Post #1251854

2026-03-25 14:23 UTC

@simoncozens @pdcawley That’s just a bad metaphor. There were a lot of other technologies that attacked established job but camcorders weren’t one of them. Those jobs have basically remained the same, only moving from analog to digital. The only affected jobs were related to the actual film, so companies like Kodak certainly saw a significant decrease in their profits. To survive they had to do a partnership with the filmmakers unions with a promise to continue to make analog movies. But the problem with AI is not that the quality is not good enough, it is its economical, ethical and environmental impact that is the issue. It is the amount of spam, the amount of stealing, the amount of energy required, the amount of economic speculation, the amount of money that is given to it instead of basically everything else based on pure faith…

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@antopatriarca@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-25 14:40

@simoncozens @pdcawley And the other problem is that it is only going to increase the profit of the already rich, increasing an already big divide, without helping the poor in any way apart from allowing them to maybe make some new personal app. The governments are then going to use it as a tool for war and surveillance. You are encouraging people to embrace a tool clearly designed for enslaving its users. Forcing them to use a paying service, controlled by very few companies who have shown no respect for rules, laws or moral. Once you bought a camcorder you could do anything with it, OpenAI or Anthropic can change their rules at any time and then you are screwed.

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@simoncozens@typo.social 2026-03-25 14:41

@antopatriarca @pdcawley The first part of your answer explains why this is a *good* metaphor. The second part of your answer is unrelated, but tells me things I already knew. Thank you for contributing.

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