![]() Meanwhile, a Twitter rando with an $8 check mark telling a striking TV writer that she should be replaced with a chatbot is basically just heckling, in the tradition of telling laid-off journalists to “learn to code,” or leaving a “go woke go broke” comment on the Bud Light Instagram account. And obviously they take on different meanings in different contexts. IBM’s CEO suggesting the company is going replace thousands of jobs with AI is both a clever bit of marketing for a company that sells AI products and, perhaps, a reminder to employees not to get too comfortable or demanding - corporate owners pointedly implying that their workforces could potentially be automated or outsourced has been a source of power for centuries, and it’s at the core of many labor disputes, but it’s nonetheless striking. Such threats usually don’t have much to say about the important matters of what AI is or is capable of doing, because they’re not about that - they’re about assimilating the concept of an imminent AI into an existing worldview. AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up. ![]() A lot of sunnier AI speculation is clearly wish fulfillment, and so is this. It’s AI as your army-in-waiting just over the horizon, your punishing angel, or maybe just as the thing that’s going to embarrass the people who annoy you online. It’s AI as a cleansing force that humbles your enemies and proves you right - AI as economic rapture. It’s AI as a future vindicator of their hunches about how the world works, and as an extension of their politics. It’s AI as a reckoning, a punisher, a revealer of frauds. ![]() 2cV7BWeVdc- Chase Curtis □ April 29, 2023Īnd in what is perhaps the genre’s defining post, a collage of cartoonish AI-generated bikini-clad women is tagged with the caption “It is SO over.” The “it” here wasn’t clearly defined - Women? Human desire? Some sort of incel concept of the sexual economy? - but viewers got the idea: Whoever or whatever this odd internet stranger didn’t like, AI was coming for it. Hollywood is done for – you might not believe me, but this is AI generated. Triumphalist takes along similar lines - someone or something is done for or doomed or better brace itself - have surfaced whenever new-media generators become available: She notes, “I’ve had a couple of higher-level people ask, if a strike does happen, how quickly could they spin up an AI system to just write the scripts? And they’re serious.” ![]() is already happening, according to Amy Webb, founder and CEO of Future Today Institute, which does long-range scenario planning and consultation for Fortune 500 companies and Hollywood creatives. Vaguer threats, attributed to Hollywood big shots, are being laundered into Hollywood trade publications: Strange that television writers decided to go on strike the same month as television producers figured out that ChatGPT could write a whole season of NCIS in about 15 minutes, but good luck to them I suppose.- Margot Cleveland May 2, 2023 Just saw ChatGPT walking across the picket line- Diego Gwei May 3, 2023 Go woke get broke- Cody McNeil April 17, 2023 let them strike for nothing, cancel them all. Not sure, but their writers are going to find out real quick, someone lokw me could write the opening monologues for all four of them for a week with just basic commercial AI.Īnd they'd most likely be funnier.- Peter Drew May 2, 2023Ĭhat GPT will now write everything. Oh no, Hollywood in Panic mode? Fire up the AI people.- NSFW ART (18+ Only) May 3, 2023 You can see them burbling up in responses to strike news:ĪI will replace you in 2 years.- Jordan Henry May 2, 2023 These are AI threats made by people, against people, in which the specter of AI is wielded like a weapon. They’re what people are worried AI might do, or be used to do, as its boosters proclaim about a glorious and inevitable future with the machines.īut there’s another species of AI threat that’s been rearing its head lately, as the debates around it have become more intense, personal, and immediate - most recently in the context of the Writers Guild strike, in which tools like ChatGPT are playing a central role. ![]() These describe the possible risks of AI as a phenomenon, as a group of tools, and as a well-funded project. There are the imminent and even extant threats: The mass automation of bias, the weaponization of synthetic media, the further consolidation of tech power, human impersonation to malign ends. There are the speculative threats, near and far: AI as the job destroyer that could lead to mass white-collar unemployment AI as the superintelligence-in-waiting with a destiny to kill us all. By now you’ve heard of some of the potential threats posed by artificial intelligence. ![]()
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