The ethical sourcing of the data was your biggest argument against it, everything else is just… Classic “people of ol” arguments when technology progresses. Niche skills dying out when tech advances is a part of life and people will always always seek out and pay a premium for things that are made “with process”. There are no more blacksmiths in every village, but they still exist AND charge an ass load for their skills. The same will happen with AI when things simmer down
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Gen AI from the very beginning has been about divesting the effort and skill of workers to avoid having to pay them for it
No actually, GenAI has been worked on for years now by researchers, we’ve got papers all the way back to like 2010. Companies are trying to take the technology now and wield it like that, but it certainly didn’t start that way
It’s the little sacrifices that make a good parent great lol