[harerazer]

To be fair, I don’t think its so much about white collar jobs being under threat as it is about creative jobs being under threat. Many creative pursuits are viewed as an outlet of human expression in a way that other jobs never were, and I think this is what is driving the new wave of the Resistance^TM

[Nursie]

I enjoyed seeing a meme the other day (rare for me to enjoy!) that summed it up as something like -

"Having to do manual labour to make ends meet while the robots paint and write poetry was not the future I had in mind".

And I think that sums up the feeling quite well. I do agree that automation in general has not paid off in the way the utopians would predict - instead of freeing humanity from the need to work, we have disenfranchised large portions of the population. That said, more people than ever (in the west) are freed from manual labour, and are working historically shorter hours for better quality of life than ever before. But the fruits of our productivity gains are not distributed equally and it is all too easy to imagine a future in which it is the owners of the smart systems who reap all the rewards, with everyone else fighting for scraps.

[antupis]

I have visited several art exhibitions this year and generally would say that stuff at front page of /r/StableDiffusion/ is just more original and better than some random art exhibition.

[firen777]

>"Having to do manual labour to make ends meet while the robots paint and write poetry was not the future I had in mind"

Thank you for this quote! This speaks out the reason for my innate disgust toward the current "creative" AI which I couldn't quite articulate before.

[0thgen]

it could just be that freeing humanity from the need to work takes longer than we thought

are we worse off than we were before industrial automation? I thought the economics said the opposite (even if we exclude the eastern nations that benefits from western job loss from our utilitarian analysis here -- which we shouldn't)

that meme was really good btw

[WalterBright]

Distributing the fruits of production equally has been tried several times. The result is everyone becomes equally poor.