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General off-topic chat for the crew of startrek.website. Trek-adjacent discussions, other sci-fi television, navigating the Fediverse, server meta (within reason), selling expired cases of Yamok sauce, it’s all fair game.
The actors’ strike is unique in that compromising on AI kills the existence of their profession. Once their likeness and voice can be replicated by machines, they are all fired and have zero job prospects moving forward.
TPTB will churn out endless drivel at zero cost, pay actors nothing, and drown the world in more shallow, meaningless deepfake AI culture.
They’re going after the arts first for a reason.
They didn't go after the Arts first. They're just able to go after them now. People in tech have watched their jobs get slowly eaten away by automation for over a decade now. And factory workers for longer than that.
The good news is they're still talking, which is a big improvement over the recent status quo.
drown the world in more shallow, meaningless deepfake AI culture
I find the imagery of a bunch of people entertaining themselves to death while non-sentient automated machines pump video into their eyeballs so deeply creepy that I'd like to assume it could never happen on a large scale, since a feeling of "connection" is kind of a big part of art consumption.
But part of me also knows that there will be a non-inconsequential part of society that wouldn't have any problems with it.