I think this post is well-intentioned, and Martin Dougiamas is clear that many of the problems facing creators of digital content existed long before AI (for example, "music streaming, where platforms are valued in the tens of billions, yet artists earn fractions of a cent per stream"). The problem, to my mind, is that it's mostly framed around regulating and reining in AI. Now to be clear, I don't have a problem with regulating and reining in AI (though we could quibble about how and why). It's just that a vision for "a better future" requires a lot more than that. For example: why should creators of digital content have to scratch and scrape for a living at all? In an age of unparalleled prosperity, why should any of us? A society that replaces 90 percent of its workforce with automation still has a responsibility to that 90 percent; otherwise, it ceases to be a society. Let's talk about how to make that work, and about the sort of culture of expectations and values we need to be teaching in order to bring it about.
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