Comments by "clray123" (@clray123) on "Jimmy McGee" channel.

@nostalgiatrip7331 Well, be consoled by the fact that some would actually love to be able to live and run around naked in a warm sunny place... but instead they must be dressing up and wondering how to pay the heating bills in a climate where half of the year it's wet and dark outside.
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@nekrovulpes It will do to real artists what mass production has done to real tradesmen. They will be pushed into a niche to manufacture "bespoke content" for the rich while the rest will have to consume the cheap "average quality" content. It is arguable whether the resulting "average quality" will be higher or lower than before the transition, but it will certainly cost less. And looking at history, thanks to technology a "poor" person has been able to afford increasingly more in real terms... not that it could not be inverted, especially with the continuously rising amount of poor people (mostly because they don't like condoms).
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@playerslotavailable3810 The idea (and wet dream) of AI companies is not to build a better tractor. It is to automate the automation. This involves making both tractor users and tractor builders no longer necessary. Driven to logical conclusions, it also makes the consumers of farming unnecessary. You know what happens when there are many people around who are deemed unnecessary, and at the same time an inherently limited amount of natural resources to support them and pressures for the to compete for such. It's not the pretty vision the doe-eyed Sam Altman wants you to believe in.
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It may not fill the whole, but it will certainly fix your spelling mistakes.
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The AI is not really intended to be a tool for the artist/creative person. It is a tool for the manager, which is supposed to (and will) replace the artist/creative person with a cheaper version. Understand that every manager in the world already always plays the "telephone game" - they don't create anything, they tell others to create and upsell their creations. So it will not make so much difference to them who is listening and following instructions (in fact, an absolutely obedient AI slave may be better than an annoying, difficult to handle artsy fartsy type of laborer).
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What's stopping you?
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@laurentiuvladutmanea The solution is, as usual: give your paying customers what they demand, and - if you can - convince them that what you give them has more value than what your competitors (whoever they are) can offer. It also involves picking your battles - the big corporations may have enormous financial resources, but they are usually less agile, full of corrupt/disinterested employees, and as you can see from their poor marketing of AI, sometimes outright moronic at recognizing the overall vibes of the market they are targeting.
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I agree with most of the points in this video, except for one - putting the blame on "free market". The establishment of monopolies/oligopolies like we are seeing with AI (and more generally IT) right now is a very antithesis of a free market. Don't fall for the brainless lefty propaganda - fight for the right cause - the individual freedom (of which there is very little in a communist/protectionist world).
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@laurentiuvladutmanea Sure, that's something we can agree on. And there you can also see the (very limited) role which a government should have - preventing monopolies. But what usually happens instead is that the government (ESPECIALLY the socialist government) is supporting monopolies or creating its own. What can you do about power-hungry entities being power-hungry? It's human nature. Knowing that, we need checks and balances, but these essentially have to come from the wisdom of all individuals, not some sick us vs. them ideology.
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@gustavosantiago1543 No, if you want to say "empowering", you say "empowering", which does not have any of the manipulative connotations that I mentioned.
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Very naive in particular to think that unions (and their bosses) are on your side as a wage laborer. They never have been.
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@laurentiuvladutmanea 1: That's what I said re being poor; an ethical choice may be not to participate - and this is a choice which the users of the bemoaned products/customers of the "enemy corporations" somehow fail to make. In this respect they are to blame for it solely, not their greedy manipulators. 2. Yes, cronyism is characteristic of any totalitarian system. But what enables such cronyism is a strong, violent government (Putin), not so much free market/competition. 3. This is the usual solution implied by the left ideologies (and incidentally, also by right-wing extremists). "The people" need to clean up the place. But because "the people" also need to be protected, there is someone necessary to protect them against the rotten evil world. For example, some wise leader like Putin or Kim. 4. The "climate change" spin (and the resulting nudges to reduce your lifestyle/consumption in favor of the ruling elite) is a significant part of the very propaganda you are happy to assault. You are just too naive to have noticed it yet.
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@jasonmast7769 The expert artists will come from the same place as expert book binders come today.
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@scifino1 No, we do not need any specific regulations, we already have civil law to regulate one party harming another and criminal law to regulate crimes. How such offenses are committed (with or without AI) is beside the point. The only ones who "need" AI regulation are the big companies who are trying to eliminate small competition.
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AI simulated whores replacing real whores? What's so upsetting about it?
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@gustavosantiago1543 The inherent contradictions are typical for any socialist-conditioned type of thinking, of which he manifests plenty. But his argument against the "democratizing art" spin bs was quite cogent - what did you not like about it?
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@gustavosantiago1543 Maybe you have a different feeling for the language, but "democratizing access" does not just have this literal, objective meaning you are quoting, it a common phrase used in political (ironically, often woke/left-leaning) propaganda, which is intended to imply that before the intervention the access was somehow restricted. In that sense it is similar to US (or Russian) troops "liberating" other countries. The very term is slimy and should not be used, and it usually serves to cover up the exact opposite ramifications of what is being done (also very typical for any sort of propaganda, the black-is-white sort of language acrobatics).
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I believe that the point you are missing that the genius of free market is expressed in the people - masses of people - voting with their money. Of course this cannot work if all the people don't have any money to vote with - or if they are successfully scammed into ceding their voting rights to a bunch of charlatans. However, proposing that we fight against free market principles and view tech companies as inherent enemies is very much like guaranteeing that your voting rights will be managed by charlatans. You mentioned Soviet as an outdated analogy, but it is in fact very current. Look how life works in Russia, North Korea, Iran. This is the "strong (populist) man versus the evil companies" alternative that you seem to be indirectly arguing for. It is a big mistake. The blame for the current state of affairs is mainly not with the free market mechanisms or profit making, it is with the people who are shortsighted to be cheated of their future and voluntarily participate in these systems. The only solution is to spread awareness and change the attitudes of individuals. No company is going to make money if it has no customers. You are just falling for their bs and complaining about the results. Note how different it is to government coercion - the government, backed by an armed police/military - can in fact extract money of you even if you have no wish to cooperate. (That by the way, is also the reason why big companies love to get into cahoots with government - to obtain that missing advantage over all competition and their [former] customers.) Overall, the enemy is not free market or capitalism. The enemy is totalitarian thinking and all who support it one way or another. Be very careful not to reinforce it while you fight some imaginary bad guys.
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