Author: Olivia

From what I’ve seen at least the majority of posts here are from America. I live in Sweden with laws regarding paid leave, overtime etc that compared to what I see on here are amazing. Even me living in this “utopia” still wants to work towards better mental health, less burnout from work and a better work environment in our country so I can’t imagine how working in America etc would be. You work crazy hours without any guarantied paid leave to barely afford anything? The medicine is expensive, you can't leave your job because then you no longer have health insurance, large gaps between classes, no legally entitled paid vacation, no paid parental leave, etc. Lots of shady schemes that makes life harder and millionaires richer in my opinion?

Every other argument for AI generated art is how people who might know how to write a good story don't have to learn how to draw and so on. Basically, how AI is abolishing obstacles in your way and not creating them, but there is one enormous obstacle that artists face even when AI is not introduced yet and that's competition. Competition between each other won't be a problem, but the biggest problem is “unequal competition” where one party has resources to increase its marketing and popularity. This group doesn't care about additional “poor” competition because they will still be playing with other rich companies and the new competition will bury each other. There are many other factors that may surface in the future for example people may enjoy “human created” art more but still this will reduce the requierment for skill of an artist which could be attained by…

Organization is the major problem to overcome (maybe build/utilize an AI for that), but maybe we can collaborate to replace the upper class with cheap AI. All the jobs are going to disappear anyway, and those at the top aren’t going to let go of their power easily. We ought to make them obsolete.

I want to start this by making it known that whenever I start new job I give maximum effort to do my jobs to the very best of my ability, usually using a lot of free time learning everything I can about a given role to perform it with maximum efficiency. I have always been annoyed when I would see coworker’s putting in half the effort as I would, constantly thinking they need to do more. Looking back at previous roles I am realising that I was the stupid one, I would always be paid the highest but put out double the work. 50p extra an hour for double the work is silly and I am now seeing that I didn’t actually benefit from this as it would quickly lead to burnout and resentment of “lazy” coworkers. They always seemed happy, less stressed and have an overall better time at…