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As someone getting an MBA that hates the idea of labor being displaced by AI, if I were an unethical business owner that treated labor as a cost to minimize, I'd use AI to generate content that's "good enough" and use fewer people to make it exactly to my specification.
You know, I wouldn't care about being replaced by a machine, as long as I get UBI. Then I could just do what I like to do and wouldn't need to care whether I actually make money with it.
That's not how UBI is supposed to work. You would certainly have enough time to do what you like, just not the resources. Any money you'd get would only cover the absolute necessities like shelter and food.
According to who? Who defines what a "basic necessity" is? It could easily be argued that hobbies are a necessity.
You uh… you might have chosen the wrong field if you hate displacing labour
Or the right one if I want to "be the change I want to see in the world".
I think that's what part of the Hollywood writers strike is about. AI generating "good enough" scripts, and studios shelling a few peanuts for some writers to finalize them.
And that's exactly how it will be used