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I guess it won't backfire because the AI revolution will come anyways. I rather think that this strike is a last-ditch effort to contain the AI revolution and squeeze out the last bucks before the flow of money dries up.

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Like the self driving car revolution?

No one gets killed by a car or sued by a pedestrian if an AI generated episode of "Love Death and Robots" underwhelms the 17 year olds that put it on while looking at something on their phone. This will spur studios to try to make it work even though it'll probably say no time and money and result in worse outcomes for their catalog of media.

Difference is that AI can generate good-enough content most of the time. And that is often enough. It is not like what is sold now produced by humans is especially spectacular.

Exactly. Self-driving is a far more complex problem. The car has to get it right, right here on the road, little to no margin for error.

The script-writing AI, voice AI, actor-image AI will be used to create a multitude of options, and all but one will be thrown away anyways. Perfection isn't necessary, realtime isn't necessary, and a human correcting things here and there is always still an option. Compute resources are also far less limited, it doesn't have to fit in a "car" form factor and power consumption.

> human correcting things here and there is always still an option

Isn’t that what we are asking for though? We know there will be fewer people working in the industry. We want to ensure those who will work will be paid fairly.

Asking to be paid fairly is of course possible and sensible. But I'm not sure that it will be successful. Fewer people working will create a huge overhang of qualified experts, at least initially, driving down prices.

That is coming too. It may take a little longer than expected but it will come for sure.

I'm still waiting on that sufficiently advanced compiler they've been talking about.

What compiler? I'm out of the loop on what you're referring to.

A “sufficiently smart compiler” is a (frequently mythical) one that can implement some difficult optimization on its own, rather than needing hints from the programmer. (See e.g. https://prog21.dadgum.com/40.html?0 for some discussion on the topic.)

Ah interesting. I wonder if LLMs can help solve that, although if they don't know the programmer's intent, they likely won't be able to optimize any better either.

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