Point? This is one sector of the job market and the point is to imagine what the unemployment rate would be at if the technology for self checkout didn't exist and each machine had to be manned. There'd be 11 more employed people per store using this technology (not that thats a ton, but it adds up).

I didn't say they lost their jobs; just that they didn't have to employee new people to man registers.

I think it's going to do to industries what self checkout did for grocery stores. Instead of having to hire 12 cashiers due to population growth, you hire 1 to oversee computers doing the rest, thereby putting 11 people from that population growth out of a job to save the cost of employing 11 people.

It's all pixels. If you take a picture of a celebrity and open it in photoshop, photoshop will give you a bunch of pixels that make up that image.

Given enough time, an artist could place each individual pixel on a blank canvas, recreating what is 'exactly that picture,' not 'sorta like it,' but pixel for pixel the exact same thing.

Now add to that, that a video is just picture after picture, all an artist needs is time to create each frame. Change the artist to an a.i. and now you need less time.

Other tools like green screen and motion capture just make it all easier and faster.

Deepfakes, when sufficiently advanced, should be indistinguishable from reality. I personally believe the technology is already (and has been) there, behind certain closed doors and question things like 'was juice wrld ever even a real person or are music corporations using a.i. to build narratives to sell music with a story' and if not yet, will they soon?