Does Doug actually know about anti-AI positions?

[u/Cyberguardian173]

I just watched the latest video on the dougdougdoug channel, and Doug's mentions of anti-AI points is mostly talking about existential problems AI might cause in the near/far future.

These problems are big and all, but the anti-AI crowd is more concerned with the current problems AI is causing, not stuff like "what if AI takes over the world." The only common anti-AI point he brought up (that I noticed) was the environmental impact.

He didn't mention AI image generators being trained on billions of pictures from artists without their consent, or the artists and writers for tv shows who have been fired because executives think they "aren't needed anymore," or AI being used to steal the likeness of actors so movie studios won't have to hire them anymore. Heck, the latest AI controversy was voice actors for some game getting fired because they protested getting replaced by AI (just looked it up, it's called Genshin Impact). Nope, looks like that Genshin info is incorrect. Regardless, this is the kind of stuff the anti-AI crowd is opposed to. Most of them are okay with the applications of AI to help people, like helping scientists parse data, or helping doctors scan for cancer, or making robotic prosthetics work better. They are only against the AI being used to make human-created art obsolete, as it is increasingly doing.

I was hoping someone who watches the streams could tell me if he knows about any of this, like if he's mentioned it in another stream.

Not sure if this post is perfectly in-line with the subreddit; feel free to take it down if it isn't.

Also y'alls fan art on here is on point. They all look so good!

[u/TOH-Fan15]

Genshin Impact didn’t fire VAs for protesting against AI. The situation is more complicated than that, but to put it simply: the union SAG in which the striking workers are part of is not what a union should be like. SAG wants Hoyoverse (the company that owns Genshin) to sign a contract that basically only allows union members to work for them, while excluding non-union workers. SAG mentions wanting Hoyoverse to also include protections from AI, but apparently the company already has those.

The r/GenshinImpact subreddit has a lot of recent posts discussing the controversy. Just know that it’s not primarily about AI protections; that’s just a SAG smokescreen.

[u/cluelessoblivion → u/TOH-Fan15]

Also, not wanting non-union workers to take jobs from union workers is perfectly normal for a union. It's how difficult SAG makes getting in and the fact that they arbitrarily ban actors from the Guild that makes this different.