{"id":6522,"date":"2023-05-13T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2023-05-13T21:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:17:23","slug":"the-front-page-of-todays-la-times-featured-the-headline-workers-lead-the-resistance-as-ai-risk-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2023\/05\/13\/the-front-page-of-todays-la-times-featured-the-headline-workers-lead-the-resistance-as-ai-risk-emerges\/","title":{"rendered":"The front page of today&#8217;s LA Times featured the headline, \u201cWorkers lead the resistance as AI risk emerges.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The online edition uses the title, &#8220;<a class=\"link link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/story\/2023-05-11\/column-the-writers-strike-is-only-the-beginning-a-rebellion-against-ai-is-underway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">Column: Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writers\u2019 strike shows how to fight back&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch\" data-attributes=\"\" data-quote=\"\" data-source=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-content\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent \">A big reason that the AI hype machine has been in overdrive, issuing apocalyptic claims about its vast power, is that the companies selling the tools want to make it all feel inevitable \u2014 to <i>feel<\/i> like the future \u2014 and have you believe that resisting it is both futile and stupid. Conveniently, most of these discussions eschew questions such as: <i>Whose<\/i> future? Whose future does AI really serve?<br \/>\nThe answer to that is \u201cBig Tech\u201d and, to a lesser degree, \u201cyour boss.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch\" data-attributes=\"\" data-quote=\"\" data-source=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-content\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent \">Matt Nicholas, a 30-year-old writer and WGA member, who was all too aware exactly how AI was going to be used by the film and television industry \u2014 not to <i>replace<\/i> writers, but to undermine them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch\" data-attributes=\"\" data-quote=\"\" data-source=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-content\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent \">Too many executives in too many industries, such as entertainment, tech and journalism, recognize generative AI for what it is: an opportunity to wield leverage over already precarious workforces. There\u2019s going to be a long, hard struggle, but it\u2019s one worth fighting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>I liked <a href=\"http:\/\/The online edition uses the title, &quot;Column: Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writers\u2019 strike shows how to fight back&quot;  From the article... A big reason that the AI hype machine has been in overdrive, issuing apocalyptic claims about its vast power, is that the companies selling the tools want to make it all feel inevitable \u2014 to feel like the future \u2014 and have you believe that resisting it is both futile and stupid. Conveniently, most of these discussions eschew questions such as: Whose future? Whose future does AI really serve? The answer to that is \u201cBig Tech\u201d and, to a lesser degree, \u201cyour boss.\u201d Matt Nicholas, a 30-year-old writer and WGA member, who was all too aware exactly how AI was going to be used by the film and television industry \u2014 not to replace writers, but to undermine them. Too many executives in too many industries, such as entertainment, tech and journalism, recognize generative AI for what it is: an opportunity to wield leverage over already precarious workforces. There\u2019s going to be a long, hard struggle, but it\u2019s one worth fighting.\">this post on VI-Control by user JJP<\/a> so much, I wanted to archive it here.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online edition uses the title, &#8220;Column: Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writers\u2019 strike shows how to fight back&#8221; From the article&#8230; A big reason that the AI hype machine has been in overdrive, issuing apocalyptic claims about its vast power, is that the companies selling the tools want to make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[176,87],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","tag-music-business","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}