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Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A more interesting “bear case” for AI is that, if you look at the list of industries that leading AIs like GPT-4 are capable of disrupting—and therefore making money off of—the list is lackluster from a return-on-investment perspective, because the industries themselves are not very lucrative. What are AIs of the GPT-4 generation best at? It’s things like:

writing essays or short fictions

digital art

chatting

programming assistance

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They can't what do you think the writers strike was all about??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The thing is, the protections writers won only protected them when working WITH AI. I.e. companies can't hire unionized writers and pay them less because they are using AI. If they can skip the writers all together all those protections go out the window.

I'm not saying this will happen soon or at all. I'm just saying that if the models become capable or generating screen ready material the protections writers won won't matter anymore.