I’m starting to believe that AI powered music software is a conceptual performance act by an artist to valorize music made by people.
That’s impressive; it’s clearly English, I recognise all the words, but it conveys no meaning to me whatsoever.
Are you sure you’re not a bot yourself?
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Err, there’s nothing stopping you from doing that anyway. Unless you mean it’s substituting for you not being able to play an instrument?
I wouldn’t have thought so. Pop makers, possibly, but that’s been such a formulaic thing for at least 30 years that I don’t think there are any actual musicians involved in it anyway.
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If you haven’t seen the GPT4o demos, get onto YouTube and watch it. The ‘Her’ era of AI has arrived.
I just opened a beer. What a piece of gonzo journalism.
Imagine that an AI can substitute real humans getting paid 0.07 USD per line of dialog pretending to be an onlyfans creator hahaha
Though OnlyFans currently bans the use of AI, there are plenty of startups like Daniel’s that are developing the technology to replace flesh-and-blood chatters altogether. (Some claim they’re already routing around OnlyFans’ prohibition by having a lone human press Send on thousands of AI-generated messages.) If I accepted the job, I’d be playing a role in the eventual destruction of the world I was trying to comprehend.
I was hesitant to take such an ass-backward approach to advancing my OnlyFans career. But at this point in my journey, I was desperate to gain a toehold in the industry, however small. So I told Daniel I was game to teach his bots how to mimic online sex workers.
I was to be paid 7 cents per line of dialog, with each dialog running for a minimum of 40 lines. For my first assignment, I had to compose 20 dialogs involving sex in public places—10 at the beach, five inside a car, and five in a forest or garden. There was a list of particular sex acts I had to include, as well as a stricture that I refrain from using emoji in more than 30 percent of lines. I had only 48 hours to complete the task.
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I don’t know which side is sadder. The people who have no other “knowledge worker” option and have to work for 7c per line OR the morons paying for “interaction” with an onlyfans “model”.
And yet this will become a multi billion industry.
Think about it… A godsend for all the planets perverts…: Tentacle porn, Furry porn, zombie porn, cannibal porn, snuff porn, kiddie porn, kiddie snuff porn with alien tentacles. And everything totally unregulated, how can you punish somebody for something that does not exist? How to get it under control on a world with VPN?
Sex you mean? It’s already a multi trillion industry and the format and shape changes, but sex was, is, and will continue to be revenue-generating.
But will AI usher in the golden age of „Alternative „ Sex, like stuff that would land you behind bars if it were real.
it is not unregulated. child porn is not defined as a sexual photo of a child. anything that resembles child porn whether an actress who looks young, or AI generated images are also considered child pornography.
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Ok, did not know that, but that just delegates it to the dark web as it is now, only with more options.
This guy lost his job to AI. Says his degree is now worthless, his career path destroyed and his fallback is a retail job. He thought he was financially stable and has a mortgage on took on debts thinking he was in a good position.
Stories in the comments too: "I’m a 26 year old accountant with a degree and 4 years of experience (in a company) and received the same treatment, it’s truly terrifying. It were mostly just data related things that became automated. Data entry, detecting data anomalies, invoice processing, reconciliations, audit scheduling were automated even before I got laid off. I got laid off around when bookkeeping became automated. Welcome to the adviser club, I’m working as a financial adviser now "
“I’m so sorry to hear this man, I too lost my job this past month to AI. I wrote up scopes of work and did email marketing for a tech company. As soon as Microsoft’s COPILOT came out, they let me go because it can just write up a scope of work and create emails in seconds.”
CGP Grey called it 9 years ago:
This reminds me of an old joke:
Two guys are in the jungle when they see a lion running towards them. Frantically, one of the men starts putting on his running shoes.
Surprised, the other man says " What are you thinking, you can’t outrun a lion!!!"
" I don’t have to outrun the lion," said the man, " I just have to outrun you."
So, most of individuals will be fine. A smaller fraction of individuals will be caught up by the lion, therefore society will catch a cold. Since we live in a
Back to Switzerland, the Swiss parliament may have approved a future pay rise for lots of us around here by culling the competition from younger workers:
New students at the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) from abroad will have to pay three times more taxes. The responsible committee of the House of Representatives took this decision by 21 votes to three, stating this would allow the EPFL to benefit from a higher budget in the coming years. Currently, a semester at EPFL and EPFZ costs CHF730.
This piece on FT’s Alphaville (free section, only login required) is awesome. I already stole the aphorism “The future is not a prediction problem, it is a design problem”.
What will happen with the advent of artificial intelligence? There are few better authorities to ask than David Autor, a labour economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has done more than any other economist in the past quarter-century to document the disruptive effects of trade and technology on the modern US workplace.
“There is a future of work,” Autor says. At its core, he argues, is training and arming decision-makers, people with various kinds of expertise who make complex, on-the-spot choices about everything from how to treat a patient with chest pain to how to manage a customer who didn’t like how her steak was served. However, it all depends on the choices people make now about how to implement technology.
Autor points out that governments might choose to use it to spy on their people and companies could simply automate and replace more jobs. To rebuild a middle class, he argues, new technology has to be implemented with a sense of purpose and with humans in mind. “The future is not a prediction problem,” he says. “It is a design problem.”
How can you prepare yourself for the next work onslaught? If the past is any guide you don’t necessarily need to brush up on your computer skills. You need to get better at dealing with other humans.
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I feel like we could be living in one of the most interesting times in human history. The next 10 years should see huge disruptions as AI adoption accelerates.
The next leap should come quite soon too: once AI is embodied into robots this will be transformational for society. I never thought I’d actually live in a time of Asimovian robots, but now I expect something very similar will come in my lifetime.
I feel like I won front row seats: saw the tearing down of the Berlin wall, the dotcom boom and bust, the great financial crisis, the growth of the internet and then the mobile revolution and now the AI revolution and (knock-on wood) also the robotic revolution.
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Perhaps this is the next step in human Evolution.
We Are becoming Aware of our planet as a whole, just as our machines Are beginning to merge with our biology.
Question is: „Will we become Like C.Clarke Postulates in the 2001, 2010 And 3001 Trilogy, where humans And machines Are Like one or will we become the Borg?“
We already had merged in some way with the machines
The memory and calculation capabilities at our disposal are beyond the capabilities of any human in history.
Some years ago I had too much fun in mountain bike and broke the arm (radius bone in 7 main pieces) and got a literal exoskeleton to keep it in one piece 
I was amazed at how the body just “accepted” the foreign objects without trouble. Screws, plates and other metals are coated with a mineral layer that makes our cells to see “bones”. Incredible to see the skin forming a tight seal around a metal bar coming out your body.
AI is not that different to Internet 1.0 o 2.0. You can use youtube to watch comedy or how to fix the car, how to cook or be more productive with software. AI is not that different, it can be used to learn or work, or it can be a virtual girlfriend that makes that kind of man even more isolated.
I think in some ways may have changed evolution and in some ways replaced evolution.
For example, some people have suggested (I’m not sure the data fully supports this) that human heads could be growing bigger due to increase in Cesarean births allowing for larger heads than would have been possible to birth naturally/safely. It is interesting to think that humans could eventually evolve to a state where natural unassisted births are no longer safe/possible.
On the other hand, we can now live in various ways and environments not possible with our pure biology using technology. Even simple things like clothing and shelter but also more complicated things such as farming, irrigation, terraforming, electricity, sanitation.
And other research suggests the opposite:
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