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Someone in media production posted on Stormfront that their entire crew was wiped by an AI company (archive.ph)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Evilphd666@hexbear.net to c/labour@hexbear.net
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Someone in media claiming their entire staff waw wiped out by an AI company called passion Q.Ai

For context I work production in local news. Recently there’s been developments in AI driven systems that can do 100% of the production side of things which is, direct, audio operate, and graphic operate -all of those jobs are all now gone in one swoop. This has apparently been developed by the company Q ai.

For the last decade I’ve worked in local news and have garnered skills I thought I would be able to take with me until my retirement, now at almost 30 years old, all of those job opportunities for me are gone in an instant. The only person that’s keeping their job is my manager, who will overlook the system and do maintenance if needed. That’s 20 jobs lost and 0 gained for our station.

We were informed we are going to be the first station to implement this under our company. This means that as of now our entire production staff in our news station is being let go. Once the system is implemented and running smoothly then this system is going to be implemented nationwide (effectively eliminating tens of thousands of jobs.) There are going to be 0 new jobs built off of this AI platform.

There are people I work with in their 50’s, single, no college education, no family, and no other place to land a job once this kicks in. I have no idea what’s going to happen to them. This is it guys. This is what our future with AI looks like. This isn’t creating any new jobs this is knocking out entire industry level jobs without replacing them.

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If you go to the Q.Ai site it lists 3 founders - all from Pissreal isntrael

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

The tv channels are gonna get a shock when everyone tunes out because they do not want to watch the AI slop.

They think they can do this, but people do NOT like AI slop at all. People don't find it valuable and don't feel like their time is being well spent by watching something that someone else couldn't be bothered to make.

There is a very real calculation of value humans do internally and its basically "this thing is worth the labour someone put into it" and since there is no labour put into producing AI slop the vast majority of people value AI slop as fucking worthless.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

Yep, as someone in the reddit-logo comments mentioned, the production company got sold by an AI slop snake oil salesman. Nobody is gonna want to watch that shit.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I see everyone keep repeating this, but no, some will eat it up. And we just have to hope that group isn’t big enough for it to matter, though seeing how many people on IG like clearly AI-generated bullshit in addition to AI music being semi-popular online, I have zero hope

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If this were true ai books wouldn't be a huge miss that are achieving absolutely nothing, and ai games, and ai video, and so on.

The people that like this stuff are the people engaging with making it. Everyone else is saying "oh, ai" and moving on swiftly.

Freak instances of high quality content get some popularity for being unusually good, the reason they occur is because the rest is viewed as being notoriously shit. Those good ones have value because they are novel, they will not always be novel, when they are no longer novel then their value or interesting-ness falls off a cliff.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Everyone I talk to irl tells me how much they use chatgpt at work

People bought into the propaganda without realizing it

[–] Cammy@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

I don't think they eat it up for more than the novelty. Yeah, some people will continue to uncritically consume slop, but they'll move on to the next trend and it's not the same as people finding a cult classic.

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

In the world of the "multi screen experience", people just want background noise that they can look up and smirk at once in a while.

On the other hand, I like watching cs2 highlights when I can't catch the game, but there are uploaders who automate the editing ("just show 1-second before and after each death from shooter's pov") and very quickly I can tell that it wasn't edited by a person because there is no flow or narrative of the pace of the match. Just "kill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, round end, next round, kill 1" etc.

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They think they can do this, but people do NOT like AI slop at all. People don't find it valuable and don't feel like their time is being well spent by watching something that someone else couldn't be bothered to make.

We grew up in a media landscape before the generative AI era so we value authenticity in our art. But future generations born into this world? They will know nothing but AI slop and it will be produced at unimaginable scale that will engulf everything humanity has ever produced. There is no coming back from this.

[–] Cammy@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

I think if we keep the conversations about art centered on the humanity within, we can prevent this normalization. We need to break away from brands and IPs and instead look at the artists involved. The writers, character designers, animators, etc. Because that's what people come for even if they don't know the creators by name.

I want to see the Princess Mononoke created by the man who grew up in post WW2 Japan. Not the one churned out by an ai prompted by someone who just liked seeing girls riding wolves.

I'm trying to be optimistic, but I think if we're drawn to human connection, we'll continue to do so.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago

This is complete bazinga brain behavior by the owners making the decisions, they're just obviously a bunch of snake oil salesman scamming each other. As others have mentioned, no-one wants to watch AI generated slop, so this is just going to destroy a bunch of value.

It's insane that media is basically doing a mass rollout of Elsa Spiderman content.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I thought you were talking about the actual Stormfront and imagined mecha hitler from wolfenstein

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Haha reddit-logo

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

It's hard to imagine the kind of dead-ender that's still on the actual stormfront when they've pushed the front lines so far into the normie internet

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

Yeah, same--I was thinking "finally, someone doing something good with AI!"

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago

ecoterrorism

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Only possible upside is that the growth of this garbage slowly kills US soft power as they keep producing shit that nobody wants to watch.

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I just got a job as a video operator yesterday lmao

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

jfc the comments cognitohazard

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The writing has been on the wall for a long ass time

It’s really fucking hard to warn people about this because 1) if you post about it online you’re essentially just talking to yourself and 2) people irl think you’re being dramatic

Join the doomers!

Completely unironically, I was hoping that people would staunchly refuse any adoption of LLMs/AI (to the point where they threatened violence over it) and it would just die out like NFTs or the crypto bubble. But since it does have some utility, it looks like it’s here to stay.

Remember the outrage in response to the George Floyd murder? Why can’t we have that all the time?

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

That outrage was in no small part fueled by the frustration and uncertainty of sudden changes brought on by COVID and four years of trump presidency. It was a perfect storm

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it does have some utility

Like what?

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

Increased P R O D U C T I V I T Y

Also, when not hallucinating, outputting passable results for most C-suites and upper managers no matter how soulless

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I should invest in rifles

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

Theyre going to put us out on our asses. Every last one of us. Sure this tech is steaming hot garbage but in 10 years? 20? What about our kids?

This sad society needs to have a real conversation about what exactly is the future we are building. Shit is fucking bleak.

The luddites were right

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

If you haven't already, yeah, you should

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

AI will legitimately and genuinely kill everything.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Skynet is going to tell humans that Q3 profits are going to be awesome if they set off all the nukes.

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

:Vault-Tec:

[–] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In my industry it's clear that "AI" (LLMs) will be used to do a large amount of work that's "good enough" compared to real humans, leaving a small number of workers who will use these tools to do as much work as larger teams used to do without them

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

graeber crying from the grave, since it's not like the displaced will have UBI and the chance to foster creativity and human flourishing.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

The options are the profits being shared to create that kind of society or dystopia where the owners keep it all and everyone else is destitute and it’s looking like the latter is the clear winner :/

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

I have a business I opened a few years ago after freelancing for a decade in an industry that is gonna be completely replaced by ai within the year 🙃

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago

Death to the US media empire

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[–] Halloweenbean@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

This is awful but super useful for small scale content creators.