House MD is a modern hospital AU of the Sherlock Holmes formula. :P
All modern stories are just AU of the epic of Gilgamesh.
Improved safety regulations for industrial automation would be good, yes. I also disagree with unnecessarily dangerous working environments in the name of profit.
And funny enough, I do follow some tailors on social media that lament the encroaching death of the trade due to fast fashion and unethical labor practices.
AI Art isn't causing the harm that industrial machinery does, but it does cause harm. I can care about both.
And again, you and everyone else are free to do as you like.
Allow me, someone who worked in the industry, was trained in safety practices, and was both MSHA and OSHA certified to inform you of some facts about modern industry in the US.
Almost all of the deaths are user error. The machines are pretty much as safe as they can get, and while perhaps 10-20% could be solved with further safety regulation, the issue is that humans get complacent in their environments, and do something dangerous, resulting in death. The only way to save those people is to use automation to take their job away, so they are no longer in that dangerous environment, or remove the factory entirely.
It's not a matter of "in the name of profit" I've been in well over 50 different plants from 20 different companies. Many of them were co-op ethanol plants. The reason they exist is literally because people continue to consume what they make, as they operate on razor thin margins. If you, the consumer didn't buy any of their products, they wouldn't exist. Simple as.
You can care about both, but please actually be informed about both, instead of just choosing to consume talking points about why x is bad, or why we need to fix y.
They are not even remotely similar processes.
In fact, the way the current iteration of AI training works for artwork and language, it does work basically how humans learn, to a terrifying degree. It's basically a neural network, simulated by large matrices of linear equations which function in a similar manner to how brains and neurons grow connections. It's then given millions of images, and told what is "good replication" vs "bad replication", adjusts it's parameters, and repeats.
Many artists practice by saying, "I'm going to try to replicate one picture every day, until I'm good at it." This is almost exactly the same process. Like, it's so similar, that if GPT figures out how to deal with the memory issue (basically develop a hippocampus for the AI), then I'd argue they need to be covered under certain human rights laws.
In that article the person writing it literally says, "But first and foremost (and for those who may not know me) I am not a AI engineer, a neurologist, a scientist or a lawyer." Hey, I'm vastly underqualified to say this, but my opinion is...
Again, I've worked in automation, and double majored in mathematics. So I can at least read and understand the technical documents for a lot of these things.
I didn't say you had to. I'm providing resources for people who may not have known it's an option.
This is absolutely fair.
For those who want to learn more about making quality AI art.
