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Yeah, the real difference is that Iron Man did more work in a 3-hour movie than Musk in his whole life.

Chaos makes a coup easier.

I think EU law already prevents this, at least this has never been an issue in the multiple member states I lived in.

Take the case of self-checkouts.

Money is missing from the tally at the end of the day.

In one case, you have an employee as cashier. You can reprimand them, in some jurisdictions even take it from their pay.

What do you do with a machine if money is missing? It may be a tricky customer/thief, it may be just that the machine is not always 100% accurate in certain circumstances, maybe you skimped out on maintenance one too many times. Who do you blame?

That’s why there are no vending machines for certain types of goods, or no self-checkouts at car dealerships or “bad neighbourhoods”. Sometimes the risk component is too high.

Obviously, automation is changing work, and you can make cheaper robots that will be cheaper than working someone to do the same thing. All I’m saying is there is a significant component next to the direct “pay vs. machine maintenance costs” question.

My point is that companies and employers have got used to a ton of leeway with workers, where they can offload a ton of risk to people just because they are employees.

See for example that one case when that US airline wanted to weasel out of honouring a deal offered by their chatbot. That’s them realizing they can no longer just say it’s been a mistake made by an employee, as there is no separate legal entity to push responsibility on.

The same with paying a wage lower than living wage. If they pay sub-living wages, then the onus to make up the rest needed to lead a life that enables you to work long term, thus the risk is on you instead of the employer. If they replace you with a robot, and skimp on its requirements, it will break, and there is nowhere to push the responsibility.

You do actually have to pay them more than minimum wage, if you think about it.

Minimum wage in many countries is so low it’s not enough to sustain a human. You can’t do it to a robot, since it will just not do its job, no matter how many regulators you capture or how many middle management manipulations you pull. You have to pay a living wage to a robot.

This is why “people are still cheaper than robots”. What happens if there’s a 20% wave of inflation? With workers, it’s “we don’t give out 20% pay raises, grow up”, with robots, it’s “here is your power bill, it’s 30% higher to cover for any further fluctuations in inflation, pay it or shut your factory down”.

Robots need breaks too, if they are not regularly maintained they will start to make mistakes, costly mistakes, and they might break, and when one breaks, you don’t just recruit one more wage slave from the fucked up job market, you shell out a lot of money for a new robot.

The real question is, what if you commission a work from another, and they make you something in a completely automated way. Let’s say a vending machine. Are you responsible for what the vending machine does if you use it as it’s supposed to be used? Or is it the owner of the machine?

Why is it different for LLM text generators?

I guess the mods are friends?

They are not even compliance a lot of the times.

They are the equivalent of begging on the street, some of them aggressive enough that it’s illegal.

I guess the big question that lies under this whole debate is “can someone own our culture and rent it back to us”, and “do works of art have meaning and value beyond monetary value”

We prefer “corporate burnout victim” or something like that.

I have a feeling that’s the point with a lot of their use cases, like RealPage.

It’s not a criminal act when an AI did it! (Except it is and should be.)

My simple solution is to cheat.

Grab something like WeMod and breeze through it for the story and ambience.

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels

And kneeling before self-destructive societal standards definitely counts as kneeling.

Thank fuck tho, it will keep electric waste down, and I feel we are starting to figure out you don’t need to spec your game to the newest graphics card for it to be fun.

Their margins are very high on some items compared to the ingredients, their costs are more dominated by other factors like wages and the costs for the location.

How can this GaaS thing be sooo profitable and also such bad press that even mentioning it results in a “sorry we didn’t mean that” article?

Thanks for spamming this to keep reminding me, I am a total slob, and it took me this long to go find my ID card to sign.

I guess that’s how they make a lot of money, selling their own Confluence plugin.

Double middle ear infection, couldn’t let my head tilt to either side for three days, or absurd pain ensued for an hour.

How did I sleep then? Exactly.