The great AI content theft debate

[SMGJohn]

Its ironic that Karl Marx wrote about automation and even went as far as stating under Socialism the automation would rid workers off the most arduous works so that the worker could enjoy more time spent on reading, fishing and other hobbies such as art and music to expand himself.

Yet here we are today, Capitalists using less automation in factories and mines to get cheaper labour in third world while developing new methods of automation to destroy artistic jobs that require higher paying labour.

Why hire artists, when a machine can do similar job in quicker succession at fraction of the cost? A dream come true for every venture Capitalist, no need to hire a graphics designer anymore, buy a 300 dollar subscription from Google or whoever and have AI churn out designs in minutes with easy changes at click of a button!! 

 

Welcome to the future, the government planners in the 1950s Soviet was actually afraid of the computerisation of Soviet economy, they argued they be causing work shortage by automating the planning processes, the irony here is that they underestimated how many bureaucrats they needed to do the same job of a computer and by 1980s the Soviet economy had shortage of 100 million workers despite the country being almost 300 million in population, for every worker there were 3 bureaucrats, the change came too late. 

 

Whats the moral of story? Automation is good in sections which creativity has little benefits, but automation in sectors in which creativity is paramount can be disastrous. 
They already use AI/algorithmic software to write popular music lyrics for past 10 years now.