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Kavril91 t1_j0xrcz6 wrote

My wife and I had a conversation about this, we had a few points.

Firstly, job markets come and go. No one cried when the window tappers job went away due to alarm clocks, or atleast no one cares anymore. Same with carriage makers and so on. This is the evolution of life.

Also, AI generated stuff, no matter how good it gets, will always be the 'generic brand' of writing, art or music.

And then you have to consider the 'personality' behind the art... there is no personality behind AI art. No youtube videos of them drawing while talking, no videos of them making music for funsies. No twitter accounts of authors interacting with their fans.

It's new right now and so its gonna go balls to the wall right now. It'll settle down.

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shooketh_not_stireth t1_j0xt0q7 wrote

> No one cried when the window tappers job went away due to alarm clocks, or atleast no one cares anymore. Same with carriage makers and so on. This is the evolution of life.

The people actually doing those jobs might have had a thing or two to say. There's a whole lot of people who seem awfully self-assured that it won't be their job that goes the way of the window tapper. And if it is, they'll just retrain.

Oh wait, the AI learned to do that job too, before they finished retraining. Now they're competing with the AI, the existing workers in the field, and everyone else who just tried to do the same thing.

Yeah, the superstars may not go away for a while, but 42 year old Ed from accounting who just took out a second mortgage to send his daughter to college may have some trouble finding a new profession and keeping his house. Maybe some history holo a century later won't give af about Ed because everything worked out in the end, but he and millions upon millions like him are going to have a very different take on the matter.

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