AI Progress Makes Everyone Panic

Ah interesting. We can create images of anything we want now. That's cool you can make your dreams a reality with this. AI image generator announced! DALL-E 2 Um is it just me or is this scary You stole from artists to make this, yup you definitely stole from my deviant art account with 6 followers. This is atrocious ban this now! or else im going to lose my 55 a month commissions! How am I going to afford my estrogen pills now Ah cool so you can use this to write things for you and come up with plans for a whole host of things. Very interesting tool. Opens many possibilities. Language model released! This is making me lose faith in humanity. This will be just like the terminator movies why hitler was good Hitler Good ? I just told it to do something and it literally did what I asked. I'm deeply offended. Censor this now! Now we're talking. I can use this to make movies and animations of anything I want. This will greatly improve my life in terms of entertainment. Video model released! Regulate this NOW! misinformation will spread! stop this! it will be used to fool 75 IQ people so it MUST be banned NOOO! you can just democratize content creation!!! think of the corporate monopolies!!! Sweet! humanity is freed from work, everything is cheaper now, and I have someone doing chores for me. Plus lonely people have someone interacting with them at home. Amazing. Humanity will benefit from this Humanoid androids roll out its over the clits they will kill us off in 2 weeks now that they don't need us. any day now IT'S OVER My life is finished without work!!! I have no purpose without wage slavery.

A multi-panel comic shows different reactions to successive AI releases: image generation, language models, video generation, and humanoid androids. The joke is that every new technology triggers a different exaggerated panic, while the final panel reverses the fear and presents automation as freeing humanity from work and loneliness. It is used as a reaction to debates about AI progress, artistic theft, censorship, misinformation, corporate monopolies, and the future of employment.

• @eternalclassic / 51500 2024-05-25