Rights, ethics and the argument

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What this does to the people who used to be paid for it

Lesson 8 of 11 in Rights, ethics and the argument.

How AI Is Eroding the First Rung of the Tech Job Ladder · Bloomberg Tech
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Some of this work used to be paid for and is not any more. Stock photography, spot illustration, simple retouching and a good deal of junior production work have all been affected, and telling the people who did it that the tools are merely assistive is not honest.

A tall ladder leans against a studio mezzanine, but its bottom rungs are missing. An experienced designer kneels at the top and reaches down to help a young person climb past the gap.
The bottom rungs were the junior jobs. Without them, someone has to reach down on purpose.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Work that used to be commissioned and now is not.”

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    • LAION
    • Text and data mining exception
    • Displacement
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A craft losing its practitioners because the work that trained them disappeared.”

    • Deskilling
    • EU AI Act
    • Licensed dataset
    • Output similarity
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Junior work. Where most people learned, and the most exposed to automation.”

    • The bottom rung
    • Substantiation
    • Augmentation
    • Data centre water

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