I'm so exhausted by the way that every single explanation about the commercialization of human-emulating AI sounds like the end product of someone who started with "Damn it, there's GOTTA be a way to accomplish what slavery had, but without the ethical complaints."
Honestly, I bet if you got some of the AI bros drunk/with a garden hose, they'd straight up admit they'd do slavery too if people weren't going to be violently angry at them for it.
You don't need to get them drunk, just couch it in socially acceptable language and sound sympathetic. Say things like: "It's ridiculous that there are limits on what you can use an unpaid intern for."
oh I had to hear a tech bro openly advocate for work camps for "illegal immigrants" as a "great opportunity for them" there is no cognitive leap necessary for these fucks to get there
I mean, its the same with outsourcing employment. When companies talked about moving customer service to India, it was incredibly transparent what was happening and why.
"In the history of many races, there have often been disposable people. They do the work no one else wants to do because it is too difficult or too hazardous." - Guinan, Star Trek TNG 'The Measure of a Man'
It is a product being sold by the worst of us to the worst of us. People who look at other people as anything other than sacks of warm chemicals to be exploited need not apply.
Except that these "models" didn't just pop into existence, and don't pose for photos and videos on their own.
They've gone from wanting to mistreat a model to actively mistreating a bunch of people who do the actual labor of making these fakes seem real.
Also Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, and Jon Berger all wrote about humans viewing photography as "skinning reality" you take something real and hang it on your wall.
Models and endorsements work due to this effect.
"AI" fake models break this fundamental understanding and appeal.
Exec A: Let's hire a woman to advertise for us.
Exec B: Here's one.
A: Ok but what if we paid her a lot less?
B: This woman will work for less.
A: But can we mistreat her?
B: Yes but she might get mad.
A: Hm what about computer? Be rude to it, don't pay it?
B: Done.
AI chatbots don't say things like "that's not enough pay for my work," or "that's harassment," or "we're forming a union."
I'm guessing that's what the guy meant by "talk back."
or "all due respect, sir, that's a stupid idea" or "you're asking the impossible" or "maybe with an unlimited budget and five years, but by next week and on a shoestring? not happening"
what they want to hear is "the Mars project is ahead of schedule and under budget, just as per your genius plan"
it doesn't matter if their ridiculous asks are unachievable; the important thing is feeling like they are absolutely in charge and in control
even if the box does NOTHING, even if everything outside its purview is an absolute trainwreck, it's working perfectly fine so long as it strokes their egos
“Pay no attention to these hypocrites, Neo. To deny the impulse to create subservient women who make us money is to deny the very thing that makes us male capitalists.”
I hear "Making a fake AI woman was so much cheaper than trying to hour a real one!", and all that says to me is that somewhere, that's a whole bunch of people who are stuck doing the actual grunt work of making and maintaining the cg woman, and they're not getting paid fairly.
