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I’m a technology maker. I stand alongside the WGA. Writer’s Guild Association - The WORST News For Cobra Kai Season 6... | WGA Strike Update
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The tech companies plan on letting the WGA just bleed out
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Media is of course created by humans and should be moderated by humans not technology and certainly not those that lead these tech companies for their own profitable gain.
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As a technologist myself but also foremost a creative human, I stand by the WGA in bringing down these companies that wish to not listen and thus pay writers less for their work. If there was some communication at all happening between the two parties it would have been understandable, but the fact that these tech giants choose to remain silent and not be held accountable for their unjust actions proves that this must be stopped and national or legal action be taken as soon as possible
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Creative arts are the one thing that we have left to not
Indeed there are ony two possible scenarios left now: Writers completely leave social media, online streaming platforms, all kinds of technology COMPLETELY. Do not participate in large corporations and start self making media in the ways (and using the simple tools that we call “AI” but as a technologist I can tell you, this is just a few lines of code, indeed “writers” that wrote these pieces of code and you can thereby use this just the way that they use you too) that even these tech giants themselves had started out doing
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As a quantum computing person I have to tell you that those working inthis industry are usually PhDs not techbros and thereby not unethical in the slightest. It is not what the Netflix Black mirror episode is making it out to be and if we were even to get to that point it will be much after I have died
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The people that started computing will not have been proud of what tech companies are doing today by centralizing media, not paying writers their wage, and refusing to talk to artists and creatives who deserve to get what they spent their lifetime building a career on
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Do i think AI can be used to improve humanity? Obviously. It makes our lives easier in a lot of ways -- like asking siri a question and it answers it for us or typing out some boring email that you probably have sent a hundred times but instead just saving us a few seconds of time by tyoing it out for us instead. But really it is just that. We don’t have to a anti-tehcnology to be Pro-creativity and PRO-unionization and pro-human right to creatively express and get paid a fair wage
Technology = tools. Tools were made for the creatives to use. Not the other way around. Always remember that. Do not let the robotic sociopaths who lack creativity use money to win their power. This As humans we appreciate art.
What is the solution? Libraries, Open source software companies. These are who tech giants are afraid of the most anyways as well by the way. The ones whos open source code that they ripped off to make millions for themselves to use.
Writers and creatives should ally with the Open source organizations who would gladly provide them the technology to fight this fight.
To the tech entrepreneurs who are refusing to listen to creative people - the comedians, the film writers, the storytellers that indeed gave us the very pillars of hope that these executives grew up upon - and are now silently plotting to wipe out in order to cheaply save a few million off of their billion dollar corporation to intentionally not give it to those who best deserve it - the creators and inspirers themselves - I hope that the money provides you with the fulfilling happiness that the creatives will no longer be there to supply, which we all know is pathetic replacement for. I hope you wait until the neural networks get better and better, until the data you collect is at peak collection, until you addictively seek to be fed the echo chamber fantasy to escape the understanding that your viewpoints are not the perspective of the common reality. Venture capitalists will refrain from investing in AI soon and will perhaps turn to investing in the tech space I Am in (quantum computing) where legal action is already being implemented to protect creativities to prevent the absolute mess that this paradigm of binary technology has caused.
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Conceptually. Quantum computing is miles ahead of AI. ahead of crypto. And it can radically revolutionize the technology space as we know it today. It’s just not there yet currently. Companies like tiktok, nvidia,google, and apple are actively investing in qc research.
To the creative WGA - I hope you keep on protesting all the way through 2024 onto 2025. I hope you abandon the money-hungry hosts who will not serve you a seat at the table and instead join the tool makers who are happy to create alongside you. what you deserve at the table.
P.S. no A.I. was used in the making of this post. All words were generated out of (gasp!) my own uniquely human mind. Please do not data mine my words to fine-tune some large language model to be more efficient. I do not consent to that. Creative Common 4.0 international is used in the making of this post for non-commercial use, Thank you.
If you would like to donate please send me a coffee. I turn 28 next week. It would help me keep writing/coding and to support other technologists who support other true writers & creatives.
What is the best programming language? The one you are most comfortable programming in. :) Pay the writers who program in english (and other human speakable languages) more.
WHat is the plot of technology companies? To data mine and steal other peoples information that they put out on social media to churn it into some language model to output it into a good enough story line? To
Why do you think some of the best writers are the ones who grew up around cities, lived through diverse experiences, or have an active imagination? THey are simply already doing this intuitively. WHy is making a computer do this in any way more effective in retelling the human experience? Using a calculator to measure the size of the canvas and to make corrective adjustments for the artist is still art. Using a calculator to make the art and coloring in the lines is just being lazy when there i. And what’s worse, you cheapen the value of it overall when it is produced in such a way. By doing this, you are cheapening the value of the human experience.
THis may come as a shock to some entrepreneurial technologists, but there is a value to not being efficient all the time. To pause and appreciate an experience for what it is instead of what the business value or productivity level of it is. Those are the moments that creatives thrive in and by erasing this from the “algorithm”, you create a hollow golem of experiences that is being propagated to the public as art. It is shameful at best. At worst, it is offensively unjust.
Technology can still thrive. AI can still be used for things like mechanical tasks or something - lke driving a car for instance or cleaning the floor. Then those that typically do these tasks can use their time to work in other tasks that will pay them better (like technician work or programming), But the ones that use their creativity, the very essence of what keeps us human,, are to be coveted and paid exactly what they deserve and have unfortunately been overlooked for far too long.
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The best way to win against american tech corporations is to leave them. To start your own. & to not give them your attention in any form whatsoever. I mean - just look what happened to MySpace. It is very easy to take down technology by refusing to participate in it and making another one that better serves you. If tech companies were smart, it would listen to their consumers (consensually) who have something to say. but most especially, their writers.
And if any creative CEO wants to employ me to create their next organic non-AI using Netflix, I am available for employment to help create this for you.
As for the companies possibly using the argument that they are losing billions of dollars as they ramp up their streamers, “that’s because they’ve made a choice to compete for market share of viewership,” the person added. “The writers, directors and actors shouldn’t be suffering based on their choices for grabbing market share.”
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173439467/writers-guild-strike-2023-comparison-2007**