smokingPimphat t1_jecmp4j wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:04 AM

Reply to comment by Geeksylvania in What are the so-called 'jobs' that AI will create? by thecatneverlies

I don't think this will ever really happen in any large scale way for a few reasons;

People don't actually know what they want in most cases. This is especially true with regards to creativity.

Very few people want to think about what they want to see, they are happy to choose from available options and I will admit that AI generated content will be part of those options at some point in the future, but that is a long way off and people are not going to just stop making all the things they do now. It is far more likely that humans will create most things and then AI will optionally be used to customize them in various ways should someone actually desire it.

To take your example of a movie generation AI, IMO its far more probable that disney will make a movie and you will optionally be able to ask an AI to do things like extent a plot point or make the fights longer. But even that is not really something that most people are going to be willing to do. They just want to see someone else story, they aren't going to write their own.

There are so many things that people "could" do themselves that they choose to pay others to do, if machines can be leveraged to offer more options that is probably a good thing, but to think that the entire entertainment industry will be replaced is IMO silly. There will always be humans in the mix as the machine will never truly know what we want when we barely know ourselves.

Geeksylvania t1_jecoodn wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:19 AM

When the choice is between spending $500 million to produce a movie with real people and $0 to produce an identical movie with AI, it won't be a hard decision.

smokingPimphat t1_jecr1h9 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:37 AM

but that isn't the choice, and I don't think that it ever will be. The choice is more like;

Do people want to create for themselves or are they happy to see what already exists by virtue of it already being created by someone else?

People don't only make things for themselves, they make them to share with others. And they tailor things to hopefully attract others. AI is by default a tool to leverage human intent, it doesn't generate things on its own, it generates what humans ask it to. And those humans will have their own goals so there will always need to be someone in the loop to direct the final idea as without it anything an AI makes would be incomprehensible noise.

Do you spend all your time generating random images, having chatGPT write random stories for you to read, or do you also look at images others create or read other people stories?

As long as the answer is the former and not the latter there will always be an industry and that industry will always have a cost and a price.

Geeksylvania t1_jeeyafz wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:59 PM

If you don't want to make your own content, you can watch AI-created content made by other people and posted online, most of which will be free.

You can't compete with free.

Express-Set-1543 t1_jegnuwd wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:46 PM

YouTube videos are free, but some people manage to earn money with them.