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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 122 points 4 months ago

Miyazaki is my favorite angry old man.

[-] Flemmy@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago

Life is hard when you dreamed of being a chèf but got popular with animation.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

Yeah it sucks for him to have ended up creating works beloved by hundreds of millions and touched and changed lives

he could have made some steaks and shit but oh well

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

Relatable. I'll never achieve my dreams either.

[-] dota__2@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

he's a shitty father though.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago

The bigger problem here is the loss of jobs and we are talking about a huge loss of employment that will affect economies really hard. The future looks more and more bleak.

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

I don't know about you, but I don't absolutely require job for my life. I do require nutrients and shelter though...

[-] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 14 points 4 months ago

Uh huh, so your going to grow and hunt your own nutrients then I guess? Build your own shelter?

I guess you could do all that if you had the money to buy the required land for it, but then again if you had that kind of money you didn't need a job in the first place.

[-] prole 10 points 4 months ago

Do you really not see the difference between food/shelter, things that you WILL die without, and employment?

The only reason you need the latter for the former (and I mean, no you don't but whatever) is because of how society is set up.

Your body doesn't shut down if you don't clock in to your job for X days.

[-] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean technically you are correct, but more in the "it's not the fall that kills me, but the landing" kind of way.

My body doesn't shut down because I don't clock in, it shuts down because I don't have any food due to not clocking in.

And yes, the only reason I need to work is because how our society's are set up. But guess what? I'm living in that society ^bottomtext^ so I can't exactly get away from it. Unless I have loads of, you guessed it, money.

Not to mention that in a society based on trading goods for goods we still need to work to actually get our hands on those goods.

We could go farther back of course reaching the hunter&gatherer time period, but I somehow doubt you want to go that far.

[-] prole 5 points 4 months ago

Why do we have to go backwards? We're the most technologically advanced that we've ever been.

Your brain has just been rotted by capitalism.

[-] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Hah. you can be as "technologically advanced" as can be, if your society still lags behind significantly it doesn't matter.

It's not that my brain has been rotted by capitalism, it's that I absolutely have no faith that we will ever reach beyond tribe mentality.

[-] prole 2 points 4 months ago
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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

All these job people are just barking up the wrong tree. Oh no my 9-5 is gone instead of oh wow now we collectively have less work load and should focus on resource redistribution.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Hopefully Soylent Green comes fast to save us.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

The bigger problem here is the loss of jobs and we are talking about a huge loss of employment that will affect economies really hard.

I would say that's a tangential problem. Because, you know, in theory...

But the deeper problem is ultimately in expertise as a learned skill developed over time and through practice. If you're de-skilling work, you're dismantling the tools by which we train the next generation of artists and production crews. If we were just replacing humans with machines for some route manual labor (like Pixar replaced Disney's old hand drawn animations with a newer CGI look), the result would be a new style and perhaps less tendentious from route reproductions.

But we're gutting the whole process of development which means you're losing the pool of skilled professionals who know how to create CGI (or even flip-book style 60s animation) from first principles. That means sacrificing whole fields of specialized expertise for... what? This?

[-] prole 19 points 4 months ago

"A real labor of love"

Christ. It's like people cosplaying as real artists.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 9 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure Sam Altman even knows what labor is.

[-] prole 2 points 4 months ago

Oh God I just thought that was some random "AI artist." It's so much more cringe now that you've brought my attention to who posted it.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 4 months ago

That will only happen if a society completely is reorganized to get rid of money or if they introduce universal basic income (at a rate that actually allows people to live).

Realistically I can't see either of those things happening.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Or, more broadly, when individuals are recognized as valued participants in the community rather than obsolete expenses to try and scratch off the books.

Realistically I can’t see either of those things happening.

Not under current business and political leadership, no. But with a strong union movement leading a next generation of working class people... maybe.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What about the transition.

Because this will take time to happen, and the thing about not eating because you have literally no money, is it's a rather immediate concern. You can't just wait a decade or so for everyone to sort it out.

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[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Reminds me of how millennials and generations onward have learned less and less maintainence skills to the point where most of us can't sow or fix shit if it's broken because we grew up in a consumer culture where you just buy a new one when the old one breaks. The quality of products have decreased too so they break quicker which gives people incentive to buy a new one instead of fixing.

My parents generation hold on to old items and they patch up their clothes and know how to fix shit around the house but they didn't teach me any of that because the culture shifted and it wasn't really needed.

We are not only losing skills and tactile learning and understanding, we are also rapidly torpedoing out planet into a massive trash heap. Which is a bit of a duh, I know, but still.

I for one have noticed the insane decline in the quality of clothes after covid. It is shockingly shitty now and tears faster than ever. Shirts and leggings I bought ten years ago still hold up while similar shirts and leggings from a few years ago already tear or unravel. It is shocking. I guess this is what will eventually happen to art too.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

millennials and generations onward have learned less and less maintainence skills to the point where most of us can’t sow or fix shit if it’s broken because we grew up in a consumer culture where you just buy a new one when the old one breaks

Planned Obselecence means a lot of modern consumer goods are deliberately designed to be difficult to repair.

More cheap plastic used for buckles and clasps. More glue used in place of screws or latches. More electronics soddered or otherwise made irreplaceable/inaccessible to an amateur. Shoes, in particular, leap to mind. Shoe repair used to be a standard dry cleaning service. It's practically extinct today. Very few good ways to repair a modem sneaker.

My parents generation hold on to old items and they patch up their clothes and know how to fix shit around the house but they didn’t teach me any of that because the culture shifted and it wasn’t really needed.

There's a time cost to repair and maintenance that's often frustrating. I don't blame folks for opting towards convenience. But I feel horrible every time I take out the trash, knowing how much plastic waste I accrue every month.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 4 months ago

I've seen pretty much the same thing happening in the programming space. In another 10 years there's going to be a massive shortage of senior programmers who are capable of doing anything more complicated than the AI, and able to sort out the messes everyone's creating with it.

All the companies not wanting to hire entry level programmers right now is also a big problem for those starting now. I can only hope companies realize AI is not a replacement for a human's learning ability.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Not an AI problem though. Perhaps AI will help some people understand that there are some big ass problems in our society.

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Time for TheLuigiAI.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

With big asses being one of them. Obesity and it's complications are getting out of control. I'm in favor of free glp-1 clinics and then free antidote clinics for whatever terrible blight the free glp-1 clinics unleash upon us in 5-10 years.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Say what you will about the soulessnes of AI imagery (I find it very dissapointing), but this new technology is going to take our jobs argument is incredibly tired boomer-speak that shows a lack of understanding of history and a lack of imagination.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

As a tool, it should be highly useful to artists to help them create things. However, the fact that these algorithms (I don't care to call them AI because they aren't) are stealing people's work and then shitting out mediocre garbage and the people in the creative industry who tend to finance such things start thinking that "these machines can just do what an artist can so why pay for an artist" is the problem.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What if it allows other creative people to create newer works rather than these few people. Could spell a new Renaissance of creativity that didn't exist before. Lots of people have great stories to tell but lacked artistic ability or resources.

One of my favorite things is when people mash up two popular songs and shared it on Napster. Can't get anywhere close to that today without risking account bans on most sites. I say open the flood gates.

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[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 33 points 4 months ago

See this is the (well, one major) problem with copyright.

Imaginary property for me ("AI" goons), not for thee (actual artists).

[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 4 months ago

Unfathomably based

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 months ago

An insult to life is working 12h a day japanese style for the industry. I'm aware that they do things differently at studio ghibli but at the end of the day they are a for profit company making billions like the rest. Labeling AI as an insult to life sound like much bigotism.

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tell me you've never seen a Studio Ghibli movie without telling me you've never seen a single Studio Ghibli movie. Literally every one of them contains some "advancing technology isn't necessarily a good thing and the old ways have value" message. If AI were personified in one of their movies, it'd be a oozing black oil demon monstrosity spitting soot into the air.

It'd be like Banksy doing advertisement for Nestle. It's just so contrary to the message they put out.

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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Bigoted against what?? A machine? The money grubbing assholes who are using those machines to profit on other people's work without giving them a dime in compensation? Who the hell are you defending here?

Studio Ghibli and their artists put in millions of hours collectively to create works if absolute art. Sam Altman just borrowed millions of dollars to rip them off.

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[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago

Do you know the context of the quote?

[-] prole 6 points 4 months ago

Yes, only one thing can be an "insult to life". GOOD point.

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[-] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

While AI is boosting productivity and is amazing, it also appeals to our worst inner instincts of giving in to authority and outsourcing and taking credit for others' work.

Edit2: forgot this is the luddite thread:D

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I don’t see mathematicians pitching a fit that lesser skilled people can use calculators to produce their results. I don’t understand the artists’ complaining that AI allows the lesser skilled people to produce an image of their ideas.

As always, the problem isn’t the tech. The problem is capitalism forcing people into competing with the tech.

[-] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

I don't think you have a good handle on what mathematicians do.

[-] cabillaud@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Nor what artists really do

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[-] simonheros@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t see mathematicians pitching a fit that lesser skilled people can use calculators to produce their results. I don’t understand the artists’ complaining that AI allows the lesser skilled people to produce an image of their ideas.

Dumbest analogy I've seen in a minute.

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