alt Hacker News> Strictly speaking, they don't even need us as customers.
I think they'd employ some number of humans for entertainment.
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red-iron-pine • yesterday at 5:52 PM
they're already replacing actors with AI, mate. Once the slop machine gets better you won't know the difference
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danaris • yesterday at 5:41 PM
At that point, why bother to employ? If we have no recourse, no power to resist them (as must be the case in that scenario), then they might as well just keep us as pets.
Or slaves.
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> I think they'd employ some number of humans for entertainment.
The key point is: some number. Chances are you and everyone you love won't make the cut.
If 10 billionaires control the all the capital of the planet, they could exterminate 99% of humanity and not even notice any change in their day to day life. 83 million NPCs are more than enough for 10 people.