I don’t want AI that gives me time to do my chores while it does the fun things, I want AI that does the chores so I can do fun things

This is actually not true. The use of AI media in the Chinese entertainment industry is just as pervasive and probably more so than the US, and Chinese universities and private firms are developing their own AI image/video generators at an equivalent pace to the Western firms. For example you have Chinese-developed SOTA DiT txt2img models like Pixart, Hunyuan and Lumina, and even SOTA video models like Kling. Tencent, Alibaba and Bytedance are putting out various models, optimizations and distillations in this space as well. Even back in April of last year, there were articles indicating a 70% decline in illustration jobs in sectors like video game development.

China banned all AI generated content without watermarks. That law went into effect January 2023.

The 70% decline in videogame illustrator jobs number in that article is not cited, I would be interested in what time period the claim draws its data from.

Why is "I want AI to do my laundry" such a common idea when we've literally had automated laundry robots for decades?

Me when the laundry robot loses a sock (I have lost a sock the last 900 times in a row that I have done laundry): THESE LAUNDRY ROBOTS FUCKING SUCK THEY CANT DO ANYTHING RIGHT 🤬🤬🤬🤬
- Where do they go???
That folds it too though? I want end to end automated laundry that takes my hamper and returns a neatly folded pile. Experimental AI powered robots aside, I'm only aware of folding machines that require you to untangle and nicely lay out pieces for it to fold.
- Don't fold it, ez business (aside from bed sheets)
- I want a robot that finds the bra I just rubber banded across the room and washes it.
- It's much harder to debug and program complex arrays of motors and sensors that a next word generator
- What's the function of folding clothes?

It is hilarious that they just invented advance copyright theft and called it ai. C'mon man tell me another one

Intellectual property shouldn’t exist in the first place, so I don’t really care if it’s “stolen”

If someone invents something that can better people’s lives, everyone should be able to access it
- In the ideal world yes. IP is a fuck but under a capitalist system I still think artists should be able to sell their work and not have it used by machine learning programs to undercut them without their consent. For industry stuff? I don't really care but I think individual independent artists having some IP control under this absurd system is slightly better than just fucking them all over entirely.
  
  Edit: the copyrighting words, concepts, and techniques shit has to stop though
Remember kids: AI is just very lossy image compression

smuglord "yeah but have you considered China bad?"

no
- : bBUTT BUttT uYgHurs! BoNG KOnG! [Insert sinophobic tirade here]

This is an uninformed take. Currently, ai is just computers. Computers can only make things on the computer. Ai is not yet robots. Robots is much harder to do than computers, and they are made to do one thing. Stuff like folding clothes is not one thing, but a whole bunch of individual ones.

It’s a meme not a thesis and also specifies the direction things are going, not the current state of
You're taking it too literally. It's metaphorical. No one thinks China has AI robots doing laundry any more than they think AI is physical robots in the US using a paintbrush and physical easel to do art. Well... I'm sure some burgerbrains exist who think that, but you know what I mean. (Edit: turns out I don't know how to spell easel).
Why make the distinction between robots and PCs/servers? There doesn't seem to be any fundamental difference between them that would make implementing ANN impossible.
- Having to do things in the physical world is harder than doing it on the computer

Chinese firms aren't by nature better than US ones. The difference is that China keeps its corpos on a leash and US corpos keep their government on a leash.

Yes

China is using AI to improve life for working people, but at what cost?

Jokes aside this was interesting to read over

An article published by the Center for a New American Security concluded that "Chinese government officials demonstrated remarkably keen understanding of the issues surrounding AI and international security. This includes knowledge of the U.S. AI policy discussions,"

😂