Mass unemployment from AI is mostly a pricing + unionisation problem. AI learns from the workers it displaces. If we could price that… instead of unemployment those people would be set for life on AI royalties.
Many users see promise in AI royalties replacing unemployment for displaced workers via unions, technology and free markets, while some dismiss the scale as insignificant compared to non-public data.
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Pro union regulation + some AI research on attribution/unlearning would unlock free market/IP alternatives to UBI
Mass unemployment from AI is mostly a pricing + unionisation problem. AI learns from the workers it displaces. If we could price that… instead of unemployment those people would be set for life on AI royalties.

@BlissyOnX We need a mechanical turner union

@iamtrask this take actually lowkey connects
the real question is who forces the royalty structure in the first place

@iamtrask an interesting framing but the people who set prices are the same ones who would pay the royalties
who writes that check?

@iamtrask That framing shifts the whole conversation. Problem is getting companies to actually pay for data they already scraped.

@iamtrask feels like were a few court cases away from this becoming a real labor law convo
but good luck getting the lawyers to price out "vibe" and "pattern"

@InvincibleEdge I think this is just workers unions and a bit of technology existing… then free market incentives take over

@ls_brd A worthy cause but honestly not a big deal. There’s literally a billion times more data in the world than the public internet. The really valuable stuff is still for sale.

@rugbist_ Honestly. I think we’re not that far from good metrics here. It’s just that almost nobody at the labs works on it… for obvious reasons.
Major world changing low hanging academic fruit out there.
Nobel prize level fruit

@BlissyOnX *turker