapt to what? Learning to code? Well joke’s on them because the meme AI-resistant career is looking like it’s workforce will be heavily reduced in the near future. Drive taxis, Ubers, trucks, buses, train drivers on your metaphorical train tracks? Soon they’ll all be automated as well, and they will all be fighting over the rapidly shrinking pool of jobs that actually aren’t being automated.

Saying that they should adapt is so absurdly cold and lacking in empathy.

Thank you!

Pivot and adapting is right, but it’s not a solution. A year ago no one was expecting an overnight, mass-scale, art competitor in the form of AI, yet here it is.

Coding was seen as a safe haven, and it was a meme that truck drivers who will be replaced by self driving trucks (drivers still have jobs btw) should learn to code. Well that’s obviously not going to be as safe a job as people once thought either. So that begs the question: what jobs will be safe? We don’t know.

I don’t think people realise just how rapidly, and just how widespread these jobs will be replaced. We’re seeing it start now but this is only the beginning.

The very best artists will survive but it’s not a black and white case of some artists get paid and others do not. Like everything, it’s a spectrum of earnings and I am arguing that a significant percentage of revenue that goes to artists as a whole is now going to go towards those who make AI art.

If you can get 100 options for the same price that you’d previously pay for 1, this will ABSOLUTELY affect people who currently create art to pay their bills.

Getting mad at AI isn’t going to solve their problems but what other options do they have when they are cornered? How will they make a living when a share of the work they previously had is going to start being taken by AI?

This is an entire class of workers, all around the world, that will happen very suddenly with no safety net for them to fall on.

Can you at least try to put yourself in their shoes before calling an entire class of people dumb?

My problem is that the comments are dispassionate and many of them are completely devoid of empathy.

It would be an entirely different story if society was saying, “hey, look, this is going to affect your livelihood but we have this safety net for everyone to fall into. You’ll all be able to live comfortable lives where working is optional”.

But that’s not the reality. The reality is that many artists are going to be earning less and less revenue and there is nothing they can do about it, and this will happen rapidly.

A common argument is that alternative jobs will be created. But what are those jobs? Where are they right now, while people are making money from AI art? Professional prompt writers? One of those can do the work of a hundred artists in the same amount of time.

The comments I’m seeing on this subreddit in particular actually terrify me. I can understand why artists might be lashing out because of what is happening and the situation they are facing. There is no excuse however for the way they’re being talked about here when it doesn’t affect the commenters directly.