Large Publisher Lays Off More Than 100 Employees After Striking Deal With OpenAI

Hey look, it's a commercial product built on stealing intellectual labor, and whose value is in its ability to replace said intellectual laborers!

Who could have possibly seen this coming??? I sincerely hate the world AI companies are building. It's intrinsically worse in a number of ways, and intrinsically less human-centric. Instead it feels even more money and corporation centric.

I always remember when i was young there was a presumption that the machines would eventually be able to handle all the labor, leaving people with more free time to pursue their interests. As the machines begin taking over the labor, it's just leaving less and less people with a way to make a living ¯\_(ツ)_/¯