In my experience it really comes down to the fact that there's some super talented people who, for whatever reason, struggle to make a living from their creative endeavours. I know some insanely talented artists but the reality is their art does not and will never pay the bills. Frankly, not much has changed with AI - they barely made ends meet before AI became widely available, and they don't now either.
But when you've struggled this much, and then you see people able to make art that, on the surface at least, looks reasonably good, with next to zero effort, it's more than a tad frustrating. Especially when the reality is that even the most 'ethical' companies, sooner or later, are going to outsource more of their work to AI. Hell, look at the software industry - programmers aren't going anywhere for now but a lot of companies are hiring far fewer juniors now, because why would you bother investing time and effort into training up juniors when you could just give the seniors more AI credits to play with?
Fact is though that companies are going to continue doing this. Further up the thread someone made the point that there's plenty of genuinely talented amateurs who'd love the opportunity to do VA work, for example, and I don't doubt that, but when you work for $company and you've been tasked with getting some voice lines done, it's way, way easier to just throw the lines into ElevenLabs, get something 'good enough' and move onto the next item than go through all of the processes to hire a VA (including finding them, auditioning, hoping they've got a decent setup that actually sounds any good etc) with none of the risk of a VA attached to your product doing something that brings your company into disrepute.
Plus the other bonus - if a year from now, you need to change a line, you just run it through the AI again. No need to hire the VA for another session, and hope they're still available and willing to work with you.
As for how we solve this, I'm not sure honestly. I think the concept of a minimum basic income isn't a bad one, but I'm still a tad unsure about how a society based around that would even function.
But when you've struggled this much, and then you see people able to make art that, on the surface at least, looks reasonably good, with next to zero effort, it's more than a tad frustrating. Especially when the reality is that even the most 'ethical' companies, sooner or later, are going to outsource more of their work to AI. Hell, look at the software industry - programmers aren't going anywhere for now but a lot of companies are hiring far fewer juniors now, because why would you bother investing time and effort into training up juniors when you could just give the seniors more AI credits to play with?
Fact is though that companies are going to continue doing this. Further up the thread someone made the point that there's plenty of genuinely talented amateurs who'd love the opportunity to do VA work, for example, and I don't doubt that, but when you work for $company and you've been tasked with getting some voice lines done, it's way, way easier to just throw the lines into ElevenLabs, get something 'good enough' and move onto the next item than go through all of the processes to hire a VA (including finding them, auditioning, hoping they've got a decent setup that actually sounds any good etc) with none of the risk of a VA attached to your product doing something that brings your company into disrepute.
Plus the other bonus - if a year from now, you need to change a line, you just run it through the AI again. No need to hire the VA for another session, and hope they're still available and willing to work with you.
As for how we solve this, I'm not sure honestly. I think the concept of a minimum basic income isn't a bad one, but I'm still a tad unsure about how a society based around that would even function.
