Haha, AI can't do $THING

Haha, AI can't do $THING

Actually, the interesting thing about art is that humans will produce it even if they don't get paid for it.

Yes, I know. As someone who has been involved in the arts (as a comedian, comedy writer and theatre peformer) for about a decade, I know this only too well, and it's not a good thing. This is what leads to comedians and musicians being pressed to perform for "exposure" and it also depresses the income of everyone, because club and bar owners know they can fill the place just as easily with mediocre, poorly-paid performers as with highly-paid good ones.

And I really don't see a future whereby humans create art for free and then AI rips it off and earns the rippers-off revenue as a fair or ethical one. And while UBI is a nice concept, I can't see it becoming a reality given that the oligarchs in control of AI want everything and don't want to leave anything left over for anyone else.