Sag-AFTRA President: “we're in jeopardy of being replaced by machines”

https://deadline.com/2023/07/sag-aftra-fran-drescher-were-being-victimized-by-a-greedy-entity-1235437292/

by ericzawo • 3 years ago

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chews• 3 years ago

"10,000 monkeys and enough time" has been built.

bshipp• 3 years ago

I use similar analogies to describe AI to friends and family. "When AI attempts to solve a maze, it just smashes into every wall over and over until it inevitably finds its way to the exit."

If it wasn't for high-powered graphics cards AI would still be a niche university research subject.

sneed_chucker• 3 years ago

That analogy is accurate for traditional search-based AI methods, aka GOFAI.

Not so much for neural-net based approaches and the GPU hardware that enables it.

norwalkbear• 3 years ago

Peak content has been reached. They will lose this battle

was_a_dev• 3 years ago

It always suprises me those who have little sympathy for those who's jobs are under threat from AI now, while they assume their own jobs will remain secure

krapp• 3 years ago

If I had a nickel for every time someone on HN claimed programming alone was impossible to automate because unlike common labor, theirs was the product of pure intellect, I'd have a lot of nickels.

Many of these same people, funny enough, also like to say that artists and creatives don't deserve a living and should suffer because art is an ephemeral, transcendent medium that shouldn't be tainted by commerce.

... probably while sitting in their 10K gamer chair.

LennyHenrysNuts• 3 years ago

I have very little sympathy for the insufferable. Everyone else who will lose their jobs, I care about deeply.

noonething• 3 years ago

join the club

marklubi2• 3 years ago

There is so little, quality, original content being produced, it’s just constant sequels and franchise content based on older stories.

Come up with some good new stories like they were doing in the late 90’s and early 00’s.

Very few original ideas, mostly just rehashed/reshaped content. No wonder they’re scared.

TheNewsIsHere2• 3 years ago

The issue of originality in what content is produced hardly seems relevant to the actors themselves. That’s much more about the networks and studios, and writers and production companies.

marklubi2• 3 years ago

Doesn't really matter in the whole scheme of things. The actors agree to the content, they are part and parcel.

xodjmk• 3 years ago

A lot of people are just getting tired of Cis-jointed background actors & actresses. They are bored with ordinary "8 fingers + 2 thumbs" type hands, and simple elbow and wrist joints. It's time for us to center non-genetically-conforming articulation.

Sag-AFTRA President: “we're in jeopardy of being replaced by machines”

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